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by prashnts 7y ago
Great to see that they’ve attributed Nikita Prokopov, the creator of FiraCode. While not the first, he expanded the ligatures in Hack, and Hasklig fonts and Jetbrains eventually bundled Firacode in their products. Quite a nice course of ope
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The generated blurbs/client briefs are deep linked to skillshare as well [1]. [1] https://fakeclients.com/jsarray.js
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(Not GP) I haven’t tried it myself yet but tesseract.js’s demo looks promising. https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/
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Quite often I find useful information from blogs or forum posts. I never seem to get the right keywords to find those in search results. Another super annoying thing is that “filetype:pdf” is full of spam websites with same template, such a
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by prashnts 7y ago
A tip if you're using iOS/iPadOS: In Safari, taking a screenshot now supports taking "full page shot", which you can save as a pdf. You get this option when you tap the tiny screenshot preview.
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> Very few drugs we have do anything at all but cover up the symptoms. Isn’t that akin to “Treating the symptoms”? Eg. In case of most common viral infections, you literally can’t do anything but treat the symptoms. > They prescribe t
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Thanks for this. I want to say that it’s all bad choice from Mozilla and rant, but instead I want to understand the threat model they’re considering. Extensions do get a lot of access to browser, and may also use side-channels[1] to work ar
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I got concerned for a moment that this will end up forcing all extensions to be available only from Add On store, (similar to Chrome). Thankfully it’s not that. Note that even extensions distributed outside their store need an automatic sig
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Link to the support page for key combos: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204904
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First example can be misleading. It fails to account for low-dpi displays where your nice and crisp font may render with one or two pixel width. Colors easily bleed-in in those cases.
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Note that extensions installed this way will be disabled whenever the browser is restarted. (In chrome, not in Brave based on my experience)
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I have had similar rejections because my extension was asking for “broad host permissions”, however, the “ https://*.<extension api domain>” was the only url we needed permission for, simply because that’s required for exte
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Pythonista 3 (currently on TestFlight) is another option. I like the custom keyboard shortcuts that it adds. It can also trigger shortcuts, I reckon.
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Seems like it, thanks anyway! Maybe now that there’s USBKit (although not sure if it’s MacOS only), one might be able to work out a camera driver implementation. Yay, weekend project!
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Not sure what’s the CCK. Is it one of the dongles they sell with HDMI, SD Reader, and USB? I first got excited that it can connect to USB webcams — I have some modded webcams I use as microscope — would be super useful if I could interface
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by prashnts 7y ago
Adding to the whatever list, you can also use USB Optical drives with a powered hub (just tried yesterday). It appears in Files app. Seems like they’ve finally implemented proper usb stack.
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Automation doesn’t need to be end to end. Consider a case if you need to do an aggregation with pdfs, simple script to read and pull the data points is pretty trivial. You will still need to type the results by hand in excel (for example),
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by prashnts 7y ago
Quick observation from the data presented in article (very well done, by the way): Beginning iOS 11, if I remember correctly, Apple finally added the ability to delete stock apps. Deleted apps could be downloaded from App Store later. Perha
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Looks pretty cool! I was delighted to see that the page loaded almost instantly, and the transitions, spring animations, all work super smoothly ! I’m usually frustrated with Material Design components because they « feel » slow for some re
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Off topic, but on phone the « flag » link is super tiny and close to date (permalink). I have accidentally tapped it while scrolling more often than I realise.
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~30-40 W would be my guess, given both Camera, and WiFi are active. (PiZero-W is rated 1.2A max)
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I’m patiently waiting for a Pi Zero format for new Pi 4B (or something close...). Regarding the size of B series, unless I need the ports, I almost always snip out the ports — don’t bother desoldering it, the ground plane in Pi acts as a ma
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I don’t use vim as often (~20%), so I’ve mapped caps lock to Esc, and Esc to AltGr — which doesn’t exist in EN-Int layout. The benefit is that I can assign AltGr+{1,2,3,4...} as quick contextual hotkeys without overriding any default combos
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Agree! It looks great — I assume they did it pretty much how DMD (Digital Mirror Device) chips in DLP projectors work. The mirrors already have a mechanism to track sun (mentioned in the article), and adjust the direction its reflection sho
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Adding to that, these cases are an exact fit for three raspberry pi zeros, laid flat. I made a pHAT display board with it. Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/bhnESTS
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Thanks for the pointer. I was mostly using discard material and accidentally discovered that screws can make threads (yeah, not a machinist) — otherwise I’d planned to use nuts on the other side. I might be able to find a tap at maker space
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I’ve been using old ssd cases (aluminium ones), which would otherwise end up in trash. Drill four holes, use a screw to create threads in those holes. Lay some thermal tape, and mount the pi. I haven’t seen it rise above 60degs — plus it lo
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Thanks for giving this analogy, It made more sense than my imagination above. If I understand correctly, it’s the design process, not glass, that used learning. Along the same analogy, I guess the sculpture in London (glass, here), which w
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I skimmed the paper linked there. They did use a digital model for glass-impurity substrate, to adjust the location of the impurities. This doesn’t sound much different than training with activation weight propagation — except, here one can
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Genuinely curious about the intuitive part: I found it intuitive because it’s a similar gesture in iOS (control centre). In addition, many other gestures on force touch trackpad such as peek-and-pop, are similar to iOS. I can carry my habit

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