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Ask HN: What are some things that you have built for your own personal tooling?
4 points by coldfire 4y ago|4 comments
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by coldfire 6y ago
Highly recommended to check this out, truck art on a Cessna aircraft from Lahore, Pakistan https://www.dawn.com/news/1599063 Edit: for more context and history around Pakistani truck art: https://www.dawn.co
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I'm shocked how hard it is to generate positive text about Muslims from GPT-3(twitter.com)
18 points by coldfire 6y ago|2 comments
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by coldfire 7y ago
been using the 2019 version that I got from work for a couple of weeks now, haven't noticed anything. I run a heavy Docker based setup on MacOS, the fans do make noise but that's about it.
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by coldfire 7y ago
love the concept, especially as a self taught programmer. I've always struggled with algorithms myself, and I find reading books equally boring. On a side note, what's the UI components library that you're using? I've a
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by coldfire 7y ago
Everyone will have different experiences, but I had the same observation as you, and that's why I choose start-ups over big companies for my first two jobs. But then I had to get into the "big" companies for visa reasons, and
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by coldfire 7y ago
Before this, the last time I tried FF was when Servo was in it's early days, it was full of bugs and crappy performance. Couldn't use it for more than a few days and had to switch to Chrome. But this time, the experience was a lot
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by coldfire 7y ago
As a long time Chrome user, and someone who (admittedly) said to a FF fan about an year ago, that it's too late for FF to catch up to Chrome now. I gave FF another shot about 6 months ago, and I'm liking it more every month since
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by coldfire 7y ago
ROI may be? the market size in Israel is not as big in other countries, so it makes sense to target bigger audience first. Also does Israel have any good local EV manufacturers that can give Tesla any competition?
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by coldfire 7y ago
great writeup! Very easy and to the point. But if I have to suggest something (and I'm just nitpicking here), an example/section summarising everything at the end would've been the "icing on the cake". May be becaus
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by coldfire 9y ago
Personally for me, I have got more back/shoulder problems from long term computer usage than eye primarily due to bad posture. Though I do wear glasses, but my prescription hasn't changed in the last ~10 years.
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by coldfire 9y ago
Is there such a platform available for Australia as well which is free/not too expensive?
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by coldfire 9y ago
I only keep my monthly spending budget in current account, and everything else ("savings", pay, rent etc) goes to the savings account. And for this utility I only monitor current account which is directly linked to my cards so wor
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by coldfire 9y ago
I used to log every spending in an expense manager before but found it redundant. Now I've built a selenium utility that logs into my bank account every morning (deployed on cloud), calculates my last day's spending and remaining