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use-browser would be an amazing name too!

given that they are not very partical, how do you make sure to retain what you read? do you take notes?

(asking as someone who only recently started reading cs-related literature)

this is really interesting

but as much as i want to agree with the author’s stance:

> [..] no matter how hard these companies try to sell us on AGI or “research” models, you can just laugh until you cry that they really thought they could steal from the well of knowledge and turn around and sell it back to us through SaaS

i feel like at the end, these companies will still win

That's right. The whole thing is open source -- just, since it's hard to make any money from open source, they made the online editor (which is pretty good BTW)

Yup. I use both LaTeX and Typst (although I prefer Typst when possible) and I haven't used anything other than tectonic for the past few years. It simply has everything you need included, and is pretty darn fast too.

I love how I just downloaded this, and had the wireframe of my app's main screen built within 3 minutes of me knowing about this piece of software

To the people worried about their data being sent to google or whatever (I'm not sure what they're actually worried about) -- the extraction of your eyes is done client side, using a seemingly very well made ML model running on Tensorflow which fits in under 15mb.

The feed of your camera is transmitted "directly" to the person you're looking at (well, no, not really directly, it uses WebRTC, so your data passes through Neal's TURN server, but do you really think Neal wants to take care of properly storing your data and handing it off to advertisers?)

I really wouldn't suggest the Elixir + Phoenix stack to someone who doesn't have experience with the Elixir/Erlang ecosystem and functional programming

It is amazing though.

You can actually self host Supabase, that's really the whole point: a Firebase alternative that you can host yourself. Obviously you can use their hosted service as well.

I also noticed that.

Then I remembered: this is just a free and open blog of a very talented writer. I assume this is not his only income, but I think it's justifiable.

Not fully related, but I remember looking at a website of some person two or three years ago, who claimed to be one of the original developers of Firefox, and if I'm not mistaken, in some blog post on his website, he said something about not getting the recognition he deserved for his work? and shared some early source code of Firefox.

I cannot find that person or that blog post, anyone know anything about this?

thank you for making this site! i'm planning on moving to germany after i'm done with my studies and this will be pretty helpful do you have any other resources helpful for expats? (perhaps something more like adjusting to the social life, meeting people, etc) would sure be helpful to put it there

the second I read it I knew it was Greek I have actually thought of using the name for an app before years ago, but it never happened as I thought it's... a bit rude? not sure if this applies when exposing your app to a mostly non-greek audience though

I've never built C++ code for Windows, and I still am quite familiar with CMake.

CMake is dominating across all platforms, sadly

If we're suggesting Greek poetry I would like to suggest a more recent poet from my city who passed a few years ago, his name was Dinos Christianopoulos -- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinos_Christianopoulos, some of his poems are translated here -- https://thegeby.wordpress.com/dinos-christianopoulos/)

I've heard many stories about him from locals. It appears that he was a vibrant member of the local community. One of Christianopoulos' characteristics was that we was never scared to say his opinion, and he had strong opinions. He also had some interesting opinions about other poets. When asked his opinion about other poets, he'd usually reply with something like "Interesting guy, but meh." He'd have that opinion even for some of the greatest poets. Cavafy is probably excluded though, as he appears to have liked him. In an interview, the interviewer asked him something about the current government. He said, "I don't even know who the current prime minister is." So it appears that he wasn't involved in politics much. Mostly ideologies. (Some of this information may be inaccurate and I very much apologize)

Along with that I'd like to suggest another local poet who is a bit more known: Manolis Anagnostakis -- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolis_Anagnostakis, poems: https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/modgreek-assets/Home/Windo...)

I would highly suggest reading his Wikipedia page or whatever biography you may find about him. His story is super interesting.

I started using xmake a few days ago. Not sure if I will use it for new projects (due to CMake being the standard) but I definitely want to. The workflow is amazing and super fast. You just run `xmake create` and it creates your project. Then you can just run xmake and boom, it compiles it in an instant, linking dependencies, without needing to create a CMakeLists.txt, adding a submodule for every dependency you use, including your dependency's cmake file, blah blah (xmake has its own xrepo tool which allows for dependency management in a MUCH easier way)

Is this something like a superoptimizer? looks cool!

Anki!

I love suggesting the novel “A concise Chinese-English dictionary for Lovers” as it really shows how people from such different cultures such as the chinese perceive the western world (at least in the first few chapters) (and yes i know the book is about the UK and not the US)

exactly. i don't understand why people feel the need to blame antirez. he wouldn't do that if he still ran the project anyway

I know we're talking about postgres but have you looked at clickhouse? it seems pretty promising with big data (and also timeseries data with its log engines)

I don't watch a lot of YouTube, but here's my list:

ThePrimeagen - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ENHE5xdFSwx71u3fDH5Xw (also check out his livestreams, very entertaining)

Tsoding - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrqM0Ym_NbK1fqeQG2VIohg

Jon Gjengset - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_iD0xppBwwsrM9DegC5cQQ

LiveOverflow - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w

Mental Outlaw - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YOGHUfC1Tb6E4pudI9STA

Luke Smith - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA

mCoding - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaiL2GDNpLYH6Wokkk1VNcg

My mate created kind of SMS dialup a few months ago, but (in my opinion) it's poorly implemented (if anyone would like to implement it in a better way I don't think he'd mind)

https://github.com/acejr1337/smsdialup

Don't forget about TikTok