Fahim Farook
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867I'm currently working on my second novel which is complete, but is in the edit stage. I wrote my first novel over 20 years ago but then didn't write much till now.
I post about #Coding, #Flutter, #Writing, #Movies and #TV. I'll also talk about #Technology, #Gadgets, #MachineLearning, #DeepLearning and a few other things as the fancy strikes ...
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"Billiions" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4270492) has always been a favourite of mine, but this season has felt very weak.
The dialog is overly talky without getting to the point, and hasn't had as much punch.
Now that the final setup, which I assume was what they were aiming for but were getting lost in the weeds getting to, maybe it'll get better?
#TV #English #Billions
The dialog is overly talky without getting to the point, and hasn't had as much punch.
Now that the final setup, which I assume was what they were aiming for but were getting lost in the weeds getting to, maybe it'll get better?
#TV #English #Billions
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While it is a battle between two behemoths, I can't help but feel like supporting Quest 3 just because of the language used by a lot of reviewers.
Like saying, "there’s almost nothing compelling to do in mixed reality on the Quest 3". And you know that Apple Vision Pro does have compelling experiences? How do you know this?
It's not as if any of these people have used the AVP for longer than half an hour .... So how do you know that AVP will have compelling experiences whenever it launches? Faith in Apple?
Also, will these reviewers actually buy an AVP at 7x times the price of a Quest 3 for themselves? Or is this just hatchet jobs for a paycheck?
I don’t know … but excessive praise for an as yet unreleased product, or damning something that exists for pie in the sky, always makes me uneasy …
#Quest3 #AppleVisionPro #Meta #Apple
Like saying, "there’s almost nothing compelling to do in mixed reality on the Quest 3". And you know that Apple Vision Pro does have compelling experiences? How do you know this?
It's not as if any of these people have used the AVP for longer than half an hour .... So how do you know that AVP will have compelling experiences whenever it launches? Faith in Apple?
Also, will these reviewers actually buy an AVP at 7x times the price of a Quest 3 for themselves? Or is this just hatchet jobs for a paycheck?
I don’t know … but excessive praise for an as yet unreleased product, or damning something that exists for pie in the sky, always makes me uneasy …
#Quest3 #AppleVisionPro #Meta #Apple
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It almost feels as if every episode of "Gen V" has a theme and you have to discover it 😛
For episode 3 it's — parents (or better yet, family). How parents affect you as a child and the sometimes love-hate relationship you have with them. It's also a tiny bit about trust maybe?
Alliances are made, people begin to trust each other and I'm kind of curious as to how the show will evolve and if the writers will stick to this level of writing …
#TV #English #GenV #Writing
For episode 3 it's — parents (or better yet, family). How parents affect you as a child and the sometimes love-hate relationship you have with them. It's also a tiny bit about trust maybe?
Alliances are made, people begin to trust each other and I'm kind of curious as to how the show will evolve and if the writers will stick to this level of writing …
#TV #English #GenV #Writing
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"Gen V" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13159924) episode 2 is a lesson on trust that really drives home the point in multiple ways.
You know the characters shouldn't trust certain people, but they themselves don't know due to how their character works.
It's interesting in how people work and yet, has me screaming at the TV for them to not fall for it 😛
I’m still enjoying the core story and I do like these little touches of psychology and the inner workings of people ...
#TV #English #GenV #Writing
You know the characters shouldn't trust certain people, but they themselves don't know due to how their character works.
It's interesting in how people work and yet, has me screaming at the TV for them to not fall for it 😛
I’m still enjoying the core story and I do like these little touches of psychology and the inner workings of people ...
#TV #English #GenV #Writing
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From AnyType (https://anytype.io/) and it's inability to import data in a way that is easy, I went on a whirlwind tour of similar applications — some open source, and some only freemium.
I tried NoCoDB (https://nocodb.com/) to BaseRow to SmartSuite to Fibery to Mathesar to Budibase — there are a lot of interesting solutions.
Way too many to list in about 500 characters for sure 😛
Sometimes I wish I still blogged so that I could do detailed write ups about all these but that’d probably be too arduous a task given how many of these solutions are out there!
#DataManagement #PersonalDatabase #KnowledgeManagement #Tools
I tried NoCoDB (https://nocodb.com/) to BaseRow to SmartSuite to Fibery to Mathesar to Budibase — there are a lot of interesting solutions.
Way too many to list in about 500 characters for sure 😛
Sometimes I wish I still blogged so that I could do detailed write ups about all these but that’d probably be too arduous a task given how many of these solutions are out there!
#DataManagement #PersonalDatabase #KnowledgeManagement #Tools
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Edited 1 year ago
Just when I think people can't get any sillier, they do 😛
From, "you believe in what I don't believe in" to "you use a different phone" to, it's now "you don't use an OSF/FSF (or whatever TLA you prefer) license for your open source project" 😀
Live and let live people! Don't get so dogmatic!
As long as they aren't hurting themselves or others, why does it matter to you how somebody else chooses to live their life or what they believe in?
Why must everybody conform to your worldview?
#Questions #Beliefs #Dogma #Reflections
From, "you believe in what I don't believe in" to "you use a different phone" to, it's now "you don't use an OSF/FSF (or whatever TLA you prefer) license for your open source project" 😀
Live and let live people! Don't get so dogmatic!
As long as they aren't hurting themselves or others, why does it matter to you how somebody else chooses to live their life or what they believe in?
Why must everybody conform to your worldview?
#Questions #Beliefs #Dogma #Reflections
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"The Boys" is violent, rapey, murdery etc. But I think it's closer to how humans would behave if they had super-powers than what Marvel or DC thinks ...
So, I was ambivalent about "Gen V" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13159924) since "The Boys" is a bit over the top for me. But the first episode of "Gen V" was interesting and has enough in it to keep me hooked. Will watch more to see if the potential pans out or if this is going to just go with over-the-top violence …
#TV #English #TheBoys #GenV #Comics
So, I was ambivalent about "Gen V" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13159924) since "The Boys" is a bit over the top for me. But the first episode of "Gen V" was interesting and has enough in it to keep me hooked. Will watch more to see if the potential pans out or if this is going to just go with over-the-top violence …
#TV #English #TheBoys #GenV #Comics
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AnyType allows me to keep a list of movies I want to watch and create various views based on different criteria such as movie language ... but it's hard to automate adding data to AnyType. Easiest way is to type it all in manually.
My own app lets me do things as I wish and I can automate movie information retrieval easily from say IMDB, but it is task-specific and I can't easily store (or rather, store in an organised fashion) movie information side-by-side with say, book info, or a comic book collection.
Can I find a middle ground?
#PersonalDataManager #AnyType #Swift #SwiftUI #Automation
My own app lets me do things as I wish and I can automate movie information retrieval easily from say IMDB, but it is task-specific and I can't easily store (or rather, store in an organised fashion) movie information side-by-side with say, book info, or a comic book collection.
Can I find a middle ground?
#PersonalDataManager #AnyType #Swift #SwiftUI #Automation
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I started using AnyType (https://anytype.io/) to maintain my movie/TV watchlist, tasks, notes and a few other things ...
So of course, I start working on a #Swift app which will allow me to add movies to AnyType easily by doing a simple IMDB search 😛
Only about a day of work so far, but the search works. The transferring data easily to AnyType part is a bit more involved but there’s some light at the end of the tunnel.
#Swift #SwiftUI #macOS #AnyType #DataManagement
So of course, I start working on a #Swift app which will allow me to add movies to AnyType easily by doing a simple IMDB search 😛
Only about a day of work so far, but the search works. The transferring data easily to AnyType part is a bit more involved but there’s some light at the end of the tunnel.
#Swift #SwiftUI #macOS #AnyType #DataManagement
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The second episode of "The Continental" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6486762) is much better.
It gives you a hook, a slightly bigger world, and a wider cast of characters (and backstories for existing characters) that makes things interesting.
Much better than the first episode, IMO. I think I'll watch for a little longer to see how things develop …
#TV #English #TheContinental
It gives you a hook, a slightly bigger world, and a wider cast of characters (and backstories for existing characters) that makes things interesting.
Much better than the first episode, IMO. I think I'll watch for a little longer to see how things develop …
#TV #English #TheContinental
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Got my old iPhone X out to do some testing ...
The case was falling apart and I took it off. That was the first time I'd ever bought a case (back then) for a phone ...
I had forgotten how slippery the iPhone X was without a case. Just leave it even on a (mostly) flat surface and it starts sliding …
Was that a deliberate design decision on Apple's part to drive case sales? I have to wonder (in hindsight) given that I've bought a case for every new iPhone since then 😛
#Apple #iPhoneX #iPhone #Cases #SlipperySlope
The case was falling apart and I took it off. That was the first time I'd ever bought a case (back then) for a phone ...
I had forgotten how slippery the iPhone X was without a case. Just leave it even on a (mostly) flat surface and it starts sliding …
Was that a deliberate design decision on Apple's part to drive case sales? I have to wonder (in hindsight) given that I've bought a case for every new iPhone since then 😛
#Apple #iPhoneX #iPhone #Cases #SlipperySlope
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"The Continental" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6486762) has the bones of a story, but not much to actually like/care for till the very end of the first episode.
I wasn't going to watch further, but the ending did hook me. So maybe one more episode to see where it goes, possibly?
#TV #English #TheContinental #JohnWick
I wasn't going to watch further, but the ending did hook me. So maybe one more episode to see where it goes, possibly?
#TV #English #TheContinental #JohnWick
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At least some open source projects seem to go to great lengths (intentionally or unintentionally) to make the PR submission process convoluted 😛
I just want to make the code better because I feel that others can benefit from it. I don't want to jump through multiple hoops to do that ...
Instead, I just shrug and move on most of the time. There's only so much time to work on stuff, after all.
Maybe I just don’t work well with people? That’s certainly possible 🙂
#OpenSource #GitHub #PullRequests #Hoops
I just want to make the code better because I feel that others can benefit from it. I don't want to jump through multiple hoops to do that ...
Instead, I just shrug and move on most of the time. There's only so much time to work on stuff, after all.
Maybe I just don’t work well with people? That’s certainly possible 🙂
#OpenSource #GitHub #PullRequests #Hoops
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"Adiyae" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27618123) started out as an interesting movie, but the protagonist's utter confusion at anything and his apparent inability to understand anything or to cope with anything except by screaming at the universe just makes it very annoying to watch ...
The protagonist seems to be only capable of showing a confused look throughout (at least the first part) of the movie. I don’t feel anything except annoyance at having to watch him 😛
#Tamil #Movie #Kollywood #SciFi #ParallelUniverses #AlternateReality
The protagonist seems to be only capable of showing a confused look throughout (at least the first part) of the movie. I don’t feel anything except annoyance at having to watch him 😛
#Tamil #Movie #Kollywood #SciFi #ParallelUniverses #AlternateReality
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Interesting ...
I use Bodega (https://github.com/mergesort/Bodega) in my Mastodon client app to cache old posts, and my app has gotten progressively slower over time.
In fact, trying to open an image or the post detail screen takes several seconds while the app just sits and churns ...
Since nothing else had changed, I tried deleting the Bodega data folder and re-launching the app. Instant speed boost 😛
Now if I can figure out if this is just an issue of there being just too much data to read quickly (which I thought I’d eliminated by clearing the cache …) or something else, that would be the real win 🙂
#iOS #Catalyst #Swift #Performance #Caching
I use Bodega (https://github.com/mergesort/Bodega) in my Mastodon client app to cache old posts, and my app has gotten progressively slower over time.
In fact, trying to open an image or the post detail screen takes several seconds while the app just sits and churns ...
Since nothing else had changed, I tried deleting the Bodega data folder and re-launching the app. Instant speed boost 😛
Now if I can figure out if this is just an issue of there being just too much data to read quickly (which I thought I’d eliminated by clearing the cache …) or something else, that would be the real win 🙂
#iOS #Catalyst #Swift #Performance #Caching
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This weekend's project was to create a 2FA key manager that was cross-platform and uses the latest Swift stuff like SwiftData since I want to move away from Google Authenticator.
Both targets achieved — plus, has migration from Google Authenticator built in by importing the export QR codes that Google Authenticator creates 🙂
But iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma only since some of the functionality I used isn't backward compatible 😞 Doesn't really matter as a personal app though, so all good?
#Swift #SwiftUI #macOS #iOS #2FA #Authenticator #SwiftData
Both targets achieved — plus, has migration from Google Authenticator built in by importing the export QR codes that Google Authenticator creates 🙂
But iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma only since some of the functionality I used isn't backward compatible 😞 Doesn't really matter as a personal app though, so all good?
#Swift #SwiftUI #macOS #iOS #2FA #Authenticator #SwiftData
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Another post in Karl Guttag's series of posts discussing Apple Vision Pro is now up:
https://kguttag.com/2023/09/26/apple-vision-pro-part-6-passthrough-mixed-reality-ptmr-problems/
I find the passthrough mixed reality issues he mentions interesting, and am curious as to if the released product has the issues he mentions and how much it would impact your eyesight when you use the AVP over a long period of time ...
Also, curious as to how well the Quest 3 handles this given the placement of cameras on the Quest 3.
To be frank, I am less and less inclined to get an Apple VisionPro (even to try it out to see if it meets my requirements and/or will serve as a platform to develop for) as I continue to read Karl’s posts on the subject …
#Apple #VisionPro #Hardware #MixedReality #Analysis #Passthrough
https://kguttag.com/2023/09/26/apple-vision-pro-part-6-passthrough-mixed-reality-ptmr-problems/
I find the passthrough mixed reality issues he mentions interesting, and am curious as to if the released product has the issues he mentions and how much it would impact your eyesight when you use the AVP over a long period of time ...
Also, curious as to how well the Quest 3 handles this given the placement of cameras on the Quest 3.
To be frank, I am less and less inclined to get an Apple VisionPro (even to try it out to see if it meets my requirements and/or will serve as a platform to develop for) as I continue to read Karl’s posts on the subject …
#Apple #VisionPro #Hardware #MixedReality #Analysis #Passthrough
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New iOS, and my phone seems to drain battery faster ...
Created a document with all the ways to turn off battery draining processes. Seems to have made a huge difference.
Now experimenting with Shortcuts to turn on/off battery drainers as needed. Looking pretty good.
Mix in automated Shortcuts to turn off stuff when I go to sleep and turn them back on when I get up, and things hopefully just work? Maybe? 😛
#iOS #Battery #Automation #Shortcuts #PowerDrain
Created a document with all the ways to turn off battery draining processes. Seems to have made a huge difference.
Now experimenting with Shortcuts to turn on/off battery drainers as needed. Looking pretty good.
Mix in automated Shortcuts to turn off stuff when I go to sleep and turn them back on when I get up, and things hopefully just work? Maybe? 😛
#iOS #Battery #Automation #Shortcuts #PowerDrain
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Recently, British detective shows have not had the quirkiness and humour which makes them so enjoyable and watchable ...
Enter, "Mrs. Sidhu Investigates" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21259542)
It has the humour, the quirkiness ... and it has Meera Syal.
What's not to like? 🙂
This is one of the good ones. Give it a try, you won’t regret it!
#TV #Detective #Mystery #British #UK
Enter, "Mrs. Sidhu Investigates" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21259542)
It has the humour, the quirkiness ... and it has Meera Syal.
What's not to like? 🙂
This is one of the good ones. Give it a try, you won’t regret it!
#TV #Detective #Mystery #British #UK
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I'm trying to get going on a game since I've got the itch to do another game ...
I've been looking at free assets to build a quick demo version to see if the idea holds up and it seems sword wielding men are the most common characters you can find?
What about women/children? Or people not prone to violence?
I just find this interesting ... and telling ...
I can go into more detail — like how the first female character I found was tagged with “extra breast bouncing for sexiness” (or something similar). I found that rather disturbing — is the only attribute to identify you as female, bouncing breasts?
Is this how that particular person sees the world? Or are they just trying to be “marketable”?
#Games #GameDev #Artwork #Characters
I've been looking at free assets to build a quick demo version to see if the idea holds up and it seems sword wielding men are the most common characters you can find?
What about women/children? Or people not prone to violence?
I just find this interesting ... and telling ...
I can go into more detail — like how the first female character I found was tagged with “extra breast bouncing for sexiness” (or something similar). I found that rather disturbing — is the only attribute to identify you as female, bouncing breasts?
Is this how that particular person sees the world? Or are they just trying to be “marketable”?
#Games #GameDev #Artwork #Characters
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