flanbiscuit

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by flanbiscuit 4mo ago
right? everyone seems to be worried about being kind or mean, when the Neutral case is the happy medium. Tone. Avg. Accuracy Very Polite. 80.8% Polite. 81.4% Neutral. 82.2% Rude 82.8% Very Rude.
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by flanbiscuit 4mo ago
I was using this but when I switched to iOS I switched to Bitwarden. What are you using for Syncthing on Android? There used to be an official Syncthing app for Android but then they stopped maintaining it. There was a popular fork but then
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by flanbiscuit 4mo ago
Found the original article on the archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20111021122406/https://www.wired...
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by flanbiscuit 6mo ago
Pnpm did this first but I’m glad to see all the others follow suit For anyone wondering, you need to be on npm >= 11.10.0 in order to use it. It just became available Feb 11 2026 https://github.com/npm/cli/relea
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by flanbiscuit 7mo ago
The Michael Douglas one I’m assuming where Duvall was the cop https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
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by flanbiscuit 7mo ago
> There is no set path, allowing players to switch freely between mining, ship-to-ship combat, and alien diplomacy. The broader plot of the game emerges slowly This reminds me of Star Control 2, aka The Ur-Quan Masters > The game infl
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by flanbiscuit 7mo ago
> and I caved to the blue bubble pressure Ha! I feel this. I was a long time Android user since the original G1 (aka HTC Dream). Was a strictly Pixel phone user for my last 4 phones. Recently jumped over to iPhone. For the most part I’m
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by flanbiscuit 7mo ago
“Do you remember where I put that thing that one time” is a line that pops up in my head so often. I don’t remember the last time I saw this film and this is the 2nd time that it’s popped back up into my life recently, so it’s a sign that I
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by flanbiscuit 8mo ago
For anyone interested This is the shell script it runs on Mac/Linux: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/blob/mai... For FireFox it downloads this: https://github.com/corb
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by flanbiscuit 8mo ago
ChatGPT is currently integrated into Apple Intelligence. When I ask Siri something I can choose to use ChatGPT for my answer. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-chatgpt-with-appl... So I'm guessing in
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by flanbiscuit 8mo ago
Nice to see other fellow Western NC folks commenting here, I'm in Asheville. I did not know about all of these text only version of major news sites. I'm going to bookmark them. What saved us from a news deficit after Helene was t
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by flanbiscuit 9mo ago
I learned this back when HTML5 was brand new around 15-ish years ago. If you wanted to use the new tags like <article>, the only “polyfill” needed was some css styles. You can see it in the early versions of the HTML5 Boilerplate: ht
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by flanbiscuit 9mo ago
Same for me. Worked smoothly in Firefox (MacOS Desktop)
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by flanbiscuit 10mo ago
yes bun does both of the things mentioned in the parent comment: > Unlike other npm clients, Bun does not execute arbitrary lifecycle scripts like postinstall for installed dependencies. Executing arbitrary scripts represents a potential
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by flanbiscuit 10mo ago
I needed this post a year ago when I was looking for this exact thing. I did end up going with Puppeteer because I needed it for something else that I couldn't avoid. I use a large list of flags with it to launch the most minimal versi
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by flanbiscuit 10mo ago
A while ago I was at an agency and we got a client that was a very popular weather app. Things like mapbox and some analytics libs (can't remember exactly, this was 2019) The project was a big redesign of the app. We looked into using
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by flanbiscuit 10mo ago
I was also hoping it was a small phone announcement but it not being part of a keynote didn't give me high hopes. I've been on Android since day 1 but I'm thinking about switching to iPhone. If they ever made foldable (clamsh
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by flanbiscuit 10mo ago
With Swift SDK for Android, you can write all of your code logic in Swift for both and only need write the native UI related code for Android and iOS. https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/
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by flanbiscuit 10mo ago
Is Cordova still actively developed? Or are people just rolling their own per OS these days?
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by flanbiscuit 11mo ago
There was an HN discussion about it 3 months ago with responses from the author, in case anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711519
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by flanbiscuit 11mo ago
I loved Perdido Street Station and The Scar. Haven't read this one but I'm adding it to my list now. Thanks!
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by flanbiscuit 11mo ago
oh nice! that looks perfect. Will try it out
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by flanbiscuit 11mo ago
I wanted to develop an alternative to App Timer on Android. I need something more like "App Timeouts". App Timers are per 24 hours, so as soon I hit X amount of minutes, I'm blocked from using it until midnight and then it re
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
Even with Android I had to enable the "3-button navigation" at the bottom because they defaulted to Gestures whenever they introduced that (google search says it was Android 10 in 2019).
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
Been looking at this one. I inherited a project and I set it up to use puppeteer and chrome server side to generate a PDF from HTML but it's too much overhead. I want to do this all on the frontend because it should be simple enough to
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
I believe it's about waiting a bit before a new patch is released, not fully avoiding installing updates. Seems like compromises are being caught quickly these days, usually within hours. There are multiple companies monitoring npm pac
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
Related in that this is another, separate, attack on npm. No direct relation to the specific attack on debug/chalk/error-ex/etc that happened 7 days ago. The article states that this is the same attackers that got control of
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
> So far the only real unsolved issue I have are related to “semi-important” apps. Consider email. I still need to have access to email, and I want to have notifications enabled so I don’t miss something truly important. But 90% of the e
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
> and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. Anecdotally, this is how I felt when I tried out AI agents to help me write code (vibe coding). I always review the code and I ask it to break it down into smaller steps but bec
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
I love AllTrails! I have logged 235 activities, 758 miles, including one I did earlier today. I'm not looking for a Director role, just wanted to say how much I enjoy using the app.

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