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Awtem··on Hazel: A live functional programming environment with typed holes
i love it. That being said, please show some examples and screenshots on the homepage and github's Readme.
Awtem··on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
I like the idea, but I get the message: "Too long video"... So I am wondering about its application if it only works for short videos
Awtem··on Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
Good encryption should still hold, even if you know the algorithm. The same reasoning should be applied to search engines.
Awtem··on Elvish is a friendly interactive shell and an expressive programming language
This looks really cool and useful. Does anybody know how this compares to NuShell?
Awtem··on Newsworthy: A lightning fast news aggregator with Material Design and no ads
No ads you say? Sure, wouldn't we all love that! Unfortunately, they are still advertizing heavily. even worse: the ads are instead presented as entire articles that pretend to be legitimate news: https://newsworthy.to/article/2020/07/01/when-two-people-lov...
Awtem··on Covid vaccine passes phase 1 human trial
At n=109, and the multitude of reported observed side effects, I would still much prefer the virus over this supposed vaccine...
Awtem··on Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
Homomorphic encryption.
Awtem··on Zoom 5.0
According to their 10-K filings, zoom has more than 700 heads in RnD in China, and about 5 subsidiaries in China IIRC, but none of those are listed as subprocessors of personal data, which I, personally, find somewhat hard to believe
Awtem··on Zoom 5.0
Attention tracking ... Oh great... I'm sure we all have been waiting for more big brother features like this one
Awtem··on ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
I'd love to give this another go, however, my experience with the first remarkable are reMarkably poor, and the new revision supposedly has the same display hardware

- the display is not very sharp, has poor contrast, and no active illumination

- also, despite there being no display illumination, reading in the sun was not possible, as it immediately resulted in the display bulging notably from the absorbed sun/heat.

- seriously buggy software

Let me know, if you have information that the new revision has improved on those aspects.

Awtem··on Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU
Sadly, OpenCL (alongside OpenGL) are already deprecated on Mac...
Awtem··on Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
Great, now you can have your own custom video game avatar from a single picture of yourself... gaming industry will love this
Awtem··on Logitech: “We collect: Product use data... This can include button presses
Make sure to "read and understand" the text hidden away under "Click for more information" under "Collection of Information"...
Awtem··on Make your own build system
I completely agree! All the hours (more like days/weeks) I already spent trying to make CMake do what I want... It only strengthens my dependency on CMake in the end :-/
Awtem··on Make your own build system
If it takes you too long, maybe you're doing it wrong then? Are you sure you are solving a real problem with it?

I don't mean to insult you, so please don't take this the wrong way... The Point I want to make is this: Is it even a reasonable project to build a build system that does everything for everybody? It would appear -- from plenty of evidence around in most open-source projects -- that mostly each of them had to work around at least a couple of restrictions in their off-the-shelf build-system, and I haven't seen a reasonable sized project that got away without additional scripting.

So if the developer already has the need for custom scripting, why not take python? And if it Takes less Time+LOC to roll your own project-customized build-system than it would take you to integrate a "general-purpose" build-system... There is a very strong case for a small python script like the one presented here.

Awtem··on Make your own build system
This is awesome! Instead of getting all mixed up in the discussion about which of the existing build-systems is best, and instead of trying to figure out how to work around all of the (mostly arbitrary from user perspective) restrictions, it is a very rational and pragmatic choice to just get it done and make it do what you want.
Awtem··on Nara – the typeface that never existed (2011)
really like it with the exception of left and right square brackets "[]" which are horribly misaligned IMHO ...