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solarized

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WebDev, Linux, Postgres, 0 to million sales.

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solarized··on You can choose tools that make you happy
Define happy. Long terms happiness is a must. Wisely choose any tools with better trade off for long terms games.

In terms of endurance, productivity, peoples, money.

solarized··on Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal
The most worrying thing about isolated places like this :

   Wayback Machine can't index my content.
solarized··on The benefits of learning in public
I also do this.

Still don’t know how to respond when i get fucked by LLM authoritarians (Grok, ChatGPT, etc.).

They don’t give the traffic back / incentives or even cite us as the source. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

solarized··on You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
Refactoring legacy project while keeping the business running well is an arts.

A doctor who can cure patient illness from mallpractice are considered senior !.

Regardless their years of experience.

solarized··on Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living
kamaal, of course i still read it. xD just x or hackerNews. its enough.
solarized··on Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living
> Not reading the news

I do this too. I’ve even managed to go years without opening the news. What I can’t deny, the news still sneaks in through WhatsApp/Telegram groups.

> or caring about strangers opinions has done wonders for my psyche.

The final bos !. Jumping into these kinds of conversations just to prove you're smart—or look smart—is the ultimate time stealer. The dopamine hits hard.

Yes, i proved i'm smarter than my average friends. friends also happy to get good insights from me.

The ironic part? times fades away while the quality of my work takes a nosedive.

Dumbest tradeoff i've learned the hard way.

solarized··on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
Be exceptionally skilled in areas that can’t yet be automated.

Focus on soft skills: communication, problem-solving, social intelligence, collaboration, connecting ideas, and other "less technical" abilities. Kind of management and interpersonal stuff that machines can’t replicate (yet).

It's real. Subscribing LLM provider for $20/month feels like better deal than hiring average-skilled software engineer.

It's even funnier when we realize that people we hire are just going to end up prompting the LLM anyway. So, why bother hiring?

We really need next-level skills. Beyond what LLM can handle.

solarized··on Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking
easy_things -> comfort_zone
solarized··on Pi Chess Board
I love the board has no led when X the opponent. You can add LLMs as your opponent. So you can play with your dead grandpa, hitler, aristoteles while talking about everything. I'll buy or made one ! :D
solarized··on Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell
I’m sorry. I’m just frustrated enough scanning the QR code in the restaurant.

Now I have to scan another QR code just to meet you?

I prefer looking for new friends.

solarized··on Ask HN: Who is hacking Internet Archive?
Believing 100% without skepticism are bad way to get the conclusion.

* Are you sure it is pro palestinian org ?

* Are you sure that org not a puppets created by the Publisher who hated IA ?

So many possible questions.

solarized··on Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?
Use autokey for linux and friends.

% apt install autokey-gtk

solarized··on Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working
agree! its just not make sense to block user attention before or while watching the vids.
solarized··on I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app
> We reported this vulnerability in December 2023 via Kakao’s Bug Bounty Program. However, we didn’t receive any reward as only Koreans are eligible to receive a bounty

Holy crap !

solarized··on Ask HN: How has AI changed your learning methods?
Prompting ELI5: your complex subjects to know. then build more advance conversation after that, really help me a lot.

except, their answer inconsistencies. made me like you chat with someone who you have trust issues with them.

In the end, i have to googling again to validate this creatures output. geez.

solarized··on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
Interesting! It's a good way to test how successful the city is with their education systems. We could try it out one day a year at least.

Differentiate nomal daily sales rates within the test day, observe the trend year by year. Sounds naive, would be lovely if it works.

solarized··on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
Haha, absolutely! Just to generalize, those thousands of people can also watch the match by streaming, right? It's all about remote versus physical activities.

We can't shift everything into remote mode. However, we don't need to hustle into physical mode every day either. Yeah, yin yang complexity, balancing everything out.

solarized··on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
To peoples asking: "Why not just QR codes?" Again it's all about latency. QR codes take longer when you tap them at the gate: opening the app, waiting for the scanner to adjust, connecting to inet. While NFC handle these tasks almost instantly. A big difference in super busy places where queues are a nightmare.

Again, this problem wouldn't exist if we can optimize WFH methods. We don't need to solving "physical problems" from start to finish. Making, distributing, and recycling all those ticket papers.

No matter how advanced your transportation tech is, moving people long distances is still really costly. Sorry to "steer" this conversation into WFH and WFO topics.

solarized··on Desktop Linux is an Untapped Gold Mine
The hardest thing to solve here is standardizing the ecosystem of freedom. What's "lovely" about this ecosystem is that nobody cares and nobody tells you how to run your desktops. Want something lightweight? Go with TinyCore or Puppy. Into gaming? Check out SteamOS. Home theater? Use Kodi. Focused on security? Kali is the way to go.

I even built my own distros for my product to automate endoscopy machine interfaces. You can build whatever you want to solve whatever problems you have.

Trying to solve this problem is like merging all the transcontinental countries into one union called USSR.

I really admire any billionaire or community that continues Mark Shuttleworth's effort to raise awareness about Linux desktops.

solarized··on Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm
Noob here. Please ELI 5 what this algo used in quake 3 ?.

> Solve lighting equations

Is it the light or laser effect when the gun is fired ?

solarized··on Steve Wozniak: When I die these are the moments I want to remember
ROFL !
solarized··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
Gilfoyle: ":smiling"
solarized··on The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)
HN thread never fails to blow my mind. Delightful books to showing programming and science as an art !
solarized··on Kevin Kelly: 101 Additional Advices
i'm thinking to write this kind of things as blogs to my kids. Suddenly i found it in HN. what a beautiful days. :star
solarized··on Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
I hope developers still love to blog details with article mode like this, rather than vlogging it on YouTube. A lot of detail packed into a few kilobytes only.

"Super Mario World" is still the masterpiece game ever. It has amazing characters, sprites, and stages packed into only 360 KB.

solarized··on MiniDebCampHamburg
i'm happy this kind of hackaton still consistenly held. long live deb.and.ian.
solarized··on GoboLinux
I mean, fish isn't the only shell out there. Why bother installing another shell instead of just sticking with bash for normal navigation? Ah, sorry, classic distro discussion. Everyone has the freedom to choose whatever distros they prefer.
solarized··on GoboLinux
Hey, just a heads up: capitalizing the first directory's name? Not cool. It feels like extra work when navigating paths, you know? Pressing shift along with a letter or number every time? Total drag, especially for everyday command line use.
solarized··on What Restoring a 30-Year-Old Nintendo Taught Me About Right to Repair
Dear fellow dev. please choose other platform rather than medium ! Lock here, login there. Pfft.
solarized··on AI Restaurant Menu with RAG
If we've fixed the 24/7 'free' internet with zero latency issue, 24/7 electricity, and cheap mobile devices – in short, ZERO FRICTION – then this kind of tech could all work. Otherwise, we're just adding new problems instead of fixing them.
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