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signaru commented on Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen old.reddit.com/r/neovim/c... · Posted by u/konradkpl

zachlatta · a year ago

We are doing a fundraiser for him to get a laptop here: https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/oxy2dev-laptop

Transparent ledger of donations: https://hcb.hackclub.com/oxy2dev-laptop/transactions

We need about $500 more USD to get him an M1 MacBook Air (they are more expensive in Bangladesh, where he is based).

GitHub thread with details: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/218. Here is a Reddit comment from the author showing this is the official fundraiser: https://old.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1h7vhmg/bro_been_de...

signaru · a year ago

If it would be less trouble (because of customs and other external factors), and assuming it can help, maybe a phone keyboard can also be considered? An OTG cable plus a normal USB keyboard might also be a solution if portability is not a requirement.

signaru commented on Vintage digicams are an artistic statement arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/Tomte

TheOtherHobbes · a year ago

There's a bizarre "Old stuff is better" tendency which sees vintage tech as somehow more credible, ethical, characterful, expressive, and individual than modern tech.

It's quite strange. It's still consumerism - primarily about ownership display, not use - but trying to pretend it isn't.

signaru · a year ago

While I gladly embrace the shift to solid state, I find the mechanical engineering in old electronic devices, cameras in particular, quite fascinating.

signaru commented on Monocle: Optics Library for Scala optics.dev/Monocle/... · Posted by u/curling_grad

itronitron · a year ago

This has nothing to do with optics, which is a branch of physics that studies the behavior and properties of light.

signaru · a year ago

The name, monocle, also further misleads those expecting the physics topic. They actually have a nice logo with a lens and the lambda symbol which is often the symbol used for wavelength.

signaru commented on Why don't you move abroad? orkohunter.net/blog/why-d... · Posted by u/orkohunter

hshshshshsh · a year ago

If easy is what your optimising for Entrepreneurship is probably not the path.

signaru · a year ago

Entrepreneurship sure may be difficult as a whole. However, some difficulties are not really necessary. For me, it's a matter of seeing the end goal and removing as much obstacles as possible to get there faster (optimizing for time). I see the need to have a proper job or chase funding as additional obstacles if you are abroad.

signaru commented on Why don't you move abroad? orkohunter.net/blog/why-d... · Posted by u/orkohunter

felixarba · a year ago

Nationalism is not the thing stopping most people.

It's your friends, family and the feeling of belonging. This is culture, not nationalism. I lived in Canada for 10 years before moving back home. I had a great life in Canada, fulfilled things I quite literally never dreamed possible, but I didn't belong.

I lived my life between vacations, just waiting for the time that I can go back home and spend time with family. I realized this is no way to live life.

signaru · a year ago

Opportunities that require big risks is also another factor. My academic acquaintances abroad may be doing well financially and travel-wise, but they all have to live their foreign bosses' ambitions despite being very bright people. It's far easier to take crazier entrepreneurial risks with the safety nets in one's own home-country.

signaru commented on Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# github.com/BAndysc/Avalon... · Posted by u/porterde

wiseowise · a year ago

Still don't understand how we went from this to modern GUI toolkits.

It looks and works so intuitively.

signaru · a year ago

Having built both desktop-native and browser-based apps, I think there is an efficiency in doing the widget layouts textually via code/markup once you get over the learning curve. I believe Qt and wxWidgets also have automatic layout features, but doing this on top of C++ maybe makes the experience less smooth. So far form designers in Visual Studio require manual pixel layouting, which becomes tedious as the GUI evolves to be more complex. This is great for beginners as dragging and dropping controls is so easy to learn. But as soon as you have a dozen or so controls, you start to notice the time spent manually dragging/aligning/sizing that is absent in markup-based or procedurally generated GUIs that do the layout calculations for you.

signaru commented on A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT openai.com/chatgpt/use-ca... · Posted by u/timbilt

aaplok · a year ago

> I think often AI sceptics go too far in assuming users blindly use the AI to do everything

Users are not a monolithic group. Some users/students absolutely use AI blindly.

There are also many, many ways to use AI counterproductively. One of the most pernicious I have noticed is users who turn to AI for the initial idea without reflecting about the problem first. This removes a critical step from the creative process, and prevents practice of critical and analytical thinking. Struggling to come up with a solution first before seeing one (either from AI or another human) is essential for learning a skill.

The effect is that people end up lacking self confidence in their ability to solve problems on their own. They give up much too easily if they don't have a tool doing it for them.

signaru · a year ago

It gets worst when these users/students run to others when the AI generated code doesn't work. Or with colleagues who think they already "wrote" the initial essay then pass it for others to edit and contribute. In such cases it is usually better to rewrite from scratch and tell them their initial work is not useful at all and not worth spending time improving upon.

signaru commented on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow? · Posted by u/gooob

signaru · a year ago

My personal/work files for which the physical media of origin no longer exists. Source codes, mine and of others that I care about. Compilers. Lots of books and Wikipedia.