New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When was the last time you used your tech skills for a real life task?
Ask HN: When was the last time you used your tech skills for a real life task?
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Personally, I compute in 3 ways: 1. Professionally 2. Recreationally 3. Personally Personally as in, I need to accomplish a task in my normal life, and I use my computer skills to solve it in a way a non-techie wouldn't be able to. For example, today on Reddit someone asked: "Is there a word, in english, that has the letter ‘V’ and is not followed by a vowel?" So I ran this on my mac: egrep '^[a-z].*v[^eaiouy]' /usr/share/dict/words The part at the beginning means that the first letter should be lowercase (imo proper nouns don't really count) And voila, a buttload of them showed up! I've also used my cybersecurity knowledge to gain access to devices who's security was protecting me from myself, and done the same for many friends. I enjoy things like that. What about you? Any such small personal tales?
3 by sdsd | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Personally, I compute in 3 ways: 1. Professionally 2. Recreationally 3. Personally Personally as in, I need to accomplish a task in my normal life, and I use my computer skills to solve it in a way a non-techie wouldn't be able to. For example, today on Reddit someone asked: "Is there a word, in english, that has the letter ‘V’ and is not followed by a vowel?" So I ran this on my mac: egrep '^[a-z].*v[^eaiouy]' /usr/share/dict/words The part at the beginning means that the first letter should be lowercase (imo proper nouns don't really count) And voila, a buttload of them showed up! I've also used my cybersecurity knowledge to gain access to devices who's security was protecting me from myself, and done the same for many friends. I enjoy things like that. What about you? Any such small personal tales?
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