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voidmain0001··on Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger
Lazy radius of 1, friction of .50 and brush radius of 3 provides the ideal environment for me to cursive write with a mouse.
voidmain0001··on Dumb Pipe
One limitation of iOS is the inability to use Bluetooth to transfer an image/video file to a Bluetooth receiver such as Windows. The Apple documentation requires a wired connection. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/120267

If LocalSend is running on iOS and Windows does LocalSend have the ability to send photos?

voidmain0001··on Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC
Why does the article’s title state the country of origin of the developer? Does it matter? Is it a surprise that there are smart, business savvy developers across the globe?
voidmain0001··on No Hello
Uh, Yes Hello. My technique is to send an initial 'hello' message when I need to get a quick response or when I don't frequently communicate with the other party. After sending the 'hello' message I immediately plough on by sending my next message(s) which are probably questions or wants. With so many people exhibiting ADD symptoms, myself included, a series of notifications on their device encourages them to respond to me. The cat's out of the bag now for why I do this.

I also like to inject civility and cordiality into messaging because I find it's treated with barbarism by some that send a message like a stone through a window.

voidmain0001··on Show HN: PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass
I will be using Pydoll for the following legitimate use case: a franchisee is given access to their data as controlled by the franchise through a web site. The franchisee uses browser automation to retrieve its data but now the franchise has deployed a WAF that blocks Chrome webdriver. This is not a public web site and the data is not public so it frustrates the franchisee because it just wants its data which is paid for by its franchisee fees.
voidmain0001··on Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales
I just finished a presentation from Ring Central where it highlighted this exact feature as one of its many features that exist to provide real time coaching.
voidmain0001··on New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
Option+ 30B CFU. It was on sale at a pharmacy that was in a convenient area. I bought based on it being discounted and having average CFU.
voidmain0001··on New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
My symptoms are spot on with Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrodermatitis_chronica_atroph... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563289/

voidmain0001··on New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
Is there a reason you refer to alternative medical communities in response to my comment? Considering I made no reference to using alternative medicine, what does it have to do with my comment? Do you have an agenda? I know that I don't have one and neither did my comment.
voidmain0001··on New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
I'm on a second round of Doxy. The first was 21 days and now I have a 60 day prescription. It doesn't knock me out. I take the first dose early in the morning with a lot of water. I don't eat until noon, but not before first taking a capsule of probiotics to replenish gut bacteria. I take the second Doxy in the evening with a meal. Then 3 hours later I take another probiotic capsule to restore gut bacteria overnight. Maybe that regime is helping or maybe I'm just fortunate.
voidmain0001··on New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
Agreed. Long Lyme certainly exists. I appear to have it as do numerous acquaintances. I wrote "appear to have it" because a blood test for Borrelia returns negative. However, just two weeks ago a doctor told me that Borrelia can evade a blood test by infecting the nervous system. That was news to me so I found this from NIH in the USA. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8870494/ Borrelia can cross over to the CNS. Lovely.
voidmain0001··on New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
I would like to kill more deer which are part of the Lyme cycle. There are so many in the rural area I live, they remind of big city rats.
voidmain0001··on Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event
I thought the same, and I was thinking of how funny that would be. As if Pryce needs to prove her worth against kids?! Pryce would probably win 1st, 2nd and 3rd places leaving nothing but participation ribbons for the kiddos.
voidmain0001··on Broadcom abandons minimum license requirement of 72 cores for VMware
Is this accurate?
voidmain0001··on Glubux's Powerwall (2016)
Here’s a 2017 page from Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/diy-powerwall-builders-are-u... that refers to Glubux as being French. Since the posted article doesn’t say, I wanted to know the climate where Glubux lives and the loads he has on the system. I guess I can find more about Glubux from the secondlifestorage.com site.
voidmain0001··on There's White Stuff Growing on Your Cheese That Isn't Mold (2018)
2016 report from Bloomberg on what "cellulose" means in grated Parmesan cheese. https://archive.ph/I3OuD
voidmain0001··on AMD YOLO
Maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HUud7IvAo
voidmain0001··on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
I am using Orion on iOS with uBO for two years and UBO works well enough for me. There is the odd website that won’t load in Orion so I switch to Safari, which I never use, and the amount of ads that are presented in Safari reassures me that uBO in Orion is working.
voidmain0001··on Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
Awesome! I didn't know that about the domain name.
voidmain0001··on Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript
I’m quite ignorant of JS development with Node. This package really interests me so I followed the tutorial. On the second step, I used npm to install boardgame.io which triggered a barrage of error messages related to deprecated packages and 69 vulnerabilities. I ran npm audit and it displayed numerous high severity. I tried the npm audit —force which broke boardgame.io I don’t plan on trying to fix these problems so does it mean that I shouldn’t try boardgame.io?
voidmain0001··on Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios
There are some Reddit threads about this - https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1dz57am/trade_3...

Take them with a grain of salt.

voidmain0001··on Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite
I know naming a project is difficult so please don’t take offence when I write my first thought on reading the name trailbase and thinking “why would a project that wants to lead with speed name itself for moving slowly?” I’m sure they’re thinking of the other use of trail, not meandering or dragging.
voidmain0001··on MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
Excuse my ignorance in asking, but is this trustworthy? I'm a layperson regarding biology and I was always assumed that organs outside of the brain don't contribute to memory. At the end of the article is the statement "Data not available / No data was used for the research described in the article." Is it possible to see the data?

Reddit is telling me to not accept it at face value - https://old.reddit.com/r/research/comments/1bh2jmv/this_is_h...

voidmain0001··on 19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were an Illusion
I listened to a radio program two days ago which was interviewing a book author that had written about why people accept conspiracy theories over documented truth. The program invited the audience to call in to offer their opinions and one caller who lived through the 50s and 60s thought it was the failure of science to deliver on its promises of a better future (flying cars, cheap food, cheap energy, robots doing our work). He said that governments and people need to get back to trusting science.
voidmain0001··on 19th-century ‘toy book’ demystified the techniques used by mediums
Who would have thought…? It looks like Margaret Atwood read the tea leaves (joke) correctly about the religious right when she wrote The Handmaid’s Tale for publishing 39 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale
voidmain0001··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Still present. VB and VB Script would do this by using mouse move to Window handles which were discovered using Spy++. You can do with C# or AutoIT these days.
voidmain0001··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
It didn’t help that UIPath forced a subscription model and “cloud orchestrator” on all users and many of which needed neither. They got greedy. We ditched it.
voidmain0001··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Hopefully.

I’ve implemented quite a few RPA apps and the struggle is the request/response turn around time for realtime transactions. For batch data extract or input, RPA is great since there’s no expectation of process duration. However, when a client requests data in realtime that can only be retrieved from an app using RPA, the response time is abysmal. Just picture it - Start the app, log into the app if it requires authentication (hope that the authentication's MFA is email based rather than token based, and then access the mailbox using an in-place configuration with MS Graph/Google Workspace/etc), navigate to the app’s view that has the data or worse, bring up a search interface since the exact data isn’t known and try and find the requested data. So brittle...

voidmain0001··on Cats are (almost) liquid
I'm also stupefied by a human doing it. https://imgur.com/a/W7bcLZo

Taken from: https://www.gq.com/story/aleksei-goloborodko-real-life-diet

voidmain0001··on Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate
XSE AWD. I don't think options/models matter with the Sienna. Rather, Toyota is very behind on its hybrid vehicle production. The Sienna is only available as a hybrid.
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