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greencore

395 karma · joined July 3, 2014

front-end dev from Vilnius
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greencore··on "The Robot And The Moth" – by Vytautė Žiliskaite (1978) [pdf]
The reason I posted this tale is it taught me as a child to be kind to a machinery that behaves human-like. That's why I usually start my conversations with LLMs with "Would you please" while rationally understanding that they are most likely are not sentient beings. What are your fiction stories that gave you similar effect?
greencore··on "The Robot And The Moth" – by Vytautė Žiliskaite (1978) [pdf]
It's a translation of famous Lithuanian writer Vytautė Žiliskaite compilation of fairy tales which consists a tale about a preprogrammed robot interaction with a moth.
greencore··on Satellite Imagery of Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA
It seems that no one is playing basketball these days... It looks like that only one out of 10 has players.
greencore··on I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)
You don't hate Jira, you hate capitalism
greencore··on Bosque Programming Language
Apparently this project is now fully open sourced and developed outside Microsoft https://github.com/BosqueLanguage/BosqueCore/discussions/66#...
greencore··on Figma Alternatives
I don't understand business model of the company behind Penpot (Kaleidos). Their products doesn't offer anything paid but I see a button "Invest in us". For me this tells that their products will eventually become non-free and only open-source in a way that it can export SVG.
greencore··on Children's Railways of the Former USSR
I think that most of those railroads have nothing to do with children operation - it was just a narrow gouge standard railway for less intensive commuting, some specific industrial purposes (like bringing fresh cut wood from forest or clay from careers) or even military (railroad system build around Vilnius during Polish rule in 1930's to provide ammunition to underground forts) and some was built way before soviet union occupied Baltics.

In Lithuania this narrow gouge standard is called "Siaurukas" (eng. "narrowy") and some parts are still being operated as a tourist attraction [1][2]

[1] https://siaurukas.eu/en/history/ [2] https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siaurasis_gele%C5%BEinkelis

greencore··on Project Helix by Adobe
I will never trust Adobe on their development platforms after they were lying to developers about bright Flash future while silently killing it and wasting number of years of their careers on dead horse.
greencore··on Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
Current Croatia's president Zoran Milanović is planning to veto this. Parliament and PM is against veto.
greencore··on Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API
This tool is perfect for generating useless LinkedIn content. For example this phrase was auto-completed "Yesterday I had an interview with a candidate":

Yesterday I had an interview with a candidate for a mid-level developer role. At the end of the interview, we asked about his background in IT and found out that he'd never used any sort of development tools or language except Visual Basic in the past. He'd just stuck with the IDE that came with his software.

Although I understand the desire to do things the way you're familiar with and comfortable with, this is probably the most dangerous mistake you can make in the context of hiring. I've been thinking about this for a while now, and I want to share what I think is an important lesson with you.

In the past several years, Ruby on Rails has gone from new kid on the block to the dominant application server for most new web applications. Although Ruby is a great language, the community has been known to turn on new developers at times, and it can be a bit overwhelming for a newcomer.

greencore··on Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
Lithuanian and Latvian is not slavic and Slovio would not be understood by their native speakers.
greencore··on Vue 3 as the New Default
Vue 3 perhaps is ready but not its ecosystem. Important libraries (like form management) port to v3 is still in alpha. It was one of the most painful development experiences because of that.
greencore··on Ask HN: Have you ever left your software development career as immigrant?
I already had a front-end development job in my home country when I arrived to Copenhagen to deliver news papers at night. Tried to get a dev job there but I was rejected without interviews. Went back to my home country when I understood that the only job I can do is programming.
greencore··on $1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)
Is it hard to make it recognize mirror strokes?
greencore··on Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India
In Eastern Europe this method was called "mayak" (beacon) and disappeared when calls became practically free even when SMS services was free much earlier because calling has a higher possibility to be noticed by callee.
greencore··on GoDaddy employees told they were getting a holiday bonus in a phishing test
My guess that the real story is that someone from above told HR department about salary raises but changed their mind after mass mail was sent. So they needed some excuse and came with this lame shit.
greencore··on Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
You can embed any language interpreter into TypeScript and have that language syntaticaly checked by TS compiler.
greencore··on On COBOL
I think that the problem is not that coders don't want to learn COBOL but that it's so niche language and you have almost no job mobility. If corporations would offer contracts with extra huge severance packages then IMO there would appear enough COBOL enthusiasts.
greencore··on Building a Hexagonal Grid in CSS
Impressive! It's interesting for me if such grade CSS developers get same compensation as their JavaScript counterparts.
greencore··on Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003)
Bhutan almost haven't changed. Only in 2008 they had first elections.
greencore··on Vladimir Putin: The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II
> In autumn 1939, the Soviet Union, pursuing its strategic military and defensive goals, started the process of the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Their accession to the USSR was implemented on a contractual basis, with the consent of the elected authorities. This was in line with international and state law of that time.

Complete bullshit

greencore··on Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns
I bet this will the hottest web-design trend for next two years.
greencore··on Flat HTML
I think author haven't seen Slim or Pug templating languages
greencore··on Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
TypeScript, I'd say.
greencore··on Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
In Lithuania and perhaps in similar countries Pascal is still main programming language in classrooms. Also no other language has beaten Pascal in number of released books so it will stay for very long time.
greencore··on CSS Zen Garden
It funny that colored scrollbars work again and in Firefox :)
greencore··on Data Enrichment, People Data Labs and Another 622M Email Addresses
I never heard of this company. How did they get that data?
greencore··on I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
It has lowest change of having worms inside which are not kosher. Most other mushrooms needs checking if it's not worm-eaten.
greencore··on I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
There was a 50yo man in Lithuania that made bet that he will not die from Amanita phalloides (because scientist are hiding the truth etc.) as he didn't die from Amanita muscaria previous year.

So he died in 5 days.

https://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/vyras-sumane-p...

greencore··on I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
It's the only kosher mushroom.
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