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thehesiod··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
IIRC, that's not necessarily true, some parsers "upgrade" html to xhtml and then process the xhtml since its more regular. html in general is a mess due to backwards compatibility requirements so trying to follow these kind of definitions imo is kinda pointless. you can optimize for size if you want but the decrease from these kind of optimizations with modern speeds is rather minimal
thehesiod··on Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016)
this is what the article talks about, you want to work on things you know are easy, but others think is hard
thehesiod··on Pattern matching accepted for Python
plus the distinction of using dotted constants makes no sense, that can just mean a variable in another module
thehesiod··on Pattern matching accepted for Python
just wait for a filibuster =)
thehesiod··on Horrifying PDF Experiments
we had a collection of these internally in the early 2000s using notes, even mandelbrot sets using embedded ps based fonts. a lot of this comes from dynamic form requirements. the JS engine was from the latest mozilla engine for the time when it came out, spidermonkey.
thehesiod··on Horrifying PDF Experiments
I'd look at the 3D JS API via the JS bridge that I helped write: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdf...
thehesiod··on Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
what if you were to separate the two? Epic creates a token "store" which allows you to apply to various games. This would be like the amazon case =). Same thing could be said if you could buy said tokens in the amazon store
thehesiod··on Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
hah, I'm 9am (due to morning meeting), to like 2am with kids and work interleaved. Have 1yo and 2yo. man, sounds like I have a lot of this to go lol
thehesiod··on MonitorControl: Control external monitor brightness and volume on your Mac
I have touchbar, it only sets brightness of laptop, not external
thehesiod··on Latency in Asynchronous Python
I wrote and use https://github.com/CaliDog/asyncpool (CaliDog graciously created a module of it for me) to solve this issue. Here it is forked on my repo: https://github.com/thehesiod/asyncpool
thehesiod··on Python asyncio and await'ing multiple functions
that's why i wrote https://gist.github.com/thehesiod/524a1f005d0f3fb61a8952f272...
thehesiod··on I2C in a Nutshell
I had to rely to this, BTDT ;)
thehesiod··on A small DIY air purifier
know a way to get them to US reasonably? cost is like 10x when shipping to US :(
thehesiod··on Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?
I was pleasantly surprised by bestbuy for upgrading my desktop recently, good selection and good prices (when matching their online store pricing)...actually I ordered online and picked up there. Then a week later the monitor price dropped and they matched it to the lower price.

I have to say too that the San Jose store has smelled horrid the last year due to what seems like super old carpet smell. If they won't even pay to clean their carpet they don't deserve to be in business.

thehesiod··on My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
I'd like to use poetry however ran into https://github.com/sdispater/poetry/issues/1554

We have a custom pypi server and need all requests to go through it, however haven't figured a way to make poetry always use our index server for all modules instead of pypi.org

thehesiod··on Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
I'd like to see what what prevents double dipping, first report to unethical places, wait a bit, then report to Apple.
thehesiod··on Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android
worked on my pixel 2 by setting the chrome flag to force the profile
thehesiod··on The Case of the Broken Lambda
that that's what we do, then upload to codecommit and then do a codebuild which pushes a zip to S3. Theoretically can have it all triggered to do most the work for you.
thehesiod··on Show HN: Fork – a fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
does it support auto stash/unstash on branch change? That's whats keeping me on the original GitHub Desktop Client
thehesiod··on Elon Musk wins bet, finishing massive battery installation in 100 days
supposedly used Samsung cells so doubtful: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Tesla-taps-Samsun...
thehesiod··on Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
just posted that I found a serious bug in the github comment API last month and to my knowledge this hasn't been fixed yet, or at least their support hasn't acknowledged that it's fixed yet. The bug affects pages with 500+ comments, it will return duplicate comments instead of the unique set of comments. For example if you had comments: [1,2,3,4], it would sometimes return [1,1,3,4].
thehesiod··on Many LASIK patients may wind up with glare, halos or other visual symptoms
I did ReLEx SMILE at https://www.smileeyes.de/?L=1 since I didn't want a full flap and didn't want the pain of Epi-LASIK. First run they left some epithelial cells in the pocket which caused astigmatism. They fixed that with a flush. I'm left with some astigmatism of the left eye and overall 20/25 vision. It also took ~1 year to "stabilize" as I was having a lot of spouts of blurriness. Overall liveable but I guess I'd probably do the Epi-LASIK instead and just deal with the week+ of discomfort. I also noticed that I think the lens can still move as if I rub my eyes too much it seems my vision gets blurry but eventually "snaps" back.
thehesiod··on A Javascript journey with only six characters
I created an account just to thank you for that post, so funny :)