aaviator42

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by aaviator42 2mo ago
When doing image editing and text copy editing, I find it very handy to have mouse thumb buttons mapped to copy / paste / cut / undo / redo / delete / shift / ctrl. Allows me to do a lot more with my mouse
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by aaviator42 6mo ago
We use SQLite IMMEDIATE transactions, which lock files for writes for a few milliseconds while commiting data to the file. This is not a problem in practice until you reach more than dozens of concurrent writers. StorX configures a default
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by aaviator42 6mo ago
SQLite is insanely robust. I have developed websites serving hundreds of thousands of daily users where the storage layer is entirely handle by SQLite, via an abstraction layer I built that gives you a handy key-value interface so I don&#x2
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Show HN: Simple and robust key-value flat-file data storage library(github.com)
2 points by aaviator42 7mo ago|0 comments
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by aaviator42 7mo ago
I'm not the first to point this out but the website in question, which is mostly static, could easily be hosted on a VPS for at most a couple hundred dollars a month.
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by aaviator42 9mo ago
I used this to implement <yes-script>, the opposite of <noscript>, to be able to designate sections of a page to be hidden if JS was disabled. You can of course do the same thing with classes, but custom tags are fun. https:&#x
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by aaviator42 1y ago
Anyone have knowledge on how accessible SVGs are for folks who use assistive technologies?
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by aaviator42 1y ago
Countless lives over the next decades are going to be lost due to decisions being made by this administration. Deaths and illnesses that otherwise would have prevented using existing frameworks and systems had they not been destroyed.
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by aaviator42 1y ago
The money doesn't go to the researchers.
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by aaviator42 1y ago
think / think hard / think harder / ultrathink These are all valid claude commands/tokens to enhance its "thinking" abilities.
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by aaviator42 1y ago
How do you go about finding a recruiter? (for technical roles like system engineers)
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by aaviator42 1y ago
The lack of awareness is that the vast majority of users are not aware of and don't use scoop (or probably any package manager) on Windows, especially to install GUI apps, and that doesn't automatically make them "not sane&qu
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by aaviator42 1y ago
It significantly increases the attack surfaces of bugs that do exist in the parser if the same implementation is used everywhere.
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by aaviator42 1y ago
A good point! Conformance tests seem like a great idea to me to go along with specs.
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by aaviator42 1y ago
An argument for a better defined file format specification perhaps, but I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for everyone to use or have to use the same implementation.
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by aaviator42 1y ago
I thought apple didn't allow this? Edit: apparently "hybrid apps" using webviews are allowed as long as they're not "thin wrappers" for websites and provide meaningful functionality. See also: the capacitor fra
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by aaviator42 1y ago
With a Linux distro on it?
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by aaviator42 1y ago
I think iframes are pretty darn handy and it's really not that hard to leverage their strengths in a secure manner.
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by aaviator42 1y ago
We're very close to the point where no one is going to be able to make out what is an AI image and what is not and it's already fucking up a lot of stuff and it's going to get much worse.
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Laid-off workers should use LLMs to manage their emotions, says Xbox exec(theverge.com)
9 points by aaviator42 1y ago|1 comments
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by aaviator42 1y ago
I really miss the time before generative images and video were a thing. We opened such a can of worms. Really seems like a "the scientists were so occupied with if they could they didn't stop to think if they should" situatio
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by aaviator42 1y ago
Those who find this interesting may find my tool helpful, a color picker that only has named HTML colors: https://aavi.xyz/proj/colors
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by aaviator42 1y ago
The medium article is also 404
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by aaviator42 1y ago
Hey, it's cool that you care so much about coral reefs and climate change — that kind of awareness is really important. A lot of us care about climate change and coral reefs and the planet. The problem is that the biggest damage is oft
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by aaviator42 1y ago
I'm sorry to hear that, and hope you're able to figure out something sustainable soon. To other readers: don't quit your job until you have a new source of income locked in!
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by aaviator42 1y ago
On the same topic: does anyone have an API concept that they wish existed and that they'd be willing to pay for?
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Scam Testing Claude Opus(twitter.com)
3 points by aaviator42 1y ago|0 comments
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by aaviator42 1y ago
> Opensource printer stack is a legacy mess. I don't necessarily disagree, but isn't this because of extremely bad firm/soft/hardware design by the printer companies that then have to be supported by the open source
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by aaviator42 1y ago
The link you shared is to this thread
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by aaviator42 1y ago
In what ways?

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