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by longrod 4y ago
I have been using Notesnook[0] for over a year (mostly because its encrypted and private) and it has helped me tremendously. Obsidian is too text-editor-esque for me. I haven't tried Logseq or Dendron though. I actually like how Notesn
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by longrod 4y ago
Let's just get rid of user accounts altogether. We started wanting to get rid of emails then got insecure about our passwords...all in the quest of anonymity and security. 99% of us don't get hacked. 99% of us are ignored by every
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Goodbye NativeScript(fluentreports.com)
2 points by longrod 4y ago|0 comments
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Property Based Testing Patterns(blog.ssanj.net)
1 points by longrod 4y ago|0 comments
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Libnc: C Library for Tensor Manipulation(bellard.org)
2 points by longrod 4y ago|0 comments
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by longrod 4y ago
Found this comparison while researching OCR. It doesn't have the latest libraries like PaddleOCR but the performance of different OCR libraries is still quite apparent.
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Our search for the best OCR tool (2019)(source.opennews.org)
91 points by longrod 4y ago|31 comments
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by longrod 4y ago
I like the idea behind the implementation. The implementation as it stands would kill OSS because majority of the user base of OSS libraries are in no position to pay for every package they install into their fun side projects. This would t
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by longrod 4y ago
A huge part of open source is open community, open to feedback, open to suggestions, feature requests and contributions. Obviously there's no entitlement but it's one of the few actual benefits of open sourcing. Edit: I know about
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by longrod 4y ago
Going through the article I realized this attitude is what eventually kills some really good software. If a software does what you expect it to do and does it well but includes a few prompts here and there for marketing purposes...is that r
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by longrod 4y ago
True but OSX & Microsoft didn't have to deal with the massive amount of fragmentation that exists in Linux. Moving to a better standard is no issue but when everyone is building their own ship at their own cost & labour, it&#x2
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by longrod 4y ago
You are right but mind that you also can't compete on Google's scale. Linux Desktop is mostly volunteer work which means the risk of breaking the same things is higher because a) it'll take much longer to build something bett
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by longrod 4y ago
Just use Xorg if you want 1:1 compatibility. For Wayland to be 1:1 compatible it'd have to bend over backwards and do some ninja turtles kind of moves to create a mess nobody wants. The whole point is to be better and better is mostly
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by longrod 4y ago
I find it very strange that the same HN crowd that loves open source and wouldn't touch anything proprietary with a 10 foot pole has so many reservations against moving off of GitHub. I am not generalizing here, just surprised. Accordi
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by longrod 4y ago
Phones were here way before 2FA and Internet. The technology is poorly designed for modern attack vectors but it's so widespread it's crazy. Every single person out there has a phone number - one of the primary reasons it is still
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Filtering Numbers Quickly with SVE(lemire.me)
1 points by longrod 4y ago|0 comments
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by longrod 4y ago
Go is a compiled language with comparable performance to Zig/Rust/C in a lot of use cases. It's heavily ergonomic for network/server side programming, it's safe, easy to use with a tiny footprint. Rust is not only o
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by longrod 4y ago
I think Zig has a lot more footguns due to it's explicit nature. When you don't hide away the details from the human, you are increasing the risk of writing bad code and it becomes increasingly harder to make the compiler detect e
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by longrod 4y ago
Web browsers have become huge monolithic applications we all nowadays preach against. So much so that other monoliths get built on top of them. (I am taking the dictionary definition of monolith here: a massive structure). Many of the solut
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by longrod 4y ago
I have had a lot more success with Tabnine. One, it runs offline as well as online so the performance difference with/without internet is unnoticeable. Two, it understands context much better. I was prototyping in Python with Tabnine t
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by longrod 4y ago
For me context is very important. Separating out the sentences, although makes them stand on their own, often sounds discontinuous and jarring like a too long pause. Not to mention how awkward it looks on the page (if double spaced which I
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by longrod 4y ago
I never understood the motivations behind V. It's clearly not a hobby project started out by a developer who is genuinely experimenting with PLs and want to put out something unique. It feels more like a stunt or a flair to either exto
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Sophia – Modern transactional key-value storage in C(github.com)
2 points by longrod 4y ago|0 comments
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Prepack – A tool for making JavaScript code run faster(prepack.io)
2 points by longrod 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Things to consider when open sourcing a SaaS product
1 points by longrod 4y ago|0 comments
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by longrod 4y ago
The technical aspect of a startup hardly even matters as long as you get the job done. The first thing to understand before you start a startup is that it doesn't matter how much you love programming. It doesn't matter how beautif
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by longrod 4y ago
I don't think features such as Web USB, Web Bluetooth are privacy invasive. Chrome's huge market share is the very reason Firefox isn't trying very hard here. They are playing catch up. Take Manifest v3 for example; Chrome in
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by longrod 4y ago
Brave is a way better choice. As for plugin support on mobile, yes that's missing but I use extensions mainly on desktop. Brave comes with an adblocker built in and if that doesn't work, you could use something like Adguard.
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by longrod 4y ago
A full detailed list: https://caniuse.com/?compare=firefox+101,chrome+102&compareC...
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by longrod 4y ago
If there was one product where Mozilla could have really shined, it was Thunderbird. There's nothing like it in the FOSS world. Sadly they deprioritized it over Firefox resulting in the death of both.

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