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by irskep 2y ago
The only reason I'm not immediately answering is because I need to check whether it's a trade secret. We do our own thing that I haven't seen anywhere else and works super well. Sorry for being mysterious, I'll try to ge
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by irskep 2y ago
I worked on an in-house version of this feature for my employer (turning files into LLM-friendly text). After reading the source code, I can say this is a pretty reasonable implementation of this type of thing. But I would avoid using it fo
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by irskep 2y ago
I'd love to see this hooked up to Navidrome, Jellyfin, or one of the other home server music solutions. Such a vibe.
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by irskep 2y ago
This looks like a list of cross-platform command line tools. What about it is Mac-specific?
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by irskep 2y ago
I did say "at risk of" - the front page of HN is a powerful place. :-) Looks like my fears did not come to pass.
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by irskep 2y ago
The title is sensationalized. I read the whole thread. Gitea doesn't seem to be "blocking" the PR. They aren't preventing it from going in a release. However, they did pull the in-progress PR into their private repo earl
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by irskep 2y ago
Taking a shot at a gentler version of the sibling comment. If someone says "I made a thing," and a reply says "that's cool but I would rather have something slightly different that matches my technology of choice,"
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by irskep 2y ago
I've used both extensively. (Material for) MkDocs is easy to set up and gives very good UX for users. Sphinx is hard to set up and provides better UX in some ways (internal links are on another level entirely), and worse UX in others (
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by irskep 2y ago
I really appreciate that in their big list of problems they've seen, they also discuss the solutions in detail instead of just dunking on these places.
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by irskep 2y ago
Is it also supported in the Google Drive export API? It's not in the docs yet at least. https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/ref-export-fo...
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by irskep 2y ago
I wrote a web site builder that I only use to host my indie bands' web pages. It's got a very silly backend vs the potential target market (musicians) in that it makes you write Markdown, so I don't have delusions of grandeur
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by irskep 2y ago
I'm predisposed to agree with the diagnosis that incompetence is ruining a lot of things, but the article boils down to "diversity hiring is destroying society" and seems to attribute a lot of the decline to the Civil Rights
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by irskep 2y ago
I wonder if a lot of the heated discussion is purely an emotional reaction to be hit with "AI feature onboarding" immediately after a normally-drama-free terminal emulator software update. If they had gone with a much more low-key
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by irskep 2y ago
Ehhh...I can see how people interpreted it this way based on the way the onboarding screens looked. It was very jarring to open up my terminal one day and be greeted by yEt AnOtHeR gReAt Ai FeAtUrE. I imagine that emotional reaction is fuel
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by irskep 2y ago
This is an unfortunate failure of community engagement. Apparently the feature was in beta for months, but given that most people don't use the beta or follow the development of their terminal emulator, it shouldn't be a surprise
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by irskep 2y ago
Those words were definitely written through gritted teeth, but it seems to me he's being very literal. The second point in particular is exactly what the anti-AI-feature people seem to be asking for (and they are reasonable for asking
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by irskep 2y ago
It's literally a Tinder-style swipe interface for musician matching. I recommend taking a realistic look at your competition.
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by irskep 2y ago
How does this differ from Vampr and Bandmix, which claim to be the same thing?
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by irskep 3y ago
I can't say it's "any level of scale," but I used this for https://diyband.net and it was very straightforward for the needs of a hobby-scale web site. The pitfalls are: 1. It's SQLite, with everything t
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by irskep 3y ago
It actually wasn't WWDC, it was an interview some execs did with John Gruber, which unfortunately was 2 hours long. Segment on visionOS starts here: https://youtu.be/DgLrBSQ6x7E?t=2323 I don't have time to dig in
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by irskep 3y ago
Edit: I would have loved to add to the conversation, but people do love their pitchforks and I should be working instead of commenting on HN. :-) Admitting you worked for Yelp on HN: not even once
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by irskep 3y ago
In one of the WWDC videos, they mention they reimplemented their glyph renderer to be vector-based, so text should at least not depend on first rendering to laptop-screen pixels and then to face-screen pixels. Seems like it should be state
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by irskep 3y ago
I love that everybody commenting here here emphatically insists that you must be doing it wrong, but real-world solutions are nowhere to be found. I admire your commitment to keeping a positive tone, but you'd be justified in feeling s
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by irskep 3y ago
You're right, the code is not performant at all. At the time I was hacking around and just happy to get something working. I think the code is a tempting distraction, but I was trying to say that browser API performance is not always w
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by irskep 3y ago
I think people in this thread are being much too optimistic about browser performance. Writing a loop isn't the issue; memory access patterns are. Canvas implementations are just not well suited for the flood fill problem space. (I spe
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by irskep 3y ago
My worry with this kind of thing is that some random dependency will break and there will be no easy solution. Compiling Python to JS seems like a very fragile process. And if people run into bugs, they will need to debug a very specialized
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by irskep 4y ago
Looks like it was just a different link that somehow beat the other one to the front page for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35150345
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by irskep 4y ago
@dang, it looks like all comments from an hour+ ago on this article have been deleted. They were OK comments, is there a bug?
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by irskep 4y ago
Interesting question. I think you could probably get those features by deploying Piku or Dokku for like $4/mo on a VPS, and the equivalent managed Postgres on Render would be like $20/mo (16GB SSD), so something like $6-10 seems
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by irskep 4y ago
Yeah, that's fair, and it was bad phrasing on my part. The engineer type distinctions are completely imaginary. It just really threw me off to have people respond to me sharing something I thought was helpful with claims that I'm

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