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jhot··on Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
I've always said F S check in my head but never said or heard it on conversation. I started my computer journey with msdos so I think chkdsk is to blame for me saying 'check'.
jhot··on InvoiceNet: Neural network to extract information from invoice documents
Really excited to try this out. I work in document capture and the products that the company I work for offers have absolute garbage "machine learning" capabilities. If this works well it could save us a lot of time building out our complex rules for extracting Invoice data.
jhot··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
I work in "document capture" (OCR, data extraction, and process automation) and every ERP I've had to integrate with has been a terrible experience. I was on a screen share with a consultant for one trying to get my service about the correct permissions and he was scrolling through a list of, what seemed like, two hundred possible roles. Let's not even talk about the atrocity that is their rest API, but at least they have an API as many don't and require RPA (ewww) or similar to input data.
jhot··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Home Assistant is amazing but you really have to read the release notes for every release to make sure something you're using isn't going to break. I appreciate the improvements it has seen over the years but it's definitely not something you can just update and assume all is well.
jhot··on Show HN: PHONK, JavaScript scripting for Android devices
FYI Tasker (a similar automation app) supports JS and exposes a lot of its functionality as JS functions.

https://tasker.joaoapps.com/userguide/en/javascript.html

jhot··on Join Chrome Extension in Jeopardy – Google Won’t Tell Me Why – Tasker and Join
For any Android users that don't already, I highly recommend either Join or Pushbullet even if just simply used for clipboard sync. The ability to send files and mirror your notifications can be handy but once you have clipboard sync it's hard to go back.
jhot··on Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
I use Node-Red for all of my home automations. And Tasker for phone automation. I would consider both to fall in the low code genre but still allow a dev to do really cool things (both allow for you to write whatever you want in JS).
jhot··on Not everyone has an internal monologue
I'm a drummer and my wife always gets mad at me for drumming on things. I have a song in my head and can hear all the parts really well even over whatever sounds my taps are making. So in my head I'm drumming along and it sounds super good, but to the rest of the world it's just monotone taps on a table or whatever.
jhot··on Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about
I can't find a link to their privacy policy. I like the idea but would be hesitant to give it a go without giving that a glance-over.
jhot··on Ask HN: The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?
CMD + `/~ to switch between windows of the same app. Or if you're in the CMD Tab switcher will cycle through the list backwards.
jhot··on Ask HN: Was hired to improve company's devops, founder won't listen to my ideas
I did the same thing of automating my own tasks. Only lasted about a year though because I got too bored.
jhot··on Make Medium Readable Again
This is the reason. The code does look for a specific appname that is present on all medium blogs before running the code. If this were a closed source extension I would worry about it, but since it's open source you can verify it's not doing anything malicious. That said, I think I will copy the source and turn it into a user script so I don't have to install another extension.
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