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Mine's here: https://twomorecents.org/tech-stack.html

Fascinating. Not only that, it even fetches https://www.youtube.com/feed/gr as the first result, at least on duckduckgo.

I was talking about this with a friend earlier this week. The people who work in software these days seem much more extroverted and outgoing than the 'introverted nerd' stereotype from the 90s.

Could you elaborate on that? What does 'flatMappable' mean in this context?

Interesting news, but the source seems blatantly partisan.

I grew up ~20 minutes from the place you're describing, and you just made me very nostalgic :D

I was fully expecting a radio station in Tamil Nadu, but this one's in Sri Lanka. I know there's a lot of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, but that's still pretty interesting!

I feel the same way, although I think technology's inspiration on fiction is stronger. Today's fiction, as you said, is simply tomorrow's science.

As another Tamilian, thank you for making this! I'm fluent in spoken Tamil from my parents and I've learned to read and write at a basic level, but I'd never formally learned the language.

https://indiantranslate.com

It's a translation map of Indian languages - type in a word, see the translations across 22 languages.

I was inspired by this HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152587), and wanted to make something similar for India (which has similar linguistic diversity). Translations are fetched with Google Translate, but I also display 'romanizations' (transliterated into Latin script), which are generated with a local ML model.

Now that it's done, I've mostly been working on a little Markdown-to-HTML parser in Haskell.

I believe they meant an additional $110, which would be a 110% markup.

Shameless plug: My Regex engine (https://pkg.go.dev/gitea.twomorecents.org/Rockingcool/kleing...) has dedicated syntax for this kind of task.

  <0-255>\.<0-255>\.<0-255>\.<0-255>

EDIT: formatting

A very well-written piece. The section on funding open source is as relevant as it's ever been, and I don't think we've learnt much since last year.

As the proportion of younger engineers contributing to open-source decreases (a reasonable choice, given the state of the economy), I see only two future possibilities:

1. Big corporations take ownership of key open-source libraries in an effort to continue their development.

2. Said key open-source libraries die, and corporations develop proprietary replacements for their own use. The open source scene remains alive, but with a much smaller influence.

There's a stark difference between the "haha, what the fuck, US" sentiment I used to sense and the "what the fuck, US" we're getting now.

Agreed, and this is a nice way of putting it. There's a sense that shit is really hitting the fan this time.

The articles predict ... a handheld electronic device with contrast equivalent to printed paper (Kindle Paperwhite etc)

Fascinating. I get predictions about something large-scale like the internet, but this seems like a rather specific to predict, doesn't it?

regular manned missions to Mars and a human colony on the moon aren't any more realistic than they were back in the 90s.

Fingers crossed that the Artemis program gets us closer to the latter.

Agreed, one of my favorite pieces of literature. It's what got me into American historical fiction - I later ventured into Steinbeck and Mark Twain, both of whom are masters of the genre.

For those who like C because of the simplicity, I can wholeheartedly recommend Go. It's replaced C as my go-to for personal CLI projects - while it is more complex than C, the core language features fit in my head pretty well. Add to that the excellent tooling, primitive OOP and clean syntax, and it's a damn good replacement.

Not the parent, but:

Neither. While colonialism didn't _create_ generational poverty, the systemic genocides of the British were new. Colonial policy of prioritizing exports directly led to the deaths of millions. That's a fact.

A similar comparison would be between Roman slavery and the chattel slavery of the Americas. They are both abhorrent practices (just like the genocides caused by Indian rulers in the pre-British period), but it pales in comparison to the scale and horror of antebellum slavery.

The only downside i

Still waiting :D

"Websites" had seemed like these quasi-mythical things that I thought only really rich people or big companies could make

That idea seems to be coming back.

use awk to write a shell script

Do you have any examples of this?

Deciding not to do those things for economic comfort is its own vote of support.

Not in a surveillance state. It's easy for a company/government to identify unrest and deal with the perpetrators, before anything breaks out. These institutions have the power to ruin your life for showing any signs of protest.

Work code: vscode, slack, teams, browser. These are always open. Outlook if I want to check my mail.

Personal code: Vim (more recently, zed) and a browser.

Disagree. Corporations reflect the _decision-makers_. The average rank-and-file employee at an MNC couldn't care less about the values, regardless of how virtuous they might be.

Agreed. The hardware is excellent, but the customizability, and overall snappiness of the UI are far inferior to my XFCE setup.

As someone who recently started their first internship, I really needed to read this. I've already been on the receiving end of this, and it helps to know that it wasn't a personal insult. The bullet points at the end seem very useful as well, even outside the context of work.

That said, surely there must be a less blunt way of saying it? Something like "I believe in the team, but we still need improvement".

The translations were retrieved around 2014

How does that work? Are they cached somewhere? Devtools doesn't indicate a call to google translate.

I remember briefly using NetBeans in my high school programming class. Anyone still use it? Is it a good alternative to corporate-backed IDEs?

"eww" is also my reaction to Emacs users (sent with vimium on firefox)

It doesn't need a blocker for third-party scripting, service workers ... because the browser's technology simply doesn't recognise these page components

I'd never thought about it like that, but it's a nice side-effect. You don't have to worry about obtrusive JS, if your browser doesn't know what JS is. :D