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Re:Blissymbols – Ideographic Writing System
on Sunday April 07, 2024 @01:47AM (#39958438)
Blissymbols is kind of fun to look at for a toki pona speaker; sitelen pona (the most popular hieroglyphic script for the language) shares a lot of features with it and Egyptian hieroglyphics. And it's pretty comprehensible—maybe easier for beginners than Roman script in some weird ways—while being tied to a whole speakable language that is decently easy to pick up. Might be fun for some of the people who think Blissymbols looks cool.
Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:51AM (#33190922)
In brief, an extensible, syncable tool for making lightweight personal Markdown wikis. Emphasis on being very smooth and stylish. Emphasizes giving you a lot of tools that can suit a lot of writing/note taking workflows.
If I were to need to start writing a book this week, this is probably where I'd organize the research and composition.
Re:US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama...
on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:40PM (#29400403)
> It was a reaction to the previous administration's foreign policy strategy, which was to position America as less of a world leader and more of a partner.
Happen to know of any direct discussion of this being the intent behind that slogan from the Trump administration? Especially from Trump himself?
Re:US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama...
on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:24PM (#29400305)
I have fair understanding of a teachers' union. I think I can say that the NY situation is pretty degenerate relative to most places/unions. My cursory understanding is that if NYSED made an effort to actually push through their arbitration backlog at various points in the past, that situation would be much less ridiculous.
Around plenty of municipalities, teachers' unions are just trying to get teachers slightly closer to living wages, and trying to best advocate for their students. That's the impression I've gotten from being vaguely around during a lot of bargaining meetings.
Re:The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader
on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:41PM (#29313352)
rM support's statements in the past have been to the effect of "we aren't going to remove the root access; you need it for GPL compliance, and we need it for troubleshooting. And merely using it doesn't void the warranty, but we don't support third-party modifications." So if there's e.g. a flaw in the hardware that you didn't obviously cause by doing something absurd with modifications (e.g. overriding the temperature lockouts, deliberately wearing out the eMMC with writes, ...) they say that it shouldn't really effect your claim.
Now individual experiences with rM support have varied rather wildly between "they're great!" and "they're the worst!" so feel free to temper your expectations.
Re:The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader
on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:37PM (#29313328)
Color e-ink probably isn't going to be at quality-parity with e.g. LCD displays anytime especially soon. Kaleido is still really cool, especially when it's used properly, but it's probably going to be a bit too weird for something really like reMarkable for a little while yet.
Sometimes there's Indiegogo hype for "ooh, a large color e-ink tablet!" and I'd encourage cautious pessimism about those listings. Might be a good idea to wait for them to ship, and to wait for some reviews.
Re:The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader
on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:29PM (#29313278)
I was under the impression that rmcloud was an application grafted onto Google Cloud. Sure you're not mixing them up with Onyx?
Re:The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader
on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:26PM (#29313256)
rM seems to omit backlight as a philosophical idea; if you're mainly interested in similar form-factor of hardware with backlights, https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/ is upcoming. (Firmware/software support's not going to be up to "whatever-Android" or rM quality in a hurry, of course, but it's starting out as a hacking platform anyway.)
Re:Monads for Clojure Programmers
on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:45PM (#28767229)
"Flatmappable"
Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built ...
on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:50PM (#28211985)
librespot is a reverse-engineered thin client (using the same api that e.g. your "smart speakers" would). It doesn't use official APIs, arguably violates DMCA, and you pretty much have to use it if you don't want to simultaneously run the full thick official client on the same device at the same time.
Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?
on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @02:12PM (#22805816)
https://b.nfd.moe
Over the past several months/years, I've usually gone around in my life with a notebook on my person. Some of these notes/lingering ideas seem like things about which I should go write essays.
I've got three posts live at the moment, all of which have something to do with my (generally leftist) takes on the far right--though I might be coming at things a little bit more sideways than that implies. I've got some ideas for both more-of-that and not-that. You should read it because I'm digging into cultural issues (and probably other things) via some ideas you may not have seen before.
Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard
on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:28PM (#17992175)
I mean, no product HAS to be for you, but part of the point of the board is that it's really, really easy to change the keymappings on a whim. If/when they finish the adaptive mode on Agent, you can in-fact make it switch bindings when you're in an editor/shell. Swapping ESC for ~ will take you no more than a few seconds using Agent, and doing any other remapping isn't drastically harder; I've messed with my maps plenty since I got my device.
As someone used to ANSI boards who doesn't use the arrow keys routinely (since I use a LOT of vim binding), it's generally pretty spiffy.
Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard
on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:19PM (#17992145)
Maybe under some simple chord?
Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:59PM (#16751776)
I suppose they can. Please do!
Re:The compelling case for working less
on Monday December 04, 2017 @11:54PM (#15849832)
I'm glad you've got the surplus cash for however many years of school, then.
Re:The Depression Thing
on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:25AM (#15456261)
Whoa, cool. I guess I ought to go visit a psychiatrist. Thank you.
Re:The AI Misinformation Epidemic
on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:31AM (#13974763)
You'd do it to make money. Boatloads of delicious, steaming venture capital. Mmm.
Re:The AI Misinformation Epidemic
on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:27AM (#13974743)
It's a series of articles the author is starting. Check back soon.
Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins
on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:19AM (#13809225)
I really hope amateurs with "a {} is a {} is a {} is a {}" level skills aren't working on cryptographic or financial software in C or C++. Write Rust, though, which is {}, and at least the box of hand grenades you're giving them doesn't have all the pins pre-pulled.
Re:Show HN: A partial HTTP server written in brainfuck extended with s...
on Friday December 09, 2016 @06:36PM (#13142853)
Ooh, or the highest-level language, Homespring.
http://xeny.net/Homespring
Re:Bitcoin 0.13.0 Binary Safety Warning
on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:01PM (#12309152)
It may not be a matter of the release being particularly special; rather, they might've been tipped off to some insider information or otherwise be aware of some information they felt it'd be best not to describe in detail right now.
Re:Google Is Quietly Recording EVERYTHING You Say
on Sunday July 31, 2016 @02:49PM (#12198263)
...to its voice-search system.
Re:Swift is faster than C++
on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @10:22PM (#12177935)
Sort of. I bet I could take a snippet of C++ and find flags which would slow runtime right the heck down myself.
Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy o...
on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:14PM (#12177203)
I'd still stay away if I were evilsocket.
Re:Reddit is still in turmoil
on Thursday July 21, 2016 @08:17PM (#12140960)
They bought the mobile app family--which was in pretty good shape at the time, no less!--from a third party dev; and then basically abandoned it for several years. They just started actually publishing versions and patches a few months ago.
Re:The mystery of the 'legal name fraud' billboards
on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:00PM (#11884485)
Uh, how so? A quick search turned up webpages with about as many different font sizes and colors as Timecube.
Re:The mystery of the 'legal name fraud' billboards
on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:55PM (#11884459)
I saw one at 3rd and Pike about two weeks back.
Re:EgyptAir 804 Disappears Over Mediterranean
on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:56AM (#11728303)
It's the number of this flight that just vanished.
Re:FBI can obtain a warrant if you run Tor [pdf]
on Sunday May 08, 2016 @01:52AM (#11652817)
Looks like it mostly targets onion sites/eepsites to me, but it's really broadly worded. Damn.