AlanYx

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by AlanYx 5y ago
Thanks for that -- it looks really interesting. (It's crazy that Infinity Maps doesn't seem to have a single screenshot of the actual interface on their website, or at least I couldn't fine one after clicking around for a whi
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I love this, but it's too bad he wasn't able to find a way to preserve the original edge-lit passive matrix display. There's a growing niche of people interested in RLCD displays as a kind of e-ink alternative, and the displa
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by AlanYx 5y ago
The other challenge in the public sector is that the "business" itself is so heterogeneous that the IT management tends to be siloed, while people in these siloed orgs need to work with people in other siloed orgs. You can't
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>No one would ever get confused by this, it's pretty clear it's clickable. It's pretty clear that it's clickable, but I definitely wouldn't think it's a button. My best guess would be that it's a naviga
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>the ability to “memorize” (i.e. learn) I don't disagree with any of what you're saying. But piecing little bits and pieces of things together is seen as a higher-level cognitive trait in most of the cognitive literature, quite
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>The biggest differentiator between the students who scale up quickly and those who scale up a bit more slowly is their aptitude for memorization.... >But the students who struggle all struggle for the same reason: they cannot remembe
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by AlanYx 5y ago
There is no technical difference. There's no real technical argument for it -- the same thing could easily be done by software. It's more about the gestalt of photography and being limited to a small number of options done "i
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>Adobe is responsible for that stuff, not my camera. I grew up on analog photography, and one of things I really appreciate about recent Fujifilm cameras is that you don't necessarily need to use Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. There&#x2
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Emacs supports both RTL and math rendering (and not just in preview but inline too). I think this kind of flexibility is part of what is driving the popularity of plaintext… there are dozens of modern web apps for everything, but if you nee
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by AlanYx 5y ago
There is a plugin called Zotfile that makes this easier. But in some ways Zotero 6 makes filesystem workflows more complicated, in that PDF annotations don't get stored as actual annotations in the PDFs.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Based on what you've said, you really should give org-mode a shot. (And org doesn't even have to be text only!) Given that word-wrapping is a priority for you, be sure to turn on org-indent mode and visual line mode. This gives yo
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I don't think a text representation is intrinsically a problem, but I think Alan Kay was right that the level of abstraction has to be in line with children's intellectual development. Whether one uses Squeak Smalltalk (textual co
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I agree, that's a really great example. It would be even more natural for tags in org-mode, which already supports drawing tags away from the text itself to a far-right column, but they really could be moved in the other direction to t
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>I am trying to imagine what a page of code laid out by a professional designer would look like.... You'll probably love this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06030 Nicolas Rougier has also implemented a few o
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by AlanYx 5y ago
In French, there are various conventions around quotation marks ("guillemets") that may involve inserting non-breaking spaces (ideally, a NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE), depending on your workflow.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I don't think it's necessarily ironic. I'd argue that the "success" of the mobile and web app paradigms are in large part driving the plain text movement. It's almost as if a tipping point has been reached, whe
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by AlanYx 5y ago
vulpea is designed to be usable under plain org; it's a separate package from org-roam.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
If you're trying to do non-parsing automations in org, take a look at vulpea. It's roughly the same engine that powers the current version of org-roam. A good example application of this is the vino wine database: https:/&#x
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I'm also a huge Ecco fan and definitely understand your motivation for creating Crossline, but the particular features you mention aren't really ones where org-mode is currently lacking, especially given org-roam. Where I think or
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Lithium is a great example. Canada used to be one of the major lithium producers in the 1950s and still has huge deposits, but output has fallen dramatically over the years and actually declined to zero in 2020.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>Every comment attached to that post gets an anonymous number/tag (this already exists). In GDPR parlance, that's called "de-identification", not anonymization. Basically, if there's a risk you could piece togeth
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>I believe the later generation nanos supported BT The 7th generation Nano does support Bluetooth, but it has some compatibility wrinkles with some BT headphones. For example, it plays back at a very low volume on first generation Airpod
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean that in a pejorative way, probably poor choice of words. I just meant that it wasn't that common for students to come in. Some students I'd see more frequently at the university's tutorial centre tha
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>Were other students just going in and out of there constantly? Not constantly, but fairly frequently, yes. But judging from how frequently I'd meet other students waiting in the hall, it was probably only 1/5th of any class wh
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>The EU privacy regulations seem to have a side effect of creating a de facto EU internet, where EU competitors can become dominant because they pay closer attention to changes in law vs north american or chinese counterparts. Within EU
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I tend to agree with you about the typeface they use, Spectral. I think it's a combination of factors: loose tracking designed to permit slightly over-emphasized differences in weight (which were a design goal for the font) and somewha
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Have you seen the Raspberry Pi Foundation's book "Code the Classics"? It's a pretty gentle introduction to game programming using PyGame Zero, building old-style games like Frogger. It's quite colorful and meant to
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by AlanYx 5y ago
It's too bad there's no open source version of something like Print Shop Pro. I find LibreOffice to be very buggy when trying to design signs and banners (at least on the Raspberry Pi, some features don't work properly with h
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>The book getting started with raspberry pi was the best introduction to computing I’ve ever seen. I just wanted to second this comment. I was skeptical that the book included with the Raspberry Pi 400 kit would be good or useful, but it
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>I wonder if the fixity of location provided by printed materials is a significant factor in increased retention. I noticed that I often remember what part of a page I read something on. I find this to be very much true personally. The s

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