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by jxdxbx 4y ago
I really love your project. It is a giant pain in the ass to get BasiliskII and/or SheepShaper working, at least the few times I've messed with them. Is it possible to run this offline or in some kind of encapsulated web app for
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
Who cares? That's life. Railraods need to deal with human nature like every other industry.
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
This stuff tastes ok but if you buy it at the store to cook at home, it smells like dog food.
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
It is baffling that Bartender has not been Sherlocked. I think Apple’s current theory is that people will suddenly start using the new “control center” and widgets on the Mac for this kind of functionality (they probably won’t).
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
For me one of the best things about PCs for gaming is access to lots of old games and long tail stuff...in fact I rarely play new graphically-demanding titles. That said OpenEmu on the Mac is the slickest emulation manager / front-end
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
You can construct a formal system with any axioms you choose. It is not arbitrary that some of these systems turn out to be useful in modeling the world. But there are other systems that are only dry exercises in symbol manipulation that ma
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
I'm interested in an app that I can just throw a million disorganized documents (PDFs, word files, text files) at, and have it draw insights and help me write. There have allegedly been apps like this since forever but none of them ev
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
I am not a developer but I find it useful to just be able to use rsync and a few other tools I am used to from Mac and Linux. Same reason I install Homebrew on Mac.
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
Yes. I have about 2.5 TB of music and Swinsian does not break a sweat.
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
Weirdly Plex has gotten good at music. Which it used to suck at. But Plexamp and sonic analysis is cool.
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
Verification is more of a benefit to Twitter than to verified users. At least for mega celebs. I am verified because years ago I knew someone who worked at Twitter. I wouldn't pay a penny for it though.
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
I'm a lawyer and I also only travel with, and can do a lot (but not all) of my work on an iPad. I probably spend more on my iPad Pro + keyboard than I would for a laptop. But the iPad is also my primary e-reader, I watch movies on it
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
I don't like how Apple is making the iPad more laptop-y. My ideal is to use a normal desktop computer, and an iPad. No laptop. But if I had to pick only one of course it would be a laptop.
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
I've been looking for a GOOD dictionary app that works with StarDict files for years. I am not interested in the crummy free internet dictionaries that people use when I've got the complete OED. (The actual OED, not some random
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
the extensive library of plugins allows you to do things not possible with just command line tools or the file manager. But of course the basics are just awareness of metadata, metadata editing, and grouping different file formats of the s
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
I have used Calibre for years. It's utilitarian and I can usually get it to do what I need. The weird things I need--editing the metadata of ebooks, converting between formats (including to Amazon's weird KFX using a plugin that
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
The headline read to me as if he used his voice, alone, to hack the toy train. Which would be pretty cool
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by jxdxbx 4y ago
I have gone through so many devices and setups trying to find an ebook situation that makes sense. Kindle, Book, different sizes. Fantasy of reading Instapaper and PDFs and comics and stuff, not just ebooks, and having it not be a huge pa
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
Same. I get it if you are super mobile and need things that only a desktop OS can do. But I work at the same desk most days. I've had to work on a laptop and I hate it. If a job makes me I can deal with a clamshell laptop where the
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
Very often the people who talk about reading just read absolute drivel: Business books, self help, pop nonfiction. Airport books.
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
I think that manually organizing your own files is not really compatible with a large music library (I have around 2 TB of music) and, from my experience, was too much of a barrier for most people anyway. I currently use Swinsian to organi
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
I have a Boox Note Air--it runs Android, and can do cool stuff to apps to make them work better on e-ink (mostly tweaking the contrast). It's still kind of slow in practice, like all e-ink. Page turns will take longer than a tablet or
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
Argh, that's annoying. I personally don't know why proper outlining support is absent from, basically, every single note-taking app that is not a literal outliner (like OmniOutliner) and, with Apple Notes, why I can't take t
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
With the new Quick Capture stuff I'm all in on Apple Notes. Drafts was a bit more slick when it comes to just capturing and acting on text, sure. But all the nerd-favorite apps like Drafts and Obsidian are heavily text focused. So a
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
Google scans all photos in the cloud (Gmail, Drive, Google Photos) for CSAM and has for a long time. It just doesn't show contextual ads against email anymore, since those all sucked.
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
Google Photos are also scanned. Just after they're uploaded.
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by jxdxbx 5y ago
I have a Boox Note Air--but no have no interest in using it for notes or "productivity." I just like e-ink for reading, and find screens smaller than 10" to be too small (too much page-turning, no good for PDFs). It's
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by jxdxbx 6y ago
The only ports I want to see on a modern laptop is just a bunch of fully capable USB C ports. An SD card slot would be fine, and if there's something like MagSafe, I'd want USB C charging to still be possible so I can just travel
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by jxdxbx 6y ago
Apple bought Cover Flow. And then retired the concept for the most part since it really wasn't that good of an idea.
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by jxdxbx 6y ago
I am so glad that there's been a 16:9 backlash. It makes no sense on smaller screens the you have to work from. It's ok for phones, since you need to hold them in your hand in portrait so some narrowness makes sense, and for sma

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