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> Signal has probably the worst UX of any messaging app Really? I don't see any real difference between the UX of WhatsApp and Signal for example. And they're really on-par feature wise. The only things in your list that are no
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Reminds me of irctk: https://a3nm.net/blog/irctk.html
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OCaml Platform Roadmap for 2024-2026(ocaml.org)
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KDE Gear 28.08 Released(kde.org)
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I don't get it, I thought this was a port of Processing to Python, but then the installation instruction says: > If you have Java 17 installed on your computer, you can install py5 using pip: So it still depends on Java? Is this l
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I felt taken back before mid-2000 reading this comment. I mean it's been easily 15 years since those very basic things really just works on all the major Linux distributions.
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> I just want a fast programmable text editor with a native GUI and good defaults. What would that be for each OS? Linux: Kate (at least if using KDE; which one would it be for GTK / Gnome?) macOS: TextMate? Windows: Notepad++?
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That's what I really love with Kate (and actually the KTextEditor component of KDE Frameworks): you can build heavy plugins in C++ but there is also a very good JavaScript API that you can write new editing commands with for example.
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by p4bl0 2y ago
Hi HN! When I wrote this answer and Kate [1] to the "Leaving Neovim for Zed" link [2] earlier today I wrote a small footnote about the nano text editor: I must say here too that nano is actually an underappreciated gem.
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man nanorc(nano-editor.org)
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A lot of editors are being discussed here but I see nobody has mentioned Kate (KDE's Advanced Text Editor) [1] in the conversation yet, so I'm doing it. Kate is a very mature and capable editor, and even if I only use it on Linux
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I've always wondered if privacy conscious engineers who work at Google do actually use Google's services for their personal lives (Google Drive, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Keep, Google Docs, etc.)? And if so, do
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Similar to the Slack example given in the post with /is/ URLs, KDE has /for/ URLs with pages which present the KDE project and software for various user profiles: developers, kids, scientists, students, creators, gamers,
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Per-user prices would be way to expensive. Thé self-hosted GitLab instance I manage is used for teaching and research. We don't use it to make money in any sort of way. We don't have the budget to pay for it. If we have to pay in
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> They literally offer no significant advantage other than being an alternative to Github. I can self-host the community edition for free, and in addition to use it as a software forge and static websites hosting and deployment platform
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KDE Ships Framework 6.5.0(kde.org)
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> Making a complete font set can easily take as long as a year. The tasks include to go from 'A' to 'Z', upper and lower case, plus all the glyphs (brackets, ampersand, exclamation marks etc). That's when you&#
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Nevermind, I just found out the discussion did happen (I was really surprised not to find that link already submitted), but using Quanta Magazine's link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857041
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We have proved "BB(5) = 47,176,870"(discuss.bbchallenge.org)
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Godotcaml for Godot 4.2(fizzixnerd.com)
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The role of aesthetics in understanding source code(source.enframed.net)
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Indeed. I have to admit it took me some times to understand this was not about a specific small-ish form factor of laptops (e.g. Chromebooks like)…
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The website in question may be a dynamic website (e.g., WordPress, MediaWiki, or whatever other CMS or custom web app) and you either want a snapshot of it for backup, or you run it locally and want un static copy to host it elsewhere that
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The conclusion makes the point of view developed in the post quite clear: > Do we all collectively need the same cycle of honeymoon then toxic relationship over and over? Couldn't we just move away from proprietary social media onc
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A Critique of Cara.app: The 'No AI' Instagram and Artstation Copycat Child(davidrevoy.com)
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Clang optimize out countermeasure in constant-time PQ-crypto implementation(twitter.com)
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There is a desktop application that works really well you only need to link it once. Exactly like the WhatsApp web app.
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How is it "hard to use"? It's really as simple as WhatsApp or Telegram.
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> Is there any reason to use nano over vim other than learning curve? A simple matter of preference, I guess :).
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FWIW, nano can have multiple edit buffer, just add "set multibuffer" in your .nanorc to activate this feature :).

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