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1e1a commented on Building Better Country Selects   talysto.com/blog/building... · Posted by u/dlrush
Gualdrapo · 4 days ago
> A full country list inside a native `<select>` has several structural limitations:

> No filtering. Users cannot narrow the list by typing

But you can use an `<input type="text">` instead and add a `<datalist>`[0] to it with the list of countries and you will be able to filter them by typing. Granted, it still has no full support (namely, firefox), but still that's much better than a `<select>` with no filtering ability whatsoever.

Not sure why this is not more known, though, I've seen it just like a couple of times in the wild. Now, back to job searching...

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Ele...

1e1a · 3 days ago
At least in Firefox and Chrome on MacOS, you can search <select> dropdown menus by typing.
1e1a commented on An interactive map of Flock Cams   deflock.org/map#map=5/37.... · Posted by u/anjel
superkuh · 11 days ago
Flock AI cameras run off small solar panels. Having run my own computer systems off small solar panels I know that even a minor shadow or a bit of bird poop on the panel can decrease the output enough the computer eventually cannot run and shuts down. I bet Flock cameras have the same response to a bit of bird poop like substance or shadow.
1e1a · 10 days ago
Birds tend to be attracted to seeds.
1e1a commented on World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite   esa.int/Applications/Conn... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
htgb · 10 days ago
Shouldn't it be 1000/16 = 62.5? Impressive nonetheless, of course!
1e1a · 10 days ago
The article says 2.6 gigabits/second which is 2,600,000,000 bits/second, 2,600,000,000b/s * 0.5s / 8 is 162,500,000 bytes, 162,500,000 / 1,000,000 is 162.5 megabytes
1e1a commented on Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World   earth-garden.alen.ro/... · Posted by u/alentodorov
1e1a · 10 days ago
This is awesome! It would be great if there were more sound clips — maybe someone could make an app that lets anyone capture and upload GPS-tagged recordings. Moderation could be an issue though.
1e1a commented on World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite   esa.int/Applications/Conn... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
xnx · 10 days ago
Impressive! I believe round trip latency would be 0.5 seconds.
1e1a · 10 days ago
That's ~162.5 MB in transit at any time
1e1a commented on Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors   fubardaily.com... · Posted by u/anonnona8878
1e1a · 10 days ago
This is great.

Feedback: It looks like geolocation for anonymous "FUBARS" is based on IP, but the weather widget uses the browser geolocation API.

1e1a commented on The Xkcd thing, now interactive   editor.p5js.org/isohedral... · Posted by u/memalign
1e1a · 12 days ago
It looks like the stroke/border is not taken into account in the physics simulation.
1e1a commented on Simple screw counter   mitxela.com/projects/scre... · Posted by u/jk_tech
bschwindHN · 12 days ago
> I mean I'll be honest, it's still a car crash of a program

I'm glad you said that so I feel a little less mean...

I gave it another try but it still feels pretty dire. FPS is bad on a macbook pro with a 120Hz screen on simple models and sketches. I explicitly selected "touchpad" as the navigation scheme, but I still can't figure out how to rotate, and even figuring out panning took me longer than almost every other 3D program out there (blender, PrusaSlicer, macos quick look STL viewer, solvespace).

It still has a splash screen and takes quite a long time to load, like an application from the 90s.

Buttons and actions that are completely irrelevant to me are shown, but disabled, which gives a really cluttered feel.

There's still "part design" and "part" benches. No idea what distinction is being drawn there.

Obviously part of this is from me being inexperienced with the tool, but as a new user all these issues add up to something that doesn't feel approachable or enjoyable to use.

Solvespace has its own issues, but at least it opens instantly and is generally a joy to use.

I'll watch some others slog through FreeCAD 1.1 though so I don't have to, and maybe I'll learn something.

1e1a · 12 days ago
In touchpad mode, you can rotate by moving your cursor while holding option.
1e1a commented on Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning   github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/mystcb
dotxlem · 13 days ago
I had the same problem and had some luck cleaning things up by enabling "calculate all sizes" in Finder, which will show you the total directory size, and makes it a bit easier to look for where the big stuff is hiding. You'll also want to make sure to look through hidden directories like ~/Library; I found a bunch of Docker-related stuff in there which turned out to be where a lot of my disk space went.

You can enable "calculate all sizes" in Finder with Cmd+J. I think it only works in list view however.

1e1a · 13 days ago
You can also just use du -hs, eg. to show the size of all subdirectories under ~/Library/Caches/ do:

  du -hs ~/Library/Caches/*

1e1a commented on Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware   withdiode.com/... · Posted by u/rossant
1e1a · 19 days ago
I feel like the fade-in animation when starting/stopping the simulation takes too long. Also, I think it would be helpful if the currently connected row was highlighted when dragging a pin.

u/1e1a

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