jdaw0

my impetus for exploring it was that vim modal editing and keyboard navigation is just really clunky in the notebook integration.

whether or not it's better for you depends on your use case for notebooks — i use them mostly for prototyping and exploratory data analysis so separating the code from the output might be more convenient for me than for you

i wanted to like marimo, but the best notebook interface i've tried so far is vscode's interactive window [0]. the important thing is that it's a python file first, but you can divide up the code into cells to run in the jupyter kernel either all at once or interactively.

0: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py

just being left wing doesn't save a place from being a toxic cesspit [0]

0: https://bsky.app/profile/jdaw0.com/post/3ljyl6kbeys2a

people stopped making these systems because they simply didn't work to solve the problem

there's a trillion dollars in it for you if you can prove me wrong and make one that does the job better than modern transformer-based language models

using discord for community and docs is a dead giveaway for whether a FOSS project is actually about FOSS principle or whether it's about chasing clout

i'm really disappointed with the twitter alternatives. i thought one might feel like early twitter before the culture war takeover, but bsky and mastodon are just left wing hugbox versions of the same thing. threads is nothing but brands, E-list "celebrities" and "influencers" out for a buck. i've even gotten desperate enough to try substack notes, but it's just a tacked-on halfass feature. is there really no choice but to fight the hackernews ui to find technical discussions on interesting topics?

The main difference AFAIK is that it allows a custom site list, a feature the original version dropped at some point. I do not know why the distinction is clean vs an implied unclean

funny to me that this image has reached the level of mimetic saturation that you can infer exactly what the image is going to be without opening it. many such cases but i always think it's interesting.

I still hate this story. The difference is that the fisherman without a business empire is one bad week away from ruin and his entire family starving to death.

>You would have thought that the people that most want to leave the site would welcome an alternative model that is specifically un-Twitter like.

I don't think this part is right though. Most of the people looking for Twitter alternatives at this particular moment aren't looking because they're unhappy with Twitter the product. They just want Twitter Exactly But With No Elon -- that's why half the word count of this post about social media is a rant about how the author dislikes Elon's version of futurism.

You're right about Twitter's addictive design, but that what the people complaining want: to indulge their Twitter addiction without using Twitter.

I think yours is a pretty common experience considering that Witcher 3 was a huge mass-market success and Witcher 1 was a niche product made both by and for insane people. I say this as a shameless Witcher 1 apologist.

Here is the MIT Technology Review report the article is referencing but doesn't bother to actually link to:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/15/1059470/customer...

Thanks. I spend a lot of time working around pretty thin data, so I'm always interested to hear how people think about extracting insights when you don't have the luxury of doing proper, robust experimental design or sophisticated statistical analysis. I'll keep an eye on the page for updates.

I certainly don't think this is bad advice, but without some discussion of how to assess the strength of a signal or the appropriate reaction size, I'm not sure it's useful advice. Knowing not to overreact to weak signals seems like the easy part. The hard part is knowing the difference.