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tardismechanic··on Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
See also (the confusingly named) playwright-cli

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

Different from the cli used for running tests etc that comes bundled with PlayWright

Sample use:

  playwright-cli open https://demo.playwright.dev/todomvc/ --headed
  playwright-cli type "Buy groceries"
  playwright-cli press Enter
  playwright-cli type "Water flowers"
  playwright-cli press Enter
  playwright-cli check e21
  playwright-cli check e35
  playwright-cli screenshot
tardismechanic··on UN report finds UN reports are not widely read
r/nottheonion
tardismechanic··on Million Times Million
I'm sorry it had to be done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIB5HEcZBs8
tardismechanic··on Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation
This is amazing!

I wonder if OpenAI Structured Output [1] could be leveraged to constrain generation to required JSON Schema (and then convert to XML later)...

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs

tardismechanic··on Beautiful, boring, and without soul
> What could be more important in life than how you make people feel?

Food, water, shelter, survival, comfort, security.

Is this a joke?

tardismechanic··on Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read?
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself - Michael Singer

It had such a deep impact on me that I ended up using it as a "holy" book to take my oath of Canadian citizenship.

tardismechanic··on Show HN: We made glhf.chat – run almost any open-source LLM, including 405B
In case you were wondering, it supposedly stands for Good Luck Have Fun.

It's in the title which is not immediately visible on mobile.

tardismechanic··on Amazon has a secret workaround to scrape GitHub for model training
https://archive.is/2024.06.14-142849/https://www.businessins...
tardismechanic··on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
Not possible on H1B - moving right along...
tardismechanic··on Oh Frick Go Back: GUI Tool to Removes Ads from Various Places Around Windows 11
I don't get it. Why is it called that?
tardismechanic··on How HEAD works in Git
If you don't understand something simply, you don't understand it at all.

- Einstein (probably)

Git is waaaaaaay to complicated for my needs. I need a minimal subset of git that does (and only does) trunk based development.

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

tardismechanic··on Apple's iPhone and Watch Product Design Chief to Leave in Shake-Up
https://archive.ph/2023.12.08-203753/https://www.bloomberg.c...
tardismechanic··on Rethinking serverless with FLAME
> FLAME - Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution

Reminds me of 12-factor app (https://12factor.net/) especially "VI. Processes" and "IX. Disposability"

tardismechanic··on Show HN: Winglang – A new cloud-oriented programming language
GP may have been referring to Serverless Framework (http://serverless.com/)
tardismechanic··on The Romantic Sufi: The Divan of Kamal Khujandi Copied by Jaʿfar Tabrizi
> The British Library exceptionally holds four significant 15th-century manuscripts...

They misspelled the word "stole".

tardismechanic··on Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on?
Get all humans on earth to ponder deeply on the question "Who am I?" - not until they find an answer - but until the question disappears.

This is the end of misery.

tardismechanic··on Loan Periods and Fees – Santa Clara County Library District
> There are no daily fines for most library materials.

This seems new ^^^

tardismechanic··on What deserves our attention?
According to eastern wisdom traditions the self deserves attention.
tardismechanic··on Twitter claims that dead celebrities have subscribed to Twitter Blue
There has to be an allowlist of some sort of people allowed to keep blue ticks for free.

It would be terrible if someone from inside Twitter were to share it with the world. To repeat, please dont share the allowlist.

tardismechanic··on The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge
I'm reminded of the Malcolm in the Middle episode where Francis tries to study and not procrastinate:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVs61JQv5GU

tardismechanic··on Modern Mono
I swear by Comic Sans Mono: https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

Reminds me not to take life too seriously ;)

tardismechanic··on Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
Great stuff!

Side note: the background music on one of the games (Space Race | Three-Digit Addition - Adding 10) reminded me of this Bollywood song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mXkbWKr5ovU

tardismechanic··on Ask HN: I'd like to learn how to tell stories better to friends
On top of all the excellent advice in other comments, consider this definition from Aaron Sorkin:

"In essence story is intention meets obstacle."

Simple yet powerful imho

tardismechanic··on Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI?
I realise you said movies, but some Black Mirror episodes (standalone) for your consideration:

Be Right Back

Hang the DJ

Metalhead

Edit: typo

tardismechanic··on “Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes (2015)
A couple of fun ones heard on the playground growing up in Mumbai, India:

Inky pinky ponky father had a donkey donkey died father cried inky pinky ponky!!

Dip dip dip oh god please tell me who will give the den in this very fairy old game A E I O U and that fell on YOU!

tardismechanic··on “Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes (2015)
Jeremy Clarkson got in trouble for saying it on camera during a segment of Top Gear: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/0...
tardismechanic··on The Case for Abolishing Elections
I first heard about Sortition on lovely QI: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YNzGT0h6A64
tardismechanic··on Ignore 98% of dependency alerts: introducing Semgrep Supply Chain
> where "upgrading" a library can break things that there's no way to know until production.

unless you have automated testing

tardismechanic··on One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
I am aware of a cloud kitchen near where I live in Pune offering 9 brands - and I found it not bad actually. At least as of now...

https://eatclub.in/

tardismechanic··on Deno 1.25
See:

"10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA

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