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CalebJohn

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    Comment #48654703

    Looks like they are working on multi-finger swipe for the keyboard, the library seems to support it [0]. > The library also supports recognizing two-finger simultaneous swipe input…

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    Comment #47089906

    If I'm understanding the problem correctly, this should be solved by pnpm [1]. It stores packages in a global cache, and hardlinks to the local node_packages. So running install in…

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    Comment #43758827

    With that feature the external editor is launched via Joplin, so the editing is still happening in the ecosystem. You can’t just open the notes from outside Joplin.

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    Comment #42518622

    He mentions input latency[1] as one of 4 aspects of being fast that were considered during development. I’m not aware of how that was tested, but would trust that it outperforms It…

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    Comment #42353556

    I should have been more clear in my original comment. I don't think that the conflict detection/resolution needs to live inside the CRDT data structure. Ultimately you might want t…

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    Comment #42347994

    > Algorithmically, this is an interesting problem but it should be quite solvable. Just, for some reason, nobody has worked on this yet. So, thanks for writing this post and bringi…

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    Comment #37639192

    I used an 8-bit PIC micro a couple years ago for power applications (think non-IoT lighting). The specific microcontroller we used had nice peripherals for sensing, and controlling…

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    Comment #37606777

    They have a solution for that, a session link. They pass a token through a query parameter that validates to your account. You set that as the default search engine for each browse…

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    Comment #37143543

    I think this is the post you're referring to. https://tailscale.com/blog/more-throughput/

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    Comment #36899016

    Kagi uses multiple search APIs (including their own) and implements their own ranking and mixing of results. Basically you get the same results with spam removed, with some truly u…

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    Comment #36135084

    It is, the QR code spec details a few specific masks that are available. The one which produces the best QR code is chosen (best in this case means most clear/easiest for a scanner…

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    Comment #33870926

    They plan to integrate Firefox Sync with Thunderbird (android and desktop)[1] [1]: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#firefox-s...

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    Comment #33771169

    I use the below to get that behavior when working with txt files. autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPost *.txt noremap k gk autocmd BufNewFile,BufReadPost *.txt noremap j gj autocmd BufNew…

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    Comment #33760461

    Not the whitepaper, but here's some resources that I saved for myself to read that might be helpful. https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/How-does-LuaJITs-trace... http://lua-user…

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    Comment #33347396

    Out of curiosity I ran the same test on a linux laptop with the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U CPU. python 3.10: 60s python 3.11: 46s pypy 3.9.12: 6s Looks like pypy performs comparatively bett…

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    Comment #32159941

    You're not the only one, "The Lisp Curse"[1] essentially says the same thing (but spends a lot more time praising/criticizing the "lisp hacker"). > The expressive power of Lisp has…

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    Comment #25435462

    A lot of people in this thread seem to share my desire to replace some of what bash does with scripts. Which is why I wrote a utility to allow writing scripts in-between pipes [1].…

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    Comment #24500856

    Not yet, but plug-ins are on the roadmap[1] and it's my understanding that the plug-in system will be powerful enough to add support for things like backlinks. [1]: https://github.…