FlyingSnake

We were promised mosquito laser zappers!

This seems like an abandoned project with no updates since 2019 (!!)

Those looking for a more active and stable project: ubports is carrying the torch forward on the convergence front. I have personally used it on my old OnePlus device and it was quite usable.

1: https://ubports.com/

2: https://lomiri.com/

India also has the RuPay system which is a direct competitor to Visa/Mastercard and it has long overtaken Visa as the top provider.

It’s also available in many global markets like SEA, GCC and others.

Verstanden!

Second this. I also find 512kb as a more realistic benchmark and use it for my website.

The modern web has crossed the rubicon long time ago for 14kb websites.

There’s https://512kb.club/ which I follow to keep my website lightweight

256 colors ought to be enough for anybody.

I’ve built systems for iSeries and none of the modern fancy GUI IDEs come close to the speed of those IBM 5250 terminals. You can still see such terminals in action in POCO baumarkt in Berlin.

One of the modules I saw in action was written before the moon landing, written by a lady programmer.

Not COBOL but years ago I did some work on IBM AS/400 using RPG. For those who don’t know, RPG was originally written (in 1959) for punch cards and the programs had to be written in a pattern that resembles punchcard. It was a fun experience and I am grateful to have dabbled in it.

Many megacorps still run AS/400 and it’s uptimes and performance is legendary.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I was mentored by folks more than twice my age that time.

Golang functions are synchronous but all goroutine code is essentially async or “coloured”.

Isletwald in CH or Hallstatt in Austria were also quite far off the beaten path. That didn’t stop hordes of tourists from overrunning them.

> Arguably, our solution to the problem is just to color every function async-colored.

This is essentially how Golang achived color-blindness.

Be wary of imitating high status people who can afford to counter signal.

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high...

Sometime around mid-30s I stopped caring about what people think about me and it had a great effect on my mental well being. I reconnected with age old Lindy wisdom and started reading classics that helped me with my midlife crisis. Not giving a fuck surprisingly opens up lots of doors.

Status games and tech-bro style hustle culture only leads to burnout.

Everything is a remix.

Previous art: “ Willingness to look stupid” by Dan Luu.

https://danluu.com/look-stupid/

Precious discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28942189

But humans were always multilingual the moment we left Africa. How else would the Sumerians, Romans, Persians, Indians, Chinese trade with each other? The "brag" is just a reality of most people of the world who aren't monolingual (e.g. Rammstein/Taylor Swift/K-Pop). Pity doesn't mean looking down upon them, it's just a remark about unrealized potential.

You seem to be projecting too much into this, the reality is not that complicated. It doesn't take much to pick up basics (CEFR A2 levels) of another language,if they chose to do so.

Thanks for providing context. I’ve edited my comment and added a disclaimer to correct it.

> many aren’t AI at all

Reminds me of this classic: AI == Actually Indian

https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/700-india...

Edit: this is false and has been debunked. The real story is in the child comment.

Nah man, I’m not aiming for any linguistic purity or any such thing. All I want is to experience the sounds, smells, quirks, slangs and unique things that make up the culture. e.g. when I read „Stasiland “, I knew exactly what Miriam felt. When I read the „Kite runner”, as an ex-kite runner, I felt one with Aamir and Hassan. Linguistic purity reminds me of casteism/accentism which I abhor.

I just want to be as close as the original experience as possible, and it maybe my naive thinking that original languages capture that nuance better?

However your point about English-Latin-Spanish triumvirate is interesting and may explain your reasoning. Indian works like Mrityunjaya or Godān can easily be read in many Indic languages without any drop of quality.

You might be surprised but I’ve actually found German translations of Mahabharata or Tripitaka to be much better then English ones.

You brought in „superiority” into this not me.

BTW how are monolinguals immune to the charge you’ve laid against me? At least we multilinguals can enjoy the “unfathomable expanse” in more dimensions than them.

I’ve read these classics in the languages I know. I’ve also read translated classics from my mother tongues and I know how woefully inadequate they feel.

I think our time scales are on different scales. I treat this as a lifelong pursuit and savour it slowly in a leisurely manner. I don’t need to sacrifice anything that way.

This is such a sad and utilitarian take.

I would rather do the opposite and try to learn as many languages as possible. I can’t imagine the fun of reading “Cien Años de Soledad” in Spanish or Dostoevski in Russian.

I think so, yes. My daughter speaks English and German fluently and I can see she has deep insights into these cultures. (She also speaks 2 other languages)

She once told me that she likes to read conversational books like “Greg’s Tagebuch” in German while “Harry Potter” type books in English.

Sometimes I really pity the monolinguals who can’t witness the beauty of the varied linguistic cultures of the world.

It’s not a brag but here’s a sample of how my polylingustic life looks like: In the past week I had discussions about Clausewitz’s “Vom Krige” and “Rét Samadhi” by Gitanjali Shree, discussed Marathi poetry with my daughter, listened to mellifluous Tamil songs like “Nenjukkul Peidhidum”, appreciated my wife’s Uttara Kannada accent, all the while consuming English media in copious amounts.

Languages and accents are a unique part of being human and I firmly believe that we’re meant to be multilingual.

That seems to be a fair assessment. I’ve never heard of fourtyTwo and had to double check who they are.

A decade of blindly copying YC model has made people forget that businesses are messy and require lots of trust building. Just because you believe in presentations and pie in the sky numbers doesn’t mean the businesses will believe them.

I also found it funny that the article is alluding that somehow India is fast and work gets done in a single meeting.

My favourite tree is the Neem tree. It’s scientific name Azadirachta Indica means the “free spirited tree of India” and it comes from the Farsi word “Azaad Dirakht-e-hind”. A gem among trees.

I love the slow web and once in a while I try to write something non-technical about things that catch my eye. Each of us has got a unique perspective and it’s refreshing to read about them.

My attempt and shameless plug: https://samkhawase.com/blog/an-ode-to-the-tiger/

That’s pretty impressive. I love when people give old devices a new life and save them from being eWaste. True to the hacker spirit.

Wonderful story!

We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking.

I have a similar story wherein I repurposed my ancient OG iPhone SE and gave it a new life.

https://samkhawase.com/blog/dumb-smartphone/

How is it different from self hosting locally with Cloudflare tunnels or Tailscale?

E.g. I have a PiZero attached to my router and it’s exposed to the internet via Cloudflare tunnels.