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scriptdevil | 2 years ago | on: AI Coach designed to help you start your tasks

I had been using chatgpt for something similar in the past. I like the fact that you are integrating a timer and music into it. How do you set yourself apart beyond that? Chatgpt, for instance, could also help with things like "I want to work on foo, can you help me break it down into tasks?".

I see a lot of potential in this - for instance, you might be able to integrate calendar integration for picking time slots for non-immediate tasks a la Office 365 which auto-creates focus times. Also, it would be good if I could curate a subset of tasks suggested by the tool as a list outside of the immediate short term memory of the coach.

scriptdevil | 4 years ago | on: My Personal Note Taking Journey

You can easily set up sync using SyncThing or Dropbox or any other tool that syncs directories between devices. I did pay $25 because I enjoy using Obsidian - but I don't think there is anything missing in the free version. The best part is that everything including themes, plugins and themes are synced perfectly between desktop and mobile.

scriptdevil | 4 years ago | on: Meow Hash (2018)

I recently used seahash in rust for a similar job. This seems to fall in the same niche.

scriptdevil | 5 years ago | on: Chanakya

I don't know why everyone always says someone or the other united all of India - they always ignore Kerala and Tamil Nadu (and often parts of Andhra Pradesh) which were neither a part of the Maurya empire - nor a part of the Mughal empire.

scriptdevil | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

I haven't used this. But i see the utility. Wouldn't having an admin UI to map ids to periodicity be better than using a hard coded subdomain? That way one can prevent bad actors from switching pace when they come to know of this site. I could also up or lower pace for an id while not having to go through the hassle of changing my mail id.. Also, doing that would let you sell the solution for use with custom domains.

I mean use [email protected] And have an admin ui that lets you set "[email protected]" =>"weekly"

scriptdevil | 6 years ago | on: IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

The way India handles that is by having a progressive income tax that is collected at the federal level and sales taxes at both the federal and local level (CGST and SGST). Apart from federal funding of states, they also get all the SGST taxes and are free to set their rates for fuel, road taxes etc. Having multiple levels of income tax is always painful.

Also, the government provides free java/excel based tax filing systems with a certain level of sanity checking.

Apart from this there are several fremium sites like cleartax to help file taxes but they don't get to lobby.

(yes, corruption is inherent and tax evasion is rampant, but at least filing taxes aren't as painful as US tax filing seems to be)

scriptdevil | 6 years ago | on: Cluster SSH – Manage Multiple Linux Servers Simultaneously

I used clusterssh in the past and it is really good at sending commands to multiple machines. However for any real work, I would strongly recommend keeping the typing to a bare minimum and do all your work inside a well tested script. Better yet, use ansible or something like it to manage multiple servers

scriptdevil | 6 years ago | on: “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

Wouldn't the difference there be that the person consuming meat is voluntarily consuming it while even people sticking to older tech phones are exposed to the newer radiation? I am no luddite but this would be my argument from a devil's advocate position

scriptdevil | 6 years ago | on: A New R6RS Scheme Compiler

There is definitely room for a scheme compiler. But the scheme ecosystem felt extremely fractured the last time I took a look. Chicken had a decent but aging repo. Chez had a great compiler (I prefer not compiling to C) but it's package ecosystem was not something well advertised if it did have one. Racket has too many dialects which might appeal to some but found the number of sub languages overwhelming for a casual schemer.

scriptdevil | 6 years ago | on: Python Is Eating the World

$ source some/directory/bin/activate

And you don't need to keep typing out the full directory name. When done with the environment

$ deactivate

scriptdevil | 7 years ago | on: India's engineers struggle for work as jobs crisis worsens

Long answer since I have been thinking about this since my school days.

Somewhere in the mid 90s, there was a boom in the IT sector in India - jobs in IT paid 2-3x more than other jobs. Most people who could buy new houses and cars worked in IT. This lead to a push from most parents to put their children into an engineering undergraduate program. Companies like TCS hire people from all branches of Engineering for IT jobs. They retrain the new hires given that the coursework is terrible in most universities anyway and don't care whether you specialized in mechanical engineering or computer engineering.

Of the 300 that finished high school with me, 50 went into commerce and management related programs, 200 went into engineering. Only 1 high-performer (who incidentally was a girl and thus could, by societal norms, "risk not getting a job since she would get married anyway") took an alternate path - pursuing a top-notch program in social sciences.

For a long time, the only way of getting an assured cushy job was to pick some branch of engineering and getting hired by TCS, CTS or Infosys in campus hiring drives.

This and the booming middle income class who could afford college education but needed a job guarantee at the end of it caused a precipitous drop in the quality of people pursuing pure-science and math programs in the country (very few are still considered prestigious) and an explosion in the number of engineering colleges. When I finished my undergrad in 2010, my university alone had 400+ affiliated engineering colleges, churning out > 10000 graduates every year. Most of my batchmates (B.Tech in IT) couldn't code despite going through a 4 year program.

This also meant that vocational programs like carpentry and plumbing were criminally underpaid to the point where it is now hard to find skilled carpenters and plumbers below the age of 40. Agriculture became a thing for only the poorest. A previous push towards vocational training was shot down as casteist [1] and politicians will dare not even mention it anymore because of that.

Things are making a comeback though, Taxi cab drivers are earning salaries comparable to what junior developers do for the first time in decades thanks to Ola and Uber. Vocational programs are going to become necessary within the next 10-15 years. In the years to come, I predict farming making a huge comeback (though corruption and government price-fixing still makes it unpalatable to most who currently are in the middle class)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Scheme_of_Elementary_...

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