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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #218
Date: 11-01-2024
Duration: 4 hrs
Topics Discussed
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Naufil Asar and Harsh Kapadia talked about using Vim and Neovim.
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We talked about how they’re really useful once one is used to them.
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Naufil mentioned how he liked working with Neovim’s config more than Vim, because he feels that Neovim, which uses Lua to configure the editor, is much easier to work with than Vim’s Vimscript.
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We discussed how bullying people who don’t use them isn’t fair.
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Harsh shared
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A good way to learn about Vim and other things: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
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Cybersecurity
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Alpesh Bhagwatkar shared
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A playlist that he has been following to learn Cybersecurity, called TJ_Null’s OSCP Prep by IppSec.
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That he was planning to attend a meetup talking about Nuclei.
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Jaden Furtado talked about how he has been studying for the OffSec Web Expert (OSWE) certification, which is a challenging 48-hour Cybersecurity certification.
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Harsh Kapadia shared
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(Currently) The world’s fastest supercomputer El Capitan
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Digital Design and Computer Architecture course by Onur Mutlu
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Retro hardware
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Harsh Kapadia shared his experience at a small retro hardware meetup in Austin
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He saw people debugging hard disk access on an Atari ST.
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He talked about How IBM Lost the PC to Compaq, Intel & Microsoft
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He was shown a clock-accurate Heathkit H89 JavaScript emulator called jsH89 by the developer himself!
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Jaden Furtado shared
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Rishit Dagli shared Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants
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Jaden Furtado asked for opinions on NVIDIA Fake Frames Scandal.
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Indian Army accelerates efforts to develop Unmanned Ground Vehicles
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Saket Thota, on being prompted to talk more about his 2024 reflection post, told us about his learnings related to personal finances, how he is trying to invest, how he decided how much to put into the stock market and how he is keeping on learning more.
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He shared a course called Financial Markets that he took to learn the basics of financial markets.
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