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anontroton Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

so if i am content with my life, i can't create anything...

anontroton CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract

Try if you can find some help here https://openssf.org/

anontroton Zerodha Tech – Hello, World

what exactly is the PR covering here? :-/

anontroton Lasers deflected using air

are we now a step closer to light saber? all we need is a 180 degree deflection

anontroton Ask HN: Why don't smartphones encourage programming like early 80s computers?

Money

anontroton The reality of being a Principal Engineer

As a Staff Engineer, at least for now I'd be happy with the money that comes with the Principal title

anontroton Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin

Hold on a sec, the whole clearing map scenario. Is it for reusing within your fn or is it trying to free memory? If latter, I’ve just been hoping GC does its job

anontroton 5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Near San Jose, CA

Stop feeding the Earth quake god damnit!

anontroton Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

I haven’t used a better keyboard than the one on Windows Phones. Currently am on iPhone

anontroton Interview questions to ask your interviewer

https://www.facebookrecruiting.com

Yes of course, I'm not going to stop trying. Though my hopes of clearing the interview just hit 0%. I'll keep doing all preparations I can nevertheless

anontroton Interview questions to ask your interviewer

I got an interview scheduled with Meta/Facebook, for monday (14th Feb 2022). Their careers portal has a lot of sample leet codes, I'm not even able to do the level 1 puzzles. Sure going to bomb the interview with live codinng session! Sigh... this would have been a life changer for me

anontroton OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware

I'm assuming you meant the smart part, and not the image processing part. And all other kinds of audio/video processing. If yes, even I'd love to have that!

anontroton Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?

Made it this far, don't kill yourself now.

anontroton Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with new cable design

Interesting, I didn't know the charging cable was the limiting factor. Wouldn't the battery itself have any adverse effects, overheat etc?

anontroton Indian Gov taxes Petrol at 200% +

Uh that's a creative way of looking at it. When you increase fuel prices:

1. Daily expense increases for commuters

2. An already weak public transport becomes expensive for commuters

3. Cost of almost everything increases (our logistics are road heavy)

4. Income of individuals are not increasing, so above 3 are going to hurt a lot more

anontroton Culture shock

i don't think it's about the grass (which generally they say not to walk or sit on, so as to not cause damage). Colleges/universities are run like schools (our schools are strict, have to wear uniform, mandatory attendance etc. etc.). So the level of freedom mentioned by OP in the U.S College, compared to India, would be 10x different

anontroton Withings ScanWatch Horizon

Anything that wouldn't hamper the battery life, I'm onboard! Otherwise I already very much enjoy this (Scanwatch) watch

anontroton Withings ScanWatch Horizon

I for one am happy with the small digital screen. Since I enjoy+prefer round faced analog watches. That coupled with 30 days battery is definitely perfect for me!

anontroton Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Benchmarks Faster Than the Apple M1 Max

I'd honestly give up some performance for more battery life! M1 Pro max is no sloth when it comes to performance either.

anontroton Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux

Desktop...

anontroton Awesome-loginless: internet services that don't require registrations

https://hosthtml.live seems ok as well

anontroton “looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”

interesting...

anontroton Rob Pike Essentials

Web frameworks

anontroton Apps Getting Worse

what else can the users do?