chungleong

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Show HN: Creating a website with client-side SQLite as back end (Zig and WASM)(github.com)
2 points by chungleong 9mo ago|1 comments
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by chungleong 3y ago
IIRC, it was discontinued around the time Adobe switched to a subscription model. Allowing end users to add new functionalities to their programs just didn't make business sense.
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Show HN: Pb2zig – Pixel Bender to Zig Translator(github.com)
15 points by chungleong 3y ago|6 comments
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by chungleong 4y ago
Blaming one man for the rottened culture of an entire industry. The people who made the decision to withdraw money from SVB are supposed to be sophisticated. They're certainly well compensated. Yet they acted like bunch of illiterate p
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Show HN: React components for playing ANSI animations(chung-leong.github.io)
2 points by chungleong 4y ago|0 comments
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by chungleong 5y ago
Conradish is a tool designed for teachers of foreign languages. It lets you quickly take a online news article and add definitions of words with the help of Google Translate. A good way to help students build vocabulary, I think. The extens
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Show HN: Chrome extension for adding footnotes to print-outs of web articles(chrome.google.com)
4 points by chungleong 5y ago|1 comments
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by chungleong 6y ago
Something I created for my own use because many of my unit tests rely on external resources. I would get rate-limited all the time when I use watch. Or they would fail because I forget to provide an access token through an env variable. A c
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Show HN: Module for conditionally skipping Mocha tests(github.com)
1 points by chungleong 6y ago|1 comments
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by chungleong 7y ago
I've tried Skype already. It doesn't work. 75 bucks down the drain.
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Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to receive bank SMS oversea?
3 points by chungleong 7y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How do instructions on opening the Soyuz capsule survive reentry?
4 points by chungleong 7y ago|3 comments
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by chungleong 7y ago
Sort of off topic. I still remember this project we inherited from DLI ages ago. Folks there were having difficulty with storing UTF-8 strings in JavaScript. Whenever a character gets truncated (due to db length limit), Netscape would compl
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by chungleong 7y ago
Because people value the convenience of Google's integrated services. Market fragmentation is unnatural in the software world. Generally, the winner takes all in a given category. If we break up Google, one part of it will end up vanqu
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by chungleong 7y ago
As it's often said, the mission of journalists is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Making people feel uncomfortable is of course a lousy way of staying competitive.
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by chungleong 7y ago
Given that Google and Facebook are natural monopolies, what newspapers are demanding seem fair to me. The law just levels the play field. The alternative--breaking up these Internet giants--isn't in the public's interest and proba
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by chungleong 7y ago
I don't know how you can export "mainlanders are locusts" to the rest of China.
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by chungleong 7y ago
I think ideology plays a larger role than profit. Many people in the American financial world are Randian extremists. They like various "sharing" services because they operate outside regulatory frameworks.
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by chungleong 7y ago
Her father is a television screenwriter. From what I've heard, test prep services in Hollywood can work miracles.
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by chungleong 7y ago
One key benefit that self-driving brings is the eliminating the need for curb-side parking. Your car can drop you off and go park itself in a hole somewhere. That opens up space for many more bike lanes where light motorized vehicles like S
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by chungleong 7y ago
A software fix seems more realistic. The latest smartphones packed enough AI circuitry to be able to infer how an image should look if you were staring into the camera.
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by chungleong 7y ago
A manager who engages in circular reasoning is a nightmare that never ends.
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by chungleong 7y ago
I remember being angry when Congress cancelled fundings for Superconducting Super Collider but kept those for Space Station Freedom. From a scientific discovery standpoint, the decision was utterly unjustifiable. I'm willing to accept
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by chungleong 7y ago
Intelligence can't transform the unknown unknowns into known unknowns. Awareness of one's own ignorance has to be taught.
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by chungleong 7y ago
Makes sense. Well educated people have educational credentials that protect their self-esteem. They can afford to be intellectually humble. Admitting to mistakes or ignorance doesn't hurt as much.
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by chungleong 7y ago
Should such tires be available to the general public? Many locations rely on tire shredders for perimeter security. These measure will become useless. As will spike strips used by law enforcement. How will police be able to stop fugitive ve
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by chungleong 7y ago
That's what I had in mind. I figure on average half the passengers on any given flight are returning home. People living in the same area tend to have the same retail choices. The number of variations among this group probably isn&#x27
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by chungleong 7y ago
Which might be close to the theoretical limit. The probability of two suitcases on a given flight having the same appearance must be close to 99%.
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What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong(newyorker.com)
4 points by chungleong 7y ago|0 comments
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by chungleong 7y ago
What if we place lift-fans in these undesirable areas? One in the center of the V and two out in the wings. Basically, instead of banking the aerodynamic savings we spend it on hauling dead-weight associated with VTOL operation. That could

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