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Highly recommend this CaptainDisillusion video that covers this topic of how cameras process colors in a very entertaining way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO3JgPUJ6iQ

Great tool, good job to the author. I am looking for something almost exactly like this. Lightweight GUI app for viewing tabular data. There's only one critical thing missing for this to be perfect for my desired workflow and that is automatically reloading on external file changes. Currently I use Visidata for the purposes of viewing the output of sqlite.

I write an SQL (or mainly PRQL these days) query on a text editor on a file which is being watched by entr which runs the query on a sqlite database which outputs a csv file which is then read by visidata and there I look at the data, do some basic manipulations. That my very simple, completely unix-style data exploration pipeline. What I miss a bit from Visidata is a bit more mouse control. I mainly want to select a range of cells to copy and paste somewhere else, which this does. But unfortunately this doesn't reload the file on change automatically.

Anyone has any recommendations for a data tool that would fit the workflow I described?

Everyone does thing is stupidly inefficient ways.

For example, we need technical drawings of parts, the only way is through a web interface that fetches from some remote server and you can only do one at a time. So you will often see people copy pasting (or even typing if they're reading from paper) each item code one by one and printing one by one. Another common thing, we use SAP for most things but Excel is required for some stuff by my direct leader but also higher management and there's a lot of sort of awkward getting things out of SAP and into spreadsheets in the right format. So here some basic data manipulation is needed and you see literally everyone doing everything manually most of the time.

In general, I just want to not be wasteful and do repetitive things manually while using a computer with Windows, which is something I'm not used to

Using tool websites is a bit annoying since so much stuff is just blocked

You are in charge of what runs on your computer, nobody is forcing you to use Discord.

There's no jerk dictating what is allowed to run on your computer, there's someone offering a piece of software that you can willingly install on your computer if you want.

If you don't want that, you're always free to not use the software or use workarounds to avoid the things you don't like.

I, for example, hate ads and use adblock always. But I don't think it's fair for me to go and say that everyone should forced to not put ads on their stuff.

I'm not a fan but I understand that I have no right to dictate what people do with their software

E-ink display though

>You could also do this easily on that $60 laptop or any chromebook

You couldn't because these devices don't have an e-ink screen. This would be the entire point of having a kindle as a writing device. Otherwise you would be correct

If two parties are in disagreement, it's useless if they just keep yelling at each other forever and get nowhere.

In any debate, people should at the very least be talking about the same thing

At some point you have to stop to reflect: "Wait, Am I really against the idea of people choosing what to see on the Internet"

In a world progressively more controlled by proprietary technologies and big corporations this feature is such a breath of fresh air

"Sussman and Wisdom make a bold experiment in communicating mathematical physics: they say exactly what they mean. Even a computer can follow their equations. By using this textbook, students painlessly master Scheme, a minimalist programming language, at the same time. This empowers them to go beyond the simplistic integrable systems that dominate the traditional course, to the richness of nonlinear resonance and chaotic dynamics. The hard core of rigor is softened by a personal and enthusiastic writing style"

How come I never heard of this before?

>Yea, who cares about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai. F those languages!

Despite your snarkiness, this is a perfectly valid point. If i'm not gonna use certain features in a piece of software, that feature may as well not be there. There are enough alternatives so that people that do need to use these languages are well served. But if that's not my case, there's no point in making my stuff compatible with it since it's not of any use to me

One would think that after going through this you would become more empathetic and understanding of the ordinary citizens side. But no, somehow the takeaway was that discrimination against innocent people based where they're from is OK

Average Americans most definitely benefited from US military shenanigans but that kinda besides the point here I think. The main point is that "just overthrow your government, bro" is not a thing people can go out and just do and these comments make it seem that they're negligent if they don't start doing it right now. "Just do it, bro. It's so easy"

I'm currently studying and trying to learn the russian language and I think this argument is a bit of a straw man. I don't think people in general would suggest you're evil for learning a language. Obviously you would find such people on Twitter or Reddit but not in the real world I don't believe

The Gemini guys actually think about this a lot so they're working to make the protocol the least extensible as possible or not extensible at all. They plan to freeze the spec forever after 1.0

>>...it is how Russia calls Ukraine

But the russian language doesn't have definite articles, right? So is that how Russia calls Ukraine in international announcements and such? Do they even translate their messages to English themselves? I thought it was all in Russian and we translated

If it's not that, what would be the equivalent of the definite article in russian? Maybe it's some other grammatical element that implies the same thing or something similar?

This is actually kind of interesting from a linguistic perspective. I never knew definite article could such meanings in english

For someone savvy enough it may as well be

I think Firefox is done. Not even the people who are the most enthusiastic about open web, software freedom etc. can be bothered to use Firefox. I still use it but I have a strong impression that a lot of people on HN and other tech spaces full of people who tend to care about this sort of thing are using Chrome.

I'm not sure how they can morally justify contributing to the death of the open web by helping Google's monopoly, but it seems inevitable at this point. Trully sad

>There is a huge intersection between people who are often saying they know how to fix Mozilla and those using non-Firefox browsers. If people here who cares about Mozilla would volunteer, and also use the browser, Mozilla would be in a much better shape

I have to agree with this. You see everyone on HN talking about the importance of Firefox in the fight against Google's monopoly but yet when you read comments about anything web related many (maybe most) commenters say they use Chrome (Someone should do a HN Poll).

There is no excuse to use anything other than Firefox if you claim to care about things the open web, software freedom etc.

If your business model is no longer profitable then you should go do something else.

I'm not obligated to pay for cable when Netflix is cheaper and better. If your family depends on that Cable money to survive, well that's sad but not my problem. Make a better product, change your business model, do something.

Again, content providers are free to stop providing content at any time. There's not much else to say here. It's not my problem of they deliberately decide not to do that

These "please sir, have pity, think of the children" appeals are futile

No need to twist and turn anything. No contract, no obligations whatsoever. It's literally as simple as that.

The content provider is free to stop providing the content at any time

I think that the idea that "people would largely stop making content for the web if that weren't ads" is a myth. Sure, the money seeking people wouldn't do it anymore and a lot less people would be able to make a living off of it. But think of all the web content makers that currently don't make a lot of money, which I believe is a lot of people since not everyone who has blog earns a living from it. I'm not saying we wouldn't lose anything but this idea the "90% of the web would disappear or be paywalled" is kinda insane and quite unlikely

If any regulation about ads ever comes into existence it will be against adblockers, making them illegal or something. Or do you happen to have billions and power and influence to lobby like crazy?

You can't. It's some closed source blob that may very well become malware, assuming it isn't already. Use NewPipe instead

I think the point is that putting so many ads on a page to the point of it becoming indistinguishable from a malware infested shit site is a form of abuse to the user. I personally agree with this take, if that's what he meant

Also, replace is maybe not the best word here since a lot Gemini enthusiasts believe some things that are possible on the Web don't need a replacement because we would be better off if they didn't even exist.

I also disagree that Gemini is a web replacement as in "everything the Web does Gemini can also do", when read "replace" this is what I think and this is clearly not true. To me it's more like "Some things the Web can do, Gemini also can and the things it can't do aren't really desirable anyway because they can be abused to do things I think is bad and evil"

My point is that most people using Gemini agrees with this: "It is its own thing with its own community that is entirely complementary to the web, and nothing more" even if they think some parts of the Web can be replaced by Gemini (which it can. Text only web pages with simple markup is a thing)

This is probably the most annoying straw man argument against Gemini. One of the first things you see in their official page is:

"Gemini is a new internet protocol which:

Is heavier than gopher Is lighter than the web Will not replace either"

And if you hang out and talk to people using it you find out that most, if not all, of them are well aware that Gemini will not and can not replace the Web.

Even Drew Devault has said this about Gemini: "Gemini does not solve all of the web’s problems, but it addresses a subset of its use-cases better than the web does, and that excites me. I want to discard the parts of the web that Gemini does better, and explore other solutions for anything that’s left of the web which is worth keeping". And don't think anyone here in good faith will say that this is "marketing Gemini as a Web replacement". You are imagining these marketers and arguing against them

This type of comment is getting so old I wonder what can be done about it. Maybe the reason why we don't have "different things" is because users of these so called safe languages are too busy arguing online about how safe their programs are instead of actually writing anything worthwhile. Meanwhile operating systems will continue to be written primarily in C/C++ for the forseeable future

Less than 4 percent is still a lot. You need 9 digits to represent the number of users Firefox has

Emacs and vim are way too complicated to just jump directly to the source code. Try something smaller and more manageable. I would personally recommend vis[1]. Also, take a look at https://texteditors.org/ to discover new editors and resources on design and implementation

[1]https://github.com/martanne/vis

No. That's actually the biggest myth about Gemini that seemingly everyone on HN believes.

When talking about this people are usually refering to this section of the spec: "Clients can present links to users in whatever fashion the client author wishes, however clients MUST NOT automatically make any network connections as part of displaying links whose scheme corresponds to a network protocol (e.g. links beginning with gemini://, gopher://, https://, ftp:// , etc.)."

But that only says that you can't automatically fetch images (or other resources). You can still make a network connection if the clicks on the link, for example.