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vishnuharidas

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About vishnuharidas

Yet another techie. Writing at iamvishnu.com

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    Exactly what I came here to say. A robot doesn't have to look like a human. Just a few arms that does the job neatly is more than enough.

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    Comment #48940538

    + Also a few diagrams showing the end-to-end data flow and where all these tools fit in.

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    Comment #48162430

    And here's a UTF-8 Playground: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app

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    Comment #47723328

    This took me down the nostalgic memory lane of the planet-source-code days. There were hundreds of such projects in Visual Basic, Delphi, C/C++/MFC etc., and text editors and paint…

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    Comment #47605966

    Also: UTF-8 Playground: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app

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    Comment #47431734

    Okay, I am NEVER letting an agent make payment autonomously. If there's a payment that has to be made, tell me, I will do that myself.

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    Comment #47416430

    A screenshot is the bare minimum for such things.

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    Comment #47346940

    Nothing can't be first-class as long as it is not *directly* replacing the existing first-class citizens. If Wasm modules can be loaded like this: ...and if Wasm could access the D…

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    Comment #47330508

    “RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW”: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app/237C

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    Comment #47259460

    There were many study materials that were made in Flash that came back alive with the help of Ruffle. Here's my fav list: https://astro.unl.edu/animationsLinks.html

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    Comment #46684905

    A screenshot is the bare minimum for things like this.

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    Comment #46622809

    https://iamvishnu.com - my personal website/blog running on April⋅SSG, a simple SSG I made for this.

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    Comment #46580027

    I mistakenly mixed up the abbreviations - it is "Right Hand Traffic"/RHT (which is "Left Hand Driving"/LHD). Like you said, I enjoy LHD more where I can use my right hand for every…

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    Comment #46569023

    I've driven both. Drove LHD for more than a decade in India. Now driving in RHD country for 2y now. Personally, I enjoy RHD more because I am right-handed and I get to do things ea…

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    Comment #46560255

    Coincidentally, I was vibe-coding a doom-scroller for Hacker News Top Stories today: https://vishnuharidas.github.io/hn-reels/

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    Comment #46517031

    Washing machines next. A total stupid idea to put capacitive touch on it. Just lean over the counter and it simply resets the wash program to re-run the past 3 hours of progress. C…

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    A tiny browser-console script for Hacker News that displays each comment's indentation level directly inside the comment cell. Reason: I lost track of what I am reading on this thr…