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Little related - this is also why I started watching movies and TV shows that are popular. I didn't use to watch a lot of them earlier. Now I understand how much our culture is affected by them and how it affects our communication.

Thanks!

How is the other machine family slow when it has the same resources? How do you identify such machine families?

Are there any open-source software that let you create a dashboard integrating payments from multiple payment sources?

This is how every AI apocalypse starts in movies

Pretty impressive to be able to create such a script when you haven't programmed before.

I used to freelance when I learnt to code in college and I wrote many such small automation scripts for quite a few people. Looks like the AI is already taking away some jobs ;)

As someone who keeps feeling if his writing is "good enough", your comment makes me feel really good. Thanks a lot for writing this :)

I was hesitating in posting it to HN but now I am glad I did.

I am not a native English speaker so the choice of words may not be the best. Saw another comment mentioning the same. Should have been "defeat" probably?

I am an introvert myself and practiced a new habit of calling one person each day in the lockdown.

Has helped me in forming deep friendships, make new friends, and overcoming my shyness.

Recommend 10/10

Here is a short essay I wrote recently. Will probably write a blog post soon too.

https://twitter.com/prashanttgs/status/1616815440667480071

I have read the article many times myself, and a lot of friends have read it too. Nobody noticed that yet.

Thanks for noticing. Now I have to go check my notes to find the link

As a college student looking for FTE a couple of years ago, putting my SaaS on my resume definitely helped me.

Every interviewer asked me about my side projects and the tech aspect of it. The fact that it was used by 5k+ users at that time was always met with amazement and appreciation.

At my current employer, I was told that me trying things out and learning things on my own (demonstrated by me growing my SaaS) was one of the big factors in me getting hired there.

[All my interviews were at startups]

Of course once you are employed you should follow this advice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34305919

Someone can create a chat bot which is fed HN comments and it tells you which GPT+search bot to use for your usecase

I am guessing you are using an iPhone. But if I am wrong and for others who do not know, Firefox for Android supports running uBlock Origin.

Did you think of selling the business (through marketplaces like acquire[dot]com

Thanks a lot for sharing the script!

I too am considering switching to Obsidian at least to see the difference wrt LogSeq as per my current note-taking approach.

I like Obsidian's community and development better but used LogSeq because of the outliner experience.

Why not Zoho for personal use?

> I recently told her that as far as I'm concerned there are no age limits for books and she can read anything she wants

Maybe that's the problem. If you tell her that she is not allowed to read books from one part of the shelf, that will make her more curious about them ;)

/j

These are IT and manufacturing hubs and the respective State governments and the Centre gives them special attention because they want industries and jobs.

Maybe if the elites start taking their lives more seriously and threaten to move away from these cities we might start seeing some action.

> the kind of person who lives in a Housing Society in Noida, Gurgaon, or Ghaziabad doesn't know or care to partake in Gheraos, Bandhs, or Dharns to push their point through.

That's what I wanted to say with my earlier comment.

But many cities from these states also face high pollution.

Noida, Ghaziabad (UP), Gurugram (Haryana) are a few examples which are highly populated. Noida is slowly growing as UP's manufactoring hub, already being its IT hub. Gurugram is another IT hub.

A lot of this problem is also because of the apathy of the working class who reside in these cities.

We have to learn the art of activism :(

Nobody is willing to do it because:

1. Lack of political willpower. It is still not considered to be a very high priority thing by those in power, and even the people who live in the region.

2. Again, due to politicians, bureaucracy, and their corruption. Example -

> In two years, Delhi (state govt^) spent Rs 68 lakh on stubble decomposer, Rs 23 crore to advertise it [0]

> ‘No other option’ — as its fields turn black & skies smoky, why Punjab won’t stop burning stubble [1]

[0]: https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/05/11/in-two-years-delhi-go...

[2]: https://theprint.in/agriculture/no-other-option-as-its-field...

^: Not in the original article headline

> Also, outside of the USA if they piss off Mark Zuckerberg enough they can lose the rest of the world

If a few companies piss-off each other enough, we might start seeing open protocols for communication

The power of TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) is also proposed to be curtailed in the same bill [0].

[0] https://www.outlookindia.com/business/proposal-to-curtail-tr...

Personally, I know very few people who don't have a digit at the end of their email address.

I will also add "Andhadhun" to the list of bollywood movies. One of the best movies I have ever seen.

Genuinely curious: so why is XMPP not so popular outside of the hacker community?

A list of things that can go wrong

- the wind patterns on Earth change, resulting in climate change. Seasons will alter. Rains will be affected. Widespread famines and floods.

- Point 1 rendering a lot of solar and wind energy farms unusable.

- Less sunlight results in less photosynthesis. This again causes chimate change, loss of biodiversity.

What else?

Yeah same lol. I saw that my SaaS services were not working and I got stressed thinking why all my EC2 instances went down at the same time. I checked down detector for EC2 and it reported that Cloudflare is down. I breathed a sigh of relief thinking that the (almost) whole of internet is down - nothing that I can do here.

Signal is better than Telegram in terms of security and privacy.

But people use Telegram for its plethora of features, the UX, and its attention to even the smallest of details.

When I was a kid and new to FB, someone told me to check the comments on the meme pages. They used to be funny and I thought that I had been missing out. So I made a habit of checking comments of all the posts.

Now it is a cesspool of trolls everywhere.

Now checking comments used to generate so many negative emotions in me that I have told myself the same - "never look at the comments". I feel happier now.

Same here in my country. It feels so weird that the service provider has the ability to just charge a card in the US if you enter the three things printed on the card. That would cause a lot of frauds if it happened here. Fortunately, the central bank has strict regulations here and we need to authorize a payment by using a password or an OTP.