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xthetrfd··on How to Read and Organize Online Articles (Without Driving Yourself Crazy) (2013)
How many users does your app have? Do you make any revenue?
xthetrfd··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
You can bookmark this instead: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

Much easier

xthetrfd··on Language models can explain neurons in language models
This blog post is not very informative. How did they prompt GPT4 to explain the neuron's behavior?
xthetrfd··on Alternative Shells
One area where fish is excellent is IMO interactive shell scripting. No more case..esac and friends. Fish adopts a python-like syntax that makes it ridiculously easy to write loops fast in the terminal.
xthetrfd··on OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy
You can use the swipe functionality of the gboard even with the open source android keyboard provided you are rooted. It's just a library file that you have to install.
xthetrfd··on A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
I wish we had the option to use web apps instead for native apps for everything. As much as I hate modern web, I can't deny that not only are web apps cross platform, they also offer better privacy.
xthetrfd··on MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux
Well if you find it let me know. Also normal wheel scrolling
xthetrfd··on Is Hacker News Bullshit?
I agree with you. I mostly just read the title and then the comments, especially if I know a thing or two about the subject.

Partially off topic but I personally use the FOSS android app "Materialistic" to access HN. It offers a much better comment navigation experience than ynewscombinator.

xthetrfd··on ASGI from scratch – Let's build an ASGI web framework
ASGI is meant to be used to enable asynchronous Python code. I guess there are many I/O bound server applications that can benefit from it.
xthetrfd··on Practical Python Programming
I believe that some recent Python version has added (optional) type annotation support. I haven't ever used it though.
xthetrfd··on Show HN: Choose – An alternative to cut and sometimes awk
I can't understand why you are mentioning awk. Cut or choose cannot be compared to awk, awk is a programming language.

Also I don't think that it's so much easier to use than cut. On the other hand every *nix system has cut so if you make scripts with it they are portable.

xthetrfd··on Android Studio 4.0
So you're forced to learn a new language? I was obliged to write code for a university project in Kotlin instead of Java.

Most of the code was already written in Java. So I just used the tool to convert to Kotlin. Then I tried to infer how Kotlin works based on the generated code to write the rest. I don't feel proud about that project.

xthetrfd··on Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and Mobile Applications
It seems to me at this point that UI/UX developers just refuse to learn low level languages. Qt applications for example are extremely fast and cross platform.
xthetrfd··on Progress on Plasma
Arch Linux because of simplicity
xthetrfd··on Ask HN: What are some open source alternative to Zoom
I use it as a student. It's very good and easy to use. I'm curious about the performance with many participants though as we only use it in classes with at most 40 persons. And of course no camera just the presentation.
xthetrfd··on Ask HN: What are you learning?
I am trying to improve my web development skills by writing a chat application. I will implement saving messages to the database next.

Also I want to learn something ml-ish probably play with opencv or pytorch.