aragonite

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by aragonite 1y ago
Please consider making the UI respect the user's custom text scaling settings for accessibility. I'm not referring to DPI scaling but the TextScaleFactor value at HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Accessibility (see [1][2]) that users can s
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by aragonite 1y ago
It's the type definitions for developing chrome extensions. They'd been incrementing in the 0.0.x lane for almost a decade and bumped it to 0.1.0 after I raised the issue, so I doubt it was intentional: https://www.npmj
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by aragonite 1y ago
Incidentally I once ran into a mature package that had lived in the 0.0.x lane forever and treated every release as a patch, racking up a huge version number, and I had to remind the maintainer that users depending with caret ranges won&#x2
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Checking if a JavaScript native function is monkey patched (2022)(mmazzarolo.com)
16 points by aragonite 1y ago|6 comments
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Thunk(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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DWM Hacking (2007) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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Tagged Unions are quite sexy (2024)(ciesie.com)
3 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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The Emacs dumper dispute (2016)(lwn.net)
3 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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Therac-25(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by aragonite 1y ago|1 comments
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Writing memory efficient C structs(tomscheers.github.io)
203 points by aragonite 1y ago|123 comments
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Dinkus(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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The Hunt for the Fastest Zero (2020)(travisdowns.github.io)
1 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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Explaining assembly by playing SHENZHEN I/O [video](youtube.com)
2 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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by aragonite 1y ago
https://archive.is/2A2Nd
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The De Man Case (2014)(newyorker.com)
2 points by aragonite 1y ago|1 comments
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by aragonite 1y ago
You're right that writing a preprocessor would be straightforward. But while you're actively editing the code, your dev experience will still be bad: the editor will flag emoji identifiers as syntax errors so mass renaming & a
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by aragonite 1y ago
When trying to understand complex C codebase I've often found it helpful to rename existing variable as emojis. This makes it much easier to track which variables are used where & to take in the pure structure of the code at one gl
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Staff and Line(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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pdfCropMargins – auto-detect and cut PDF margins for small-screen reading(github.com)
23 points by aragonite 1y ago|3 comments
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by aragonite 1y ago
Has this been confirmed? The original channel also posted a comparison video [1] showing what seems to be the same cylinders tested against titanium and tungsten cubes (though it's difficult to be sure they are identical) There's
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by aragonite 1y ago
There's a pretty amazing video here showing a Prince Rupert's drop defeaing a hydraulic press: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ns7PQjjqHIo
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Prince Rupert's Drop(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by aragonite 1y ago|0 comments
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Exploding Tree(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aragonite 2y ago|0 comments
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by aragonite 2y ago
> Because they do things. With their hands. That no one else does That's only true of surgeons :) What if your specialty is nonsurgical (internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, etc)?
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Mickey Mousing(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aragonite 2y ago|0 comments
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by aragonite 2y ago
It must have been under $3 for the 150 or so API calls, possibly even under $2, though I'm less sure about that.
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by aragonite 2y ago
300dpi (`magick -density 300 book.pdf page_%03d.png` was the command I used). The PDF is a from archieve.org & a very high-quality scan ( https://ia601307.us.archive.org/5/items/derlgnertheori00rsuo... )
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High Pressure Injection Injury(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aragonite 2y ago|0 comments
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by aragonite 2y ago
I did try the full text OCR from archive.org, but unfortunately the error rate is too high. Here are some screenshots to show what I mean: - Original book image: https://imgur.com/a8KxGpY - OCR from archive.org: https:&#x2
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by aragonite 2y ago
You can request Markdown output, which takes care of text styling like italics and bold. For sections and subsections, in my own case they already have numerical labels (like "3.1.4") so I didn't feel the need to add extra fo

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