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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
LinkedIn deserves an entire article to list their each and every dark pattern. Some of the few that come to my mind: - Asking you to install app when browsing from mobile (which goes away when you use "Desktop Mode"). - Saying tha
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
My favorite "no JS, we have CSS" stuff are side bar (drawer) and carousel. DaisyUI (a TailwindCSS components library) has components readily available too :) 1. https://daisyui.com/components/drawer/ 2.
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
> Hint: If the game has its own currency (coins, diamonds, etc) which you can buy for real money, it's bullshit and you shouldn't submit it. But there are games where you can use real money to buy golds and diamonds and spend t
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Tennis Racket Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by arun-mani-j 3y ago|0 comments
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Thank you, I wish I saw this an year ago when I was learning 2's complement for digital systems subject. Many articles I read said that 2's complement helps in arithmetic, but I was not able to understand "how". The naiv
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
FastAPI's tutorial on how to implement a basic OAuth server helped me a lot in understanding the basic concepts. https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/security/ After getting familiar, I self hosted Keycloak
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Awesome guide :) I these days use coredumpctl with gdb to debug seg faults. So if a program crashes, I simply do: $ coredumpctl debug Now it launches gdb (or your default debugger) on the latest core dump. Then I use `bt` and others to debu
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
I remember reading a SO question which asks for a C library to parse JSON. A comment was like - C developers won't use a library for JSON, they will write one themselves. I don't know how "true" that comment is but I tho
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Wow I really needed this! So far I have been using the tar file from the website. Very nice it comes with auto-updates but some dependency issues can be difficult to debug. So a repository by Mozilla which ships the browser and integrates n
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Amazon India (the online store) has the best customer care of all the services I have used. They provide chat and call service and are always helpful. On the contrast, Google always says "our agents are busy" or asks me to send em
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
I could be the odd one here but I wrote my resume in Emacs OrgMode with LaTeX embeddings for some decorations. It was a nice balance between of the two worlds. https://gitlab.com/Arun-Mani-J/resume I have tried other w
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
I have uBlock Origin and it works fine in my Firefox. Sorry I didn't knew of this adblock detection nonsense, otherwise wouldn't have posted it. :(
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Email Address Regular Expression That 99.99% Works(emailregex.com)
16 points by arun-mani-j 3y ago|37 comments
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
This is a nice solution! Though I have rarely faced crashes, the offenders on my side are the website themselves. For example, after going through all the steps, the website decides to not accept my form because of some JavaScript issue or
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Yea I considered that once too like having a small web app which takes a link and downloads it via ytdlib and then sync it with Jellyfin. :)
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
I and my friend (physically located very far) want to listen to songs sometimes. The songs are mostly from YouTube. What we need is synchronization plus editable playlist. For example, both of us should be able to add songs (that is drop Yo
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
No idea about that :)
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
https://wayland-book.com/ This book is nice if you want to: - Understand Wayland itself - Write applications without being dependent on GUI frameworks - Write a compositor yourself It's author is Drew DeVault.
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
I personally love and use Debian exactly for its principles and stability. I have heard users of other distros and a few upstream complaint that Debian "modifies" their packages? Is it so? If yes, there surely must be a good reaso
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Something similar but I learnt only in my high school is this - "few" vs "a few" few = not very many, with a focus on the fact that this number is (remarkably) small. "a few" = not very many, but at least more
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
It's nice and has a lot of quite advanced features. If you want a simple app to track lent and borrows among friends and circle then try Debitum. But it's for Android only.. https://github.com/marmo/debitum
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
No sentence ends in because because because is a conjunction. But it is easy to understand once you add comma.
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Sleep Paralysis(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by arun-mani-j 3y ago|0 comments
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Xournal++ – Take handwritten notes with ease(xournalpp.github.io)
4 points by arun-mani-j 3y ago|1 comments
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
I tried it like this- Title - fakehn.com Text - Do a test run of your hacker news submission to see how readers may respond to your post. Planning to add url support in the near future! Top comment - Is there a reason why we need a separate
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Awesome article. Like the author, I'm also confused about when to use b and strong & i and em.
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
Huh, I tried it last week and it said it doesn't support Firefox...
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
While we are it, please don't conduct the meeting in MS Teams unless you are 100% sure that none of the attendees will use Firefox. (Brave also didn't work but refreshing multiple times worked, don't know, why MS wants to pin
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
+1 for Jitsi. They are awesome, lightweight, and just work with the least hassle. Pretty bad that many nontechnical users are not aware of it compared to Google Meet or Teams.
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by arun-mani-j 3y ago
> Podman is a cloud-native What does cloud-native mean actually?

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