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Fixed a bug on how the browser wasn't closing TCP connections/Motion JPEG video streams properly in a responsive behavior. Took me about 3+ hours reading through various specs and …

There was one in an article on hackaday[0], also featured here[1]. [0]: https://hackaday.com/2023/08/16/new-motherboard-improves-old... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37…

I think it should be "The art of buying single-board computers and never running them once". I think the "once" is needed in the case of computers. They are as machines not directl…

> If you had a list of all the genomes of all the people in the world, and all their phenotypes (height, eye color, hair type, etc), you could take all their genomes as input varia…

I'm honestly a bit confused by this statement, as "React env variables" can mean various things, depending on your setup. Backend and frontend can be separate runtimes... The backe…

> HTML/CSS/JS are successful because of the same reason electron exists. The success of the web means there’s a huge developer base that knows how to work with HTML/CSS/JS The actu…

Correction: you cannot get fired ("Entlassung") without any reason in Austria, you need rather strong reasons to fire somebody[0], but your employment contract can be terminated wi…

Had those in heavy use during my work on a surface grinder[0], I can remember it had an ancient digital interface with 0.0001mm precision. We used the blocks to calibrate our measu…

https://blog.whilenot.dev I should write more.

Maybe a link to the project would be better: https://github.com/sansyrox/robyn

> [...], written in TypeScript and accelerated with C++ bindings to BLAS and LAPACK C++ addons for Node.js are not part of the JavaScript runtime.

The level of noise is the predominant parameter in my selection for a living place. I always consult the noise map[0] before moving anywhere in Vienna/AT. I hope other governments …

> my gut is screaming no seems like you already made up your mind, so why bother? TypeScript is helpful (or at least meant to be) for teams as it aims to block the cleverness of it…

To add to this, for me personally the difficult part in automated test isn't the definition of expected output, but the retrieval of actual output in an automated way. Test framewo…

just patch inputs and outputs to audacity (or your recording software of choice). for pipewire theres helvum[0] or qpwgraph[1]. for JACK there's Catia[2]. [0]: https://gitlab.freed…

i think > language enables intelligence was just a poor choice of words here. i understood GP as "the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and t…

there's the repository with examples: https://github.com/ory/examples

> "now you have two problems" Interesting take. I always look at it like "now you have a better solution for your modeling needs".

You're question seems more on the side of "Why use a micro framework when you can use a mature full-fledged one?". I feel a lot if new ideas in the web development space are first …

Maybe I understand it wrong, but I can't agree with this analogy as is... An organized home means to do things right away. If the laundry is done and dried, then I'll put them away…

As much as I like some historical reference like the next person, I think this discussion here takes a wrong turn through comments like these, sarcastic or not. I think OP is free …

> Can you give some specifics about what that means in your case? react-query has a default behavior to cancel a fetch when the component unmounts (AFAIK), eg. the user changes to …

there goes my evening, that's what I like about HN. thanks for the refs!

I didn't lay out a bait =) It would also look more readable to me with a default return value. An exhaustiveness check just keeps your mapping functionally pure and the type checke…