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Mine's here: https://twomorecents.org/tech-stack.html

Fascinating. Not only that, it even fetches https://www.youtube.com/feed/gr as the first result, at least on duckduckgo.

I was talking about this with a friend earlier this week. The people who work in software these days seem much more extroverted and outgoing than the 'introverted nerd' stereotype …

Could you elaborate on that? What does 'flatMappable' mean in this context?

Interesting news, but the source seems blatantly partisan.

I grew up ~20 minutes from the place you're describing, and you just made me very nostalgic :D

I was fully expecting a radio station in Tamil Nadu, but this one's in Sri Lanka. I know there's a lot of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, but that's still pretty interesting!

I feel the same way, although I think technology's inspiration on fiction is stronger. Today's fiction, as you said, is simply tomorrow's science.

As another Tamilian, thank you for making this! I'm fluent in spoken Tamil from my parents and I've learned to read and write at a basic level, but I'd never formally learned the l…

https://indiantranslate.com It's a translation map of Indian languages - type in a word, see the translations across 22 languages. I was inspired by this HN post ( https://news.yco…

I believe they meant an additional $110, which would be a 110% markup.

Shameless plug: My Regex engine ( https://pkg.go.dev/gitea.twomorecents.org/Rockingcool/kleing... ) has dedicated syntax for this kind of task. \. \. \. will only match full IPv4 a…

A very well-written piece. The section on funding open source is as relevant as it's ever been, and I don't think we've learnt much since last year. As the proportion of younger en…

> There's a stark difference between the "haha, what the fuck, US" sentiment I used to sense and the "what the fuck, US" we're getting now. Agreed, and this is a nice way of puttin…

> The articles predict ... a handheld electronic device with contrast equivalent to printed paper (Kindle Paperwhite etc) Fascinating. I get predictions about something large-scale…

Agreed, one of my favorite pieces of literature. It's what got me into American historical fiction - I later ventured into Steinbeck and Mark Twain, both of whom are masters of the…

For those who like C because of the simplicity, I can wholeheartedly recommend Go. It's replaced C as my go-to for personal CLI projects - while it is more complex than C, the core…

Not the parent, but: Neither. While colonialism didn't _create_ generational poverty, the systemic genocides of the British were new. Colonial policy of prioritizing exports direct…

> The only downside i Still waiting :D

> "Websites" had seemed like these quasi-mythical things that I thought only really rich people or big companies could make That idea seems to be coming back.

> use awk to write a shell script Do you have any examples of this?

Either built-in tools, or those that follow the UNIX philosophy. My favorite hidden gems in a base UNIX install are `tac` (print lines in reverse order) and `tr` (character substit…

> Deciding not to do those things for economic comfort is its own vote of support. Not in a surveillance state. It's easy for a company/government to identify unrest and deal with …