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github.com 3mo ago

OpenAI Codex Compaction Failing

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www.bridgetownrb.com 4y ago

Bridgetown - progressive site generator and framework, powered by Ruby

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How do you manage multilingual Slack workspaces?

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twitter.com 6y ago

GitHub Mobile Apps Generally Available Now

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github.com 6y ago

Hacktoberfest Is Now Open Source

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github.com 6y ago

Starship – Minimal cross-platform shell prompt

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github.com 7y ago

Sorbet Is Now Open Source – Ruby Static Typing from Stripe

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dev.to 7y ago

Engineering Management: An Overview

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speech2face.github.io 7y ago

Speech2Face: Learn the Face Behind a Voice

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medium.com 7y ago

The Infrastructure Behind HungerStation – Part 1: CI/CD

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github.com 7y ago

ZetaSQL – A SQL Analyzer Framework from Google

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github.com 7y ago

Are-you-es5 – Find out which node_modules you need to transpile

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Uber driven out of Barcelona again

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Instagram caught selling ads to follower-buying services it banned

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Facebook says it will invest $300M in local news

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: What's the easiest way to cross-post to Medium, Ghost, and Dev.to?

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github.com 7y ago

My Android

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medium.com 7y ago

Lessons Learned from a Year of Fighting with Webpack and Babel

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github.com 7y ago

Webpack 5 Changelog

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

5 unicorns that will probably go public in 2019 (besides Uber and Lyft)

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medium.com 7y ago

A Quick Dive into GraphQL, Part 1: Consuming a GraphQL API

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twitter.com 7y ago

GitHub Changes Contribution Chart Colors for Halloween

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Zuckerberg gets joint summons from UK and Canadian parliaments

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medium.com 7y ago

What Truly Makes a Senior Developer

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github.com 7y ago

My macOS Setup

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Snap's Chief Strategy Officer is leaving to start his own investment firm

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english.alarabiya.net 7y ago

Hajj Hackathon Breaks World Record for Number of Participants (2018)

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github.com 8y ago

WhaleTail, reverse engineering Docker images into Dockerfiles

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blog.github.com 8y ago

Developers can now upload apps to the GitHub Marketplace for free

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I tried it with their examples, trying to isolate speech only or background music only, but it seems to produce audio that is near identical to the original.

For me, I recently got into drinking Yerba Mate (unsmoked, traditional way) and it's made me able to stay productive even in bad days.

Not really a technique, but something that worked for me.

EDIT: This is for when I'm feeling unproductive/down, not when I am feeling ill. The best thing for illness is rest and the right meds and nutrition.

Yeah browsers are much better at this but there's still a lot of places where it's problematic (e.g. Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, etc.)

In terms of text editing no not really, most folks I know are either using Word, Pages, or Google Docs.

Usually the caret going the opposite direction is because of bidi characters. It would behave properly if you used Eastern Arabic / Indo-Arabic numerals, e.g. ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ because those count as RTL.

If you need to have on line that has both RTL, bidi, and LTR, that's when I find everything goes to hell no matter what software I am using.

I'm bilingual and frequently use English and Arabic together.

What I'm used to is that the caret is unchanged.

The best setup I've seen out there is web browsers with dir set to auto and using properties like padding-start instead of padding-left.

If I start a block with an LTR character the content is automatically left-aligned and vice versa.

The annoying issue comes up when you have bidi characters in the middle of RTL (e.g. Comma or exclamation mark), all tools I've currently seen just break, I have no idea where the cursor is, or where it will move to when I press my arrow keys. I would prefer that bidi characters are treated the same way as the paragraph or block they're in.

I wrote an article a while back with some GIFs that showcases these difficulties:

https://blog.prototypr.io/the-case-of-the-jumping-dot-17f97a...

I've not found any software that gets it all right when it comes to mixed direction content, but for RTL-only then most of the popular word processors (e.g. Google Docs) are quite good with some tweaking.

Happy to chat more on this.

Meta Quest Pro 4 years ago

I wonder if they managed to solve the text blurriness issues. On my Quest 2 I tried using Immersed, Virtual Desktop, and other software to create virtual monitors in VR.

Text was always very blurry no matter how much I played with resolution, monitor sizes, or distances. Images and video always looked great but for reading text it was completely unusable.

For $1500 coupled with them marketing it for work, I would hope they've solved this issue.

Where I live, everything is based around WhatsApp. If you want to receive a package from Amazon/FedEx/DHL/UPS, etc. The shipment will only be delivered to the location you share with the courier on WhatsApp, if you're not on WhatsApp you can't even receive packages. There are so many other things like this that are happening only on WhatsApp, and if you're not on it you won't even be able to use basic services.

Dev Fonts 6 years ago

I use Pragmata Pro because it supports monospaced Arabic text very well and I frequently have to work with Arabic. I've never seen a font that supports monospaced Arabic before.

This looks like a pretty awesome library and very well-written and documented library. I'll definitely try it out in some of my Ruby projects and I would love to see an adapter for Faraday.

Kudos to the author(s).

The many failures (keyboard, screen, random freezes that need a hard shutdown) forced me to also switch to an XPS 13 on Kubuntu. I wish Apple would make a good Macbook again.

For me, VPS hosts with data centers near me isn't a thing, but CloudFlare has edge locations near me.