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I was looking at South Africa's biggest annual developer survey today, and lo and behold some are using it for coding work.
I would assume it's people who pay for Twitter pro or whatever it's called getting Grok as part of the bundle and not wanting to sign up for another subscription.
Although I think "pure" is alright to use in this context, I would probably have gone with "beautifully simple".
Posted by
parabyl on Thursday April 11, 2024 @07:19PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/knightspore/xml-trap
I had some fun a while back writing this XML parser in Typescript, after taking interest in tokenisation and compilers.You can try it out in your own Javascript projects with a simple `npm install xml-trap` and you're good to go! The tokenizer used internally is also exposed (with `createTree`) for anyone to explore and have fun with.Contributions are welcome!
Posted by
parabyl on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:18PM
from the microsoft.com dept.
I'm from SA and I knew about IBM and the Holocaust, but not Apartheid. Thanks for putting me onto that.
I heard a very small one somewhere that really isn't meant to get them, through a TV show in earbuds. Perhaps the volume has something to do with what's happening beneath the surface vs magnitude? In our case, as far as I know, the epicentre was a ~5h drive away (and out at sea), but it sounded about the same as loud subs at a concert to me.
Blanking on a source right now, but I recall reading about a study on the 'oldness' of languages and found that the unique sort of phonetics in !Kung and other Khoe or San languages appeared to reduce over time, and simpler hard consonants would emerge in their place - implying that they are indeed some of the oldest languages still around.
Interstingly, there are a number of words from these languages that are still widely used in South African slang: Dagga for Marijuana, Eina for "Ouch!", Gogga for Bug or Insect, and Kerrie for Stick, usually used as the neologism Knobkerrie. Very possibly some of the oldest slang in the world!
Spent a few months writing a pretty hefty Cqrs app in Go last year, had a fun but pretty unintuitive experience with rustlingss, and V really does seem like a cool in between! I look forward to taking it for a spin
Super cool! Fun, useful and slightly cursed indeed
I had always assumed it was due to Brendan Eich being the face of the project. Or the built-in adblocking. It's my preference for these reasons as a chromium default - I don't know anyone using Brave who touches the crypto stuff.
maybe give it another shot? I wasn't able to replicate the issue but haven't seen anyone else have it
yeah this is what I was referring to, thanks
This is very cool, hadn't heard of it before. Thanks.
Glad you're enjoying it, always open to nitpicky feedback. I'll put all of these suggestions on the backlog and see how they play together - thanks!
Thank you! That's super cool - I'm not nearly as familiar with data science as it sounds you are, I've just made some choice placements in building a UI around the Spotify API. They're hiding the nuts and bolts of turning a set of music feature parameters into a list of recommendations.
If I understand correctly, what I'm getting back from their API is basically what lies between, but without any of the interesting data they're using the do the calculation. One can hope, but I'd imagine that data is priceless to them and won't ever be available to us.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Sign-in and saving to a profile was the most requested feature across the board when I previously launched Selecta, and as such it needs access to enable features that were requested by those who enjoyed using it.
I'd be more than happy to share what each of those datapoints is used for (and, in some cases where I only need an auth scope for one permission, but they're grouped together). Selecta is strictly open-source and anonymous analytics.
You can find the auth scopes I use in this file:
https://github.com/knightspore/selecta/blob/main/src/app/api...
and the related access they provide here:
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts...
If you still want to give it a shot, you shouldn't need an active subscription for it to work. But I do totally get moving away from the streaming world. Even bandcamp is losing its ground as a safe a haven for making sure artists are paid their worth.
Thanks for giving it a try - I'll take a shot at that one.
They really can be terrible sometimes. I loved last.fm too - still sporadically scrobbling at
https://www.last.fm/user/Knightspore. But today my profile mostly serves as a record of music I had come across more 'organically' prior to mainly consuming via streaming services.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it :)
Posted by
parabyl on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:42AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://selecta.ciaran.co.za/
I posted here a while back with this app I'd been working on. In short:It allows you to talk to Spotify's recommendations API to specify musical features you'd like recommendations similar to.It's loads of fun to mess around with, and I've given it an overhaul to include many more dimensions ito. musical features, as well as the ability to log in with Spotify, and save things you find to a...
I don't think a brand change can make anything better or worse. It's just a lick of paint. Sure, the changes that come along with a brand change may change things for the better - but I'm sure we can all agree with that involving
actualy changes to the product, aside from literal branding-only (and not even all of it).
Why not? Maybe, just maybe, if you're re-launching a brand it's best to do so when there's actually something to change aside from (one of the) logos and (one of the) copyright marks. It's like if Reddit bought HN, said "We're going to change this into a platform similar to Reddit", and simply changed the logo from Y -> Snoo without any of the other changes or promised features ready to go.
While the change isn't set-in-stone BAD for users, I don't see how it's good or useful at all conversely.
How exactly does changing a logo (in one, messy looking place not to mention - not anywhere else yet) lead even in the slightest to "making twitter better than he found it"?
If your idea is truly something that could have such big effects, I'd say the ethical thing to do would be to document and share it widely, so that any individuals from cartels to lawmakers, agencies, drug research centre's etc. could do as they wish with the data. Again, if it's that revolutionary then it's very likely this open sharing will see it taking off. Not to mention that it's morally questionable to keep such a potentially beneficial harm reduction technique to oneself.
Yeah I suppose that's the exact point I try to make in the article - tailwind isn't promising to make you skilled or a good designer (neither is css). It's simply offering a simpler way to work with componentized css
Posted by
parabyl on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:12PM
from the ciaran.co.za dept.
Proton is really quite incredible as a compatibility layer, I've not seen any performance drops (if anything, only small performance gains, which I assume is due to fewer background processes in the OS), but most incredible is the frequency with which Proton is updated and worked on.
I'd tried gaming on linux before and gave up after a week or two of configuration attempts. I had put it off for ages and tried with proton on a dual boot system earlier this year, and instantly had access to everything installed on windows. It also means I can actually recommend linux to people with older machines trying to squeeze a little extra out of their lifespan, without having to tell them it's an uphill battle to get gaming working as expected.