elnik's comments

I wonder what happens on a cloudy day.. currently the satellite based DTH television displays a cloud and refuses to work. Technically is there a work around to that?

same here. switching all our libs to jsdelivr right now.

breaks the internet..

Nobody seems to want to talk about delays.

I work at a hard tech startup, and all I have been seeing are delays in launching our product. I keep seeing more work as work gets done. Much of our progress till date has been incremental. It came from either fixing bugs in sprints or unlocking new capabilities by solving hard problems.

I have never understood the point of timing work. Work takes as much "time" as it needs for getting done. It can't be accurately estimated with out actually spending time actually working on it. Clarity seems to be the most critical piece for productivity for me. Drive that, and people just can't help but work. Dealing with drudgery seems inevitable.

Add on top of this people's incompetence or I should say unreadiness for situation, it irks the managers and people responsible for delivery. Delays cascade up. But I think most delays are due to unrealistic expectations of people higher up. Irony being the expectations set by the ones that are supposed to carry out the work.

Added a neat "hack" instead to set the href of a link dynamically.

'data:text/html;base64,' + btoa(document.documentElement.outerHTML)

Added a popup [1]. It felt sinister. This is how simple, pure things get ruined.

[1] - https://github.com/scriptspry/writerunblock/commit/0ced484a2...

Sometimes, you just need to put down your thoughts with out the fear of someone looking at what you are writing, or with out your editor bugging you about all the typos you are making or with your eyes closed and give control to your fingers to put down what thoughts run in your head.

Can do away with the internet too, if a data url can be crafted with this html and bookmarked.

Happy unstucking!

This is not a great idea in my opinion, here's why:

One should never feel withdrawn from any conversations, or exploring their feelings. If you want to ask someone out, but have fear/anxiety, you have a "problem" you need to address bravely. Get to the bottom of your fears, reach a conclusion and act on it. Whatever happens, happens. Using thoughter just leaves you buried in your comfort zone, making you never questioning the nature of your own self. It's an easy way out or an excuse for not being accountable to your self. Leaving result of important situations in your life to external circumstances is not a good idea.

It's pretty easy now to setup your own VPN on "major cloud providers". Add Pi Hole to that, and you've got awesome browsing experience.

My CPU (6th generation i5) died last week. RIP.

I installed debian 9, installed virtualbox, vagrant, setup a clean development machine for myself, everything took 4 hours to finish.

I reboot the virtual machine, and boom, there was a kernel panic which I sadly don't remember exactly / didn't take a picture of. After I rebooted the machine, and opened terminal, the system froze. The cursor wouldn't move. Reboot again, motherboard has a CPU fail/undetected light on. Couldn't get it to boot after that.

I am both sad and relieved that bad stuff exists, but it's being patched to prevent proliferating.

I sincerely hope I'll get a replacement from Intel.

$ cat test.json

{}

$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @test.json https://jsonbin.io/b/new

{"success":false,"message":"Snippet parameter is missing"}

$ echo '{"snippet": "{}"}' > test.json

$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @test.json https://jsonbin.io/b/new

{"success":true,"data":"{}","id":"..."}

On another note,

Why the 'snippet' additional step when creating new fiddles?

Being able to do:

curl -X POST -d @test.json https://jsonbin.io/b/new

will be cool!

I made the exact same thing couple of years back, but shut it down because I couldn't think of sustainably maintaining such a "free" service.

I have a lot of ideas like this, but I am super confused on the sustainability part. What ways are there to sustainably maintain such services?