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New comment by bionoid in "IMG_0416"

bionoid — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:44:49 +0000

I use Video Background Play Fix [1] (along with uBlock of course). "Firefox for Android can continue playing video even if you switch to another tab or app. However, sites can detect these user actions with the Page Visibility API and the Fullscreen API. This add-on is designed to block events and properties exposed by the APIs."

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play

New comment by bionoid in "Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic"

bionoid — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:20:37 +0000

I'm not sure if I picked it up from a documentary or book, but worth noting that the photographer Frank Hurley dived into the ice water and chopped through a wood wall to rescue the glass plate negatives from the sinking ship. I'm not sure what the best source for this is, but it's at least mentioned in [0]

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackletonexped/images.html

New comment by bionoid in "Show HN: No-code alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Internal, etc."

bionoid — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:15:57 +0000

I didn't get past the pricing page to be honest. Podio costs $20/seat for premium, your product costs $48 for pro (with enterprise price not even listed)

New comment by bionoid in "Tuxedo Stellaris: A Powerful Linux Laptop"

bionoid — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:59:27 +0000

> 1080p at 240hz with a fancy graphics card

On manufacturer's website [0], both the 15" and 17" Stellaris are listed with WQHD IPS-Panel (2560 x 1440 pixels) - I was looking at them just a few days ago.. The article lists 1080p as option, but it's not possible to order.

[0] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com

New comment by bionoid in "Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code"

bionoid — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:24:45 +0000

I have seen it a lot of code over the years, sometimes referred to as "shorthand ternary" or the "and-or-trick". In Python and/or do not return a boolean, but one of its input arguments. So I am going to say it is official syntax, but I don't know to what extent it's encouraged

New comment by bionoid in "Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code"

bionoid — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:36:40 +0000

Python also has "shorthand ternary" which uses and/or:

    a = bar and foo # "or None" is implied
    b = bar and foo or baz

It does almost the same but not quite. In the latter example, if foo is falsey, it evaluates to "b = baz":

    b = bar ? (foo ? foo : baz) : baz

New comment by bionoid in "The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate"

bionoid — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 06:15:47 +0000

I cut my teeth on Perl back in the day, and while I have stopped using it completely by now, I am no hater. But this article does not contain the word "bless", and I wonder why it was left out. If I had to guess, it's not as easy to defend as the nice features.

New comment by bionoid in "$1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)"

bionoid — Wed, 05 May 2021 10:29:48 +0000

In case anyone is interested, the $N-Protractor algorithm was ported to Python for use in the Kivy framework [0]. Unfortunately it's tied to kivy's clock among other things, but easy to rip it out should you need it in a different context. There is also anexample application that can be used to create gesture templates [1]

[0] https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/master/kivy/multistroke.py

[1] https://github.com/kivy/kivy/tree/master/examples/demo/multi...

New comment by bionoid in "$1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)"

bionoid — Wed, 05 May 2021 10:24:46 +0000

My interpretation is $1 reads as "unistroke"/"singlestroke" while $N = "multistroke"

New comment by bionoid in "SQLite is not a toy database"

bionoid — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:22:58 +0000

The FAQ suggests that NFS is problematic for concurrent access:

> But use caution: this locking mechanism might not work correctly if the database file is kept on an NFS filesystem. This is because fcntl() file locking is broken on many NFS implementations. You should avoid putting SQLite database files on NFS if multiple processes might try to access the file at the same time.

https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q5

New comment by bionoid in "WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days"

bionoid — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:33:55 +0000

The subreddit is /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza and still in operation. /r/RandomActsOfPizza was a copycat started with the explicit purpose of bartering nudes for pizza (forbidden in the original). It was later shut down when it turned out it was run by a scammer.

New comment by bionoid in "GitHub, fuck your name change"

bionoid — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:54:16 +0000

"Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment" - it was candidly named, if nothing else.

> Indeed, Goebbels initially opposed the term propaganda, recognizing that in popular usage, both in Germany and abroad, it was associated with lies. Even after the ministry had been in existence for a year, he proposed changing its name to Ministry of Culture and Public Enlightenment, but Hitler vetoed this proposal.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ministry-o...

New comment by bionoid in "Show HN: Postmodern. – Ephemeral, one-on-one, anonymous conversations"

bionoid — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:01:55 +0000

I like the idea and the execution, nice job!

New comment by bionoid in "I am an 80 column purist"

bionoid — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:22:24 +0000

> Nobody's speed-reading code. That doesn't make sense.

Well, I speed-read code all the time.. it's a necessity in my role as independent consultant. Clients have a lot of half-baked/unfinished projects, and I'm called in to get it progressing. Speed-reading enables me to assess the state of the existing code and suggest a way to move forward, without breaking the bank up front.

That said, for me column width is irrelevant for speed-reading. The typical time-killer is lacking separation of concerns and poor naming conventions (God classes, or worse, God files with 20 classes)

New comment by bionoid in "Yahoo Groups is closing down"

bionoid — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:03:13 +0000

There was a lot of issues with the "new" Yahoo Groups web frontend. A feedback system was set up, but virtually all the reports were ignored. They removed it altogether at some point, so you couldn't even see reports or vote counts. It became infuriating to use; at first it was basically useless, the most critical issues were (slowly) fixed. But search and pagination was significantly worse than before, and it truncated all subjects, even if they would fit perfectly fine in view. The post overview literally looked like "Can you ....", "Question about ....", "Processor is ....". Putting on the tinfoil hat, it almost seems like they wanted it to die, leaving this issue unfixed..

The (one) group I followed basically disbanded in the year following the "new" launch. I think it's about a year ago they officially closed it down, activity moved to a Facebook group and a subreddit. It's a pity really, I miss the mailing list architecture.

New comment by bionoid in "Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable"

bionoid — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:53:30 +0000

I assume that's total, including apps? Or are you saying that between old, mobile web and new, 75% of hits are from new? If so that's quite different from my traffic stats, copying a comment from older thread:

According to my traffic stats (moderating ~400k subscribers), old + mobile web frontends make up about twice the traffic of new frontend. Apps are by far the most popular, about ~3x of all web frontends combined.

New comment by bionoid in "Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr"

bionoid — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 07:24:09 +0000

> The question is whether or not the abuses that might occur as the result of analyzing publicly available information are worse than the harms that might come from not doing so.

How many criminals announce their plans on Twitter in a way that law enforcement can use to prevent a crime? From my perspective, it seems like the potential for crime prevention is small compared to the potential for abuse.

New comment by bionoid in "XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint"

bionoid — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:50:04 +0000

Nice work! Please add a LICENSE file

New comment by bionoid in "Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting"

bionoid — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 08:36:06 +0000

> I'm actually amazed that they still bother to maintain this legacy versions.

I do not know a single person that moderates a 100k+ subreddit using the redesign, everyone still seems to be using old + modtools + enhancement suite. Personally, I believe this is the only reason they didn't kill it already.

Edit to add: The new frontend is the default for logged-out users, and it still makes up half of old. If that isn't a failed redesign project, I don't know what is.

New comment by bionoid in "Python 2 Is Dead"

bionoid — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 22:22:04 +0000

I came across Tauthon [0] a while back, it seems quite active. I have a codebase that has proven difficult to port, so this is the backup plan.. "Tauthon is a backwards-compatible fork of the Python 2.7.18 interpreter with new syntax, builtins, and libraries backported from Python 3.x. [...]"

[0] https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon