pcranaway

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by pcranaway 2y ago
use-browser would be an amazing name too!
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by pcranaway 2y ago
given that they are not very partical, how do you make sure to retain what you read? do you take notes? (asking as someone who only recently started reading cs-related literature)
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by pcranaway 2y ago
this is really interesting but as much as i want to agree with the author’s stance: > [..] no matter how hard these companies try to sell us on AGI or “research” models, you can just laugh until you cry that they really thought they coul
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A Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic(nautil.us)
4 points by pcranaway 2y ago|0 comments
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by pcranaway 2y ago
That's right. The whole thing is open source -- just, since it's hard to make any money from open source, they made the online editor (which is pretty good BTW)
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by pcranaway 2y ago
Yup. I use both LaTeX and Typst (although I prefer Typst when possible) and I haven't used anything other than tectonic for the past few years. It simply has everything you need included, and is pretty darn fast too.
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by pcranaway 2y ago
I love how I just downloaded this, and had the wireframe of my app's main screen built within 3 minutes of me knowing about this piece of software
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by pcranaway 2y ago
To the people worried about their data being sent to google or whatever (I'm not sure what they're actually worried about) -- the extraction of your eyes is done client side, using a seemingly very well made ML model running on Te
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by pcranaway 2y ago
I really wouldn't suggest the Elixir + Phoenix stack to someone who doesn't have experience with the Elixir/Erlang ecosystem and functional programming It is amazing though.
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by pcranaway 2y ago
You can actually self host Supabase, that's really the whole point: a Firebase alternative that you can host yourself. Obviously you can use their hosted service as well.
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by pcranaway 2y ago
I also noticed that. Then I remembered: this is just a free and open blog of a very talented writer. I assume this is not his only income, but I think it's justifiable.
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by pcranaway 2y ago
Not fully related, but I remember looking at a website of some person two or three years ago, who claimed to be one of the original developers of Firefox, and if I'm not mistaken, in some blog post on his website, he said something abo
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by pcranaway 2y ago
thank you for making this site! i'm planning on moving to germany after i'm done with my studies and this will be pretty helpful do you have any other resources helpful for expats? (perhaps something more like adjusting to the soc
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by pcranaway 2y ago
the second I read it I knew it was Greek I have actually thought of using the name for an app before years ago, but it never happened as I thought it's... a bit rude? not sure if this applies when exposing your app to a mostly non-gre
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by pcranaway 2y ago
I've never built C++ code for Windows, and I still am quite familiar with CMake. CMake is dominating across all platforms, sadly
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by pcranaway 2y ago
If we're suggesting Greek poetry I would like to suggest a more recent poet from my city who passed a few years ago, his name was Dinos Christianopoulos -- ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinos_Christianopoulos , so
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by pcranaway 2y ago
I started using xmake a few days ago. Not sure if I will use it for new projects (due to CMake being the standard) but I definitely want to. The workflow is amazing and super fast. You just run `xmake create` and it creates your project. Th
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by pcranaway 2y ago
Is this something like a superoptimizer? looks cool!
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NewsSmart: A bias-providing News Agreggator(news.danny.works)
1 points by pcranaway 2y ago|0 comments
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by pcranaway 2y ago
Anki!
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by pcranaway 2y ago
I love suggesting the novel “A concise Chinese-English dictionary for Lovers” as it really shows how people from such different cultures such as the chinese perceive the western world (at least in the first few chapters) (and yes i know the
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by pcranaway 2y ago
exactly. i don't understand why people feel the need to blame antirez. he wouldn't do that if he still ran the project anyway
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by pcranaway 3y ago
I know we're talking about postgres but have you looked at clickhouse? it seems pretty promising with big data (and also timeseries data with its log engines)
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Arch Linux's Principles(wiki.archlinux.org)
3 points by pcranaway 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Have we settled on a Figma alternative?
3 points by pcranaway 4y ago|1 comments
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by pcranaway 4y ago
I don't watch a lot of YouTube, but here's my list: ThePrimeagen - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ENHE5xdFSwx71u3fDH5Xw (also check out his livestreams, very entertaining) Tsoding - https://www
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by pcranaway 5y ago
My mate created kind of SMS dialup a few months ago, but (in my opinion) it's poorly implemented (if anyone would like to implement it in a better way I don't think he'd mind) https://github.com/acejr1337&#x2F
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Thorn(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pcranaway 5y ago|0 comments
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by pcranaway 5y ago
Don't forget about TikTok
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National Peanut Board(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pcranaway 5y ago|0 comments

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