aaviator42

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Comment · 3 months ago

When doing image editing and text copy editing, I find it very handy to have mouse thumb buttons mapped to copy / paste / cut / undo / redo / delete / shift / ctrl. Allows me to do a lot more with my mouse when I'm using it anyway to do stuff, without having to switch back and forth repeatedly with my keyboard.

Comment · 7 months ago

We use SQLite IMMEDIATE transactions, which lock files for writes for a few milliseconds while commiting data to the file. This is not a problem in practice until you reach more than dozens of concurrent writers. StorX configures a default busy timeout of 1.5s, but it can be configured as per your needs. You can also get a lot more out of it by being smart about how you spread your data over DB files (eg: one file per user instead of one for multiple/all users), and also by considering when you call openFile() and closeFile() (eg: keep write transactions short, don't leave a file handler open while running long calculations).

Comment · 7 months ago

SQLite is insanely robust. I have developed websites serving hundreds of thousands of daily users where the storage layer is entirely handle by SQLite, via an abstraction layer I built that gives you a handy key-value interface so I don't have to craft queries when I just need data storage/retrieval: https://github.com/aaviator42/StorX

Show HN: Simple and robust key-value flat-file data storage library github.com

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Comment · 8 months ago

I'm not the first to point this out but the website in question, which is mostly static, could easily be hosted on a VPS for at most a couple hundred dollars a month.

Comment · 10 months ago

I used this to implement <yes-script>, the opposite of <noscript>, to be able to designate sections of a page to be hidden if JS was disabled. You can of course do the same thing with classes, but custom tags are fun.

https://github.com/aaviator42/yes-script

Comment · 1 year ago

Anyone have knowledge on how accessible SVGs are for folks who use assistive technologies?

Comment · 1 year ago

Countless lives over the next decades are going to be lost due to decisions being made by this administration. Deaths and illnesses that otherwise would have prevented using existing frameworks and systems had they not been destroyed.

Comment · 1 year ago

The money doesn't go to the researchers.

Comment · 1 year ago

    think / think hard / think harder / ultrathink

These are all valid claude commands/tokens to enhance its "thinking" abilities.

Comment · 1 year ago

How do you go about finding a recruiter? (for technical roles like system engineers)

Comment · 1 year ago

The lack of awareness is that the vast majority of users are not aware of and don't use scoop (or probably any package manager) on Windows, especially to install GUI apps, and that doesn't automatically make them "not sane".

Comment · 1 year ago

It significantly increases the attack surfaces of bugs that do exist in the parser if the same implementation is used everywhere.