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Readit Newsashwinsundar commented on Hello, I'm in love with Htmx and Datastar · Posted by u/jerawaj740
ashwinsundar commented on BankGPT – Your AI Assistant for Statements, Invoices and Receipts bankgpt.io/... · Posted by u/Gumenchong
Yes. BankGPT uses bank-grade encryption, access controls, and compliance with global data standards (GDPR, SOC 2, etc.) to ensure sensitive financial data is fully protected.
I had this very thought recently at a concert. Tickets were $20, great. A clever shirt that ripped off an Office joke with the band’s name plastered on the front was $35. The music wasn’t very good, and they were playing a recorded bass track. I wonder where the band focused their effort?
Well my garden photos turned out great, even after I damaged the optics while working at that garden.
Isn't the iphone photo software lacking somehow? Maybe it was the software? I found a big difference with that phone. Very vivid photos. Not an expert but could it have been some "contrast" setting?
Vividness can be modified easily by adjusting the contrast, changing the black/white point, or changing the color temperature of an image.
ashwinsundar commented on In Praise of Idleness (1932) harpers.org/archive/1932/... · Posted by u/awanderingmind
Great read. In a similar (but not identical) vein, I have been reading "Leisure: The Basis of Culture" (1952) by Josef Pieper, which discusses the concept of "total work" - where every activity of the modern worker's day is either work, or in service of work. Even "leisure" activities are pondered in terms of how maximally leisurely they are, and how much they refresh the worker to prepare for the work week again.
"Leisure" is different from "idleness", as Pieper expands upon early in the book. I'm still only partway through the book, and am not sure I fully understand this difference yet, but I think Bertrand Russell's article shared here is a helpful piece that might get me there.
Leisure, it seems, is a more enlightened and intentional state than idleness, and one is permitted to conduct work-like activities while in a leisurely state, from what I understand. But then this seems to break down as leisure is supposed to be defined as independent of the concept of work. If two individuals are doing the same task, and it appears from the outside to be work, but one is doing it with a "leisurely" state of mind, then is only one of them actually doing work? It appears to be the case, from my reading so far.
I was first introduced to the concept of "total work" by Andrew Taggart's excellent article "The Secret to Office Happiness Isn't Working Less - it's Caring Less" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170810035800/https://qz.com/10...).
Are there any other related works on the concepts of "total work", "leisure", or "idleness" that people would recommend here?
ashwinsundar commented on Becoming the person who does the thing fredrivett.com/2025/09/10... · Posted by u/fredrivett
Tech people are good at writing, maybe not like an actual writer or journalist, but we definitely write more than farmers. Tech also evolves very fast, so we probably perceive time differently, and think we "have seen a lot" in less time.
I have never read whatever farmers write, but I am almost certain it is miles better than the average tech writing drivel
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ashwinsundar commented on I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack leshicodes.github.io/blog... · Posted by u/starkparker
I really want to do this but like any hobby it takes too much time. My biggest frustration as a youtube music user is that the app doesn't appreciate that it might not always have a good internet connection and takes forever to fallback to your downloads when loading the library.
If I used an open source app or my own app I could fix this stupid bug but I don't have any control. :(
I want to do this too, and have a feeling that it's not as hard or time-consuming as it seems. 15 years ago, all my music lived in a /Music folder and I could play anything in there, instantly. It should be easy to just move that folder to a networked drive, get some sort of mp3 player app on my phone/devices, and point it at that folder. If the app is allowed to download files as well, that's even better. Otherwise, plugging in my phone/mp3 player and uploading songs manually was never particularly difficult, even back then.
If I remember correctly, all my playlists were really just text files used by Windows Media Player or iTunes, so it should be easy to support that type of functionality as well.
ashwinsundar commented on 30 minutes with a stranger pudding.cool/2025/06/hell... · Posted by u/MaxLeiter
Sheesh, I liked it. It turned some research that may have been otherwise inaccessible or difficult to understand, and expanded it’s reach.
ashwinsundar commented on Next.js Is Infuriating blog.meca.sh/3lxoty3shjc2... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Maybe you took my comment the wrong way? I'm not a fan of NextJS, at all.
I probably did, sorry about that. Turns out people are finally starting to lavish NextJS with the criticism it deserves, based on all the comments here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099922