So Trump's master plan is to renegotiate the free trade agreement that he already renegotiated during his last term? He obviously has no idea what he's doing.
Is there even a point in signing treaties with the United States when you guys will just keep electing madmen that want to tear everything up every 4 years?
I own a 2017 MacBook Air, and I don't see why a block editor like Notion should be so slow on my computer. This is why I'm building my own block editor in Qt C++ and QML[1].
> Tip 2: the screenplay looks nothing like a screenplay
Is it because the lack of middle alignment? I was thinking about that. At the end of the day it's all plaintext/markdown underneath, so I need to come up with the right syntax for that.
Thanks a lot, I'm very happy to hear! Essentially, all notes are just markdown/plaintext, so it should be easy to move your data to/from LogSeq. I'm saying essentially tho cause, although the underlying data is plaintext, they are stored inside a local database rather than an arbitrary folder. But soon I'll change that.
Hey there, just saw your comment. Obsidian isn't a block editor (see below what it means in practice) so it's not being compared.
- Obsidian is using the resource-hag framework Electron. So it uses much more resources. Plume is built using Qt C++ and QML, and it's actually faster than comparable native apps.
- Obsidian editor is not a block editor (i.e., like Notion), so you can't put advanced blocks like a Kanban (tasks board) within the same page.
- Since it's not a block editor, you can't drag & drop different components.
Unlike Notion (which is also a web app wrapped with Electron), Plume is:
- Fast (Qt C++ vs Electron)
- Easier to use (opinionated design vs. Notion's complex databases)
- Portable (Underlying data is plaintext* vs. proprietary database)
*Currently all the notes' plaintext is stored in a database, but soon we'll change that to support arbitrary folder.
Excellent idea! You'll have a mature, open standard protocol under the hood, with no vendor lock-in, excellent extensibility, and great modern frontends like The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) or Convos (https://convos.chat/) to choose from (and you can choose).
I like taking photos of the aurora, and I often use NOAA's forecasts to plan sightings.
I wanted the forecast in a simple non-video format, and was tired of doing the mental math converting from UTC, so I made my own tool to show Kp forecast values (from NOAA) in the user's local timezone. Here it is in case it can be useful to anyone else:
Obviously, it's pretty bare bones. You need to have an understanding of which Kp value is needed to see the lights at your latitude. I'm working on adding more features to make it more user friendly
Nice one. Would be nice to have it location based, not just adjust to timezone.
Another great tool from over here that I've made use of a lot is Tromsø Geophysical Observatory's magnetometer stackplots page[1], but not for forecasting obviously.
A nice page, but I highly suggest to add a hint which timezone it shows.
I opened it and was totally frustrated to not knew if it's UTC, my timzone or something else.
I think there's no shortage of interesting and useful information on the internet. There's just a new challenge of filtering out the new source of background noise.
You can still serve hypertext and not use AI. There's still a place for that sort of thing. There's free real estate serving people who don't wish to become stupid.
Meanwhile all the script kiddies on this forum: "ChatGPT go brrrrr"
I am growing more and more bitter everyday by how many of us are rushing to build a deader Internet.
Every "Show HN: I have made ChatGPT even easier to use" is a stark reminder that either I am growing old and pessimistic, or for the first time in my career I am disgusted at the direction software engineering is going. Appalled by the lack of ethics and long term philosophical concern of what we are doing with AI.
I just see reckless software engineers happily playing with something they do not understand. Where is the AI equivalent of Oppenheimer's "I have become Death, destroyer of worlds," uttered because of his research on world-changing and world-destroying technology?
I am afraid I will have to separate computers from the idea of the Internet at large to keep enjoying this career: I love programming and computers, but the internet and social media are on the way to become a net negative to humanity in my eyes.
Usable AI sparks interest and therefore funding. If this leads to a large improvement of everyone's life this is a good thing, even if it generates noise in our public spaces.
Our work switched from Slack to Teams after an acquisition, and I can confidently say that Teams is just complete garbage compared to Slack.
- The interface is laggy
- Scrolling back in long messages is buggy, it often skips around and loses its place
- No built in "whiteboarding" tools in screen sharing
- Teams will often keep ringing on my phone for up to a minute after I picked up a call on my laptop
- Sometimes I can't click reactions on messages. I click the emoji and nothing happens
Overall, it's just poorly made software. It feels like something that was made by a couple of interns in their spare time, not a keystone product from a multi-billion dollar company
Also for several weeks recently my phone was getting messages several minutes before they showed up on my laptop, and 3 or 4 of my coworkers (all remote and in various parts of the US) confirmed they were having the same issue.
I really like QOI (The Quite OK Image format). It achieves similar compression to PNG, but it's ridiculously easy to implement (the entire spec fits on a single page), and its encoding and decoding times are many times faster than PNG.
I'm also a big fan of QOI as a simple imagine format.
Yes, it's not as good as PNG (as the sibling comments point out), but I view it more as an alternative to PPM (and maybe a BMP subset), as something that I can semi-quickly write an encoder/decoder if needed.
IMO, PNG is in a completely different level. Case in point, in the linked article the author mentions to not worry about the CRC implementation and "just use a lib"... If that's the case, why not just use a PNG lib?
This is just senseless hating IMO. What is wrong with KMail? KolourPaint? Konsole? Ktorrent? KSudoku? These are all straight forward and descriptive. Nobody bats an eye at "Gmail" but KMail makes people lose their shit apparently. Come on.
And of those that aren't plain and descriptive, most of them seem inoffensive. What makes Kate such a worse name for a text editor than "Vim", or "JOE"? What's so awful about a PDF reader called "Okular", when the competition is named named after southwestern construction materials and trapeze artists e.g Adobe Acrobat? At least 'Okular' suggests the program is for viewing something. Corporate brand can be as bizarre as the strangest KDE names, the only difference is what you're acclimatized to.
It's just a personal preference. I can't tell you why, but I just don't like how all of the programs start with K. I think it looks weird.
It also annoys me every time I try to search for the calculator by typing in "Calc", but nothing is found because I forgot I need to look for "KCalc"
I think at the very least, commonly used applications like "Calculator", "Console", "Mail" should just be called "Calculator", "Console", and "Mail". Not everything has to be branded. The mail application on Windows is called "Mail", the terminal is called "Terminal", etc. They don't call them "WinMail" or "WinTerminal" for a reason. They know most users would find that off putting
Better than gnome where every program has two names; one used in the documentation and . desktop file, and another used at the command-line and by the package manager
