mindwork · HackerTrans

il y a 21 joursdiscuss

> what the most romantic ideal you have of America that you think would be worth sharing?

A shining city on a hill. Both as an ideal to aspire to, and a warning that the world's eyes are on you, and if you fail, you will fail out loud

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il y a 23 joursdiscuss

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

To each their own, just stay away from Tenderloin and Market and 6th street. I'm sure if you set out some time to explore, you will find whatever fits you best. When I was moving, I sourced a bunch of opinions from my coworkers, non of them were of much help to me. I've charted my own way in the end, made my own mistakes

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Ever since I've been very young I wanted to live in the global West. At first England, then USA became more lucrative place. I've spent 10 years trying to move to USA. Sacrificed a lot for it. Lots of self doubt, whether I can make it? Is it a right decision? What about my friends and family? I knew about some of the problems before I moved, but obviously not all of them.

I moved to San Francisco about 5 years ago. I can tell you, it was all WORTH IT! I'm still amazed by the city and the life around me. 5 years later it still impresses me. I feel like I'm living in a movie, and I'm a main character in a movie! I became a better version of myself. I can't imagine being myself if I'd stay back in my country.

p.s. those are my feelings. Obviously life around me is not ideal. There is no such place as ideal, but it works for me despite many-many-many problems that I have in my life right now.

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet

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il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Good luck supporting it

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do

2 can be as bad as 1

It's the loneliest number since the number 1

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

I still use Authy tbh

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Let me use my UniFi

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il y a 4 moisdiscuss

I don't mind UI, but I think it's a bad approach. Instead of hiding all those complexities of the server behind UI, I would like to see each part of the application teach me how to achieve the same result in CLI. That would be useful for people to teach themselves, because UI comes and goes but basic linux commands - will stay

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il y a 5 moisdiscuss

JIRA replaced Project Management job a long time ago. If you select for proactive, driven, autonomous engineers, you don't really need to oversee them or tell them what to work on. Now Tech Lead or Product Manager is a whole different job

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il y a 5 moisdiscuss

I took a python library for generating posters from maps and wrapped it up as a web UI:

https://maptoposter.penk.in/

I mean AI did all the work for me with some minimal guidance. All and all it took about 3 hours to do with PaaS hosting

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il y a 6 moisdiscuss

I self host Stirling-PDF for complicated tasks, and use native MacOs app Preview for easy tasks

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il y a 6 moisdiscuss

yup, something to fix in the future. I suspect it couldn't find city coordinates

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il y a 6 moisdiscuss

https://maptoposter.penk.in/

Using Claude Code and OP's library, I've put it on the internets. Web hosting is cheap(free) and generation takes some time

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il y a 6 moisdiscuss

https://penk.in/ - one day I will add a proper blog in there and testing bed for tech, but for now it is as it is. The background image is the one I took in Iceland, really proud of it

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il y a 12 moisdiscuss

RIP.

Also RIP my dreams about apple doing networking hardware like AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, XServe etc. It was a great time in 2000s

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l’année dernièrediscuss

When running your own backup server, you're forgetting about scenario(however less-likely) when Google Photos will loose your photos, or if your google account gets banned with no ability to call anyone in Google to dispute that. In this case you can safely rely on your own backup to have those files at hand.

I was skeptical about this scenario until one day Gmail lost 1 year worth of my emails. It's just gone. All other emails are there, but not this particular year. And there is no person who you can call to talk about that.

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l’année dernièrediscuss

have you tried CasaOs or Zima board? It's their premise your own micro cloud

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l’année dernièrediscuss

https://filebin.net/jptm6h7q2agr8qoe

Let's see if HN admins will allow it. File will be deleted in 6 days

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