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It is better to simply make a decision than it is to make none at all, for even in failure there is education, whilst in stagnation there is little besides regret and the illusion of safety
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textread··on Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding
Being similar to strcpy() seems to have been intentional by its creator.

Alas, a feature has turned into a bug :(

textread··on Ask HN: Do you use the Browser tabs as a TODO list?
Now you have a hoarding "problem" :)
textread··on Ask HN: Do you use the Browser tabs as a TODO list?
Nitpick. Ctrl + Shift + A will let you search open tabs by title or url. (in Chrome)
textread··on Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding
I would love to read more about this solution. Would you please direct me to the appropriate XDA forum thread please. Please...:)
textread··on Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding
Not OP. I faced a similar problem once.

I found a friend that owned the same model of phone as mine. I used his phone to approximately eye-measure where on the screen I have to press after entering the Settings app.

Now I repeated these presses on my phone. Luckily, although my phone was broken and the screen had become almost fully black, the touches registered.

----------- edit:- If you find it difficult to find a friend that owns your unique phone, your local mobile shop might have a demo phone for you to try out.

Or Youtube search for a video titled "How to enable debugging permissions on Samsung S8?"

textread··on Scrcpy 2.0 mirrors Android devices with audio forwarding
scrcpy (mnemonic SCReen CoPY) is such a cool, unique, easily googlable & memorable name.

I pray to God to give me this wisdom everytime I am goofing off on instantdomainsearch.

---------edit:-

    Why scrcpy?
    A colleague challenged me to find a 
    name as unpronounceable as gnirehtet.

    strcpy copies a string; scrcpy copies a screen.
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/tree/4e9e712#why-scrcpy
textread··on China's Giant Pinduoduo Exploits 0days to Get One Billion Users’ Personal Data
The source[0] has a more clear description about what is being currently exploited:

    In the end, the Internet vendor used the above-mentioned series of concealed hacking techniques to achieve:
    
    Concealed installation, increase installed capacity
    Counterfeit boost  DAU/MAU
    Users cannot uninstall
    Attacking Competitor Apps
    Steal user privacy data
    Evasion of privacy compliance regulations
    and other suspected illegal purposes.
[0] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/P_EYQxOEupqdU0BJMRqWsw
textread··on MicroCap circuit simulator is now free (as of 07/04/2019)
Before 07/04/2019, this was a $4500 simulator. It was first released in 1980, now in its 12th version.
textread··on Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?
Would you please provide any hint on what company this is at? I am really curious.
textread··on Ask HN: Do you care about your HN karma?
Keep at it sir, some of us are using the showdead userscript. Your radical opinions are worth a consideration, atleast for me.
textread··on Ask HN: Do you care about your HN karma?
I still care about it for this weird reason: I want to be >=500 so that I continue to have the ability to create polls.
textread··on Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
https://www.howacarworks.com/video-course/watch/bonus-disman...

It was special because the german creator of the course broke down a car into small components and then rebuilt it.

It kinda felt like reading a neatly designed codebase.

textread··on Ask HN: What's the best (offline) lecture series you've attended?
university or lecturer name please
textread··on The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs
"It is better to have 100 functions that operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions that operate on 10 data structures" - SICP <3
textread··on Ask HN: How to detect an imposter pretending to be an expert programmer?
This indeed seems to be the most practical solution. So, lets say you are constrained to asking 5 questions to detect an imposter generalist programmer, what would they be?
textread··on Ask HN: How to detect an imposter pretending to be an expert programmer?
The author of the video lists 5 tips:-

1. speaks authoritatively about something he is not in a position to know

2. keeps quoting the ballistics charts that he has memorised like its gospel

3. keeps making claims of the format X is just as powerful as Y. Eg: "22 long rifle is just as powerful as .3006 rifle"

4. keeps making claims about firearms he was never in possession of

5. keeps making claims of the format "There is no such thing as X" (The author of the video says this is the most useful trick)

textread··on Ask HN: How to detect an imposter pretending to be an expert programmer?
Clickable Youtube link: https://youtu.be/N1Sw8fe9hJI
textread··on Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
szopa[granparent] uses StumpWM, not EXWM. I am trying to get the EXWM's buffer switching behaviour in StumpWM.

By default, StumpWM lists normal buffers on C-x b, and X-windows using some other keybinding like C-t b

textread··on Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
Do you still happen to have the elisp for getting C-x b to list both X-windows & buffers in stumpwm? Would you please share?
textread··on Ask HN: Formal language as a front end to Stable Diffusion models?
Just to make the image's link clickable: https://c4.wallpaperflare.com/wallpaper/701/754/419/aenami-d...
textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
> There are individual moves that one learns, as well as big-picture principles that tie them together.

This seems like an achievable approach for my beginner level. Will save 'Swing/Lindy hop or Ballroom' in my notes. Thank you for sharing your experience!

textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
Thank you for providing one of the equations :)
textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
You sir, are a master at teaching things. Please take a humble bow from a student!

Thank you very much for taking the time to post such a thoughtful answer.

> this phenomena is latent to every human being!

Human brains are soo beautiful & full of things to self-explore

textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
> loop dances from the 70's and 80's

Thanks a lot for the divide and conquer approach. Fun looking loops from the 70s & 80s seems like a great start, considering they are simpler for a beginner.

Edit for posterity:- In case anyone is looking for a good intro for the 70s/80s loops, i liked this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awPecmtraXc

textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
Thank you so much! this is a great mental model for me to visualize as I learn. Is Steezy.co any good? Or Youtube catalogue is good enough?
textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
I will keep the beer trick in mind as a quick hideout :)
textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
My friends tell me that I have to learn. The trouble is that all of them are really good dancers, so I stand out as a sore thumb.

Their advice is vague:-

"Don't think about it. Just do it"

"Don't be soo digital, be a bit analogue"

"I encourage you to think more like SOFT COMPUTING, not instructions for a CPU"

textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
Alcohol is bad brother, esp when used in the context of 'require' :)
textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
Let us assume we pick the 'Hip Hop' style just for discussion.

What would be the minimum 20% set of primitives to cover the 80% hiphop style space?

textread··on Ask HN: What are the Maxwell's equations of dancing?
Thank you for helping a friend out. You have calmed me :)
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