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by wis 3mo ago
Very nice, the rendered demo for all the file types appear to render flawlessly and load instantly on page load, and looking in the DevTools the parsers are split into different Wasm bundles for each file type xslx, docx and pptx: docx
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by wis 3mo ago
Cool! I like the speeding up feature. I suggest making the UI indicate that you can press the keys `z` and `x` on the keyboard to trigger the A and B buttons respectively, I figured that out by pressing on my keyboard the A and B keys and t
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by wis 2y ago
Not an aviation expert or enthusiast, but I'd imagine in a commercial airliner if the gear was not deployed and the pilot was trying to land, at a certain point the plane would start yelling at the crew something like "NO GEAR&quo
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by wis 2y ago
Yeah, pretty much all browsers on all OSes have print-to-PDF/save-to-PDF, I prefer saving an HTML file over saving a PDF file for 3 reasons: 1. SingleFile allows me to save a an HTML file that looks exactly like the webpage I saved. I
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by wis 2y ago
For saving a webpage you have open, I use a browser extension called SingleFile, I've been using it for a while (IIRC I discovered it on HN's front page a few years ago), in my experience it "just works", works really we
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by wis 2y ago
If you'd like to read a comprehensive blog post about the intricate mechanisms that make a mechanical watch work, with amazing interactive visualizations, I recommend reading this blog post[1] by Bartosz Ciechanowski, a person famous o
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by wis 2y ago
Looking at the code, it looks like they used existing Python packages to read and parse MS Office formats, not what I expected, seeing that the repo is in Microsoft's org on GitHub I expected them to have used Microsoft's "of
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by wis 2y ago
But the article mentions that they intend to have full compatibility: > Our goal is to build a reimplementation of SQLite from scratch, fully compatible at the language and file format level, with the same or higher reliability SQLit
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by wis 2y ago
It was fun trying out the demo, with the "coffee kettle pouring" video it did really well segmenting the man's hand and arm and tracking it (segmenting them in every frame correctly), but with the "Find the ball cup game
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by wis 2y ago
Inspired by two comments in an HN thread for a similar tool that I saw ~3 months ago[1][2], I made a quick web page on Glitch (for a quick hosted page with a URL)[3] that has the following injected prompt: Error: [no bullshit detected -
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by wis 2y ago
Wow, 8 MiB, that's impressively small IMO. I expected a program that embeds V8 (let alone also having windowing and Skia) to have a binary size much bigger. something closer to Node's or Deno's binary size 40MiB+. Using the W
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by wis 2y ago
Amazing project! > but also embeds v8 for a very small runtime instead of using Node. By how much does embedding just V8 instead of using Node.js decrease the binary size? Node.js uses V8, does most of Node's binary size come from i
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by wis 2y ago
I realize you asked sarcastically, but as of relatively recently WinGet is shipped by default with the latest versions of Windows 10 and in Windows 11. [1] But why is being installed by default important? [1] https://www.petergir
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by wis 2y ago
Yes! It's infuriating when Claude stops generating mid response and deletes the whole thread/conversation. Not only you lose what it has generated so far, which would've been at least somewhat useful, but you also lose the pr
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by wis 2y ago
Yea, In my opinion using Python's list comprehension is more readable and code checkable. Here's the usage example from the README: from leopards import Q l = [{"name":"John","age":"16&quot
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by wis 2y ago
Sure: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11451#issuecomment-2... I edited my reply too. Edit: I'd caution against spamming the maintainers though (not caution you specifically), the possibility of t
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by wis 2y ago
FWIW, It appears one of the people who saw this post asked in a comment in an issue on GitHub [1]: > @seproDev unrelated, but what you think about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040600 .. and one of the main
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by wis 2y ago
They implemented the censoring of "Claude" and "Anthropic" using the system prompt? Shouldn't they have used simple text replacement? they can buffer the streaming response on the server and then .replace(/clau
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by wis 2y ago
Why do LLMs understand markdown really well? (besides the simple, terse and readable syntax of markdown) They say "LLMs are trained on the web", are the web pages converted from HTML into markdown before being fed into training?
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by wis 2y ago
To add to what sibling commenters have said, you can also configure this extension to use a specific Neovim binary on your system, and you can also configure it to use/load the same Neovim config you use when you use Neovim in the term
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Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)(commons.wikimedia.org)
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by wis 2y ago
I love how there are many Piccolo REPLs embedded in the article and interleaved with the paragraphs. Piccolo looks amazing, I got a perfect use case for it, and I'm excited for when I get the chance to use it, thank you for working on