veidr

50 ms·

511.
by veidr 4y ago
Investing in fitness (weight lifting, running, eating well) probably has the most impact, but that is fairly obvious. Likewise never reading anything in bed other than long-form books. The one habit the was very surprising to me was daily m
512.
by veidr 4y ago
That isn't true; scrolling (and resizing) was a performance sinkhole for all kinds of apps that used the native table views (NSTableView and NSOutlineView), for many generations of Mac OS X. They eventually added enough optimizations a
513.
by veidr 4y ago
Well for some values of "meaningful" OK, sure. But lots of times a plastic bucket, even with a leak, is a better tool for the job than an extruder, mold, and warehouse full of polymer. I had to build a parallel CI pipeline once th
514.
by veidr 4y ago
Oh, my bad; I thought they didn't sell that any more. Indeed, that machine has ECC, (as do all Mac Pros, IIRC... so it will be interesting to see what happens when the Apple Silicon version of the Mac Pro is released).
515.
by veidr 4y ago
Apple does not make any Macs with ECC RAM any more. This was the reason I always used Mac Pro machines, and at the end, iMac Pro: those machines had ECC RAM, and incidentally always seemed more stable over months and years than the MacBook
516.
by veidr 4y ago
Also, while we learn “innocent until proven guilty” in elementary school in the US, it doesn’t apply to poor people. Under our peculiar pay-to-play “cash bail” system, it only applies to those who can afford the fee. For the rest of the pe
517.
by veidr 4y ago
At the risk of sounding myself like a knee-jerk HN meta-cliché... you absolutely do sound like the famous Dropbox quote from here, or CmdrTaco's comment on the original iPod. Absolutely every single tool in this space is re-inventi
518.
by veidr 4y ago
This obdurate refusal to support MST is indeed awful (and, actually, a minor one of the few reasons I mainly stopped using Macs). But it is "just" a software problem, right? So they could come to their senses and change their mind
519.
by veidr 4y ago
100% agree, but I think the actual number of use cases are not that many, the implementation complexity is high, and on top of that you then need buy-in from all the apps. Would be really cool, though. A potentially easier idea I have rumin
520.
by veidr 4y ago
I discontinued the use of macOS for programming/work stuff for a few reasons, but a huge one was lack of 8K display support. When my Linux workstation got the (old) 31.5" Dell 8K UP3218K, and it ended up on my desk next to my Mac&
521.
by veidr 4y ago
It reminds me of OpenDoc, which, for the extremely limited set of tech demos that worked (e.g. putting the BBEdit text editor into any app that edited text) was awesome and flabbergasting when I saw it. Just because it failed and nobody has
522.
by veidr 4y ago
The point is not the window-conjoining, it is synchronizing the app-specific state of the file browser with the state of the CLI in the terminal, and keeping that up to date as the user navigates around. That seems pretty specific and outsi
523.
by veidr 4y ago
I know, but (like a lot of people) he didn't end up posting there after signing up. Although Mastodon ended up being "about as good" for me (who just reads it when e.g. waiting in a line or something) as Twitter, there are th
524.
by veidr 4y ago
Hmm, 7 minutes after your post, my Twitteriffic still fails and is stuck on the "Sign in with Twitter" screen.
525.
by veidr 4y ago
I don't post to Twitter, but I still sometimes use Twitterrific to read it since not everybody I enjoy there has successfully moved to Mastodon. (Although tbh it is only William Gibson, David Frum, and Grady Booch that keep me reading
526.
by veidr 4y ago
Yeah; I think naming the companies is actually fine — it does add something, in the sense that: if these weren't companies I'd heard of, why would I care at all about this story? But identifying individuals is... well, even though
527.
by veidr 4y ago
Hmm, I read your comment and expected to agree with it, but... ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯ I found it mildly interesting, and not very scandalous. I mean, sure, when we are interviewing/hiring people, I suspect almost all of us wish we could just
528.
by veidr 4y ago
I had similar thoughts. It doesn't quite add up all the way to me, but almost; it looks like an act of sabotage. The thought experiment is: if you wanted to destroy Twitter, what would you differently? I mean you could do even wo
529.
by veidr 4y ago
Same here! That level of transgression is a one-and-done (and I have like 200+ kindle books).
530.
by veidr 4y ago
Yeah, you are right actually. I’m doing the same thing I complain about the “emacs is enough, we’ve had this for 30 years” commenters doing... conflating “good enough for me and my nerd friends” with “good enough for anybody” :-P What I mea
531.
by veidr 4y ago
> None of these organizational structures are inventive or the end-all Sure, but that isn't the important thing. The organizational structures and theories/philosophies are already mainly "good enough". The important
532.
by veidr 4y ago
> This app (aka "this week's personal knowledge manager") is the same as every other one out there That take is just... wild. I've been following this space intently for two decades. The past couple years have seen re
533.
by veidr 4y ago
I get that emacs and org-mode work for you, and probably a lot more people here on this website than elsewhere. And if that works for you, great! But, I'd wager that Silver Bullet (or Obsidian, Logseq, etc) is a far better tool for 9
534.
by veidr 4y ago
Wow! This looks absolutely fantastic. I was in my car when I first saw this thread, and was already impressed that it worked well right away on my phone (the surprise "you're looking at it right now; go ahead and edit!" half
535.
by veidr 4y ago
Huh? How are you coming to that conclusion? It is important to me, and if I was aware of an open-source Obsidian equivalent, I would have chosen that. But there wasn't, and AFAIK there still isn't one. Having a good tool that wo
536.
by veidr 4y ago
Happy paying Obsidian user here: Obsidian isn’t open source. That alone is reason enough. All else being equal (which, yes, is unlikely) an exact clone of Obsidian would be “better”.
537.
by veidr 4y ago
Well, I mean in theory they could just use whatever crypto exchange would let a 7-year-old transact business (which is probably not none?), but to avoid encouraging them to seek out such things, I consent to act as their bank. So they can s
538.
by veidr 4y ago
Whew, I was worried by the headline! But it means they blocked an update to the app (for blah blah App Store compliance), not blocked the app outright. (I only care because I pay my kids' allowance in crypto, and they manage it with
539.
by veidr 4y ago
Come on, dude: he's clearly saying, "Yes, (of course, obviously) really poor people in the world we actually live in have to face dirty water and worse, but this is not acceptable."
540.
by veidr 4y ago
Thanks! (Including the descendant commenters.) Wondering about that is why I bothered to comment at all. I assumed there must be some logical-but-not-quite-working reason. :-D

More ›