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by vijucat 2y ago
Attach that NFC tag to a 40 kg weight in the other room (and commit to carrying the weight to the phone, not the other way round ;) ), then you might appreciate the value-add. We are very physical creatures.
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by vijucat 2y ago
Follow up with, "Please check again"
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by vijucat 2y ago
Ha ha. There could be valuables, you know. Anyway, I wanted to edit it to write, "most people are good, or at least compliant", but now the window has passed :) Because I had this epiphany about how we lead such passive lives, com
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by vijucat 2y ago
Just look at the airport luggage belt. Runs on reciprocal altruism. Most people are not good (and this was true even before CCTV, for the cynics :) )
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by vijucat 2y ago
> It has nothing to do with the price. I’ve worked with great devs who were cheap and terrible devs who were expensive. And it’s hard to tell which is which till the project ships or fails to ship. Very interesting, thanks!
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by vijucat 2y ago
Great list! All make sense to me.
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by vijucat 2y ago
Genuine question: what prevents the NYT from offshoring these jobs if they can be done from home? I feel for you, as a fellow worker, but unless there is something hyper-local about the job such as regulatory requirements or trust issues wi
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by vijucat 2y ago
Artisan is not a bad metaphor. Take furniture. There's a place for IKEA, and there's a place for expensive, hand-crafted Scandinavian furniture. https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/this-is-why-that-sofa-is...
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by vijucat 2y ago
Honestly, how many of these jobs can be not done by hard working folks in Nigeria, India, or wherever? I understand that outsourcing is a contentious issue, but the fact remains that the most probably outcome is to send these jobs off to pe
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by vijucat 2y ago
I'm documenting the (scattered) implementation changes related to the feature / bug-fix, in both code and test cases, using the hashtag. You could just use the JIRA ticket number, too, but it's a bit dry.
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by vijucat 2y ago
One other thing I'd like to add is greppable comments! In the same vein as TODO and FIXME, I use hashtags in comments to drop hints to future me reading the code. #learning is a universal one: // #learning: transparent color
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by vijucat 2y ago
What about if I say, "Please don't smash that like button" or "Smash that like button if you're an idiot"? Just wondering if it is based on transcript-grepping or does it even consider sentence semantics? (I kn
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by vijucat 2y ago
That's hardcore. I admire people who work on Linux (I just use WSL 2 Ubuntu on Windows). Apparently, NixOS has it's fans! See: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/14clrjh/how_is_nixos...
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by vijucat 2y ago
As an aside, I'm surprised how Apple fans think they're the one with the aesthetics advantage when their Lord and Master allowed them to change the color of their menu bar in...2023? :)
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by vijucat 2y ago
If I'm fiddling with the terminal or the font, I know it's because I'm procrastinating. I've trained myself to quickly recognize such side-quests and feel a quick punch of hormonal urgency, which helps me get back to wor
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by vijucat 2y ago
Love such articles where I learn something new. cdb is completely new to me. It's apparently the Microsoft Console Debugger. For others like me who were wondering how `eb win32u!NtUserSetLayeredWindowAttributes c3` neutered the window
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by vijucat 2y ago
I used to chase kites barefoot as a kid in India. I swear there was a time when I detected, while running with my eyes towards the sky, that I am stepping over a large piece of broken glass, like a fragment of a bottle of Coke, and I instin
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by vijucat 2y ago
I've always love WinAmp due to the simple reason that it is keyboard friendly. For example, the 5 buttons for Previous, Play, Pause, Stop, Next map to zxcvb. Simple and fun. Operations like searching for and queuing up files to play ar
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by vijucat 2y ago
I was somehow reminded of this guy who once wowed me in an interview by coding up a small graphics demo rather quickly. Turns out later that that was the exact one program he could code without being hand-held EVERY SINGLE MOMENT. I laugh w
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by vijucat 2y ago
Once superintelligence takes over all jobs, as it is claimed will happen (, and there is an AIBI : AI Basic Income), I hope we are free to do more such projects :)
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by vijucat 2y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by vijucat 2y ago
Makes sense, thanks
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by vijucat 2y ago
Nice article. Definitely need more kindness in this achievement society. One small crib, though: > In Spanish, we have a saying, "Maestro Liendre: De tó sabe, pero de ná entiende." I don't really know (and don't want)
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by vijucat 2y ago
I absolutely love how good the voices are in the VCTK-VIS dataset (109 of them!). I found it easy to install Coqui on WSL and it is able to use CUDA + the GPU quite effectively. p236 male and p237 female are my choices, but holy cow, 109 qu
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by vijucat 2y ago
Love the work ethic, thanks!
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by vijucat 2y ago
I love such stories. Thanks for sharing. I'd be super glad to read about your process, your note-taking techniques, etc if you ever write a blog post about it!
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by vijucat 2y ago
It seems you were immediately downvoted (I see this comment at the bottom and in grey). The cult is strong on HN and cannot bear this kind of reality, Sir.
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by vijucat 2y ago
It's perfect, actually. Its pithiness reflects the limitations of the walled garden in which the mind that conceived it lives. Normally, when you read "I fucked with the iPad. Hard", you'd think that at the least a solde
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by vijucat 2y ago
This is why I don't read. Try writing a poem. Mine were so obviously regurgitations of past material consumed that I realized that to output anything original, I had to develop an individuality by starving the creative neurons, so to s
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by vijucat 3y ago
Not mentioned were code comprehension tools / techniques: I used to use a tool called Source Navigator (written in Tcl/tk!) that was great at indexing code bases. You could then check the Call Hierarchy of the current method, for

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