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dorfsmay

5,364 karma · joined October 21, 2012

AVAILABLE FOR CONTRACT U.S. and Canada or on-site in Calgary

Typescript, React, javascript, SQL, Python, Rust, Linux/cloud sysadmin

contact: https://yves.zioup.com/

twitter: @dorfsmay

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dorfsmay··on Unifi Travel Router
Yes it works. Now you can also tether via USB. Both of them have worked flawlessly for me recently.
dorfsmay··on An SVG is all you need
Have you created an issue/suggestion?

I believe Slack is an electron app so it might be easy to implement.

dorfsmay··on Damn Small Linux
The real issue is that old hardware use a lot of electrical power. You can get a small Single Board Computer with at least as much computing power as those but using 20 to 30 time less electrical power, and fitting in the palm of your hand.
dorfsmay··on Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model
> previous research has shown that even in those with no symptoms, gadolinium particles have been found in the kidney and the brain and can be detected in the blood and urine years after exposure

So do you stop eating high oxilate and high vitamin C food for a year after the MRI? Are there foods or drinks that help flush gadolinium?

dorfsmay··on This Month in Ladybird – October 2025
Does Widevine CDM work on Firefox on Linux?

If so, why would Google allow this but not for other OSS browsers?

dorfsmay··on Keep Android Open
Agreed.

So many good working devices go to waste because no longer supported by Google and the hardware manufacturers. They have good cameras, good wifi etc... we should be able to reflash them and install whatever OS we want on them.

It's becoming more and more difficult to install even Lineage on a lot of 6 or 7 year old hardware.

dorfsmay··on Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid
A lot of software like banking and governments' identification won't work on old Android versions.
dorfsmay··on Play snake in the URL address bar
There's a link to "code" at the bottom of the page.
dorfsmay··on Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
One doesn't prevent the other. I intentionally split (not equally) my donations between local/international help to basic human needs, so local shelters and food banks but also Amnesty, normal local politics and targetted philosophical (local provincial party, EFF), some techs that have a huge impact to many people, Thunderbird, Signal etc..
dorfsmay··on Plain Vanilla Web
On the third hand, some people use React and some framework to write static web page...
dorfsmay··on Canadians give Liberals 4th mandate as Carney leads party to minority win
Typo? Did you mean lowering income inequality?
dorfsmay··on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
I do the same with Python, replacing multilevel comprehensions with intermediary steps of generator expressions, which are lazy and therefore do not impact performance and memory usage.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0289/

dorfsmay··on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
Shakes don't provide satiety, most people will hate this and start eating something else within a few days.
dorfsmay··on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
Exercise and activity are contributing to calories (calories out). These days there are apps that make it easy to track calories, macro and nutrients.
dorfsmay··on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
The problem with diets based only on calories is that they don't take satiety into account, nor health.

Calories is what makes you gain/lose weight, it's basic physics. Satiety is what makes you want to eat more/less. Nutrients are what is making you healthy.

Fiber and protein tends to make you feel full. Lack of them allow you to eat large amount of calories without feeling full. You need to keep track of micro and macro nutrient to stay healthy.

dorfsmay··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
On my model "deep cleaning" of the dishwasher, some other functions I think, but that I didn't care for.
dorfsmay··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
I have button and LEDs, and it works fine without wifi for "basic functions", but for "advanced functions" like washer deep cleaning I would need to use their website.
dorfsmay··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
Bought from a dealership. I don't think he lied, I think he just didn't know about "advanced functions".

I never got the "no need for wifi" in written form.

dorfsmay··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
Smart diagnostic sounds good but make it available via Bluetooth or make the dishwasher run a webserver on the local lan.

Having to go through their site and their auth means they ultimately control the appliance I paid full price for.

dorfsmay··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
Bosch!

I ran into the same situation. I specifically told the salesperson I didn't want wifi, and they told me it's only if you want it to operate from your phone.

I was done installing it and got rid of the packaging by the time I read that it needs to use their website for some functions.

Beside the fact that I doubt the store would take it back after using it for a week or two and havi go no packaging, I had no time nor energy to remove it and return it.

I tried to contact Bosch who keep redirecting me to some other I ternal department and eventually stop responding.

Do NOT buy a Bosch diswashe, even though you pay full price upfront you cannot use all the functions without creating an account on their website and have them run those functions for you.

dorfsmay··on Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality (2020)
An article (in French) published this morning about the city of Paris monitoring the Seine River and just discovered DNA of three endengered mussel species. They also mention that there are ten times the number of fish species compared to 1960.

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-billet-vert/a-pa...

dorfsmay··on Polish city is using mussels to monitor water quality (2020)
Interesting and surprising, to see that they have English versions online.
dorfsmay··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a Linux Distro and Laptop?
Snaps is what made me move away from Ubintu to Fedora. Make sure you add RPM Fusion repos and enjoy plain GNOME and latest everything.
dorfsmay··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
You forgot:

> So I broke things off after almost 2 years of unconditional love.

dorfsmay··on [dead]
There's something to be said for a small set of exercises that works the whole body and that can be done quickly anywhere, that you can use those weeks you don't have time for anything else, or travelling and stuck in small hotels etc...
dorfsmay··on The new science of controlling lucid dreams
Check the time on your phone/watch twice in a short time.
dorfsmay··on The new science of controlling lucid dreams
Also, issues with lack of dreaming. It's easy to detect when you start dreaming, but the next steps are hard (stay in a dream state, control the dream). You can end up falling back into deep sleep and suppressing dreaming which will lead to not being rested regardless of how many hours you spend in bed.
dorfsmay··on JSON parsers that can accept comments
Another advantage of JSON5 over JSON is that extra comma at the end of a list is not an issue.
dorfsmay··on JSON parsers that can accept comments
yaml is a superset of JSON, which means that any parser that expect yaml will happily consume JSON!

Also JSON + comment that's JSON5.

dorfsmay··on History of rat control in Alberta
The more interesting part are the bridges where wildlife can cross safely above the highway.

https://arc-solutions.org/article/banff-bears-use-trans-cana...

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