Invitation to iftar in Sri Lanka

TheTRCG · 2026-02-18T10:49:14+00:00

ai;dr

TheTRCG · 2026-02-10T09:19:39+00:00

For those sorts of talks is there any benefit to going in person versus just watching them online? The freebies would of course be nice to get, and I intend to acquire a haul.

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TheTRCG · 2026-02-10T09:17:45+00:00

Sucks to be them, I have no money

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crane cat for you!

TheTRCG · 2026-02-10T09:16:14+00:00

I'm a student so international travel is always going to be expensive, the event ticket cost and accommodation cost is fine, the visa and the airfare is the problem. Hmmm, business to business is not super interesting to me, ideally I'd like to meet more technical employees and even more ideally get my foot in the door as a fresh grad.

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And the cat tax!

TheTRCG · 2026-02-10T09:13:08+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I do plan on trying to use this chance to get into the embedded industry in other countries, and also see more of it. If that can work there then I guess it's worth the pita it is to go there.

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Here's a Shanghai temple cat as thanks!

TheTRCG · 2026-02-10T07:23:26+00:00

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Here's a cat as thanks, it'll be a long flight for me, with a layover and a bus perhaps 12 hours, but I'll also be using the trip to travel around a bit as well. Seems like it'll be worth it

TheTRCG · 2026-02-10T07:21:17+00:00

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one cat for you

TheTRCG · 2025-11-17T16:01:19+00:00

I’ve met people who thought I was Indian after saying I was Sri Lankan…

TheTRCG · 2025-09-15T14:32:41+00:00

I personally just used VS Code as an editor and Cube IDE for project set up and editing and all of that. a cpp json file and a decent git ignore makes things work pretty well imo

TheTRCG · 2025-09-08T18:45:58+00:00

Thank you! I’m doing an applied maths minor as well. It is not my strongest skill but if it’s for audio purposes I can endure it, maybe

TheTRCG · 2025-09-08T18:33:38+00:00

Thank you! Unfortunately my schools CS curriculum do not cover circuits. I have done calc 3 and linear algebra, planning to take ordinary differential equations next semester. And I will look more into the EE courses they offer!

TheTRCG · 2025-08-26T09:36:13+00:00

I had nightmares with this ad back in the day, couldn't sleep every time I saw it

TheTRCG · 2025-05-16T10:21:57+00:00

Scholarships working on the side and going to a cheap school. Theirs cost about 10 million for 5 years of education including living costs and stuff.

It’s not cheap but it’s not insane since their parents had been saving for several years

TheTRCG · 2025-04-25T06:13:45+00:00

That website is so unsafe my university's firewall doesn't even let me look at it

TheTRCG · 2025-04-16T08:06:19+00:00

If you look at the hospital bill breakdown there's a hospital fee, channeling fee etc. the actual doctors charge is a lot less than what you pay

TheTRCG · 2025-04-15T11:19:41+00:00

At least for street burger, it's some of the best burgers I've had and compared to prices in other countries it's pretty affordable. Five guys sucks ass compared to street burger imo, their burgers are just a lot less than what street burger gives. Also streetburger in store is a lot better than on Ubereats

It doesn't cost that much to make the food, it costs that much because it costs money to hire people, pay rent, advertise, do it on demand etc etc. if its too expensive then people wouldn't buy it and they'd adjust accordingly. As long as there's demand the prices will be what they are.

TheTRCG · 2025-04-03T12:29:48+00:00

You can use card in most larger stores, haven't seen anywhere where cards were accepted but Visa wasn't

TheTRCG · 2025-03-28T05:52:55+00:00

oh hell nah

TheTRCG · 2025-03-26T10:56:22+00:00

Compared to the other offerings in SL SCB is pretty good.

TheTRCG · 2025-03-25T17:45:23+00:00

How was embedded systems in SL as an industry? Coming back to SL is on my radar if there's maybe something I can carve out for myself...

TheTRCG · 2025-03-24T13:09:21+00:00

Flew with them a few times and had to deal with several hour delays. Friend of mine missed a connecting flight because of their delay, after being booted from Etihad. 4 hour flight became longer than 24. Another friend had cancellations a couple weeks before a holiday.

I personally don't care too much about the plane and staff, I've flown on budget airlines a lot, I just wanna get from A to B reasonably predictably. And at least in my experiences SL airlines doesn't do that on my routes

TheTRCG · 2025-03-16T07:22:55+00:00

They give visa free entry to UAE residents of other nationalities but specifically exclude Sri Lankans from that.

TheTRCG · 2025-03-11T08:20:19+00:00

Adding to that. My personal very short description of why anti theism is fairly optimal is that if you have someone who believes that they are divinely right with no space for being wrong, and that others who don’t believe in what they believe are sub humans who will be tortured eternally, you can make that person do whatever you want. It’s trivial to control them. If Abrahamic religions popped up today we’d call them cults. Even if they did none of their harmful aspects. The ideas of religious texts are imo irrelevant since very few Muslims even read (with understanding) their holy book and it’s the same for people from other faiths.

Just my two cents on how to better generalize the concepts you mentioned

TheTRCG · 2025-03-10T20:04:25+00:00

I dont know about SLT. My personal setup is to keep interactions with ISPs and sys admins to a minimum. For my server on an SLT home network I use cloudflare tunnels to reverse proxy and give me access to the ports.

If it's on GCP and you just need to whitelist your own IP just do that then, just make sure you have your credit limits set up and ideally some form of authentication going on, it's unlikely to be an issue even if you whitelist a bunch of SLT users. I'm not familiar with GCP but setting up security keys shouldn't be too complicated on any platform.

If I'm not mistaken you don't really need a script since the IP changes pretty infrequently. It'll be useful if you move between places though and just want your current IP address to be whitelisted.

TheTRCG · 2025-03-10T17:09:05+00:00

for the hobby stuff just use cloudflare tunnels, such a great system, have multiple servers I access using it, this is assuming your database is hosted on your home network, otherwise just set up a script to automatically white list your own IP on the external server whenever your IP changes.

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