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by Leftium 2y ago
- I find it easier to read (based on https://hackerweb.app/ ). - Given hw.leftium.com URL, it simple to find original Hacker News URL. - Given a Hacker News URL, very unlikely to discover my app.
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by Leftium 2y ago
https://github.com/betaveros/noulith Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/38255808 > I did not design and implement a programming lang
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by Leftium 2y ago
Automatic Inbox Cleanup with Two Simple Filters/Rules http://blog.leftium.com/2023/11/automatic-inbox-cleanup-with...
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by Leftium 2y ago
I think Notion made this "slash command" block editor popular, but the underlying editor most of these editors use is actually TipTap: https://tiptap.dev/docs/examples/experiments/slash-commands Or
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by Leftium 2y ago
Actually, you can easily try it without an account: it stores everything locally with a nag/warning that your local browser data can be lost if you don't create an account. - https://app.affine.pro - OR click "Get
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by Leftium 2y ago
To decide if it's worth investing in a lifetime deal for https://pockethost.io , I'm trying out PocketBase/PocketHost. I just finished https://github.com/Leftium/spock-stack-spa-starter Next,
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by Leftium 2y ago
Supabase Auth Anonymous Sign-ins - https://supabase.com/blog/anonymous-sign-ins - HN discussion: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/40066560
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by Leftium 2y ago
I was going use `@` to extend bangs with scopes, like NPM scopes: https://www.leftium.com/bangtastic/#scopes There are multiple bang providers, often defining their own conflicting internal bang triggers. So bang scope
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by Leftium 2y ago
> What would be super awesome, imo, would be if I could assign "some sites" as a short code, then snaps that. My app https://multi-launch.leftium.com already does that! (Except with buttons; bang triggers coming soo
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A New Age Data-Serialization Format for the Internet(internetobject.org)
2 points by Leftium 2y ago|2 comments
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by Leftium 2y ago
Often pressing the button for the floor again will cancel the stop at that floor. (Possibly limited to Asian elevators?[1]) https://docpop.org/2019/03/how-to-cancel-floors-on-an-elevat... [1]: https://w
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Create 3D Photo from Image JavaScript Tutorial (2020)(redstapler.co)
1 points by Leftium 2y ago|0 comments
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by Leftium 2y ago
https://doing-design-right.com/ > ... how to solve complex interface tasks by redesigning a real-life app used by more than 2 million users. > In this course, you will work on a real-world application, not a fake one.
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by Leftium 2y ago
Well, thanks to you I found out whisper generates decent audio transcriptions using a local LLM (relatively) easily, even on my 6+ year-old laptop. (I used to upload videos to YouTube just to get the auto captions.) I did some investigation
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by Leftium 2y ago
Not as convenient, but you could also have the user manually install the model, like whisper does. Just forward the error message output by whisper, or even make a more user-friendly error message with instructions on how/where to down
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by Leftium 2y ago
Yes, the model must be downloaded separately (see my edited comment with bash commands/comments). The model is specified via whisper.exe `--model FNAME` parameter. By default, it looks for `models/ggml-base.en.bin`, but even that
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by Leftium 2y ago
On Windows, I use scoop.sh: https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=whisper I was able to do this: scoop install main/whisper-cpp mkdir models ## Download model file ggml-base.en.bin to models directory
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by Leftium 2y ago
yt-dlp parameters distinguish between auto-generated and manual YouTube captions: # Downloads auto-generated captions yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-sub https://youtu.be/i-BkN3rTK0Q # Downloads manual capt
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by Leftium 2y ago
Perhaps skip the whisper step if the video already has decent manual (not auto-generated) captions, like this video: https://youtu.be/i-BkN3rTK0Q --- Another use case is being able to quickly jump to a specific spot inside
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by Leftium 2y ago
I'm waiting for pattern matching to be added to JS. The proposal[1] documents a lot of thought on how to add pattern matching to a language, including prior art in other languages. (Pattern matching was introduced to me via either F# o
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by Leftium 2y ago
How Boeing Lost Its Way: https://youtu.be/URoVKPVDKPU
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by Leftium 2y ago
Often the error was caused by an intermittent problem, and trying again (an hour later; a day later) does indeed work. As for developers, errors details may be separately logged elsewhere. So they don't need any specifics about the err
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by Leftium 2y ago
I made a similar project: - Google Form responses can be connected to a Google sheet. - I made a wrapper that prettifies both the Google form and Google sheet. Just enter the URL of a public Google form/sheet: https://g.left
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by Leftium 2y ago
Amy Hoy has a few products that cover launches. Launches are part of a holistic business strategy based on direct marketing concepts. So marketing starts even before product development. You collect marketing materials at the same time you
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by Leftium 2y ago
Reminds me of how I started my foray into plaintext task management: - http://todotxt.org - https://taskwarrior.org - https://www.taskpaper.com - https://notational.net Eventually, I decided m
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by Leftium 2y ago
I use https://simplenote.com - Syncs across multiple platforms. - Plaintext based (with MD support). - Search + edit UI similar to https://notational.net and https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nv
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by Leftium 2y ago
Machine Learning seems to be a hot technical skill that is in demand almost everywhere and pays very well. Korean companies are poaching ML engineers from the US and paying nearly SF salaries without the SF cost of living. It's fueled
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by Leftium 2y ago
Most were found via internet searches while trying to solve certain problems for work/life. Some links were shared with me, either personally or via HN/Digg/Reddit. --- Explanations of where I found my most upvoted links: [29
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by Leftium 2y ago
https://hckrnews.com lists all the HN stories that have hit the front page, in reverse chronological order. I find this easier than constantly refreshing the HN frontpage. (I'm not sure what the polling interval is; some st
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by Leftium 2y ago
IP geolocation is surprisingly more imprecise than I expected. This visualization shows an IP address that covers most of the continental US: https://www.bigdatacloud.com/ip-lookup/107.119.41.13 (A few months ago the s

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