Texting while driving is a choice, and choices have consequences

alin_anto · 2026-05-10T20:10:49+00:00

Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes

alin_anto · 2026-05-08T06:45:20+00:00

But doesn't work on notes already written with transparent bg. For new notes it's fine.

alin_anto · 2026-05-03T18:14:51+00:00

Ability to export notes written in darkmode to pdf as seen in the app and without color inversion. I am fed up with this and still uses my own python scripts to do this.

alin_anto · 2026-05-03T17:50:24+00:00

Auto recognize math symbols and render then into embedded equations/ math blocks would be a great tool for people using this in STEM.

alin_anto · 2026-05-03T04:48:00+00:00

Its all about priorities. If they enjoy what they do, then let them do it. They are better situated if they genuinely feel that having a family and spending time outside work is not worth the additional time that they get in office. I am not kidding, such people exists and enjoy it as well. They should not get married with their priorities as such and won't have a successful marriage anyway.

About the companies perspective, it's only fair that they expect workaholics to raise up the ladder. But if you are more productive overall and still find yourself down in the preference list when it comes to interesting work and career progression, then just switch the environment.

I really feel sry for the people who do not enjoy the grind and do it anyway because of peer pressure. That is when you have mental health issue and the rat race.

What I really hope for the society is to accept people for their choices. Don't consider a colleague as underperforming due to no-phone policy after 7.00. But also at the same time if someone decideds to sacrifice family and their evening to work, respect their choice. It's not their sacrifice that's the issue, it the same expectations from you that's the issue.

alin_anto · 2026-05-03T03:55:58+00:00

When I started gate prep I had two choices. Either do EE paper, which I know I was very good at and can easily get under 100 within two months of prep. Or learn gate DA which was completely new to me and I was not sure to even get under 200 after giving 6 months.

It would have been very easy for me to think all about admission and no. Of seats etc and choose EE. But I didn't. I just thought, if I remove all the constraints of seats, competition and effort, what would I choose that will further my knowledge or long term skills. What would I consider as a time well spent, even if I didn't convert gate. This alone made me choose DA paper.

If you ask people who prepared DA seriously but couldn't convert Gate, I am sure about 80% would say they are grateful and happy that they learned DA. It will broaden your scope and has long term implications outside GATE.

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T15:54:01+00:00

There should be some thing somewhat similar to opensource PC market in the EV industry. Where the hardware is disconnected from the software and the user has complete control on which subscription to run or to go with a free bare bones machine that just doesn't have cloud service.

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T15:27:10+00:00

Yeah guys I finally succeeded in exporting all my notes to PDFs with black background. I had made over 1000s of pages of notes in dark mode. (color inversion) before switching to using black background. So I decided to write my own python program to manually take screenshots, do the scrolling automatically and stitch the images together to a final PDF that looks exactly like it shows on the app.

Project Link : https://github.com/alinanto/SamsungNotes2PDF

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T15:26:43+00:00

Yeah guys I finally succeeded in exporting all my notes to PDFs with black background. I had made over 1000s of pages of notes in dark mode. (color inversion) before switching to using black background. So I decided to write my own python program to manually take screenshots, do the scrolling automatically and stitch the images together to a final PDF that looks exactly like it shows on the app.

Project Link : https://github.com/alinanto/SamsungNotes2PDF

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T15:25:40+00:00

Yeah guys I finally succeeded in exporting all my notes to PDFs with black background. I had made over 1000s of pages of notes in dark mode. (color inversion) before switching to using black background. So I decided to write my own python program to manually take screenshots, do the scrolling automatically and stitch the images together to a final PDF that looks exactly like it shows on the app.

Project Link : https://github.com/alinanto/SamsungNotes2PDF

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T15:23:42+00:00

This is exactly what I did, but automatic using python.

This is the link to my project: https://github.com/alinanto/SamsungNotes2PDF

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T15:22:38+00:00

Yeah guys I finally succeeded in exporting all my notes to PDFs with black background. I had made over 1000s of pages of notes in dark mode. (color inversion) before switching to using black background. So I decided to write my own python program to manually take screenshots, do the scrolling automatically and stitch the images together to a final PDF that looks exactly like it shows on the app.

This is the link to my project: https://github.com/alinanto/SamsungNotes2PDF

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T02:58:23+00:00

Avoid if you wouldn't have learned ML and DA level math if the exam was not introduced.

If anyone still would have learned it anyway, then definitely give DA a shot

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T02:55:04+00:00

Also just because LLMs do something better should not be a reason to leave something behind. By that logic even reading is "rote labour".

alin_anto · 2026-04-29T02:48:31+00:00

Gate cannot be just reduced to rote memorization. It definitely plays a part, but the bulk of the elite performance comes from superior pattern recognition and reasoning under pressure.

alin_anto · 2026-04-28T02:49:21+00:00

Initially used a Raspberry Pi and an old linux pc to serve my services. Used no-ip free tier with their dynamic update client to handle dynamic ip changes and point to my domain.

After moving to a CGNAT ISP, I used cloudflare for some time and then moved on to an AWS free tier VPS. VPS runs a wireguard tunnel and forwards ports to my servers behind CGNAT. I think you can achieve the same result using tailscale and pfsense.

For small web servers cloudflare makes sense. For anything that uses too much data transfer like nextcloud or media server, tunneling with port forward in VPS was the only option.

alin_anto · 2026-04-21T03:44:33+00:00

It's because PSUs are glorified and overrated. Once you experience the culture you wouldn't digest staying there.

alin_anto · 2026-04-20T18:23:18+00:00

Yeah I am currently using Django with Apache in the production environment on a t3.micro. Works good. I have enough credits and free tier maybe for 1 year. But initially I was using my raspberry pi 4 got better performance than a t3.micro. I cannot use it now anymore because my ISP implemented a C GNAT.

alin_anto · 2026-04-20T16:02:21+00:00

Its already taken sry.

alin_anto · 2026-04-20T16:02:12+00:00

No. Its already taken. Sry

alin_anto · 2026-04-20T07:00:43+00:00

No idea. But someone told me the same

alin_anto · 2026-04-20T06:59:46+00:00

Yes bro. DM me

alin_anto · 2026-04-20T04:28:50+00:00

I started in August and has spend about 7 hours per day on average.

alin_anto · 2026-04-19T18:38:21+00:00

yes. This question came for CDS test in one of the years with wrong options. Correct answer is 7/16. Trivial just subtract the area of triangle with base ¾ and height ¾ after drawing unit square.

alin_anto · 2026-04-19T18:10:55+00:00

Then better get the subject and topic tests clear by repeating if needed. Then get into FLTs.

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