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It seems worrisome that front end frameworks needs to be changed after just two years of use. Glad I'm not working with front end...

Sounds similar to https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

Oh yea I meant they go back to the pool and a refund is issued. This is of course utopic. Just a dreaming about what the most customer friendly and fair system might look like. Will probably never be …

Or how about a lottery system. You get an email if you win the privilege of buying a tickets. Tickets are named and require ID check, to prevent scalpers. If you are unable to go, your ticket just goe…

That is almost like reinventing something like Roman numerals :-) Maybe better to stick with 1e48 notation after all.

Sort of like how UK and EU citizens have to pay $21 for an ESTA when traveling to USA? Surprising that the article doesn't mention that.

Images are often blocked on the free WhatsApp on airplanes

> A VR headset would have to be sunglasses size We're getting very close with products like Nreal Air.

tldr: pip install lama-cleaner lama-cleaner --model=lama --device=cpu --port=8080

Maybe we need to unbundle the phone again. Maybe "a widescreen iPod with touch controls; a revolutionary mobile phone; and a breakthrough Internet communications device" isn't what we n…

Yea my first impression when reading the landing page was also that this is exactly a Black Mirror episode: "The Entire History of You": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt208…

Cool idea with the ethernet gadget. If I understood it right, the RPI acts as a virtual ethernet adapter over USB.

Totally agree. A daily log in a simple text file is super useful for perf review etc., but even just to remind myself that my day wasn't wasted. I use a little script I wrote that, once per hour,…

I like Gocryptfs. Easy to see and reason about that it is working.

NReal looks very interesting. Just ordered one.

I've been a fan of SimulaVR for a while, but this sour attitude, trying to put Quest down by giving arguments for how superior SimulaVR is, is low.

For context, Kleppmann is the author of the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA). https://dataintensive.net/ …

Refreshingly simple. I'm so tired of JS bloat.

Also a great description of how Linux binaries with dynamic library dependencies work.

Use a separate email alias for everything you sign up for. I think Apple has something like this in their "sign in with Apple" product. Or it might be called "Hide My Email". Haven…

I used iPhone 2008-2012, Windows Phone 2012-2015, Android 2015-2022, and then recently bought an iPhone again to see what it's like these days. I was baffled by how unintuitive it has become. So …

Talon was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this news. Would be nice if it could benefit from Whisper. (Big fan of your work on Talon!)

Love how this person's blog itself consist of single HTTP requests per page load. No extra css, images, scripts, or anything! This blogger cares about web perf!

Somewhat related: using the good old technology of sails is another way of reducing emissions from shipping: https://www.fastcompany.com/90567832/this-cargo-ship-cuts-em... …

Frugal streaming. For estimating a median or percentile in a stream, using constant memory. It's very simple: if the current value is higher than our estimate, then increase our estimate by one. …

Nice! Will try FLTK for my next GUI project.

I like Qt too, but when it comes to packaging size, I seem to remember it was a pretty big chunk. 20 or 50 MB or something? I therefore chose wxWidgets over it, for a recent project.