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kapilkaisare··on My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod
Surprised to see Deus Ex mentioned; I played the game first in the early 2000s and was entranced by the storyline, coming from shoot-em ups like Doom and Quake. I've played this game several times over the course of the last two decades, and while it hasn't aged very well, it remains one of my favorites. I can't recall any other game making me pause towards the end and considering the consequences of my actions.
kapilkaisare··on Ask HN: What Are You Reading?
Simmons, Dan. The Terror

I'm about 50 pages in, and am entranced with the prose.

kapilkaisare··on Use Your Type System
This is the antidote to primitive obsession[0].

[0]: https://wiki.c2.com/?PrimitiveObsession

kapilkaisare··on The obscure intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right
> INR is tiny, with fewer than 500 employees total.

Maybe that's why they are always right.

kapilkaisare··on Ask HN: How do you optimize your focus?
Star Trek is this for me. Having watched the canon series several times over, much of the dialogue is second nature.
kapilkaisare··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
Thank you; alas, I can't read Bengali. :)
kapilkaisare··on Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing
How does this hold up against Sequencing.com [0][1]?

[0]: https://sequencing.com/ [1]: https://sequencing.com/our-difference/privacy-forever

kapilkaisare··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
> "Abhajaner Mahabharat" by Mahbub Lilen

Is there a purchase link to this book, you could share? I was unable to find this on Amazon.

kapilkaisare··on The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
Hi, I'm in software and looking to get into genomics/biotech. I'd like to learn more about how you made the move. Is there a way I could dm you? I saw no email in your profile.
kapilkaisare··on Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?
Really? Tell me more, please.
kapilkaisare··on How Indian artists transformed the Buddha’s absence into presence
While your phrasing is comprehensible, I don't think one can use the term 'anti-semitic' correctly in this context.
kapilkaisare··on Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage
No idea, but the following sites were down for me: Fastmail, Github, Camunda.
kapilkaisare··on Ask HN: Open-Source Retool Workflows Alternatives
OpenBlocks(https://openblocks.dev/) is the one I'm familiar with.
kapilkaisare··on 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge
I heard this story some 20 years ago, only the manufacturers were Japanese. It's probably apocryphal.
kapilkaisare··on Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year
> Onshore engineers flying home to India due to a stomach ache, instead of seeing a doctor for free in the host country due to being afraid.

This feels like an exaggeration to me, although I'm open to hearing specifics to the contrary. I know of (non resident) immigrants who delay medical visits and treatments until they get back to their home country, but flying home (spending a good deal of money on air fare) for just a stomach ache sounds pound foolish, which immigrants generally aren't.

kapilkaisare··on The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
> We need a framework that will not tie components and libs to itself, so they can be used with other frameworks or with plain ts as well.

That's why I wish web components would see greater adoption. Having worked through jQuery, Backbone, Sencha ExtJS, AngularJs, Angular 2 and React over the course of a 15 year career, It's frustrating when you can't switch frameworks because the cost to rewrite your existing components trumps the potential efficiencies of adopting a new set of design patterns and affordances.

kapilkaisare··on How do you guys like your coffee?
Light roasted beans from Ethiopia, ground to medium coarseness, and extracted via a Chemex. Served black, without sugar, cream or milk.

When I'm not at home and can't get access to a good Ethiopian light roast, I opt for the lightest brew I can get on tap, served with oat milk. Taken hot or cold depending on how I'm feeling that day.

I bought an aeropress recently and have been carrying it around when I travel. It's certainly come in handy and lets me brew for friends when I visit.

kapilkaisare··on Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
And India. Most businesses run their customer service off Whatsapp, including nation-wide telecom outfits.
kapilkaisare··on TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
Is having several tabs open in a browser rare? My social circle - which comprises mostly software engineers, admittedly - sees browsers with 30+ tabs open as normal.
kapilkaisare··on Set up a Raspberry Pi meteor detector
I imagine this would capture meteor flares only in areas with minimal lighting. In urban (and surrounding) areas, the light pollution would render human (and I imagine, digital) eyes blind to the celestial tapestry.

Are there cameras that can filter the light pollution out?

kapilkaisare··on EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
Isn't 10% too low a number to consider a platform systemic?
kapilkaisare··on Ask HN: How’s Your Experience with System76
Yes. I certainly do, running a Kubuntu install. If you are using a Ubuntu base, consider installing their Nvidia driver package.
kapilkaisare··on Ask HN: How’s Your Experience with System76
I've got nearly five years on my Wild Dog Pro, a desktop machine I purchased from System76. It is my daily driver and, outside of a loose power socket that I will need to eventually address, promises to remain so for another five.

A month or so ago, I reached out to them using their customer support form asking for advice on a graphics card upgrade. I got a response within 24 hours that was clear and helpful. If they ever offer desktop (or even laptop) worthy ARM based systems, I shall aim to be amongst the first in line.

kapilkaisare··on LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
It looks like OP is a freelancer/contractor with a DevOps focus. I can imagine a profile like that with several short term lucrative contracts.
kapilkaisare··on Be prolific
Reminds me of this talk I saw by Ray Bradbury on writing, where he said (I paraphrase):

Aim to write one story a week. That gives you 52 stories a year, and I dare you to write 52 bad ones.

kapilkaisare··on Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response
How does an immune response impact physical capability?
kapilkaisare··on Thank You MDN
If MDN did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
kapilkaisare··on A User Guide To Working With You
Would you elaborate why?

It came across to me as a pretty good idea. To write this well requires a certain degree of introspection, and it allows co-workers to gain an understanding of how you work.

kapilkaisare··on Apple’s new iOS 14 home screen brings Windows Phone Live Tiles back to life
Windows 8 gets a lot of flak, but I always remember looking at it and thinking that something in Microsoft's DNA had changed. It seemed a risky design move for an outfit seen as risk-averse.

And I really like the 2017 iPhone SE in my pocket right now, but I loved the Nokia Lumia 920 I owned a few years ago, before a long drive in a torrential downpour destroyed it. The (live) tiles were one of the things I loved; bigger tiles worked better for my stubby fingertips.

I held out for as long as I could in hopes of a Surface Phone being released before finally buying the iPhone. The Duo is a nice bit of hardware, but it's Android, which I have never liked.

kapilkaisare··on Making Vue 3
Does Nativescript not come with Vue support?
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