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rahimnathwani commented on Show HN: Blinding HDR profile pics for Twitter   xhdr.org/tools/twitter-hd... · Posted by u/mesmertech
rahimnathwani · 8 hours ago
This is cool.

When you change the sliders and click 'Create', the preview on the right doesn't change.

rahimnathwani commented on Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards   victorpoughon.github.io/b... · Posted by u/fouronnes3
willrshansen · 2 days ago
The first example on the main page has a formula with two variables being updated from changing one value. The immediate question I have is if I change the output, where does the extra degree of freedom come from on the inputs? Does one stay locked in place? Unclear.

I am a huge fan of the concept though. It's been bugging me for years that my spreadsheet doesn't allow editing text fields after filtering and sorting them down to the subset I want. I have to go all the way back to the mess of unsorted input rows to actually edit them.

rahimnathwani · 2 days ago

  Does one stay locked in place? Unclear.
If you set C1=A1+B1 then, when you set a value for C1, A1 and B1 are each half of that value, even if they started off unbalanced.

rahimnathwani commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books   reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer
rahimnathwani · 2 days ago
It's super-annoying that the article begins with a photo of a Kindle e-reader, and it's only once you read the last sentence that you find:

  "Ask this Book is currently only available in the Kindle iOS app in the US, but Amazon says it “will come to Kindle devices and Android OS next year."

rahimnathwani commented on Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer   netninja.com/2025/12/01/m... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
sponno · 7 days ago
From James Hoffmann he recommends 2 minutes. If I recall correctly waiting longer did slightly improve the results but after 2 minutes you get a good brew. https://aeroprecipe.com/recipes/james-hoffmann-aeropress-rec...

I like the button idea. 1. I'd love to see it battery powered. 2. I found a vape thing yesterday - I would love to see a battery from a Vape re-used if possible. 3. Lastly - based on a project I'm trying to do now. Can you somehow sleep the microcontroller so it uses no power while in standby and then starts the timer, so you have close to indefinite battery life?

rahimnathwani · 7 days ago
Regarding the last point, you can do better than sleep (lower power state). You can have the microcontroller cut its own power once it's done its work:

https://randomnerdtutorials.com/latching-power-switch-circui...

rahimnathwani commented on OMSCS Open Courseware   sites.gatech.edu/omscsope... · Posted by u/kerim-ca
dannyfreeman · 8 days ago
I would like to get my masters from georgia tech's omscs program but between work and 2 kids I dont see how I'll ever have the time
rahimnathwani · 8 days ago
There's a web site where different people share what they think of each course, and how many hours they devote per week: https://www.omscentral.com/

That might help you decide whether it's doable.

My first (and only) course was somewhere in the middle in terms of effort, and the courses I was most interested would have required another 50% on top, which wasn't going to work for me, between work, parenting, other learning etc.

rahimnathwani commented on OMSCS Open Courseware   sites.gatech.edu/omscsope... · Posted by u/kerim-ca
BlackjackCF · 8 days ago
Things that I loved about the program:

* My fellow classmates. Had a small study group where we got on Discord to hang out and it was a blast

* The TAs - they were so dedicated to the students and fantastic. MVPs of the program

rahimnathwani · 8 days ago
Oh yeah I forgot to mention the class discussion board.

I wasn't in any discord groups but the class discussion forum was a nice community.

rahimnathwani commented on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched   haveibeenflocked.com/... · Posted by u/pkaeding
tptacek · 8 days ago
Yeah, and Illinois law defines that as "ALPR data" and restricts its disclosure.
rahimnathwani · 8 days ago
Sorry.

I commented before realizing that someone else already made the same point earlier, and you already explained that the law covers more than what you mentioned in your first comment.

rahimnathwani commented on OMSCS Open Courseware   sites.gatech.edu/omscsope... · Posted by u/kerim-ca
rahimnathwani · 8 days ago
OMSCS requires ten courses to graduate. I completed one course (with an A grade) before realizing that, even at a pace of one course per semester, it was not a high enough priority for me to devote the time required to do each course well.

That course was great, though, and I definitely learned some things I'm glad to have learned!

IMO the instructional materials are a small part of the value. The things that stood out to me were:

- the assignments

- the autograding of programming assignments

- giving and receiving peer feedback about written assignments

- learning some LaTeX for those assignments

- having an artificial reason (course grade) to persist in improving my algorithm and code [on the problems taught in that course, I wouldn't have been self-motivated enough if they were just things I came across during a random weekend]

rahimnathwani commented on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched   haveibeenflocked.com/... · Posted by u/pkaeding
tptacek · 9 days ago
Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.

But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".

rahimnathwani · 8 days ago

  at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete
It's not a dataset of license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras. It's a dataset of license plate numbers that have been entered into search tools.

  Enter a license plate to see if it's one of the 2,207,426 plates seen in the 27,177,268 Flock searches we know about.

u/rahimnathwani

KarmaCake day15109March 9, 2012
About
I've lived in San Francisco since 2019.

2010-2019 I lived in China.

Before that I lived in London, where I was born.

Some random stuff:

- English is my native language, but I also speak (to varying degrees of fluency) Mandarin, Gujarati and Spanish.

- My career so far has been a mix of startups/cofounding and big tech (I was a PM at Amazon and at Google).

- I'm a qualified accountant (CIMA), have two undergrad degrees and an MBA.

- I'm better at writing software than an average PM, and better at product management than an average software engineer :)

- You should use Anki

Email: rahim AT encona DOT com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rahimnathwani

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