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How iOS Restricts Features by Region: A Look at MobileGestalt and Eligibility(type.cyhsu.xyz)
1 points by firexcy 2y ago|0 comments
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How iOS Restricts Features by Region: A Look at MobileGestalt and Eligibility(type.cyhsu.xyz)
3 points by firexcy 2y ago|0 comments
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by firexcy 2y ago
That’s correct; I somehow messed up that paragraph during editing. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by firexcy 2y ago
Author here — the image quality was comparable, if not better, which is understandable because both use pretty standard commercial scanners. An upside is that instead of cutting the binder as 1DollarScan does, they tore the pages from the s
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Remote Book Scanning with 1DollarScan and Optimizing Scanned PDFs(type.cyhsu.xyz)
40 points by firexcy 2y ago|9 comments
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Remote Scanning Books with 1DollarScan and Optimizing Scanned PDFs(type.cyhsu.xyz)
2 points by firexcy 2y ago|0 comments
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"Paradigm shift" was not about "out of the box" thinking(newrepublic.com)
2 points by firexcy 2y ago|0 comments
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New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen(type.cyhsu.xyz)
64 points by firexcy 2y ago|6 comments
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by firexcy 2y ago
Agreed. I used to struggle with remembering all these names in novels, but recently came to terms with the “dysnomia” by drawing parallels between reading fiction with hearing anecdotes, where capturing the rough dynamic and vibe is more im
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by firexcy 2y ago
> learn from the apps in […] China. Please don’t. Most mobile apps made by Chinese developers, esp. big techs, do employ grid, paged layouts everywhere as though multiple iOS home screens were squeezed into the app. However, most grids i
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Show HN: A Simple Tool for Summarizing HN Discussions with GenAI Model of Choice(codepen.io)
1 points by firexcy 2y ago|0 comments
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by firexcy 2y ago
> CSS selectors with square brackets They are also extremely useful when it comes to adblocking. Without their partial matching capabilities it'd have been almost impossible to target ad-containing elements in most of these days&#x2
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by firexcy 2y ago
I am a paying Kagi user and it seems to me that the post is from an over-zealous user venting after their unsolicited advice was rejected. Reading through the post without finding a single mention of search quality is quite telling about it
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Is Gimp Forever Stuck in the Messy Middle?(tedium.co)
5 points by firexcy 3y ago|2 comments
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by firexcy 3y ago
These days I stick to a minimal profile for the default shell (zsh on macOS and bash on Linux), adding no further than some aliases. When I need more “friendly” interactive features I launch fish which is… friendly and interactive, and exit
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by firexcy 3y ago
> I have a high prior that any nonprofit that hasn’t been rigorously shown to be good is probably bad, and the potential advantage of capitalism over normal charity usually isn’t enough to overcome my decreased certainty in its efficacy.
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by firexcy 3y ago
You can use a separate utility named “AutoRaise” to get autoraise and autofocus functionalities without having to rely on yabai for these. https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
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by firexcy 3y ago
Good in principle, but bad in the implementation. From their Markdown Annotations specs [0], the authorship is recorded in a quasi-YAML block at the end of the file, e.g.,— Annotations: 0,95 SHA-256 1132bf5e376a605f5beed4b204456114
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by firexcy 3y ago
I can never understand Stratechery's obsession with overquoting, and it just becomes more unhinged over the years. Every weekly post comes down to something like: hey, have you heard of the latest tech news X, as I wrote long before (s
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by firexcy 3y ago
If Windows could’ve been dialed back to be as not manipulative as it was at the time of the post’s writing (ie 2k & XP), I would be glad to hold the temptation to self-claim as an expert.
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by firexcy 3y ago
My contrarian view is that the Magic Mouse _can_ be ergonomic as long as you use to be keyboard-centric and treat the Magic Mouse primarily as an extra-large scroll wheel. Then you'll find the scrolling experience with the Magic Mouse
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by firexcy 3y ago
Thanks! TIL
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by firexcy 3y ago
And the post was translated into English with GPT according to their "about" page. That's why mouthful and unnatural phrases scattered between the lines.
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by firexcy 3y ago
The system prompt used as found in the repo: ``` You are an expert tailwind developer. A user will provide you with a low-fidelity wireframe of an application and you will return a single html file that uses tailwind to create the website.
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by firexcy 3y ago
For such nuances I keep this page handy: https://hyperpolyglot.org/unix-shells
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Space Out – Meditative Space Spectacles in Time-Lapse with Soundtracks by NASA+(plus.nasa.gov)
2 points by firexcy 3y ago|0 comments
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by firexcy 3y ago
Thank you for your work at PortableApps. Windows isn’t my daily OS but when I get my hands on it from time to time, the apps you pack are what keep me sane.
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Show HN: vbang2 – DDG-Style Bangs with Customizations(vbang2.vercel.app)
4 points by firexcy 3y ago|1 comments
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by firexcy 3y ago
I’ve been using DDG’s “bang” feature (search engine shortcuts) for many years and continue to use it after migrating to Kagi. However, the ergonomics of bangs are suboptimal as the leading character `!` takes extra finger travels (on deskto
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by firexcy 3y ago
My understanding is that the PDF syntax essentially imitates physical printing in that it instructs the reader software to leave something at a given coordinate on a defined media with supplied resources. Thus it's easily portable but

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