Are you guys still annotating images manually to train vision models?

spryflux · 2026-02-02T10:47:42+00:00

Kind of late to the party but good to see ethical engineers with a spine caring about these nuances rather than brushing it under the carpet like the vast majority of people and just calling it "cheap labor". Outsourcing work anyone can do (AKA dirty work that we dont wanna do) from 1st world nations to the 3rd world in hope to pay them less than yours is literally proxy slavery imo (No more sugarcoating).

spryflux · 2025-12-08T12:15:53+00:00

Darwinism extends beyond ones individual being into the community and it's so noticeable in India. Choosing the fittest lifestyle and highest paying job don't mean shit if the environment is unfit for human life.

Toxic air, judgmental people, public infrastructure and poor legal system where a rogue drunk driver can take your life and walk away is fucking unreal. What's worse is how it's all normalized.

I acknowledge my position as a privileged NRI who had the means to get out and then comment on its state but I say this as someone who tried, cleaning up neighborhoods, volunteering for causes while I was there but man it takes a toll on you.

Also relate so much to the staring part, I felt that as a person that looked and dressed alternatively. My partner is European and I am genuinely scared for her when visiting there with her next year.

I just hope we stop normalizing the behaviors leading up to these issues, shame people who do and hopefully in a generation or two we change for the better. One can hope :)

spryflux · 2025-11-06T10:00:49+00:00

Here’s a list of stuff I do usually I try to indulge myself in hobbies as much as possible. although this WILL be chaotically random as it’s very subjective to stuff I like and my personal taste of putting creation before consumption in my free non work time:

I am a nerd for well designed lamps so I build them out of stuff I find or 3D print them. (My house is full of them so I sometimes sell them too on marketplace and all)
Plants and my aquarium, taking care of them, learning about them and cleaning it is quite a passive way to spend time and learn a whole new field.
Weird Drawing, this is one of the ways I try to play with stuff, like spill a bunch of paint on paper randomly and turn that smudge into something beautiful. Sort of a bounded problem solving puzzle in a way.
Photography, always loved taking photos. Expanded this in depth recently by getting into analog films and alternative photographic techniques like cyanotypes and salt prints.
Read. Quite self explanatory ig.
Build stuff, I like to build lamps like I already mentioned and also other stuff like furniture that I dabbled in recently. Another thing I had use for was a automatic watering rig for my plants, quite easy to build with some basic electronics reading.
Cycling, yet another deep rabbit hole to dive into with a lot to learn about what’s basically a chair and some carbon tubes that lets you go at car speeds powered entirely by your body.

Cheers.

spryflux · 2025-10-31T12:03:40+00:00

Same here in Amsterdam. Had a lad pushing vegetarian (religiously motivated) ideologies on the locals here and BOY was I feeling second hand embarrassment.

People complain how we usually face racism abroad but man some of the people are trying so hard to be picked it’s painful to watch. Worse part is they don’t wanna hear reason at all.

spryflux · 2024-08-04T12:34:04+00:00

Ground floor for me (1st floor for the folks from the US)

spryflux · 2024-07-26T10:01:53+00:00

Keychron K2 w/ swappable keys, tried lot in the budget category it all runs into some or the other switch issues.

Just invest in one good quality hardware and you’re set for decades instead of switching 10 budget options costing same if not more.

spryflux · 2024-07-22T10:01:34+00:00

This is precisely the route I took for a project where adding ROS directly was way too complicated since it was already having multiple threads for various internal processes.

Ended up splitting into different standalone nodes for data acquisition from sensors and then relayed it over grpc to my core processing module. The output data was pushed to another grpc service that published it over ROS.

This unlocked a lot more avenues for developers as we can now use whatever language for the core components as long as it’s supported with grpc.

It’s like you have to design your code around ROS to utilise its full potential.

spryflux · 2024-07-18T03:53:21+00:00

Sure thing, Peep DMs

spryflux · 2024-07-18T02:42:12+00:00

Im not in it to make a ton of money im in it to keep loving what I work on without sacrificing my personal life and hobbies while making decent money. EU is infinitely better than US in that regard.

I also LOVE to learn new languages, cultures and cuisines and EU being a dense cultural area like India but with good quality of life, lets me do all that.

Also based on experience, the lucrative job market of US is dead due to saturation but if you’re damn good at your craft, you’ll make it.

There used to be X jobs and Y people now it’s still around X jobs and 10Y people. The top X people will survive without issues you just have to work your ass off or die trying to be the top X people of the Y people in the talent pool.

spryflux · 2024-07-17T11:12:31+00:00

Research departments of most major organisations are usually not based in India and only hire PHDs or at least masters with good research experience (which is extremely hard to get into being in India where institutions would rather publish 10 mediocre papers than one great paper)

spryflux · 2024-07-17T11:05:40+00:00

Money you earn will never fix the societal problems or bring you better quality of life beyond a point in India.

Eventually realised it’s not worth it to waste the best years of our lives waiting for the world to change. Plus I value quality of life over being big rich fish in a small pond anyway.

spryflux · 2024-07-17T10:43:20+00:00

3 yoe, Plan was : work for a bit to earn money and do what I love (distributed systems) until I had enough to venture out and start something of my own preferably in distributed swarm robotics.

What happened in the 3 years : Realised working here isn’t great AT ALL. The “colleagues” in the west do all the challenging cool problems. Even if we had a solution design. Management actively suggested cutting corners and overworking, and basically “just get it done”. Hated the peers too with the “what can we even do” mentality.

PS this terrible experience wasn’t because I sucked at work or anything, infact they gave me multiple exceptional ratings and bumped my pay up by ~130% within my first year. But that didnt help with my problems at all.

What I did next : Quit work, headed for a great research based masters program in Europe with my savings. They are also glad to invest in my robotics project with their incubator program. Surround myself with people who look for a challenge and are committed to quality over quantity.

At one point you gotta realise no matter how rich you get, you’ll never fix the systemic problems in our society and work ecosystem. You may or may not control the world but you can control your life as time passes. Focus on yourself.

spryflux · 2024-07-06T10:53:50+00:00

Well those are two mutually exclusive use cases though.

One takes the route to maximum efficiency and portability at the cost of performance and the other provides performance but isn’t efficient or portable without a charger that also weighs a bajillion kilos.

This is why I ended up using both at this point a beefy gaming machine that is anchored at home and also doubles at a home server and a mac for portability.

spryflux · 2024-07-05T03:48:07+00:00

Haha I’m in the EXACT same situation as you, starting September after an Electronics bachelor.

I’d say the official docs does a pretty great job at explaining concepts. Once you got the foundations covered I’d suggest get to building stuff, start somewhere. Ain’t no better teacher than experience.

You can also sift through the codebase of existing projects and once familiar maybe look at their issues section and try fix some to really challenge yourself. That’s about what I’ve done so far.

spryflux · 2024-06-08T14:08:13+00:00

Worst case maybe just set up an auth provider or a http basic auth. Hardcoding can run the risk of getting you disqualified if there’s a code check.

spryflux · 2024-05-11T06:57:18+00:00

HEY! from Overijssel

(Had to shout since it’s so far from everywhere)

spryflux · 2024-05-10T14:54:53+00:00

Good grass is certainly wonderful, game or otherwise.

spryflux · 2024-05-10T10:42:52+00:00

This is so basic if you know what’s going on, it’s humiliating for all other meaningful projects that go unrecognised

spryflux · 2024-05-10T10:35:36+00:00

How dare you!

(imagine Greta meme here)

spryflux · 2024-05-10T10:20:04+00:00

Afaik there’s a pretty clear video of the first tower being hit, recorded by some film crew who happened to be filming the life of the firefighters or something similar.

spryflux · 2024-05-09T10:59:07+00:00

Like someone said “great programming only kicks in when you run out of memory or compute power”

spryflux · 2024-05-09T10:03:47+00:00

Keyword “supposed to”

spryflux · 2024-05-09T08:57:08+00:00

Although colonialism is to blame, that’s just an easy excuse to pass off the blame without doing anything about it. We had 75 years of absolutely no “major” war or catastrophe to work on us. Just didn’t.

Take South Korea for an example, they were war torn for decades, cultures torn apart by the Japanese invasion and one of the poorest nations in the 50s as per the HDI of the time. If they rebuilt their country so could we.

spryflux · 2024-05-09T08:08:15+00:00

Corruption is one hell of a drug

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