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New comment by overtomanu in "Software is made between commits"

overtomanu — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:30:13 +0000

It is almost happening in a different way, for automating physical labor, some companies are collecting data by making people wear camera on their heads

The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQoPoLUJWic

New comment by overtomanu in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

overtomanu — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:21:18 +0000

I follow this approach and still get the same merge conflicts coming repeatedly while doing rebase.

Let's say in my feature branch in the first commit I change a line in a file which also gets changed in the main branch. Then I have done 3-4 change commits doing changes in the same file. Now while doing rebase, I will have to resolve this conflict 3–4 times again and again while git re-applies commit one by one, during rebase.

I think I get this sometimes even if rerere is enabled, I am doing rebase using Intellij though, so maybe rerere doesn't get used here somehow or maybe diff context changes, so rerere is not applicable.

New comment by overtomanu in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

overtomanu — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:31:40 +0000

Leaving the place you have lived your whole life, the place where your family and personal life is and going to another country for work for 5 to 10 years will destroy the past life they had.

After 5 10 years that person will almost become part Saudi due to living in another country. And after he comes back no one will be that close, even close family members will feel something different due to the person being away/(out of physical touch) for 10 years

New comment by overtomanu in "FFmpeg 101 (2024)"

overtomanu — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:28:43 +0000

Here is one more guide

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33771445

New comment by overtomanu in "Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors"

overtomanu — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:54:57 +0000

I guess they think it results in some kind of security by obscurity... Maybe ward off lazy beginner hackers..

New comment by overtomanu in "US hits $38T in debt. Fastest accumulation of $1T outside pandemic"

overtomanu — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:19:24 +0000

This is what is happening a bit now, USD is being sold and gold is being brought by various central banks

New comment by overtomanu in "Postgres IDE in VS Code"

overtomanu — Sat, 24 May 2025 17:26:14 +0000

There is also an extension for VS Code from the same author

https://github.com/mtxr/vscode-sqltools

New comment by overtomanu in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

overtomanu — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:46:40 +0000

you can still do some setup and access mail by using applications like thunderbird, which have no ads.

New comment by overtomanu in "The real data wall is billions of years of evolution"

overtomanu — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:10:27 +0000

DNA does not contain the training data, but it can be transmitted to next generation in other ways, like alteration of gene expression.

Reference:

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...

New comment by overtomanu in "COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it"

overtomanu — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:43:24 +0000

Similar thing applies to SAP ABAP. It is like Java from a parallel world, where the accumulated cruft for maintaining backward compatibility is 3-4 times more than Java. It also like a low code/no code environment where the language, the UI, ABAP IDE etc is tightly coupled to one another. Like Java, it has continued to add more language features with time, but the legacy code using old constructs is still there in the codebase of many of the orgs.

Initially and up to some extent still now, it is verbose and wording wise, very similar to COBOL, then somewhere I guess in the late 90s, OO paradigm wave came in, and it had "OO ABAP" with classes and methods. Now cloud wave is influencing it and ABAP now has a new cloud flavor "ABAP for cloud" where most of the old constructs are not supported.

New comment by overtomanu in "Zed AI"

overtomanu — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:41:57 +0000

notepad++ without plugins is there for linux

NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182

New comment by overtomanu in "Bold Edit: An editor written by power users"

overtomanu — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:00:23 +0000

There is a post on reddit by the author

Bold 0.2 - An IDE with LSP, DAP and more : programming

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1eupocr/bold_0...

New comment by overtomanu in "1JPM: A Maven/Gradle alternative in a single Java file"

overtomanu — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 05:12:47 +0000

There is also another similar tool for building projects with Java code

https://jeka-dev.github.io/jeka/tutorials/build-projects/#ex...

https://jeka.dev/

New comment by overtomanu in "Nobody knows what's going on"

overtomanu — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:38:38 +0000

And the classic which has many memes

“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because there’s a picture with a quote next to it” — Abraham Lincoln

New comment by overtomanu in "The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative"

overtomanu — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:27:53 +0000

like bird tweets and cuckoo koo's

New comment by overtomanu in "Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi"

overtomanu — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 06:19:43 +0000

cordyceps ant zombie fungus which inspired "last of us" tv series

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w1ibC4lf4Dw

New comment by overtomanu in "Ask HN: I have been unable to land a job in two years, does anybody"

overtomanu — Fri, 03 May 2024 07:24:51 +0000

Spring/JPA and other related APIs has lots of stuff to learn. It is like the modern Java EE. It will require at-least 50–60 hours to learn basic stuff and their history. Learning history like how XML configuration works might be required because some codebases might be still using it.

Otherwise, just learning spring boot, assuming some things happen "by magic" will take fewer hours.

New comment by overtomanu in "How Often Have You Seen Mostly or 100% AWOL Managers?"

overtomanu — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:14:42 +0000

yes that makes sense

New comment by overtomanu in "How Often Have You Seen Mostly or 100% AWOL Managers?"

overtomanu — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 07:11:38 +0000

Yes, I was talking from the POV of employee. If I am going through the trouble of setting my own company and doing contracting job which involve similar work, then to maximize money for work, I would be thinking of offering some SaaS service via the company. If so many companies want a similar thing, then there is some gap in the market.

New comment by overtomanu in "How Often Have You Seen Mostly or 100% AWOL Managers?"

overtomanu — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 05:56:33 +0000

It's not that easy to do Java+enterprise CRUD job. Even though there might not be much to learn technically, you will be expected to learn about functional/business rules related to the application. ERP software can be one of the most complicated soul sucking job. It is in here where stuff gets tough, in that you have to deal with legacy codebase, poorly documented rules, bug would have become feature etc.

If you don't bring more value to the table and just coast off without learning anything, you will not get hike and effectively be taking demotion year after year. You will not have any bargaining power since they can replace you with a new grad anytime.