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madacol··on Svelte 5: Runes
They don't claim they'll remove `onMount`.

They claim most (but not all) of current usage of `onMount` will be better off using `$effect` instead

madacol··on FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones
zipline's "platform 1" is an airplane, and "platform 2" is a quadcopter shaped like an airplane. https://www.flyzipline.com/technology

So they should have much better efficiency than typical quadcopters

madacol··on How to store a chess position in 26 bytes using bit-level magic (2022)
to be more specific a snapshot of the board
madacol··on So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine
GODOT developers are trying to do it via https://w4games.com/. But not sure if it's ready
madacol··on Show HN: Firefox addon to quarantine a tab to use offline with private data
You can add to your uses cases a web viewer for MRI/CT scan results https://madacol.github.io/ozempic-dicom-viewer/
madacol··on Show HN: Firefox addon to quarantine a tab to use offline with private data
Agree, though different profiles are a pain to use, I have to rely on the shell

   firefox -P profile2
madacol··on Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
That's nice!

So decompression is happening on the client, but not at the JS level, instead you are taking advantage of browser's ability to accept zip-encoded content from the server, hence decompression is done the by browser's own behavior when it receives a "content-encoding: gzip" stream or something like that.

madacol··on Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
You told in another comment that the files are not decompressed on the server. Then if you don't require JS, where is the decompression happening?
madacol··on Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
Yeah, server-side is much easier to code. But it should be doable with JS

I've already built a website that read zip files client-side with JS here: https://madacol.github.io/ozempic-dicom-viewer/ . It will read the zip file and search for MRI/CT scan images to display

Where I have doubts is how to reference external files from the main `index.html` file. I know you can load files as blobs and get a URL (I did that in my website above), but I am not sure if that will work as references in the <head>

madacol··on Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
If the author decides to use the URL hash instead, he can avoid users sending that zip to his server

i.e.

   https://smolsite.zip/#UEsDBB...
madacol··on Show HN: Bedframe – open-source Browser Extension Development framework
Cool!

I feel like there should be something like a bookmarklet store, similar to the extensions, or userscripts, right?

madacol··on Show HN: Bedframe – open-source Browser Extension Development framework
To give you an example

This is a bookmarklet to edit any text on a web page

    javascript: (function() {   document.body.contentEditable = true;   document.body.spellcheck = false;  })();
Very useful when I want to grab a screenshot and I want to REDACT personal information
madacol··on Show HN: Bedframe – open-source Browser Extension Development framework
I recently started to have the same ideas, and I have created 3 bookmarklets and 1 userscript https://github.com/madacol/web-automation
madacol··on A currently maintained fork of SSHFS
Nautilus (Ubuntu's file explorer) allows to mount SFTP folders. Supposedly it uses `gvfs` under the hood.

Note that SFTP uses an SSH connection for its file transfers, so I have not seen an UI difference from SSHFS

madacol··on Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
You can do that too in Twitter

"Turn off reposts"

madacol··on The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
So a potential problem is that they are too low resolution? and that is something specific of full body MRI scans?

I still disagree with the "net harmful" argument if it relies on patient's psychology. People may overreact at first out of ignorance, but we learn to stop worrying after being generally exposed to a new thing

madacol··on The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
> In the case of body scans, the harm comes from more expensive followups or treatments to rule out false positives.

That's not a problem with body scans, it's a problem with the medical system overreacting to the new information.

Avoiding scans is a distraction from the real problem of the medical system not knowing what to do with the new information of a full-body MRI scans.

madacol··on The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
You should also take into account patients that are already worried, and how much peace it brings when the scan results come clean

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But I am really worried with a deeper issue.

A full-body MRI scan provides information, and supposedly with no harm (at least physically)

According to your arguments, the medical system doesn't currently know what to do with it to provide an overall benefit (Allow me to be skeptical, but let's roll with it)

So your attitude is to not collect the information in the first place. I assume you are thinking that because there are no immediate benefits and lots of cost

But I'm sure there are, at least, future benefits. Why not instead start learning from this new source of information to do good in the future?, like at least, collect it for future references / comparisons with future scans

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If you still think the benefits do not compensate the cost, then fine, that's a completely personal decision that should not be imposed to others.

Doctor's role is to communicate as accurately as possible the benefits/harm of an action, and let patients decide for themselves if the cost is worth it or not

madacol··on Why Htmx Does Not Have a Build Step
> `nvm`

That's mostly why!, you need to have installed something. If you don't use a build step you don't even need nodejs, your browser is your only dependency.

madacol··on The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
If an MRI scan is truly practically harmless, and its only consequence is the information you get from it, then it's not the MRI who is causing the harm, but our own response to it

"Avoiding MRI scans" as a solution is a hack, you are trapped in a local minima solving the problem very indirectly. I may be willing to accept it as a temporarily pragmatic solution because solving our medical system may be very hard and bureaucratic

But, according to your arguments, the real problem then would be how we react to the results of a scan. Whether it is how patients react to them, or how the medical system reacts.

If full-body scan only informs, then do not kill the messenger!

madacol··on The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
What I take from your arguments is that medicine is a full shit-show.

Don't blame the full-body scan if you think the medical system is the real problem

madacol··on The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
Your argument implies that having less information is better. Why?
madacol··on Stablevideo: Text-driven consistency-aware diffusion video editing
It's the same 3 examples shown in web page (It's a carousel, you have to click the "righ/left" buttons to see the others)
madacol··on GPT4 couldn't solve Semantle's word game of 11 August
https://semantle.com/yesterday this link will last a couple of hours before pointing to today's word
madacol··on Every phone should be able to run personal websites
A bigger reason we should be able to run websites on our phones is to run decentralized or local-first web apps, but this requires also solving that our phones' network become accessible (e.g. implement Ipv6, but preferably bootstrap some fancy mesh network on-the-fly)

We should be chatting p2p through wifi/bluetooth by just letting our friends scan a QR code that links to our phone's web server that serves a p2p client for real-time chat in the middle of the jungle

In that same way, we should be playing games, take notes, run fair micro elections / lotteries, and hundreds of other coordination apps

madacol··on Duck DNS
It's the most friendly free DNS I have encounter.

- It's really free instead of "annoyingly free" that requires you to confirm every month that you are still using it.

- It lets you update with a simple HTTP request + token (e.g. "curl ..." command), no login protocol, nor any special login protocol that good luck if it's supported by your router or DVR.

- Simple copy-paste instructions for dozens of systems, instead of others DNSs that have no docs and their only instructions is to make you install their adware/spyware app

- No ads. Just a simple donate button at the end of the admin page which I haven't visited in months/years

madacol··on NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
I exaggerated a bit, it only happened with solar panels.

But it does gives you a similar feeling when you schedule a maneuver on a point where the planet/moon blocks your signal, and you only realize after it's too late

madacol··on NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
Oh man that reminds me a lot to Kerbal Space Program, those times I lost communication because of a wrong turn and the antenna/solar panel faced the wrong way
madacol··on Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
For context, he is the same guy that went viral yesterday[0] excited with optimism, now saying there are other more possible explanations for the results besides superconductivity

[0]: https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684044616528453633

madacol··on Kevin Mitnick has died
TL;DR in UK medical errors seem to be the 7th Cause leading factor

I did some maths (Or Code interpreter did? but I did verified unsourced numbers are in the ball park, at least for UK)

So for UK the estimate of deaths by medical errors is ~11k deaths, which puts it at the 7th cause factor according to this chart https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-b... just below dementia and above liver desease

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Keep in mind that I am not sure if the 3.6% figure really means causation, I am tired!

GPT4 chat link:https://chat.openai.com/share/7d235295-c149-45f0-ac3d-2a0cfd...

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