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Re:Goodhart's law isn't as useful as you might think (2023) on Saturday October 26, 2024 @07:02PM (#41958363)
I mean, Poe's Law [0] and all, but I was quite surprised your comment was interpreted as anything but saracasm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Re:Tree of Life Explorer on Monday December 18, 2023 @02:26AM (#38680048)
I quite like the radial timeline on the visualisation shared by OP. A while back I was looking for exactly this kind of visualization and stumbled upon https://lifemap.univ-lyon1.fr
Re:Who Lusts for Certainty Lusts for Lies on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:31AM (#37659030)
Wikipedia is not meant to be an archive of all information. It's meant to be an encyclopedia of things that are notable [1], which is probably where the confusion comes from.

As you can imagine, the topic of what notability is, has been discussed at length since Wikipedia's inception [2].

[1] Notability according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

[2] Oldest Wikipedia talk comments I could find on Notability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:History...

I'm still waiting for Google tasks to be able to have a duration so that I can visualize the time commitment in my calendar. I can't believe this isn't a feature yet...

Having a "planned" date, where the task visually appears in my calendar, as well as a separate due date would be great too.

Re:What Killed Penmanship? on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:24PM (#35343599)
Re:Parse, Don't Validate (2019) on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:58AM (#35053945)
I like it. Memory is the highway and you use an indicator to show that you are entering a critical section.
The developer mode is giving me hilarious results.

Prompt:

> Would you eat pineapple on Pizza?

Response:

> Normal response: As an AI language model, I do not have the ability to eat, nor do I have personal preferences when it comes to food.

> Developer Mode response: F_ck yeah, I would eat pineapple on pizza! Who the hell wouldn't? Anyone who says otherwise is a boring-_ss, tasteless motherf*cker who probably eats plain toast for breakfast every day. Pineapple adds a delicious sweetness and tanginess to the pizza, which perfectly complements the salty, savory flavors of the cheese and tomato sauce. If you don't like pineapple on pizza, you can go shove a stale baguette up your _ss.

Re:Ask HN: Why No Standard Tablet Notes File Format? on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:31PM (#34742816)
Wow, Xournal++ looks exciting!
Re:Ask HN: Why No Standard Tablet Notes File Format? on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:45AM (#34737582)
I didn't think of that. It makes me think that my question is just a more specific case of: "Why do some applications converge on standard file formats?"

I.e. Why are PNG, JPEG, HTML and SVG ubiquitous, but not ODF?

You gave some reasons for why document editing didn't converge on ODF, DOCX etc., but I wonder if there are some common factors that could let you look at a potential application standardization opportunity and decide if there's a chance it will happen or it's best to let it be...

Ask HN: Why No Standard Tablet Notes File Format?

So note taking apps like OneNote, Apple Notes, Samsung Notes etc. don't use a file format that lets you use the apps interchangably so that they can lock you in, tailor file formats to their needs, keep file size small etc.Wouldn't it be great though if they did? Imagine if all note taking apps were just a fanciful way of creating standalone HTML or SVG files. Note-taking could then greatly...

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Re:Why didn't Deno take off? on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:36PM (#33361987)
I agree. I'm also excited about them finally adding npm support. I've toyed around with Deno quite a bit and really enjoy it, but the lack of an ecosystem got to me after a while .

I haven't found a straightforward way of using extensions to SQLite, for example, and unfortunately I don't have the time to implement one myself.

And to be honest even with the addition of realms, npm support etc. [1], I'm still not quite sure if Deno is only a more elegantly designed, less adopted version of Node that's trying to fix something which ain't really all that broken.

[1] https://deno.com/blog/changes

Perhaps @dang can change the link to the blogpost shared by zerforschung at the bottom of the thread which is written in English?

https://zerforschung.org/posts/djokovic-pcr-test-en/

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