ashishb

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   by ashishb 1y ago

   > PDFs don’t always contain actual text. Sometimes they just contain instructions to draw the letters. Yeah, but when they do, it makes a difference. Also, speaking from experience, most invoices do contain actual text.
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   by ashishb 1y ago

   You can win any race if you can cherry-pick your competitors.
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   by ashishb 1y ago

   I speak from experience that this is a bad idea. There are cases where documents contains text with letters that look the same in many font. For example, 0 and O looks identical in many fonts. So if you have a doc/xls/PDF/htm
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   by ashishb 1y ago

   IMHO, fewer than the US cities.
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   by ashishb 1y ago

   I was in Dublin, Ireland[1] All of its so called high power capital GDP is mostly accounting gimmick. Japan, Singapore, or even Eastern European capitals felt more prosperous to me. https://ashishb.net/travel/dublin-ire
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   by ashishb 1y ago

   I wrote my own https://reading.ashishb.net - it produces readable pages - it produces an RSS feed that one can add to any feed reader as well It is not the most polished product and hence not for everyone
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   by ashishb 1y ago

   My problem is running post install step of 100+ npm packages on my machine. Any of those could be malicious. https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/unseen-threats-in-software-...
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   by ashishb 1y ago

   You are the fifth person who told me that this can be done but have never used it. If this compile approach is so awesome why don't devs use it?
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   by ashishb 1y ago

   TypeScript is good as a language. You can't generate static binaries out of it (except Docker images) and that itself is a deal breaker.
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    I actively seek out tools written in static languages. They are less fragile and have a longer shelf life. https://ashishb.net/programming/maintaining-android-app/
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    Thanks. What's the problem with those utm_source in the links?
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    In defense of ad-supported products (2024)(ashishb.net)

    2 points by ashishb 1y ago|0 comments
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    Make is a good replacement for shell script. Especially, given how bad the defaults in bash are https://ashishb.net/programming/better-bash/ > I do the same except I use shell scripts. script/fmt, script&#
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    I have `make install_deps` command for that. But it is closer to being nice aliases as opposed to fetching the tool chain.
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    I love Makefile. It is the easiest build system. In my projects, whether the language is Go, Rust, Python, typescript, or even Android, there are standard make commands, if applicable, always work - make format - make lint - make b
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    > For long-running, expensive processes that do a lot of waiting, a downside is that if you kill the goroutine, you lose all your work. This is true regardless of the language. I always do a reasonable amount of work (milliseconds to up
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    > which implies that one shouldn't need to rely on the toast being shown or not. I wanted to display Toast if I can, and if not, a developer might prefer to display a Snackbar or a notification if a Toast cannot be displayed.
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    Toast can only be displayed when the app is the foreground. If there is not single definition of what foreground is then how is someone supposed to know whether a toast will be displayed or not?
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    Thanks. TIL.
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    This comment itself proves what should have be `context.isInFoteground()` function call has been made more complicated.
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    Not quite true. Old Exoplayer V2 cannot handle new media style notification that are used on API 33 and later.
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    TIL. Thanks. I have never used Android TV so I didn't know about this.
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    Rendering to canvas eliminates may be 25% of the issues that I listed. How does rendering to canvas insulate you, for example, from the underlying permissions changes in the Android platform?
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    I am curious, would an app, say a music player written for iOS in 2015, be usable in 2025? For Android, I can say that it would have to be re-written ~30% or so. The entire permission model has evolved - iOS style runtime permissions
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    > Just make a web app, works everywhere I do that whenever possible, but you can't easily build a music player that plays local files.
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    > Agreed with the article. Some will say just do iOS/Cordova/React Native/Flutter. But these have all the same problems eventually. I don't have enough experience with iOS. React Native, Cordova [and Flutter], however
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    So, are the Flutter library maintainers so good that they are able to abstract out all the changes that are happening to Android system libraries, Google's helper libraries, and the restrictions on the underlying platform?
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    > Well, at least I've learned not to bet against the cheaper way of doing something. If the Play Store is too expensive to list in, F-droid will thrive. F-droid has nowhere near the reach of the Play Store. You can't tell your
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    > There's not 2 different versioning schemes, there's 3! Those clowns sometime use letters. Now you have to recite your alphabet just to know if one version is before or after. Yeah, thankfully, the alphabet one is mostly used
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    by ashishb 1y ago

    > Why would you do that? This is a self-inflicted wound that exactly matches the title. This isn't like another example of some important system library you need that gets removed, forcing changes As I mentioned elsewhere in the art