phireal's comments

On: Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices

[phireal]

KDE Connect works fine for me and does more than clipboard (files, mouse sharing etc.).

[imgopaal → phireal]

great

On: Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor

[phireal]

Minio used to be de facto here, but they did a bait and switch recently and removed the UI from the free version. Garage is probably closest to best in class for open source on prem.

[muhehe → phireal]

But isn't it still available separately?

https://github.com/minio/object-browser?tab=readme-ov-file

[Jedd → phireal]

Does garage-dev have a GUI? I thought it did not.

I'm using it in my lab, along with an older instance of minio, and both are excellent choices I think. (I'm running both as HA jobs within a Hashicorp Nomad cluster, which complicates / eases various things.)

I had a vague memory of minio losing some favour a while back because they switched their underlying storage from basic object : normal file mapping to something more complex. A lot of home users, and I guess developers, liked the ability to navigate their S3-esque buckets via normal linux file system tooling.

On: Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?

[phireal]

There's a couple of computerphile videos on this:

nerfs: https://youtu.be/wKsoGiENBHU Gaussian platting: https://youtu.be/VkIJbpdTujE

On: Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API

[phireal]

There's also https://plugandplink.com/, which includes a hardware component to help the person learning (lights on the snake).

The app also includes preprepared videos and lessons (scales, arpeggios etc.) which interact with the hardware component.

My son's been using it with a tutor remotely and it's been working great! Not only that, but he can use the app and the snake to self-guide his practise during the rest of the week.

[sss111 → phireal]

this is cool and all but doesn't have a full sized piano version..? And $125?! (although probably because its 1st gen)

[phireal → sss111]

Yeah, I think for learning, the 4(?) octaves is probably sufficient.

And cost is probably due to first gen, yeah. Plus, hardware development is pricey, I think.

On: London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface

[phireal]

I've always assumed it's a nod to the original underground signage which had offset capital letters (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/London_U...).

On: Portable versions of development tools

[phireal]

The community edition of PyCharm is pretty widely regarded. VSCode is also pretty good but I would say it's more of an impressive text editor than an IDE.

[mdaniel → phireal]

update: ah, great minds think alike, I guess: https://github.com/portapps/intellij-idea-community-portable... although there's no obvious reference to PyCharm, I'd bet $1 it would work the same

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While I haven't personally tried it, I bet by setting "IDEA_PROPERTIES=%CD%\portable.properties" and then:

    idea.config.path=./portable-config
    idea.system.path=./portable-system
    idea.plugins.path=./portable-plugins
    idea.log.path=./portable-log

there's a reasonable chance PyCharm (and, as the values imply, IJ) would run portably, too

I use those overrides when trying to isolate my copy of IJ for reporting bugs, but I don't recall if they work _exactly_ the same for PyCharm, and for sure I haven't confirmed that setting them prevents writing into other directories

[phpdistiller → phireal]

What about Atom ?

[sprkwd → phpdistiller]

Slow

On: Problem solving with Unix commands

[phireal]

Shorter still:

    sort -u < list_of_numbers

[aepiepaey → phireal]

And if you're using cat because it keeps the filename out of the way when editing the pipeline, then just put the redirect before the command instead, so instead of e.g.

  cat file | grep pattern | sort -u

you can write

  < file grep pattern | sort -u

and the filename is out of the way compared to

  grep pattern file | sort -u

[adtac → phireal]

http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html

now, I'll wait for someone to post a link to the "UUOC award" award

[wmu → phireal]

This is not the same. For sequence [5,5,4,3,3,2,1,1] "sort -u" returns [1,2,3,4,5], while "sort | uniq -u" returns [2,4].

[phireal → wmu]

Huh, I didn't know that! Thanks.

On: Fastest Speeding Tickets in Texas in 2018

[phireal]

> Is that proper english?

The rate of a rate is the acceleration, so it's valid English, but probably not what was meant.

On: Gmail Services Global Outage

[phireal]

Thunderbird works well for me. Interfaces with GMail IMAP. Has a nice quick filter and all the usuals (filtering, folders, labels).

The calendar interfaces with your Google calendar too (with the Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar add-ons).

Available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

On: How YouTube’s recommendation algorithm works if you’re not the average user

[phireal]

Uh, did it? I mean, it talked about kids and YouTube in the last couple of paragraphs, which is an aspect to consider, but the rest of the article focused on the study, its limitations and the possible implications.

[devxpy → phireal]

Kinda, the closing remarks were sort of disappointing to me.