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You can contain your native react creations in electron if you really don't want to go the native GUI kits route. For all the shit that Electron gets, it is reliably cross-platform with relatively little effort.
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Relatedly, I’ve come full circle on my feelings when it comes to Indian movies. I grew up with Bollywood/lollywood movies, and pretty much stopped watching all of this silly stuff upon arriving to America and thought the breaking out i
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I saw it in imax at the insistence of an acquaintance. While watching I kept thinking: "ok, so this is the results when you have a massive budget, access to lots of designers and top-of-the-line tools". I'm totally thunderstr
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I liked it. It’s like if you mix Snatch with Inglorious Bastards and then made it over-the-top cheesy. But on the topic — I think this changes everything. Blender is now literally a viable alternative against behemoth setups that easily go
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I came to appreciate and realize the importance of note-taking, finally this year, with org-mode. Folding and easy-labeling features jive well with me (and for when sharing my notes and thoughts with others), babel and linking is pretty coo
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't non-profit organizations obligated to have much of this public? Because if they aren't, then the non-profit organization is incredibly ripe for fraud and I wonder how many have already chos
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Location: S.F. Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Numerous, see resume Resume/CV: https://laclin.com/kiraly-resume.pdf Email: me@boldcoder.com I've worked on 100
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SEEKING WORK | S.F. Bay Area but remote preferred | me@boldcoder.com | https://laclin.com/kiraly-resume.pdf I've worked on 100s of successful projects for Rockwell, Northrop Grumman, Adobe, Motorola, the DTIC, UK-NCIS,
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> - remarkably unhelpful use of space in the inbox views, I agree with you here. The one time we saw a progression with Google Inbox (which showed cards of events, photo-previews, etc.: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor&#x2
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I think it's the Webkit vulnerability CVE-2022-32893 that is of concern. As I understand there's this one and the other vulnerability is in the kernel which requires physical access to exploit. The former lets nefarious actors com
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Woah I didn't know doing audiobooks at 3X was perceived as some kind of a virtue. I do it out of pure laziness. Particularly, all youtube things (with 'Video Speed Controller ' extension) at 2 or 3x because I just can't
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Is dopamine fasting good for you?(bbc.com)
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The killer application for these e-ink dispalys is calendar/todo list display. I'd love to have my org-mode agenda and todo-list/notes on such a low-powered, low-refresh-rate e-ink screen. I know this question has been probab
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This is a complicated topic and I think discussion on this topic on a forum like this, there ends up being a divide between folks who impulsively write off Schubiner and Sarno as 'quacks' and folks who have had chronic pain and ou
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He wasn't really "doxed", I mean, he used to give presentations at Rails conferences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNsQxI2PdAI He was a wonderful and quirky man. A true artist. And artists, unfortunately,
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I thought the same. But, it's an interesting thought, and in line with a very interesting thread that kragen brought to my attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32009925 FedEx likes to buy out Boeing faciliti
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A lot of things are starting to look the same, owing to the availability of ready-to-use templates by Mantine, antdesign, Material UI, etc. For small projects, you almost don't need frontend chops anymore to deliver nifty looking goods
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The pendulum is swinging wide across the far-stretched expanses of the Overton window. The temperature is hot everywhere. There was an older gentleman I used to have conversations with in my teenage years when I was living in the midwest, a
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by pen2l 4y ago
I get what you're trying to say, the point I was trying to make was your mode and manner of messaging has ostensibly changed in recent time. E.g., just now way too casually you've in broad strokes implicated democrats to be behind
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Learn a polygon-modeling tool. The obvious choice is Blender, but Houdini and Cinema4d are also good alternatives if you're willing to pay up. Learn the basics, a little bit of sub-division modeling (it'll take a month of youtube
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No, he was a staunch liberal about 10'ish years ago. Often linking to NYTimes/Paul Krugman to substantiate his points, being a firm advocate for AA programs, touting city-life and public transportation when he used to live in New
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In this day and age, mobile apps are _almost_ a must so REST is everywhere. A well-implemented REST app is pretty nice, business logic divorced from all UI and API lends itself nicely as a comfortable and maintainable programming environmen
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Django is supposed to be opinionated and batteries-included, Django Software Foundation ought to shepherd some REST package. There's ninja, DRF, etc. and a few more on the horizon. I agree with the other poster, RESTful projects with v
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Location: S.F. Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Numerous, see resume Resume/CV: https://laclin.com/kiraly-resume.pdf Email: me@boldcoder.com I've worked on 100s of successful projects for
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There's nothing really vain about wanting to look good. Eat the right foods, exercise, everyone _should_ be doing the basic things that make you look good. Cosmetic industry is slated to be valued over a trillion in the next few years,
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Your site is quite nice and responsive, made me think of Stripe's interface. May I ask what frontend you've built this on? Or really any details of your process of frontend rebuild you'd like to share? The French-speaking pop
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I wonder if it’ll ever allow file uploads, à la Dropbox.
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I was fortunate enough to visit it the year before it caught on fire. It's just a cathedral, I thought, just an attraction to check off from my 'list of things to see' so I visited it on a whim really on a lazy Sunday afterno
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There’s also that when you’re kind of big, there’s a brand to be maintained and that rarely involves presenting the dissected view of your stack. In fact at some it’s readily avoided by some. I recently discovered, for example, that Django-
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> The promise is always a nonsensical "You can have anything you want from anywhere you want, faster than is reasonably possible". Importantly, this kind of infrastructure quickly leads to bottlenecks because of hot zone times.

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