v8engine's comments

v8engine | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: C/C++ developer wanting to learn efficient Python

Check out old Pycon schedules and search for 'efficient(cy)/improve/speed/performance'.

Every Pycon has at least one talk on it and they are usually filled with a variety of tips and insights.

Prioritise by keynote speeches, recent ones, country level ones and then city Pycon.

v8engine | 2 years ago | on: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

I am facing this issue in the recent versions of Android Firefox where if I switch apps and come back, or lock and unlock the phone instantly leads to the page refreshing and scrolling back to the point where I was reading. This is quite frustrating as I have to keep the Firefox app always open or wait a frustrating amount of time for the page to completely load and scroll down. Some pages with progressive loading will take a huge amount of time for the page to completely re-download and if you scroll even slightly, the auto-scroll to where you last left is lost.

I can replicate it with just a single tab and I have excluded Firefox from all my battery saving and memory saving features.

v8engine | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: In-depth sites for various industries' news?

I know of https://autonews.io/ mentioned before. They look unrelated but would you know of any connection except for their similar domain?

v8engine | 4 years ago | on: Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)

https://web.archive.org/web/20190321175020/https://www.exped...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442597

v8engine | 4 years ago | on: An iOS app update that annoys me

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/receipt-box-spending-tracker/i...

Did the developer change since his screenshot?

v8engine | 4 years ago | on: Hedonometer: Average Happiness of Twitter over Time

Feels very US related. Twitter in India is all about COVID-19 second wave right now and that hasn't affected the graph even though the sheer mass of English speaking Indians should have had some effect. The only mention I can see is April 28, 2021 twentieth word 'oxygen'.

v8engine | 5 years ago | on: Qutebrowser 2.0

Any reason my Antivirus considers it a problem? " C:\Program Files\qutebrowser\qutebrowser.exe is infected with Gen:Variant.Mikey.118185 " This is with Bitdefender.

I downloaded the prebuilt windows binary from https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases

v8engine | 5 years ago | on: What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not

>"Won't this change mean we operate at a loss to subsidize your other company, which will affect staff bonuses".

I don't get it. Can you explain?

v8engine | 5 years ago | on: Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)

Check out Dyscalculia.

v8engine | 5 years ago | on: AWS services explained in one line each

Reminded me of these similar threads I read a while earlier:

Azure: https://web.archive.org/web/20190321175020/https://www.exped...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442597

AWS: https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202286

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: The Amish health care system

> Imagine how many social problems would disappear if people had more integrity and stronger morals. Literally every aspect of life would improve.

Reminds me of playing https://ncase.me/trust/

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: List of software and things that use or support WireGuard

I see it in the "Other WireGuard goodies" section.

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system

https://twitter.com/tradel/status/1246526465207869440

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' free to download

Can someone point me to greatest hits on the ACM?

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

While your plane is falling from the sky?

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down

Yup. ai2html seems to what I was looking for. Didn't spot that because of all the freebird comments.

As for freebird, my search led me to this. https://github.com/freebirdjs/freebird

Seems to be the NYT has an array of pollution sensor IOT across the cities and they are using Freebird to control them. Just my guess.

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down

Can someone please tell me what the name for the technology used to create the graphics is? The text for the place names over the image is highlightable.

I know you can handcraft these by having the text overlay over an exact X,Y on an image but that seems overblown for just these maps than having the text rastered into the image loaded.

So, is there some tool like an SVG creator that helps create these with the responsiveness and everything handled?

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system

My search lead me to STUN and TURN server as this secret ingredient. I don't know what they mean though.

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: STEM toy for a 3 years old?

https://csferrie.com/books/

The Baby University series is pretty interesting.

The titles go like Bayesian Probability for Babies, Neural Networks for Babies and Rocket Science for Babies.

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: Unicode Is Awesome

As a lay-developer, I know unicode is what you need for international character support. Oh, so what are the options: utf-8, utf-16, utf-32. I will choose utf-32 just because 32 > 16 or 8.