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arve0··on Decode Like It's 1999: MPEG-1 Decoder in JavaScript
That’s why I created npm-download-size recently, to quickly decide the size of a package in total. It has a cli and a web frontend: https://arve0.github.io/npm-download-size/
arve0··on Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
You may know by eating fish that are not possible to farm, like cod.

Edit: Apparently, cod may be farmed (1), though I think the idea still stands.

1: https://thefishsite.com/articles/cultured-aquatic-species-at...

arve0··on Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp
Here is an update on Africa/Cameroon: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/browserling-cameroon/
arve0··on Show HN: Node.js node_modules file pruning
And here is a project that helps you decide upfront if you should rely on that bloated module:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/download-size

The tool is available online too:

https://arve0.github.io/npm-download-size/

arve0··on Users don’t need a password
What about SMS? Would you use the service then? Genuinely wondering, I'm planning passwordless logins for my users.
arve0··on Tesla’s New Car Smell
Have you seen this, https://youtu.be/PwOnsT2UW5o?

You might be able to DIY.

arve0··on Show HN: Is webpack bloated?
Hi! Thanks for your comment.

> I know that many of the packages you have listed are not immediate but transient dependencies.

Yes, and that is where the crux lies. Transient dependencies are hard to change, and as a community we lack good tools to reason about `npm install ajv` upfront. After we have installed a package and our software works, the janitor role is less fun.

It's not a webpack problem per se, I just chose webpack because it's popular and I know it takes a while to install.

> That being said, we still would welcome at any time improvements to transient or dependent packages that we use in webpack, and consider this a really really valuable contributions up stream to many projects!

Lowest hanging fruit is those 17 duplicates, I'll see if can nest them down.

arve0··on Cloud Firestore: A New Document Database for Apps
FeathersJS provides a layer between your database (RDBMS, NoSQL, ..) and your client, which gives you similar functionality as firebase.

https://feathersjs.com

Edit: Minus rule based auth.

arve0··on Show HN: Logo Crunch – Multi-resolution logo maker
This is pretty standard image processing techniques, which you can streamline yourself. Not sure if there exists out-of-the-box solutions, but you can easily create your own with for example scikit-image (python).

Here are some selected functions.

Opening: http://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.morphology.h...

Closing: http://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.morphology.h...

Dilate: http://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.morphology.h...

I recommend starting at the user guide: http://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/user_guide.html

arve0··on Idyll: Interactive Document Language
Hi! I'm thinking about using this for creating tests in school. How would one send state to a backend? Use refs?
arve0··on The Wonderful World of Webpack
> What if we could take C# code, and transpile it into JavaScript? What if we could take a YAML configuration file, and create a working program just out of configuration? What if we took an image, and automatically made it cropped and greyscaled?

What?! Image, crop and greyscale? That doesn't sound like a job for a bundler. Is this sarcasm?

arve0··on Used GPUs flood the market as Ethereum's price drops below $150
I would like to see any numbers on that claim. For example expenses / turnover or profit.

Edit: or cost per transaction.

arve0··on More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel about the site
Making money of old videos might change, if video suggestion algorithm prefer new content. Some suggest that it already have changed: https://youtu.be/03dTJ4nXkXw
arve0··on TC39, ECMAScript, and the Future of JavaScript
We have deep-value and deep-reduce easily available:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/deep-value https://www.npmjs.com/package/deep-reduce

arve0··on TC39, ECMAScript, and the Future of JavaScript
Which wtfs bite you the most?

I can't remember being bitten lately, maybe I have a blind spot.

arve0··on TC39, ECMAScript, and the Future of JavaScript
Because languages that have few but powerful concepts are easy to use.

I also believe that we do ask these questions about apps. Sometimes less is more.

Note: I feel most proposals today are sane.

arve0··on TC39, ECMAScript, and the Future of JavaScript
When will js have enough features? Maybe not there yet, but is there an endgame?
arve0··on How Norwegian Air Upended Travel With Its Cheap Flights
Norwegian is not owned by Norway. SAS on the other hand...
arve0··on Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
Here are some more:

http://mathnotepad.com https://arve0.github.io/webcas/

arve0··on Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
package.json and bower.json does not include mathjs, so it doesn't seem like it does rely on mathjs.
arve0··on Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
Found zwavepublic.com now :-)
arve0··on Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
Hi! Do you do the z-wave packet radio yourself, with something like the RFM69HCW [1]? Have tried finding some specs on z-wave protocol without any luck yet.

1: https://www.adafruit.com/products/3176

arve0··on Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code
Because, sometime you don't need all the whistles, but only a subset.

Curious, what inconsistencies does asciimath have?

arve0··on Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989)
This should be the top comment.
arve0··on Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
Could teaching be a market?
arve0··on The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”
Or hang it on the bicycle?
arve0··on Show HN: New calendar app idea
Third point, what if you show a horizontal stack of the events. Only one showing at the time, and the others being thin lines. Scrolling sideways would shift the view of the horizontal stack.
arve0··on TeamViewer users are being hacked in bulk, and we still don’t know how
The access code is probably generated server-side and can be snooped.
arve0··on 500 Lines or Less
This is "The Performance of Open Source Applications", not "500 Lines or Less".

Edit: An older version?

arve0··on Google's mapping cars discover hundreds of underground gas leaks
The powerline adapters works by transmitting signal over house wiring, and the wiring is effectively creating an antenna. So depending on which frequencies the adapter uses, will potentially radiate the same frequencies and the harmonics.
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