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aleyan

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About aleyan

I, programmer.

You can also see some of the pastels I drew and animated here: http://fooladder.com

Email me at yankov.alex at the popular electronic mail service from Google.

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    Also had this issue. I have made a meta-task runner to make discovery and running of already defined make/just/task/npm/etc task targets easier called dela[0]. The ergonomics of ru…

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    The Situational Awareness situation was the reason I wanted people to be aware of the Kelly Criterion and submitted this link.

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    There are many ways of making wigglegrams. The first method is to capture multiple horizontally displaced shots together at once. There were cameras designed for this in the 80s th…

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    "I always thought that Homejoy were planning to automate as much as possible, if not everything, related to cleaning services using robotics and stuff, and that humans were only a …

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    Comment #48231454

    Agree with you on outdated and upper bounds. However, if users are complaining about the interface being difficult, there is probably something there. Yes, it makes sense that `uv …

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    Comment #47999904

    Over on reddit and over here as well people seems to be reacting to the title of the video or the first 5 seconds or just the author. On the original x[1] post however, the top rep…

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    Comment #47717826

    OP/Author here. 1) 2008: pip, 2012: Conda, 2018: Poetry, 2021: PDM, 2023: Rye, 2024: uv. A new package manager every few years rather than every few months would be more apt. But, …

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    Yes, the angle above the horizon is usually what is most useful because it is used to find something small but visible. In the case of my ascii moon, the angle below the horizon, i…

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    Comment #47330267

    This is a fantastic discovery! Displaying azimuth in my ascii-side-of-the-moon [0] sounds useful, but then I would need to explain the symbol. I am displaying altitude/elevation be…

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    Comment #46661700

    Great work! While I was building ascii-side-of-the-moon [0][1] I briefly considered writing my own ascii renderer to capture differences in shade and shape of the Lunar Maria[2] be…

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    Comment #46176998

    I have a 24GB M5 macbook pro. In ComfyUI using default z-image workflow, generating a single image just took me 399 seconds, during which the computer froze and my airpods lost aud…

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    If you want to get a single entry point into your repo's task, also consider my tool: dela[0]. It scans a variety of task file definitions like pyproject.toml, package.json, makefi…

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    > The Khrushchev flats had communal kitchens Khrushchyovkas did not have communal kitchens; I grew up in one [0]. Perhaps you are thinking about kommunalkas [1]? [0] https://news.y…

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    Comment #45255552

    Thanks for fixing. Out of curiosity, what made you think your blog needs a warrant canary?

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    Comment #45251481

    The view warrant canaries[0] link on the bottom of the page goes to a cloudflare 502 page. Bitrot is indistinguishable from subpoena, but neither is a good indicator. [0] https://f…

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    Comment #45241745

    Oh man, this is a deep mine to dig. I haven't even thought about svg size optimization. The default blog template I used really wants me to use hero images, and the jpgs are alread…

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    I have been using SVGs for charts on my blog for a couple of months[0] now. Using SVGs satisfied me, but in all honesty, I don't think anyone else cares. For completeness the benef…

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    I have been excited about bun for about a year, and I thought that 2025 is going to be its breakout year. It is really surprising to me that it is not more popular. I scanned top 1…