xthetrfd's comments

xthetrfd | 2 years ago | 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 | 2 years ago | 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 | 2 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | on: MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux

Well if you find it let me know. Also normal wheel scrolling

xthetrfd | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | on: Progress on Plasma

Arch Linux because of simplicity

xthetrfd | 6 years ago | 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 | 6 years ago | 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.