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New comment by dshpala in "I Programed the Most Productive macOS Keyboard Setup [video]"

dshpala — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:33:06 +0000

Pretty cool, but notice how he still uses touchpad to move through the source code.

Any ideas on how to automate that? I guess I can page up/down with a keyboard, but then how do I move cursor to a specific part of the code?

New comment by dshpala in "BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date"

dshpala — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:04:15 +0000

I think Google's product has that: https://play.google.com/books/publish/autonarrated/

New comment by dshpala in "Men are going to brutal boot camps to reclaim their masculinity"

dshpala — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:49:50 +0000

Sounds like fun! Although I'd prefer to build something, like a barn or a house.

New comment by dshpala in "Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)"

dshpala — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:15:31 +0000

I remember I used to kick-start myself into flow by doing "useless" things like rearranging code around, doing small renames for consistency, etc.

I need to return that that practice, as I find it harder and harder to interest myself in what I'm doing...

New comment by dshpala in "With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and many more this month, is no software safe?"

dshpala — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:37:46 +0000

... except for software written in Rust, obviously.

New comment by dshpala in "I Fired Myself"

dshpala — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:14:17 +0000

How can one become better at office politics? What are books to read / courses to take?

New comment by dshpala in "Why Your Life Is Stagnant and You’re Not Making Any Progress (and How to Fix It)"

dshpala — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:30:32 +0000

My realization from that article is that I'm stagnant because I can't be wordy.

It's all very simply for me. Either I know something or I don't. If I know, I tell exactly what I know. If I don't I say "I don't know".

But sometimes it's useful to be like the author, and be able to pull sentences and paragraphs out of nothing. I have coworkers like that, and they sound smart. They frequently get their way because no one sane can listen minutes-long elaborations of the simplest of points. People get bored, and say "yes" just to run away. No one questions these guys, since no one wants to swim in the pool of their rhetoric again.

This is what the author should be teaching about. The article is shit otherwise.

New comment by dshpala in "Fox News Settles Defamation Suit for $787.5M"

dshpala — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:13:03 +0000

I feel that NYT should stop paywalling articles about Fox. That would be a good for educating public about them.

Right now all I have is a vague title. But I bet if I go to the Fox I'll be able to freely read their position.

New comment by dshpala in "We need a more sophisticated debate about AI"

dshpala — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:57:12 +0000

There is no way to estimate "probable consequences", as it all is happening very fast.

Which hints on the fact how interesting / in demand this technology is.

I for one will be happy to enslave an AGI if that makes my life easier / better.

New comment by dshpala in "How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf]"

dshpala — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:37:16 +0000

This is one of those cases where I can't help myself but ask: Why couldn't you find more worthwhile thing to do?

New comment by dshpala in "Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI"

dshpala — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:29:50 +0000

Now would be the time for some adversary (e.g. Russia) to provide unfiltered GPT-4 like thing, for free. Or even better, with a pro-Russia (or pro-China) bias.

New comment by dshpala in "Ex-CNN President Jeff Zucker Ordered Staff to Ignore Lab-Leak Theory"

dshpala — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:09:23 +0000

Well, it's pretty popular in America.

New comment by dshpala in "Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes"

dshpala — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:05:10 +0000

You'd be surprised how many people want a one-way ticket to Mars. I think Elon can make good money from that alone.

New comment by dshpala in "Ruff: A fast Python linter, written in Rust"

dshpala — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:03:52 +0000

"An fast"? Shouldn't this be "A fast", or is it an exception of some sort?

New comment by dshpala in "Servo’s New Home (2020)"

dshpala — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 01:50:39 +0000

I wonder how hard it'll be to implement Android's WebView on top of Servo?

New comment by dshpala in "Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll"

dshpala — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 02:11:07 +0000

How can anyone, in 2022, still have this utopian vision about open social media? There will always be another "arrogant buffoon" to ruin it for you. It's more productive to change your attitude.

New comment by dshpala in "Engineers Who Are Jerks"

dshpala — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:54:26 +0000

What is "hard to deal with"?

I definitely can be hard to deal with if you try to run BS by me. Things like unnecessary refactors for example really rub me the wrong way.

I think that sometimes hard NO is the only right answer. "No, we don't need to do this, it's unnecessary, it can introduce bugs, and it wastes reviewers time. Not LGTM". I can see how this can be seen as "abrasive" and "hard to deal with". But sometimes swallowing your ego and abandoning a change is the right answer.

New comment by dshpala in "If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now"

dshpala — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:34:55 +0000

I like the spirit of that though. Reminds me my startup days.

New comment by dshpala in "If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now"

dshpala — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:34:00 +0000

That would be nice. I know a senior developer that doesn't actually do anything, he had like 2 small CLs this year. But apparently he can't be fired, so he is just there, increasing work load for everyone else.

New comment by dshpala in "Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now."

dshpala — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:04:04 +0000

I wonder how soon Twitter will have to crank the compensation up because no one wants to work there.