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by blowski 3y ago
> But a good open source forms app would probably change everything Can you go into that a bit more, I'm interested what you would see changing. Why do you think it hasn't been done already?
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by blowski 3y ago
HN guidelines: > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
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by blowski 3y ago
The main enterprise-necessary feature missing in Postgres compared to Oracle is free trips to the Bahamas.
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by blowski 3y ago
If the course makes it clear that grading is affected by accessibility and efficiency of file size, and then submitted work ignores those factors - regardless of Canva being used - then downgrading it is justified. Perhaps it’s obvious to d
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by blowski 3y ago
On what basis? Is Canva somehow cheating? I don't know, as I'm not a designer in any way.
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by blowski 3y ago
> I downgrade any student who makes their research slides using this dumb service I really hope you’re exaggerating
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by blowski 3y ago
OP - I'm curious why you've submitted this today, you seem experienced enough to guess this is not the first time you've used it. Has there been a major change or something happened in the community I need to know about? Or
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by blowski 3y ago
Yes! In 2010, it could say "Oh you like Leonard Cohen? Maybe you'll like Jonathan Richman.", which was a great jump. Now, it's more like "Oh, you like Simon and Garfunkel? Here's a bland cover of one of their s
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by blowski 3y ago
Also a lot more flexible over how you use it. Voice communication is difficult on public transport, around sleeping people, in a busy office, etc. That said, voice can be better for people and situations where typing is hard.
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by blowski 3y ago
It's difficult to spot, because - similar to your sysadmin - if you know it's AI, it's probably because it's doing a bad job. It's when it just blends into the overall experience so you don't even notice it&#x2
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by blowski 3y ago
Seems to me that the name is an extremely vivid explanation of what's happening, and might therefore prevent it happening, by sticking in people's minds. Better to prevent it happening at all than name it to make people feel bette
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by blowski 3y ago
Yes, this is "sharpening the saw". But we all know people who, despite boasting a lot about their extremely sharp saw, chop zero trees. Balance, in all things.
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by blowski 3y ago
It's similar to me wanting to get fit by spending a whole day deciding which trainers to buy, then never wearing them. The illusion of progress.
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by blowski 3y ago
The readme used to contain the text: > suyu, pronounced "sue-you" (wink wink) is the continuation of the world's most popular, open-source, Nintendo Switch emulator, yuzu. https://github.com/lineCode/s
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by blowski 3y ago
I'm on macOS, and I use either TextEdit or Vim. The problem isn't Obsidian itself, but the ecosystem in which it exists.
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by blowski 3y ago
Sadly, that's true, and my frustration with the constant churn of software is no reflection on the good people making Obsidian.
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by blowski 3y ago
Yeah, having a non-proprietary data format is a huge plus. I wish the Obsidian code itself was open source.
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by blowski 3y ago
I love Obsidian - its approach, the ecosystem, and the implementation. But... I can't help but feel it will become the latest application to either pivot to something unpalatable (probably after being acquired) or become abandonware, l
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by blowski 3y ago
Yes, I really don’t know how you’d run a study. Take thousands of children, give them some kind of experience without explaining why, and without anyone they know being there. Then ask them questions about it 20 years later. Have control gr
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by blowski 3y ago
I remember our dog lying down next to me when I was a baby. Problem is, we didn’t have a dog when I was a baby. Maybe I invented the memory, maybe it was a different dog. Without any way to verify people’s recollections, these are just cute
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by blowski 3y ago
How do you know the memories are accurate? How do you know how the memories got there?
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by blowski 3y ago
My local, private todo list serves a different purpose to Jira. Keeping the two in sync is manual but not difficult. Every morning I have a routine of selecting my tasks from Jira. During the day, I just try to keep Jira up-to-date. And the
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by blowski 3y ago
> What witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising “Take two aspirins”? Great line, it explains so much about humanity, from politicians constantly wanting shiny policies that are the exact opposite of their predec
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by blowski 3y ago
The vast majority of web content is published on sites that want people to use the content in their extremely curated walled garden. Making it easy to mash up content and integrate it with other sites is the exact opposite of what's ha
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by blowski 3y ago
Sounds like "the semantic web", which has been a great idea just about to take for about 20 years now.
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by blowski 3y ago
I like being able to put long-form articles into a reading list that I might get to one day. This UI would make me feel like a failure for not reading them, so I'd probably not want to add anything.
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by blowski 3y ago
I definitely want to hear this from Glassdoor. I just can't imagine why Glassdoor would put a user's name alongside a review against the wish of the user in question. So I'll give Glassdoor a chance to clarify what's hap
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by blowski 3y ago
How do they use it then?
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by blowski 3y ago
Why's that? I'm terrible at making decisions on pricing, so I'm curious about people's thought processes.
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by blowski 3y ago
Is it that much of a drama? Seems more like this is the whole selling point of open source - if you don't like something, you fork it, and people can vote with their installations. This kind of stuff happens all the time in private com

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