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tardismechanicon Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)

I don't have the answer to any of the what-ifs. Even if I did more what-ifs can always be created. It is endless and not conclusive.

As with things like these, Ikigai is a tool. It may or may not be useful/relevant. Depends on the situation I suppose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ YMMV

Frankl's thoughts are interesting but unfortunately he lost me at "Suffering is an ineradicable part of life". This seems true if and only if one identifies with one's body/mind. If one chooses to identify with say "life" and not a specific body/mind, suffering might be eradicable. Feel free to read up on the eastern wisdom traditions specifically Advaita Vedanta for a much better exposition than I can provide in this small text box :) Good luck!

tardismechanicon Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)

As always I keep coming back to the beautiful Japanese concept of Ikigai - "a reason for being" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

Imagine four intersecting circles depicting:

1. What you love to do 2. What you are good at 3. What you can get paid for 4. What the world needs

It's about finding a balance between these factors.

See http://www.forastateofhappiness.com/ikigai-the-happiness-of-...

and http://www.forastateofhappiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/...

tardismechanicon Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation

The "C" in "OCI" is Orwellian - sorry, but if you cannot vote/run for office you are not a citizen.

tardismechanicon Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation

You mean you will have to become a citizen of two countries outside India both of which support DC - coz India doesn't.

tardismechanicon Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation

Sorry, but without right to vote/run for office, it's not citizenship.

tardismechanicon Second Citizenships, Residencies, and/or Temporary Relocation

"The Indian Citizenship Act, 1955, does not allow dual citizenship."

So that's not an option for 1.32 Billion people.

tardismechanicon Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

Or, you know, someone should

tardismechanicon Just Wanted to Say Thanks

GitHub Discussions seems to be a great place for this sort of stuff going forward, instead of issues

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/discussions

tardismechanicon Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

Materialize

V lang

tardismechanicon Ask HN: How do you deal with your mortality?

I choose not to identify with my body or mind but instead with the consciousness that is aware of both these. Look up Advaita Vedanta for more. Best of luck!

tardismechanicon Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today

Do check out https://github.com/microsoft/playwright - Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API

tardismechanicon Earnestness

"You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction."

Possibly the most famous verse (2-47) from the Bhagavad Gita.

https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/2/verse/47

tardismechanicon Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course

MATLAB Coder - Generate C and C++ code from MATLAB code https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-coder.html

Actually the whole family of embedded code generation products from MathWorks https://www.mathworks.com/solutions/embedded-code-generation...

tardismechanicon Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable

You need `ncc run` to run the generated file.

https://github.com/vercel/ncc#commands

tardismechanicon K6: Like unit testing, for performance

Reminds me of http://artillery.io - a modern, powerful & easy-to-use solution for load testing and synthetic monitoring

tardismechanicon A Pretty Good Mathematical Model of Perfectionism

Perfection does not exist in the universe. Imperfections can be found in anything.

Enjoying the process, while fully embracing this realization, is key.

tardismechanicon Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement

Way too many zeptoseconds ;-)

tardismechanicon Pelican static site generator 4.5

FWIW, a leaderboard of SSGs:

https://www.staticgen.com/

tardismechanicon Show HN: Headless Recorder

It generates Playwright scripts which automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Ref: https://playwright.dev/

tardismechanicon It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI

Reminds me of this: “India's mission to Mars cost less than the movie Gravity” https://www.vox.com/2014/9/24/6838079/india-mars-mangalyaan

tardismechanicon PHP Built-In Web Server

> Warning This web server was designed to aid application development. It may also be useful for testing purposes or for application demonstrations that are run in controlled environments. It is not intended to be a full-featured web server. It should not be used on a public network.

tardismechanicon Ozymandias

Customary, a reading by Bryan Cranston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dpghfRBHE

tardismechanicon Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

Algolia - search as a service

tardismechanicon You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

> that's on them and you are absolutely 100% free to leave.

Not if you are on an H1B visa ;-)

tardismechanicon Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?

sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Boom - histogram!

tardismechanicon Reggae: A build system with multiple front ends (D, Python) and back ends

Why put the badge on the readme then?