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Over the last few months I tried to think of a clever way to set up a legacy site for a dictionary that I serve on a VM just because I also need to run sqlite. Since I want to make sure it'll run for longer than me paying for the VM this is the best possible solution. At some point no more updates will happen and it's going to be a static website. So bundling it like this is incredible. I can run multiple backups on different hosts with no additional costs.
Re:Show HN: PDFs from HTML on Sunday April 04, 2021 @05:13PM (#26692897)
I started generating PDF before pagedjs and use my own electron based solution. Search for schild.report on github to see how it works. Basically reports are created via svelte templates and then printed via the electron print api. Works extremely well.
Re:SQLite Plus: Missing SQLite functions on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:49PM (#26684604)
A libicu free Unicode extension. First time I hear about that and just yesterday I was slightly bothered by the prospect of compiling sqlite with icu again. Thank you to whoever wrote the extension, I'll try it out soon.
Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:16PM (#24632422)
My dad's German Persian dictionary is freely available on https://farhang.im with source code on https://git.hmt.im/hmt/farhang-3 I haven't yet found the ideal way to share the sqlite database file in a current state.
Re:Twitter user gets blocked for writing “die” in German on Friday November 15, 2019 @05:47PM (#21549523)
Some weeks ago we had big banners advertising 'Die great night show'. Probably wasn't as much fun as advertised
You're missing the point here. I have created an electron app that renders reports via json and svelte. They are intended for print not the web and the easiest way to get the data printed was using the browser engine which gladly outputs to PDF. However, styling these pages would be a lot easier with better page support in CSS. Or at least better support of those CSS specs. I really look forward to having these polyfills. Using paged media is in a lot of contexts easier than latex. Especially when it comes to dynamic content.
Re:Richard Sorge: The Soviet Union’s Master Spy on Monday August 19, 2019 @07:16AM (#20736773)
There's a German graphic novel called 'Die Sache mit Sorge'. Great book.
Re:Non-English-based programming languages on Sunday June 30, 2019 @05:03PM (#20320501)
I'm never able to get a function to work as I don't even know their equivalents in German.
Nice, I match ' the other people ' too
I read dentists. ..
Funny that you're asking on HN of all places. My wife has it after she had a stroke a few years back. The neurologist doesn't know what she's talking about. For her exercising helps and is the only cure. During the summer some time ont the trampoline will do too but that's basically exercise when done right. So she spends time at the gym like five days a week. It's time consuming and extremely annoying to her but it works. Skipping the gym is a waste of time for her because then she can't get things done. I'm glad you asked. Apparently 'brain fog' is a common term.
See Jeremy Evans' talk on github. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rm7wLNmsco
Re:Ruby 2.6 on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:51PM (#18753605)
Aren't they like arrow functions in JavaScript?
Re:Show HN: Sciter and Node.js versus Electron on Monday December 24, 2018 @05:40AM (#18751504)
I need to run a vue app that can load an external file into its own frame and print that to PDF. Can sciter do that? Right now I'm using a webview in electron which lets me print just that webview to PDF.
Re:Electron 4.0.0 on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:18PM (#18736736)
It does kinda support Pdf out of the box but is currently broken. there's an open issue. The last working version with a PDF viewer is 2.x.
I have been for.the past five or.so years. I hop on.and.off withoit much thinking. It just works whether im on or offline
Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE on Friday November 02, 2018 @06:12PM (#18367174)
Same with my GNOME 3. All I ever see is the gdm login screen.
Re:Sales mistakes that software engineers make on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:36PM (#18357628)
I am poor therefore I write my own software.
Re:How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:53PM (#18286291)
you're right and it tends to become more and more like that. On the other hand they are so simple you can pretty much pick up any song after the first couple of lines.
Re:How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:50PM (#18286274)
In Germany we have Albert Frey, a Catholic singer and songwriter. I didn't know for years that he was Catholic since he is a major source of worship songs in evangelical churches and beyond.
Re:Where Ruby/Sinatra falls short on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:27PM (#18221684)
For years I have never looked back. If I had a project that outgrew its purpose I wrote it again, and dropped half of its functionality without looking back.
Re:Where Ruby/Sinatra falls short on Monday October 15, 2018 @12:23PM (#18221072)
The application is not the server.
Re:Where Ruby/Sinatra falls short on Monday October 15, 2018 @12:19PM (#18221025)
Why then don't you use the classic style without any initialization?
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic on Sunday September 30, 2018 @06:53AM (#18105632)
I'd use it daily if there wasn't such a lag after each query. Google works instantly ddg takes about 2 seconds to return results
Re:Ask HN: How do I become less arrogant? on Sunday September 23, 2018 @08:05AM (#18050700)
Read biographies. So much to learn from other people who lead a humble life.
Re:Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks on Monday September 17, 2018 @03:25PM (#18009132)
Thank you very much. It's a delightful experience I have on all my machines.
What about nextcloudd's office solution? I'm interested too. Thinking about giving it a try for our school network which already runs its own nextcloud instance.
Re:The Bielefeld Conspiracy on Sunday August 12, 2018 @01:59PM (#17745495)
Hi there. Same here.