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Middle mouse button plus moving the trackpoint works well for me.

I even went and got myself a Tex Yoda II. I like it, but sometimes I wish it had real arrow keys. Maybe I'd go for a Shinobi next time.

dschoohon “Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (2014)

Not necessarily. You can design the sign up process by way of always ending with a message that says you will be notified.

dschoohon Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream

Middle click and moving the trackpoint up and down works for me.

dschoohon Node.js packages don't deserve trust

This may not be the whole story, but one of the reasons is that JavaScript does not have a standard library. Corollaries are: several different module systems, application frameworks and bundlers exist.

dschoohon SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test

Of course it depends on your system but it's more a matter of minutes than of hours. It's a really enjoyable experience to hack on the system and being able to rebuild in seconds. Just have a look at some SerenityOS hacking videos, they are truly inspiring.

dschoohon Deno Is Webby

[] is truthy in Ruby but there is #empty? on collection types. Rails also has #blank? which additionally works on false and nil.

dschoohon Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

> well by that point it just becomes a chore and I suspect there's good logging services that do this better than you'd spend your time doing yourself.

Which is why the OP suggested using tools like goaccess.

dschoohon Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

> By nature it won't filter out bots, however.

I have two questions about this:

- Since you know they are bots, why couldn't you filter them?

- On the other hand, couldn't there be bots that run JavaScript which would be tracked client-side?

dschoohon Show HN: SpacersJS – My first JavaScript Library for no-code tools

It might come in handy when building no-code tools, not as a no-code tool per se.

dschoohon It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

> Depending on what country I travel to, Ill be using a different app like Grab or Didi or a local taxi app that were all made possible by Uber's initial disruption.

Local Taxi hailing apps were first. Uber adopted this and their disruption of many local markets happened only after offering cheaper alternatives by burning money.

dschoohon Sublime Text 4

Would you mind talking a bit about your setup, what plugins you use and wrote yourself?

dschoohon Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters

These kinds of discussions are common with articles about deep fake video and audio. While I do not disagree with your point, here are two quick thoughts:

- We have had perfect image manipulation capabilities for quite some time now. We have had written text manipulation capabilities for hundreds of years.

- People will continue to believe what they believe, whether there is deep fake video and audio or not.

dschoohon Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac

This sounds interesting. Would you mind to elaborate on your workflow and what you do with it specifically? I'd love to see some screen shots.

dschoohon The web as a GUI toolkit

As I understand it, the author isn't even talking about web based GUI toolkits like Electron but more about the web itself (i.e. CTRL-F, back button, etc).

dschoohon Machine Unlearning

Two quick thoughts: Some data is inherently non-anonymous, like face images. Data that is now anonymous may be de-anonymized in the future.

dschoohon PHP 7.4

> I wonder why they added the "fn()" thing on the left of the array functions.

There would be ambiguity without it: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrow_functions_v2#syntax

dschoohon Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues

As you are saying, B misses a column to be square. That column is filled with v_n. B and v_n are simply concatenated.

dschoohon Plotty Bird: flappy bird on the HP7440A pen plotter

https://github.com/WesleyAC/plotty-bird

> It works by streaming HP-GL commands to the plotter in real time - the game gets around 20 "frames" per second.

According to the GitHub page, yes.

dschoohon JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999

It'll use shaders if WebGL is supported and enabled: https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg/blob/master/src/webgl.js

There is also a site to test features and their impact on performance: https://jsmpeg.com/perf.html