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jimjimjim commented on Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor   github.com/eigenpal/docx-... · Posted by u/thisisjedr
mediumdeviation · a month ago
Ah these poor fools. Having built this exact product (OOXML compatible editor in React) before, it took all of two minutes to find a bug. The issue is that the OOXML spec is not in fact definitive - Word is, and trying to implement it from the spec will produce something that works maybe 80% of the time then fall over completely when you hit one of hundreds of minor, undocumented edge cases. Assuming of course that CC did not just hallucinate something. And then there's the more fundamental problem that HTML/CSS has unresolvable incompatibilities with OOXML. This is why Google Docs for instance use canvas for rendering.
jimjimjim · a month ago
I feel your pain. PDF applications have the same problem. The thousand page PDF spec isn't actually the spec, Acrobat is the spec.
jimjimjim commented on An articulated archer automaton [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=Bc0bI... · Posted by u/Teever
jimjimjim · a month ago
Great series of videos. They seem to be an intersection of quite a few of my interests.
jimjimjim commented on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia   pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4... · Posted by u/brandonb
jimjimjim · a month ago
This might sound crazy, but what if everyone in the country gave extra and as a result everyone in the country was covered?
jimjimjim commented on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia   pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4... · Posted by u/brandonb
jimjimjim · a month ago
Wow, that is a depressing point of view. Advancements in "not paying for things" accelerates while advancements in "preventing things" just inches forward.

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jimjimjim commented on xAI joins SpaceX   spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
jimjimjim · a month ago
From a technical point of view this doesn't make any sense.

From a finance and accounting point of view this makes everything more cloudy. Which certain types of people really like.

jimjimjim commented on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot   github.com/moltbot/moltbo... · Posted by u/philip1209
jasonjmcghee · a month ago
I’m out of the loop clearly on what clawdbot/moltbot offers (haven’t used it)- I’d love a first hand explanation from users for why you think it has 70k stars. I’ve never seen a repo explode that much.
jimjimjim · a month ago
Since there is a market for 5staring or 1staring reviews on review websites, there is probably a market to not-quite-human staring of github projects.
jimjimjim commented on Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza   github.com/velox-apps/vel... · Posted by u/wahnfrieden
boguscoder · a month ago
He also wrote (or at least started) midnight commander!
jimjimjim · a month ago
Thank you. I've used mc since my slackware days and still use it. I never new Miguel wrote it
jimjimjim commented on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?   ntdotdev.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/xd1936
zeroonetwothree · a month ago
Have you actually used Windows 95? It was awful. Crashed every four hours, driver hell, etc
jimjimjim · a month ago
It was unstable but it was nice to use. It introduced a lot of UI elements that are now taken for granted. I remember starting to build a window manager that replicated the win95 look.
jimjimjim commented on Are we tired of social media? (2025)   danielbrendel.com/blog/24... · Posted by u/_kzpk
p-e-w · 2 months ago
One thing that often gets overlooked is that 25 years ago, “the Internet” was essentially educated people from North America and Western Europe, with everyone else being a rounding error.

This made it very easy to connect on a level beyond just memes. Users had a lot in common personally, and that’s why they were able to engage on a personal level.

Today, the majority of the world’s population is online, and memes are often the only cultural language shared by all users in a community. Beyond that lie vast cultural chasms that make any deeper interactions nearly impossible.

jimjimjim · 2 months ago
Eternal September just kept happening day after day for 25 years.

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