amrangaye

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by amrangaye 3mo ago
So many things - reminds me of the days when you'd throw together a quick shell or Perl script to solve a very particular itch. So I have a whole collection of apps, portals, demos, etc. Which is what leads to my issue: cognitive overl
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by amrangaye 1y ago
Spoken like someone who’s never lived under a dictatorship :)
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by amrangaye 1y ago
“Kills the fun part of coding” - absolutely not! Coding is a lot more fun now that I can move from idea to working prototype in an evening without having to figure out individual libraries, research and learn them etc. The last time I felt
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by amrangaye 1y ago
I think he missed one of the use cases for advertising: providing “free” services to people in the “third world”. I come from west Africa, majority of people can’t afford to pay for Facebook, YouTube, whatsapp etc even though these are thei
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by amrangaye 1y ago
Not yet as I’m still finessing it to her needs. She has a problem getting rid of thumb sucking, and finally asked for a fairy tale with a thumb sucking princess who eventually stops sucking her thumb lol. It’s a fun activity and also lettin
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by amrangaye 1y ago
Will do. Hn has no way of tagging people or following up though so I’m not sure how to share once I go live. But if you shoot me a message I’ll update you once done. amrangaye at gmail dot com.
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by amrangaye 1y ago
Thank you. Yes she’s been enjoying them a lot now that we don’t have to repeat the same stories every night :) I’ll share on here once I’m done and also the right up.
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by amrangaye 1y ago
Does “vibe coding” count :-) I’m from west Africa and lately been very interested in African fairy tales to read to my daughter. Ended up building ( a GPT-backed interface that can insert her in any African story she wants. We also have a l
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by amrangaye 2y ago
+1. And “figure out a government ledger” sounds like a friend who would ask why google spend so much money when “it’s just one page with a search box”. Government spending and the amounts involved in budgeting and appropriation etc are far
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by amrangaye 2y ago
“The majority of them don’t even have taste” - by your definition of taste perhaps? :-) just sounds condescending - taste is whatever they like, not what you decide is good to like.
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by amrangaye 2y ago
Only a “laughable debate” and “just the free market” if you haven’t actually had to deal with these insurance companies when you have a health issue and have never paid your dues late. I’m guessing you’re from somewhere in Europe with unive
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by amrangaye 2y ago
Sidebar: interesting how you typed out the email address (I’ve also seen variations like me at gmail dot com). This worked for spam and phishing crawlers that just did a brute force search across texts. But now that we have LLMs, I’m wonde
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by amrangaye 2y ago
What prompts do you use for DnD / dungeon master? Think this would be great for solo campaigns.
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by amrangaye 2y ago
I’m heavily invested in 1p for years now, but have been impressed by the new Apple Passwords app (in beta) - it’s nowhere near as advanced, but it implements like 90% of what you need including 2FA. I’m sticking with 1p for now but worth wa
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by amrangaye 2y ago
That makes more sense. Thanks.
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by amrangaye 2y ago
Sorry I don’t understand - the link you posted shows that “most people” actually speak mandarin and Spanish?
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by amrangaye 2y ago
lol - just out of curiosity: are you doing this yourself? Provide tech support to all your aunties and uncles, cousins, friends etc (already bad enough - now formalized) then you add installation and maintenance (including on all their dev
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by amrangaye 3y ago
I thought it was just me - I even tried different mobile browsers. You’d think before you wrote a whole article about how bad Wikipedia is you’d at least make your site work on mobile. (And I have js turned on - the site is just one long co
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by amrangaye 3y ago
Welp - messed up the line breaks - hope that made sense.
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by amrangaye 3y ago
> Kinda. We were open to believing in God. But the start of our journey was just realizing the secular world had nothing to offer us. I'm curious how you interprete "secular"? Cause it seems you're setting it up to me
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by amrangaye 3y ago
What’re you talking about? We’re discussing how in this particular case it would be trivial for the police department to see that this house has been SWATed 47 (!) times, which obviously means there’s something going on. How do you get from
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by amrangaye 3y ago
I’m sorry - but if you ARE psychotic this is exactly what you would believe. I don’t know you at all so sorry for assuming, but I think you need to listen to your family and get some help. Posting on online forums for advise from strangers
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by amrangaye 3y ago
Thanks for this - looks great. Do you have any other recommendations? Videos, blogs, etc?
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by amrangaye 3y ago
Location: Ontario (Canada) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, GCP, Postgres / MySQL, React, Node, Writing, Engineering Manager, Perl, Rails, etc Resume: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/03
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by amrangaye 3y ago
Hack is great.
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by amrangaye 3y ago
Every. Single. Apple product launch post. “Meh”, “I can’t see the use case for this”, “it’s all already been done before”. Like clockwork. Then they’ll sell a million of these, and by v3 it’ll be much smaller / better / cheaper,
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by amrangaye 3y ago
> We should absolutely ban it, the same way China bans Instagram, Facebook, Google, etc for the same reasons: national security threat. China has not banned those. Foreign internet companies can operate in China if they obey the same rul
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by amrangaye 4y ago
+1. Not even sure this is “eligible” for an hn post. It actually makes less sense than the CNN ones I saw earlier, and boy those were terrible takes.
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by amrangaye 4y ago
I’ve had the same experience with Python code. I found this article poorly written and alarmist - he really doesn’t prove his main point beyond hand waving, and phrases about MS about to “hand over” their search engine to the AI sounds like
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by amrangaye 4y ago
My experience as well - I now just disable it on new phones. I think they only thing worse - or a close second - is the Apple TV interface.

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