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by dheerajvs 3y ago
Coincidentally today I was daydreaming about such a system being built alongside the metro rail corridors of my city. Doesn't have to be pneumatic if built today, but such an automated system would certainly help move packages at an un
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by dheerajvs 3y ago
Glad to see alternatives but disappointed that Bruno does not support OpenAPI specification. At my company, we hand-edit OpenAPI specs in YAML and it gets consumed by many tools that generate types[0], static analysis and dynamic checks[1].
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by dheerajvs 3y ago
Under "Why TypeScript won", the article says: > It's self-hosted (tsc is written in TypeScript) Why would that matter? What if TypeScript was written in Rust? I would assume the better performance would have increased its
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by dheerajvs 3y ago
Both JSON5 and JSONC have those features. There is a discussion[0] on the VS Code repo to use JSON5 format instead of JSONC for the settings file. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100688
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by dheerajvs 3y ago
I searched my monorepo and could find only two lodash functions installed: lodash.startcase and lodash.unescape. It's nice to be able to install individual functions like these, which I don't prefer to write myself.
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by dheerajvs 3y ago
What's wrong with yarn 2+ (berry)?
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by dheerajvs 3y ago
With formatjs [0], you don't have to split the sentence for interpolation. The same example as in the article can be implemented as: const message = defineMessage({ defaultMessage: 'Learn more about <a>supported
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
> I had to tell Windows that my internet connection was metered in order to get them to stop with the updates. Nice tip. Any downsides to this?
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
Bluetooth for file transfer in 2023? You can setup a local web server and access all files using a Web browser from any device on the network. I have been using Trebleshot[0] on Android for this. Sadly the source code is archived now. [0]:
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
> Some things are a bit Boolean, as Whittaker states above, but some things are simply binary. Eh, what's the difference? It's better to read the original article: https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-e
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
> I was being taught a way to understand the physics, which is fine, but not how the ideas came to life. I've always felt that science should be taught in schools by a process of discovery or historical discoveries.
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
Lol, don't give them ideas.
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
My lenses have oleophobic coating. I find breathing on them and rubbing with microfiber cloth to be quite effective even when they are coated with grease.
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
> if you don't the trolley and it's passengers will go in circles for eternity I interpret that as the passengers would live their natural life-span and then their rotting bodies would go in circles for eternity. Replace the tr
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
> You should organize each day as if it were your last We all do. Even if we choose to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
I won't be able to celebrate for a long time to come. I have to support running an Outlook add-in in Outlook 2016 on Windows, which uses the IE11 rendering engine.
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
> it ships only the JS for select components So, even if the page has a single React component, does it ship the entire react + react-dom bundle?
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
Don't robot vacuums these days come with an app where you can specify no-go areas?
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
Another example of auto-generated video is perhaps this channel[0] that has videos of only "Happy Birthday" songs with names. I visit it once a year :-) [0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/HappyBirthdaySongwithName
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by dheerajvs 4y ago
Climate change has a definite impact on crop yield. The recent impact on wheat crop in India is a case in point: https://phys.org/news/2022-04-india-wheat-crop-snags-export.... > An unusually early, record-shatterin
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by dheerajvs 5y ago
Do these custom OSes preserve the native capabilities of the multiple cameras on the device? Can someone chime in with their experience?
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by dheerajvs 5y ago
Defense in depth. On my Android I have Netguard[0] configured with a hosts file, Firefox with uBlock Origin and NextDNS with comprehensive blocklists. uBlock Origin protects only one app — the browser. [0]: https://github.com&#x2
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by dheerajvs 5y ago
The very popular Chinese state-owned Hikvision cameras are known to have backdoors: https://ipvm.com/reports/hik-backdoor It's puzzling why they are not yet banned in my country.
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by dheerajvs 5y ago
That's what warrant canaries[0] are for. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
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by dheerajvs 5y ago
Huh? There's no such law. I have turned off the shutter sound option in every single phone I've purchased here in India so far.
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by dheerajvs 5y ago
> 108MP sensors becoming increasingly common Do millions of tiny binned pixels provide better image quality compared to much larger pixels with the same sensor area? How do they compare in low light?
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by dheerajvs 5y ago
I had to reset it to False due to one annoying consequence: Since the time zone is set to UTC, all my workmates on Slack assumed I'm working from another country. And I had to mentally calculate time differences. It was the only major
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by dheerajvs 5y ago
Not me. I've NEVER installed any app owned by Facebook including WhatsApp. Never missed it, but then I'm not a social person. My stubbornness forced a few acquaintances to install Signal.
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by dheerajvs 6y ago
> I’m still looking for a bio-degradable solution to store wet-garbage for at-least 24-hours. I'm using Shalimar compostable garbage bags available on Amazon.in. They claim to be CPCB Certified as per IS/ISO 17088:2008 [1]. [1]
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by dheerajvs 6y ago
Another pet peeve of mine is variable names suffixed with "Data" and "Info".

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