eshnil

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by eshnil 3y ago
> eventually built in webcams will be cheap and good enough We've been waiting what, 15 years for this to happen?
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by eshnil 3y ago
Last year, I started building a similar desktop tool in Flutter: https://github.com/PolyglotNetwork/devtoolbox I wanted to include offline CyberChef within this app in a webview but it turned out, Flutter still doesn&#
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by eshnil 3y ago
https://OpenLibrary.org is Internet Archive's initiative to solve this once and for all. Plus it lets you borrow e-books.
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by eshnil 3y ago
Why not switch to Mojo lang for this? It's Python-compatible with Golang like performance from what I hear.
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by eshnil 3y ago
They're transferring the user's assets, the domains, and killing the product (Google Domains).
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by eshnil 3y ago
I'm reminded of Sachin Tendulkar being able to recall every single dismissal in his 20+ yrs of cricket career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRofNOkZg0M No relation with this particular condition though.
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by eshnil 3y ago
FF is my primary browser too, but with the user base down to 3%, it's not exactly relevant any more.
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by eshnil 3y ago
I ran into the same problem while building https://learnawesome.org/ . Forget the broad class of "learning resources", even the "books" category doesn't have a usable unique ID. Not everything gets
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by eshnil 3y ago
But technology can empower individuals to change the balance of political power. See printing press, cryptography/encryption, social media etc.
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by eshnil 3y ago
> Only include reviews which came from users who had at least 10 reviews. Not sure if that's a good idea. It shrinks the set of genuine readers and overweights the set of professional spammers.
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by eshnil 3y ago
There's https://github.com/nat/openplayground and https://github.com/ztjhz/BetterChatGPT among others.
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by eshnil 3y ago
There's an extension for this: https://github.com/darold/pgtt
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by eshnil 3y ago
I built this puppeteer-based agent to do online tasks in browser, described in natural language: https://github.com/aicombinator/bot
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Show HN: Aicombinator – ChatGPT-based bot to automate tasks in browser & APIs(github.com)
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by eshnil 4y ago
Snap language by SAP (snap.berkeley.edu) would be a better stepping stone rather than directly going to industrial languages. It's got first-class functions, first-class lists, object-oriented programming, APL-style vector operations w
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by eshnil 4y ago
More like the death of APIs. If bots can handle UI designed for humans, there's no reason to build and deploy APIs.
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by eshnil 4y ago
Another great interactive explanation. I wish physics teachers start using geometric product of vectors, instead of the cross product. This allows forces and torques to be combined into a single concept "Forque". Really, translati
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by eshnil 4y ago
I actually implemented it recently in one of my open-source apps. It's 6 lines of Javascript: Create an <a> element, set the data in its href with: element.setAttribute("href","data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,&q
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by eshnil 4y ago
Saving a file is easily implementable without a Filesystem access API. See https://draw.io/ as an example.
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by eshnil 4y ago
They don't need to do extra due diligence. Just buy insurance for the excess amount above the FDIC limit. After all, they do benefit from the upside like cheaper mortgages for execs.
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by eshnil 4y ago
Every bank account holder was made to pay insurance premium for those with more than $250K in a couple of banks. And this was done AFTER the risky event the insurance covers has already happened. This absolutely is socialization of losses,
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by eshnil 4y ago
"KYB" now means "Know Your Bank". :-D More seriously, you don't need to do extra due diligence. Just buy insurance for your funds above $250K. Or use standard treasury methods like using institutional insured liquid
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by eshnil 4y ago
It would be great to be able to navigate the page to a certain scroll location or a specific state if it's a single page app and THEN take a screenshot. I don't know how you would achieve that though. Easier for the user to upload