tecoholic

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by tecoholic 4d ago
I am going to say the question is the wrong way to look at this. People behave differently in different situations. While I am very conflicted like the GP about this specific case. I don’t think it’s as simple as - don’t do anything you won
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by tecoholic 7d ago
I have come to the conclusion recently after trying to use computers as a hobby for years. Hobby coding, games, shows … anything with a screen just doesn’t provide the relief I need. Just takes a lot of time and leaves with a feeling of exh
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by tecoholic 8d ago
I think they are smart enough to take advantage of things. Hard work or not doesn’t matter. For example, assessing that their home in California is worth way more than they make out of it and seeking out a cheaper place to convert that “luc
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by tecoholic 8d ago
I think they are more lucky than privileged. Multiple IPO stock options, both well educated and high paying jobs and shared interests. They seem to have hit right timings multiple times. Things compound.
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by tecoholic 19d ago
Are my eyes deceiving me or is Mapbox not participating as an event sponsor? It's been a while, but wasn't mapbox's existence completely relied on OSM?
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by tecoholic 21d ago
Fair point. I might be misreading based on my hopes :/
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by tecoholic 22d ago
The reliance on Deepseek and Kimi as the benchmarks from every chip maker from NVIDIA to OpenAI is a good tell of where things are heading. In the next couple of years, hopefully we will have systems at home for everyday use and corporation
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by tecoholic 26d ago
The Old-guard is a good alternative to greybeards, no?
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by tecoholic 26d ago
> gemini 3.7 is great for speed. everyone is sleeping on it Is this Gemini 3.7 Flash by any chance? Then - No. Not sleeping on it. It’s just not good. I had a Python package build fail this week due to an unpinned dependency. Gave it to
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by tecoholic 28d ago
Pretty much my baseline as well. Good example how experiences shape our thinking.
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by tecoholic 28d ago
That’s so cool.
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by tecoholic 28d ago
It’s funny what “tiny” means for different people depending on their background. I expected it to be under an MB as well and was surprised by 6MB.
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by tecoholic 1mo ago
There is an episode in Elementary that involves the Horseshoe, its extraction and conservation. It is just a regular episode, but the visual presentation of the extraction was fascinating. I hope they are real. :)
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by tecoholic 1mo ago
With web search and tool call a decent current generation model at the speed of the chatjimmy could do a lot. People saying it would be out of date are missing the point. It’s not going to make much sense for frontier companies that’s chasi
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by tecoholic 1mo ago
I don’t think it’s that fairness. It’s about - what’s a fair amount of punishment? Since society has created the laws and laid down mechanisms to punish wrongs, each person then individually deciding to punish the person is unfair in a civi
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by tecoholic 1mo ago
Why does this library get posted here, what feels like every month? I remember it seeing at least twice before.
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
Someone pointed it out to me that, if a person does something bad and faces the consequences by law, then that should be the end of it. Applying a personal punishment individually like avoiding anything they have involved in, is pointless o
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
I so want to agree. I have been a Linux user for almost 2 decades now and I still can’t close apps by throwing my mouse on the right top corner and clicking. It works on “KDE apps” and but not on Firefox so I am guessing GTK apps. The idea
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
> and I use LastPass Oh! No. Please switch to something else. Last pass has had so many breaches, at this point it’s just not worth it.
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
That’s in utterly bad taste. Not sure what offended you. But there is no need to call in Muslims and mosques in this conversation.
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
From down south of India - the Proto Tamil language is the basis for modern Tamil, Malayalam and others. We still have Sanskrit being used by Temple priests. One of changes in the last decade is - Tamilnadu finally has temples with priests
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
I feel the same way. One of my client insists it’s amazing as a marketing tool, helps go through notifications, draft personalized emails..etc., He asks for user metrics from Telegram and gets report…etc., But I am very conflicted. How do y
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
Hello everyone. I am really not sure what I was ranting about yesterday. I have some bones to pick with the system. The crux of it is - it’s not a technological miracle. It’s the government’s will that makes the system function. It’s good f
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
Thanks for the additional info. But I want to clarify one thing - I didn’t say anything about cash being a better choice. Both the comments to my response are making it out to be a cash vs digital thing. I am not sure why. Next, NPCI is a P
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
Fair enough. I am not knowledgeable enough to debate if it’s a net negative or positive. But “savings and efficiency” also has a negative side where people have lost life savings and bank accounts emptied in a matter of minutes. UPI doesn’t
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
I would guess NPCI being a private body with transaction charges being borne by the Indian government is a net negative in the long run. It costs everyone. NEFT and RTGS on the other hand is RBI regulated with clear pricing and costs only t
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
Thanks for explaining the context. It makes sense in your case where using mouse is a hard constraint. My reaction is more towards people who optimise for productivity.
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
Keybooard and Mouse. Everytime. I have the same question. How much do you type in a day that moving the hand to the mouse is a productivity loss? I spend a lot of time staring (thinking, planning) than typing. So, moving my hand to the mous
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
By making “upstreaming” the core of OS contribution, we have also failed to build tooling around downstream synchronisation. There are dedicated browser forks (a very highly complex software) that are maintained by a few volunteers. So main
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by tecoholic 2mo ago
Man, these are the kinds of things that I am so happy to read. People who think and care deeply about what they do, take pragmatic decisions that appears right to them and explain why they do things the way they do. Very motivating. Literal

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