barryvan

Obsidian plus various plugins would be my recommendation.

My default assumption is that if people talk about "0.8FTE", they mean 80% pay for 80% time and 80% output, whereas "4dw" _should_ equate to 100% pay for 80% time and 100% output.

If it's anything other than 100/80/100, it's flexible work rather than a four-day working week.

Oh, absolutely! I have all the regular breaks etc. When I said "go out to lunch" I meant it more in the sense of "go out for a _loooong_ lunch involving a few courses and a bottle or two of wine". ;)

Not where I am! Rather, it's a negotiation with your manager to see what works best. That way, we can ensure we have coverage across the week. We're all "on" for Mondays and Tuesdays, and then people take Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday off according to preference and suitability.

Yes, more people take Friday than Thursday, but quite a lot of people enjoy the zen-like lack of distraction when they work Fridays. Or so I've been told!

Although I'm in Australia, I work for a UK-based edtech company (Wonde) that operates a four-day workweek -- having joined just over three months ago. I know that I can only contribute anecdata, but from my perspective I've not seen any reduction in output.

Indeed, I've seen fewer meetings, and meetings defaulting to thirty minutes, rather than sixty. I've also seen more async communication -- not once have I received the dreaded lonely "Hello" in Slack. It's of course not all sunshine and lollipops. People aren't always available, so you have to work around or wait. On a personal level, I find I approach each day with more energy and enthusiasm, and I love that I get to spend more time with my family and can (shock!) go out to lunch with my wife during the week while the kids are at school. There seems to be a direct correlation between my improved personal life and an improved professional life.

I think the Australians might have a few objections to that proposal... As one of them, I know I do at least!

It is interesting how much more archipelago-like Antarctica is. I wonder if that would mean fewer interior deserts than a large continent like Australia has

I'm not so sure that the behaviours on one system are necessarily "better". I know that my preferences lie in one direction (away from MacOS), and I infer that yours lie in another. If a computer is a tool to get some set of things done, and these can be achieved with equivalent ease in systems which align to your preferences compared to the those which align with mine, then those preferences must be subjective.

Phones have a different pedigree -- I'm not upset if an app that's "open" is unloaded after some time or due to system pressure, even if I lose state on my phone, possibly because that's how things have always been (for a given value of "always"), and possibly also because phones don't have a dock or task bar to track "running" apps. On a computer, if the app windows being closed means the app is (mostly) unloaded and I will need to restore state with a new window, why not close it entirely? What does having it sitting in the dock with a dot consuming (admittedly few) resources give me beyond just pinning a shortcut?

I do use that, but I find that it's inconsistent. From what I can tell, it seems to toggle between the current size and the previous size -- which becomes problematic when using an external screen. Or perhaps that's just Finder -- it's hard to tell! Frustratingly, this matches the behaviour of alt-clicking (sorry, option-clicking) on the maximise button, and I really love being able to have two windows comfortably share a screen with no wasted space, aero-snap style.

What a great little utility -- part of my growing collection of tools to make MacOS behave more reasonably, or at least more in line with my particular expectations (which, yes, in many cases means more like Windows).

I think that part of the appeal of an app like this is about keeping things "tidy". MacOS seems to be built around making it easy to clutter -- lots of randomly sized overlapping windows (resolved using Rectangle for Aero-snap like functionality -- the weird full-screen split-screen nonsense in MacOS is just frustratingly limited and slow and has too many animations and transitions to be useful), dozens of apps filling up the dock, six hundred icons in the menu bar (which I use vanilla.app to resolve), and so on.

I think my mental model distinguishes between applications and utilities. Utilities are effectively like the old TSR tools -- you start them, then they just run quietly in the background until you need them, with no interface. Applications, by contrast, _are_ their interface, so it feels strange that when I close that interface, the application itself isn't closed. This utility alters the behaviour of the OS so that it conforms to this mental model. I suspect that this is a situation where there's no "right" approach, but rather a set of preferences and learned behaviours.

Mostly went. My 2022 13" MacBook Pro still includes it. Whether or not it should is a different question, of course.

And it wouldn't still be around if not for your incredible efforts -- not only on the software issue, but also on the OpenMPT community.

Awesome idea, and I really like the implementation! It'd be great to see an integration with something like Moodle -- so that educators could generate quiz questions based on course content automatically, eliminating the "blank page" when they start putting together a quiz.

Mazda is all _out_ on touchscreens... There are knobs and buttons for controlling things. You still get all the standard bells and whistles (radar cruise, lanekeeping, heads-up display), and, at least in Australia, no phoning home or built-in connectivity beyond a GPS receiver and radio.

Because it's of general interest to a wide range of people, and may well "gratify one's intellectual curiosity", as per the HN guidelines [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yes, they have. The front-facing camera in my Surface Book is of a much higher standard than most -- better than most separate webcams in my experience!

As you've found, though, I suspect that this is something which is mainly available in 2in1 devices. I suspect this is because the screen (or "clipboard") can be much thicker than is considered "sexy" or "acceptable" in traditional laptops. With thickness more akin to a phone, a camera module more akin to a phone's can be installed. I suspect that most laptop vendors aren't willing to trade screen thickness for webcam quality.

It's not exactly clear what this is. Is it a music player, or a new streaming service? They make a big deal about their history, but then also talk about fair revenue for creators.

I have a vague fear that it's going to try and do something like Brave's "BAT" but for music that you have locally -- which I guess could work if you distribute your music for free (as I do for much of mine), but doesn't make sense if you purchase your music. I certainly can't see myself wanting to pay for the same music twice -- once for the physical or digital copy, and then again for "Winamp Attention Tokens".

Much more likely though that it's just another music streaming service.

I suspect they will buckle -- but only partially, with an allowlist of browsers blessed with this ability. This will quiet the noise, but will also make it harder for small and innovative browsers to compete, as I doubt Microsoft will build out the processes to become blessed due to cost/benefit.

Hmm, that would certainly be a solution. However, I'm a little dubious as to how this would work in practice. The current signage can be thrown on the back of a truck, bashed about, subjected to dirt and weather, and is really easy to use.

Smart signage would (likely) be more fragile, (likely) require charging or similar infrastructure, and would require configuration -- so that the sign can communicate in which direction of travel it applies and so on. Certainly not impossible hurdles to overcome, but the costs associated seem very high -- in terms of manufacture, maintenance, and training.

For what it's worth, I suspect that we will see FSD cars operating with infrastructure likely along the lines you outline in the not-terribly-distant future -- but I suspect that they will operate within very clearly prescribed zones, like freeways and highways.

How would that work where streets signs _do_ change suddenly? A couple of examples I see every day are roadworks (new fixed signage for the duration of the works, or even a person flipping a sign between "stop" and "slow") and "smart" freeways/signage (screen-based speed limit signs that change, and have additional signs for speed-limits if all screens are off). Here in AU, we also have "school zones" with speed limit signs that turn on only during certain times and dates.

I'm not sure that governments would be quick enough to keep this "central roadmap" correct up-to-the-minute (to be honest, I suspect that "up-to-the-month" would be a stretch!).

...except that Microsoft makes freely available Windows 10 virtual machine images for testing. [1] Apple expects you to buy a device (several if you need to test multiple iOS and iPadOS versions) or pay a third-party, BriwserStack, which is laggy and an additional cost.

[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...

Mazda got this right more recently by completely ditching touchscreens in favour of physical knobs and buttons. They've even been able to move the screen further away so that it's at a more comfortable focal distance -- less time for your eyes to adjust when you flick over from the road to the screen.

One exciting thing in Fx89B -- and which you can see right here on HN! -- is that unstyled form fields have had a bit of a facelift. The text area I'm typing in right now, for example, looks much cleaner with clearer focus styles and slightly-rounded corners. It's not a huge deal, but it does mean that standard form controls are on their way to being consistent in Fx across platforms, and thus more acceptable to just plonk in and use.

For what it's worth, WA doesn't allow these sorts of clubs or pokies -- and we seem to be doing quite well, thank you. :P

I would prefer to see these sorts of clubs outlawed, and gambling only allowed to take place in licensed casinos, with very strict regulations around checking that the people gambling are doing so with full knowledge and are actually in a position do so...

Thanks! I've updated the post with more links. :)

CDBaby and Distrokid have a different model. Distrokid is effectively subscription based, with unlimited uploads of singles and albums as long as you keep up with your payments. CDBaby, by contrast, is more transactional. This works better for me, at least, because I do music as a hobby on the side, and so tend to release individual tracks sporadically, rather than entire albums. (Although having said that, I'm working on an ambient album right now!)

I'm certainly not raking in money through music streams, but I'm also not doing much marketing -- this post on HN is the most marketing I've done in the past month. ;) Unfortunately that means I can't really comment on how Distrokid compares in terms of managing payments etc.

I write in a variety of styles -- from classical to EDM to ambient to I don't know what to call it. :D

I use (and recommend) DistroKid for distribution, so my music is in all the normal places -- YouTube, Spotify, Apple, ...

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OR0sCvSClo5DHkk7fEv72

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy5Wy1HJ8muFQM87g2ctUeg

https://music.apple.com/au/artist/barryvan/1453603433

Excitingly, an indie game developer liked some of my music and is about to release their first game for Switch, Chained: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/chained-switch/

I think the biggest improvement this will have is in keeping things tidy and facilitating reuse. Yes, recursion is nice, but I suspect that it's not going to see much use compared to just replacing repeated formulas with simple functions.

Of course this also means that Excel becomes even more of a slippery slope towards programming generally, which can only be a good thing.

If you're able to get hold of it, there's an Australian show called "The Gruen Transfer" (in later years, just "Gruen") which analyses advertising and similar in contexts akin to the Gruen Effect.

This is very unfortunate, because in my experience the cloud offerings for JIRA and Confluence are orders of magnitude slower and more resource intensive, and BitBucket Cloud is very feature poor and workflow-compromised in comparison to its server counterpart.

This seems quite concerning to me. It opens the door for Google to ship features without ever standardising -- or _intending_ to standardise -- them. I understand that it's only meant to be used in exceptional circumstances, but it feels like Pandora's Box.

I'd probably use numbering for the references, and use the array of symbols* available for footnotes -- given that most pages shouldn't have more than a handful of footnotes, and you can restart your symbol order on each page. That's more difficult on longer-form web content, admittedly.

* See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_(typography)#Numbering_an... for a sampling. These can be doubled if necessary -- so , ††, etc.