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I had very high hopes for matrix because of the bridging capabilities but I was sorely disappointed after spending a couple hours to set it all up. Some of the bridges require violating the TOS for other applications, or going into the dev tools to copy cookies. Basically completely unapproachable for non-programmers. Once you have a bridge it's impossible to start a new chat with someone in another app. You need to start the chat in the other app, wait for the matrix bridge to be notified of the chat, and then you can continue the conversation in matrix.

As someone who went to multiple schools for undergrad including brown I fully disagree. Brown is a very libertarian school with regard to the student body. Sure this example sucks but how many people at brown were involved with this decision making process? This feels like a situation where technical administrators who are not in charge of normal student life made a decision which is both highly unusual and clearly controversial. I would say the main people I came into contact with at brown for instance RAs in dorms and my professors and course staff were absolutely understanding, kind, and liberal in a way that I did not experience in other schools.

looooove this. any chance we could express "select inner word", for example `viw` or `vaw`.

I feel like this is widely desired and could be implemented as a language server and then used in the text editor of your choice.

I like this idea, but how do you deal with pseudo bleed elements overlapping with sidebar content? For example many websites put navigation elements on the sidebar [1], or margin notes [2], [3]. I personally would love to see a css only solution for pseudo bleed with margin notes. The only solutions I've found so far use resize observer to absolutely position the margin notes using js or have hand coded positions and offsets.

[1]: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2020/07/01/accordion-rows...

[2]: https://www.gwern.net/About

[3]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

I love this question. It’s plausible enough to imagine Apple charging for ads. But the implications are huge. Imagine every hardware platform charging for transactions made on that platform. It would be like landlords getting a flat percentage of your income on top of an annual fee.

I would not even touch vega, it’s the engine vega lite is built on. Vega lite is a declarative json format for representing charts. The spec is very well thought out and you can rapidly iterate on prototypes. Altair is a python wrapper for vega lite

You seem to know a lot about Andy. Do you know which tools he uses to write his notes and keep track of back links?

How about design or other backgrounds such as hci?

Thank you for your effort. It clearly shows both in your work which is prolific and creative as well as in your writing.

Funny I broke my arms a couple months ago and wish I had known this. I put two keyboard on my desk and was incredibly annoyed when I found out I could chord keystrokes together across keyboards.

Its a good point. The counter point is the process of reviewing your notes to formalize these connections helps cement those connections into your brain. Basically when you have a thought these two things are connected the system lets you document that thought with minimal friction.

The connections between notes ideally provide an element of surprise. The process is geared towards the long term while minimizing immediate friction.

They posted yesterday that it was not linked. but they delayed the release because of the incident.

In the brown undergraduate computer vision course one of the homework’s (or final project; my memory is a little hazy) was to improve the tracking of webgazer. People were pretty successful from what I remember. As an undergrad I didn’t think much of it but as a grad student I would be slightly mortified if undergraduates were improving on my current research for homework.

Looks like hackers got approx 60K. Anybody know how that compares to bug bounties at Twitter?

The light is hardware controlled. The camera can only get power when the light is on.

You know I've had times in my life where I've had this issue as well. I personally think our inability to turn off the deluge of pixels is a real problem. But I want data to back up the thought. In 2017 Youtube users watched a billion hours of video a day. [1] Some rough numbers show that in 2018 Facebook users spent about a billion hours on facebook every day [2].

Multiply these numbers across reddit, tiktok, the various international social media giants. Are the >2 billion hours a day people spend glued to their screen limiting social progress? Is it fear mongering and ignorant to even ask? One thing I know for certain is there will be a growing group of people seeking help to limit their watch time on these services. The algorithms are simply too addictive.

[1]: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/02/you-know-whats-cool-b...

[2]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/02/06/people-still-spend...

> Now all information belongs to a single category, and it all pours through a single channel.

It may not be relevant to the article but I think context collapse is a good way of describing the issues with online meetings. In a conference room you can sit next to people who share your interests or who you feel comfortable with. You may whisper in someone's ear about something that is relevant to the current discussion. You can direct your attention at someone by physically turning towards them and use the volume of your voice and body language to control who is consuming your vocal and physical channels of information.

That is just to say the problem that information channels are being condensed is not limited to social media. I think a lot of the points from the article about information competitiveness and trivialization can apply to other areas where information channels are collapsing. Also let me know if you can think of any other examples.

I had my one car accident ever in a Hertz vehicle. No injuries, no other car involved, but the vehicle was damaged to the point it couldn’t drive. I had full coverage and they replaced the car and had me out the door in 30 minutes. Zero extra charges. Hopefully I never end up in an accident again but it was unbelievably stress free given the circumstances. I would definitely work with them again.

Python’s standard library is essentially a Swiss army toolkit for manipulating data. It has email and imap parsing built into it! I’m sure this doesn’t completely explain the dependency tree size but it does explain the proliferation of simple packages in JavaScript. Even data structures are difficult to find in JavaScript. Try looking on npm for a max heap. Python has heapq built in. JavaScript has ten libraries that are all equally unpopular.

I don’t understand the desire to have no stylesheets. The default styling on the web is not a great example of design or usability.

A computer worm

I'm going through similar feelings right now and I tend to bounce in and out of this state every couple of years. I think the root of it is depression and anxiety. I would seek mental health care before you make a life altering choice. If you had the flu you would go to the doctor, you wouldn't wake up and say wow I'm so tired I should quit my job. Mental health is no different. Medication, therapy, and changes to your routine can help and often quite quickly.

here is the api you want. I use this to auto schedule my todos from a plain text file to my calendar

https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/reference/freebusy...

can you explain what this does?

Instead of thinking I want to make this then immediately coding I would take a step back and write/design what you are about to make for a couple of sit down sessions. Writing and design work are much easier to throw away and start over with than code. When you do start to code try to write the bare minimum of code which lets you play with your tool. Keep a running list of ideas you have as you are making the project. These help keep the motor running when you want to stop later on. Also always keep a document tracking where you were when you put the project down. What problems were you fixing? What is up next? Even if you leave a project for a couple of months having a context building document, an inspiration list, and design documents should be enough to help you pick the project back up. Also if you never finish that's totally fine. It's a process.

You answered both my questions! Also saw you created dynalist. Look forward to seeing this new project!

Which one does anyone use seriously. So far they all look like simple experiments.