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Re:I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too on Saturday January 18, 2025 @07:46AM (#42747941)
I recently had the need to subscribe to changes to a Github repo and it turns out it provides a feed for them. For rust master branch, for example, subscribe to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/master.atom.
Re:LineageOS 22 Released on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:56AM (#42558719)
Whatsapp works even if you choose not to install Google Services. You can download the apk directly from https://www.whatsapp.com/download.
"about" didn't work for me but "help" did.
Re:Welcome to Ladybird on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:26AM (#40846708)
Isn't it possible to write memory-safe code in modern C++?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:18AM (#40597710)
Who says they don't?

Edit: never mind, just noticed it.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:44PM (#40564486)
Is this "US timezones" or "US only"?
Re:LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:46AM (#39273612)
Installing LineageOS does not imply losing access to Google services and the Play Store.
Re:Turing Complete is a game about computer science on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:12PM (#38930546)
Not in GOG, for some reason.
You should interview her!
Re:Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:54PM (#37693174)
QtWebKit is not recommended but it is still available if you want it: https://qutebrowser.org/doc/help/settings.html#backend. There is a ticket to remove it completely which is now targeted for V4 (https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4039) but, in reality, you could still use it.
Re:I Use Cheap Notebooks on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:44PM (#35099006)
Re:We need a textodon (text-only Fediverse hub) on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:15PM (#34808123)
It should be possible to build a mastodon server that provides a gemini interface.
Re:DBpedia Ontology on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:13PM (#34084249)
I would say they are useful, specially against a relational database, when you have a ever-growing or dynamic amount of different entity types that are all related between each other. With a knowledge graph you only don't need to create new tables every time you define new entity types, you also can give semantic meaning to the relationships between them.
Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a Mile on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:26PM (#33628008)
Offtopic: I'm seeing a trend of titles that, as a non native English speaker, always confuse me and take me a good couple of seconds to finally understand. This is one of them. It's like they use a comma where I would expect an "and" to be. I wish I had more examples to show, but I have seen a lot here in HN. Is this some new editorial style or was this always used?
Re:Explaining Code Using ASCII Art on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:09PM (#31897521)
Good stuff. I wonder if there's a way to "detect" ASCII art automatically by crawling open source repositories.
Re:Goodbye Zachtronics on Friday June 24, 2022 @03:17PM (#31867998)
Oh I'm definitely copying this idea!
Re:Robocode Tank Royale on Sunday June 05, 2022 @07:15PM (#31635730)
It's not clear from the website's home page what is the difference with the original version hosted at sourceforge. This page explains it: https://robocode-dev.github.io/tank-royale/articles/tank-roy...
Re:LineageOS 19 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:51PM (#31170735)
Good tip. My device doesn't have any official build newer than 17.1 so I may need to start building my own images.
Re:Ask HN: Do you contribute to open source projects? on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @10:03AM (#30766197)
My motivation has usually been to add features/fixes that *I* would consider useful for my particular use cases, and most times it's for software I use in my personal time or personal projects.

Expecting to get paid for your first contributions to open source sounds, to me, like the wrong motivation.

I have the exact same one. Here's the film that works with it https://us.polaroid.com/collections/film-for-polaroid-600-ca....
Write a CHIP-8 emulator. I followed this [1] language-agnostic guide. It covers all the details and oddities without actually giving you the code, so you still need to make the effort to get the result.

[1] https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/

Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @04:36PM (#28609601)
> I don't really know, but since there are no manufacturers that built good TrackPoints I think its either hard or there really is no demand (sadly more likely).

Those are good points. I'm thinking there could be patents involved too.

> I don't need a touchpad though. Actually, one of the best laptops I've owned was one without a touchpad [1].

That's true! I don't really use the touchpad on my X230, even though it's there.

Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @02:54PM (#28608454)
What would be the requirement for someone to build a trackpoint for the Framework laptop? Would they need to design a whole new keyboard plus a touchpad with the three buttons?
Re:Time to retire the CSV? on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:07PM (#28226407)
Interesting. I don't know of any similar option in Python's json module, which is the one that I mostly use, but good to know this exists.
Re:Time to retire the CSV? on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:14PM (#28225044)
Parsing a CSV can be done in a line-per-line basis, while a an array of arrays in JSON is not valid until you reach the end.

How would any existing JSON parser handle 75GB of data in a single array of arrays?

Re:Public Suffix List on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:06PM (#27862810)
Got it, thanks for the thorough response.

I guess that, regardless of this, there is still an ownership difference between the multiple levels in your example, and the ownership difference between a TLD and a SLD. In your example, nsw.gov.au controls the TLD and they could register dept2.nsw.gov.au without asking anyone else, they could even register a.b.c.d.dept2.nsw.gov.au, but they can't register nsw2.gov.au. I assume that's why the PSL is still useful for some use cases, but I agree this one is definitely not one.

Re:Public Suffix List on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:14AM (#27855467)
I'm having trouble understanding your example. Who is the correct owner of dev.app.org.dept.nsw.gov.au and how does Let's Encrypt get it without the use of such list?
Re:Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:39PM (#27223456)
Interesting. Do you have that work available anywhere?

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