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Hey HackerNews, I'm the creator of Sol. Here are some answers to your questions: - Why Sol? I started using Raycast, and it's nice, but found it cumbersome,
by oscar_franco13 4y ago
Hey HackerNews, I'm the creator of Sol.
Here are some answers to your questions:
- Why Sol?
I started using Raycast, and it's nice, but found it cumbersome, too many features tackled on top of each other with even more cumbersome navigation. I'm a ruthless simplifier and I wanted a similar yet I-don't-want-to-configure-you tool. I also believe that VC money backed tools face the though reality of unrealistic ROI at some point, so I fully expect other tools to squeeze money out of you at some point. I develop Sol on my free time building the tool that I like, and it will not have any registration step or run analytics on you on any shape or form.
- Where are the docs? it is not launching?
You seem to have tried the app at the unfortunate time where I did some breaking changes and fixing some bugs (try option + space it should launch). Regarding docs there is none, and there will be none, if I need to explain how to use the app I have already failed.
- Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo?
A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy.
- Memory use
Not more than chrome! BOOH YA!
Hope you like the app and feel free to submit PRs!
- ihateolives 4y ago> - Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo? > A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy. No. Sun can never become a black hole: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/why-the-sun-wont-become-a-black-hole https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/why-the-sun-...
- saagarjha 4y agoSmall "s" sun. Not our Sun.
- rspoerri 4y agothats a star, our star is called sun
- rspoerri 4y agothat might need some correction... Wikipedia states: The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. According to some articles on the web, other stars can be suns as well, if they contain a planetary system. In common language however "the sun" is typically our star. "a sun" might be other stars as well. I think most people dont understand and think about the difference and thus think a star is a sun.
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- atombender 4y agoFrom https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sun https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sun: sun noun \ ˈsən \ 1 a: often capitalized : the luminous celestial body around which the earth and other planets revolve [...] b: a celestial body like the sun : STAR Or to quote Carl Sagan: "Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."
- rzzzt 4y agoCommonly known as a star. (But now I wonder: is there a difference between stars and suns?)
- daotoad 4y agoMy understanding is that a star is a star regardless of what is or isn't in orbit. A sun, however, needs to have planets to be a sun.
- rzzzt 4y agoI searched if there are "free-floating" stars that don't have any planets in their field of gravity, and results essentially say "not since the early days of the galaxy". So nowadays all/most/the overwhelming majority of stars are suns. Very interesting!
- jray 4y agoDoes it have calculator functionality?
- ikurei 4y agoIt does. Might be a basic one, I suspect it's just sending your input to JS's eval function, but it gets the job done. EDIT: I said it looks like JS eval because I put in `sqrt` and it showed me something like `function sqrt() { [native code] }` When I tried to input some actual JS code it didn't do anything. I thought it might make for a basic REPL but no luck.
- trenchgun 4y ago"- Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo? A black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Have fun and enjoy." So it's not connected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)?