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  1. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    Interesting, it does sound complicated. I wonder if it would be worth the trouble.

    Interesting, it does sound complicated. I wonder if it would be worth the trouble.

  2. Comment on Feeling weird about my career with respect to AI in ~life

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    Your point about meaningful work being automated away reminded me of the second point I made in a thread I posted here on Tildes about two years ago. The more directly relevant counterargument I...

    Your point about meaningful work being automated away reminded me of the second point I made in a thread I posted here on Tildes about two years ago. The more directly relevant counterargument I got in response:

    Why live this life if the development of civilization will eventually lead to a life devoid of fulfilment and happiness?
    This is not possible, because we'd either have the meaningful work of improving our situation (making ourselves fulfilled and happy), or we would be fulfilled and happy, even if there was no work left.

    The rest of the discussion might not be directly relevant, but you might find some arguments tangentially helpful.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    Why don't you strike a deal with the copyright holders and sell this as a service? I wouldn't be surprised if tons of people wanted to relive their childhood through this experience and it'd be...

    Why don't you strike a deal with the copyright holders and sell this as a service?

    I wouldn't be surprised if tons of people wanted to relive their childhood through this experience and it'd be something pretty original to show friends stopping by at your house. If they like it so much that they get it for themselves and end up showing their friends in turn it could even grow viral without any paid marketing.

    It would be so funny if you ended up retiring within the next five years because of what was initially a niche, time-consuming hobby.

    Then you'd really have a lot of time for niche, time-consuming hobbies haha

    1 vote

  4. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    I see! Programming is definitely a good way to find remote work opportunities and maybe even get into the digital nomad lifestyle if that's your thing. Good luck on your journey

    I see! Programming is definitely a good way to find remote work opportunities and maybe even get into the digital nomad lifestyle if that's your thing. Good luck on your journey

    1 vote

  5. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    Oh really? Can you tell us more?

    Oh really? Can you tell us more?

  6. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

    hydravion
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    Thanks! It's just a browser extension for now, not a browser of its own.

    Thanks! It's just a browser extension for now, not a browser of its own.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    I already had some programming knowledge, I was studying computer science at uni before dropping out after a year and a half, but I didn't know any Javascript or Typescript for example. The...

    I already had some programming knowledge, I was studying computer science at uni before dropping out after a year and a half, but I didn't know any Javascript or Typescript for example.
    The project now uses Javascript/Typescript, React w/Redux, Next.js, Postgres (Supabase), Effect TS, so the time spent learning things inflated the total number of hours.
    Then, there's all the non-technical aspects as well, such as working with a designer to create nice illustrations and videos, and other things, which also contributed to the tally.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    That's awesome to hear, thanks!

    That's awesome to hear, thanks!

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    I'd like to launch in a few weeks so it's not yet available publicly but you can have a look at it here. Happy to take any kind of feedback! (Even if only on the concept since it's not yet available)

    I'd like to launch in a few weeks so it's not yet available publicly but you can have a look at it here. Happy to take any kind of feedback! (Even if only on the concept since it's not yet available)

    9 votes

  10. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    Just pretend you have some memory issues hey! aren't you my new neighbor by any chance? let me introduce you to my wife!

    Just pretend you have some memory issues

    hey! aren't you my new neighbor by any chance? let me introduce you to my wife!

    5 votes

  11. Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk

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    I've spent about 3582 hours learning how to build an app, building the actual app, and trying to turn it into a business. So, if we value my time at, let's say, a lower-range $40/h, then I'm...

    I've spent about 3582 hours learning how to build an app, building the actual app, and trying to turn it into a business. So, if we value my time at, let's say, a lower-range $40/h, then I'm $143'280 deep into it 💀

    9 votes

  12. Comment on Not-so-humble brag: What are you proud of that you don't normally get to talk about? in ~talk

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    haha fair enough, happy to take any kind of feedback!

    haha fair enough, happy to take any kind of feedback!

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Not-so-humble brag: What are you proud of that you don't normally get to talk about? in ~talk

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    haha thank you! The last two days were a bit intense to be honest. There was something causing issues with my website now, right before launch. For those who like technicalities: the issue was...

    haha thank you! The last two days were a bit intense to be honest. There was something causing issues with my website now, right before launch.

    For those who like technicalities: the issue was that OpenNext (which I am using to host the Next.js website on Cloudflare) was dropping some headers on some outbound requests the website was making, which caused Supabase to reject calls to their endpoint (the header with the key was missing). I was able to work around this by monkey-patching globalThis.fetch and readding the headers I needed right before the call.

    I spent like 30 hours over two days debugging this, it was intense. I need to ask the OpenNext maintainers what's causing this issue with the headers. There must be some bug that needs to be fixed, unless there's an issue on my end with my setup. Not too sure.

    Glad to see interest btw :)

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Not-so-humble brag: What are you proud of that you don't normally get to talk about? in ~talk

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    I'm about to launch my first company :) I wrote about it on Tildes in 2024 I believe (I wanted to launch in the summer of 2024 but I've had some setbacks). But now I should be good to go, finally!...

    I'm about to launch my first company :)

    I wrote about it on Tildes in 2024 I believe (I wanted to launch in the summer of 2024 but I've had some setbacks). But now I should be good to go, finally!

    I still have to improve the website a little bit (add some illustrations and replace the logo in the video), but otherwise I'm good to go. You can have a look at it here if you want.

    I'll have to do some beta testing for a few weeks and then I should be able to launch (it only took me over 3500 hours of work over 4 years 💀).

    I'm so happy :)

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Not-so-humble brag: What are you proud of that you don't normally get to talk about? in ~talk

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    I don't think I ever told anyone but once I donated half of my bank account 😂 (don't do that) It was for something about keeping multinationals accountable when doing business overseas. Once I...

    I don't think I ever told anyone but once I donated half of my bank account 😂 (don't do that)

    It was for something about keeping multinationals accountable when doing business overseas.

    Once I read that the largest private donation they received was such and such amount and it was exactly what I donated, so apparently I was their largest private donor in the entire country for a while. But somebody topped that since apparently.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Not-so-humble brag: What are you proud of that you don't normally get to talk about? in ~talk

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    This is awesome! Fortunately for me, I can read people's minds so I can positively affirm that it's much more interesting than you say it is. I won't tell the other commenters no worries. (I can't...

    This is awesome! Fortunately for me, I can read people's minds so I can positively affirm that it's much more interesting than you say it is. I won't tell the other commenters no worries.

    (I can't actually read people's minds but the point still stands. Yes it makes sense.)

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Single most useful program you daily use? in ~tech

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    Hey, thanks for the kind words!

    Hey, thanks for the kind words!

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  19. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Oh okay 😂 Sorry for the misunderstanding! Otherwise I think Featurebase should do fine.

    Oh okay 😂 Sorry for the misunderstanding!

    Otherwise I think Featurebase should do fine.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Thanks for sharing your view! The general vibe seems to be that it would be fine to create a thread and link to the extension. I think I'll do that soon :) Thanks again everybody!

    Thanks for sharing your view! The general vibe seems to be that it would be fine to create a thread and link to the extension. I think I'll do that soon :)

    Thanks again everybody!

    2 votes