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taroth

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About taroth

https://www.andrew.zone/

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    I’m building technographics for desktop apps at https://DesktopInsights.com (similar to BuiltWith.com) Just crossed 15k Mac and windows apps analyzed!

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    https://andrew.zone

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    Comment #45380734

    One-liner for electron developers to fix the issue: browserwindow.setHasShadow(false)

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    Comment #45380722

    One-liner for electron developers to fix the issue: `browserwindow.setHasShadow(false)`

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    Comment #44120552

    Here's a great comparison, updated two weeks ago. https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso... Electron comes out looking competitive at runtime! IMO people over…

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    Excited for this!

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    I get background anxiety while waiting for long-running terminal commands. Nowadays that nagging feeling extends to LLM calls too. Seems like as AI spreads, the pain will only get …

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    Yup that could help, although if the key content is behind the window, clicks would bug out. I'm writing a PR to hide the window for now as a simple solution. More graceful solutio…

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    Gave it a new challenge of > add new mens socks to my amazon shopping cart Which it did! It chose the option with the best reviews. However again the Agent.exe window was covering …

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    The safety rails are indeed enforced. I asked it to send a message on Discord to a friend and got this error: > I apologize, but I cannot directly message or send communications on…

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    Comment #41927861

    Great idea Kyle! I read through the source code as an experienced desktop automation/Electron developer and felt good about trying it for some basic tasks. The implementation is a …

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    Comment #37038464

    My uncle had ALS and was slowly losing his ability to speak. I visited and in order to hear him, we had to gather around him closely. It was very fatiguing for him to project his v…

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    Up-to-date reviews of keyboard latency: https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/tests/latency The Corsair K65 achieved the fastest latency of 0.1ms. By comparison the Apple Magic Keyboard …

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    I’ve found good use of Polymail and pay $20/m for team pro. It’s a love-hate relationship though due to small but disruptive UX patterns. Some examples: The MacOS app does not foll…

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    Shameless plug: https://hyperdash.io I got tired of maintaining one-off scripts to do recording, so I started working with friends on a dedicated solution. Today it lets you stream…

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    The trouble is that it's hard to predict an agent massively more intelligent than ourselves. But let me enumerate a few given properties you gave to the super-intelligent AI (SI) i…

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    Precision landings http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/7949/why-does-the-s...

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    I think the point the above posters were making is that people will continue to create for fun, even if machines are better at it.