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The article also references a low capital required list of business ideas for high school children. No one is arguing for million dollar projects. The argument is for hundred/thousand dollar projects.

The value of laws (in general) is being challenged in the US right now. At least, so it appears from afar. Enjoy going through a power grab.

And there's no telling how many backups they compromised (let's be generous and assume backups exist).

This… feels like one of those “99% of people can’t do this basic math trick” memes. I mean, yeah, the puzzles are actually cool, but it feels strange to see such posts on a news website.

About a decade ago… I was all up in the craze of checking out different chat platforms and going for the most secure one. Back then, Signal was BY FAR the least stable. I kept loosing messages, had loads of problems using it on both my phone and laptop, and I could not trust it to actually deliver chats to the other person.

I know this was a decade ago, I assume things changed, but I couldn’t have tried to get casual folk on an unstable platform. So people moved around, shopped for other platforms, and WhatsApp is the one that stuck. It’s now the default platform in my country.

Signal fucked up their launch by being an unstable piece of software with subpar UX when it mattered. It’s by far the most secure, but I just can’t see it ever gaining critical mass unless other platforms somehow explode gloriously.

Is there any intermediate representation of the project that gets dumped to disk which could be used as a basis for an LSP? I know the need for an lsp drops significantly with fast compilation… yet this still feels like it might improve the existing one significantly?

> (and to unblock updating to the latest Zig version, which we've use for our stdlib for years)

It's somewhere in the middle of the list of the "Why now?" section.

This statement assumes all costs and losses involved in the experiment were “for nothing”. I highly doubt that’s the case.

>> And I buy this stuff. Every time I need customer service and I'm getting stonewalled I just go onto a marketplace, find an exec and buy their details for pennies and call them up on their cellphone.

I find it funny how easy it is to find scammy websites which promise to remove your data (right...), but how hard it is to find the actual marketplaces where people trade this data. It also makes you think about what other systems have similar asymmetric interfaces for the public and the ones in the know (yes, I know there are plenty).

It's new. It's led by a star dev. It has sane defaults. It's written in a new programming language, so devs can learn from it if they're interested in the language (there are only a handful production ready projects written in zig so far).

I'm also sticking to kitty, 'cause I use some of the more funky features. But if I were to recommend a terminal to a newbie, I would recommend ghostty as it really cares about having a good default experience.

> Is it completely removed from Sublime Text?

Of course not. I was just describing 2 different levels of coolness.

Cool, but git integration in the editor was also cool until SublimeHQ decided to spin out a dedicated client for it.

The only debugger I'm happy with right now (in terms of performance/features) is RemedyBG, but it's windows only and compiled languages only. In general, I mostly live with painfully slow debugging in VSCode.

I would really love to see RemedyBG's dedicated debugging UI/UX approach refined by some group like SublimeHQ. A group who knows how to turn the UX up to 11.

Is there any chance we'd see a Sublime Debug? Loved Sublime Text and Sublime Merge. The main thing I'm missing in my life is a really good and fast cross platform UI for a LOT of debugger backends. (I tend to works with a lot of programming languages, and CLI debuggers are really clunky to use).

The remarkable team is good at marketing their product, and of course they’ll get it “calm certified” if they can. Keep in mind there are plenty of alternatives to it (boox, supernote, kindle scribe, many more). I bet you 90% of them are just as “calm” as the remakrable.

People use screen readers for accessibility. I would not expect anyone to be able to "look for and find" your mp3... I would instead expect them to use the tool they normally use for accessibility.

The real question is "what tools are they already using and how can I make sure those tools are providing higher quality output?". There are standards in browsers for these kinds of things (ways to hint navigation via accessibility tools for example).

And when I don't care... to be honest I'm even OK with the dull browser TTS implementation when reading your average substack post. Shove the phone in my pocket, go shopping, get the jist of the article.

On the one hand, this is very convenient. Probably cool for some non-fiction.

On the other, some of my favorite audio books all stood out because the narrator was interpreting the text really well, for example by changing the pacing during chaotic moments. Or those audiobooks with multiple narrators and different voices for each character. Not to mention that sometimes the only cue you get for who's speaking during dialogue is how the voice actor changes their tone. I have mixed feelings about using this and losing some of that quality.

I would totally use this over amateur ebooks or public domain audiobooks like the ones on project guttenberg. As cool as it is/was for someone to contribute to free books... as a listener it was always jarring to switch to a new chapter and hear a completely different voice and microphone quality for no reason.

So, the point is to make CLIs discoverable and aid with writing commands? Cool!

Here's what's missing. A persistent view of what the user is actually typing. The menus are all nice, but if this is fancy autocomplete I always want to also see the partial command that I've been typing so far. At least, there's no such view in the demo video.

PS. The demo video is very confusing.

My point is that analogy is influenced by fiction. It is too easy to attach concepts from fiction to the double slit experiment. Saying things like "which outcome your reality follows" are humane experiences overlapped on to the experiment, not something that arises from the experiment itself. Nor something that arises from the math.

I think the "parallel universe" analogies are misleading at best. I actually think most "narrative" explanations of quantum physics are as well. For a long time I used to imagine quantum physics with the same language we talk about superheroes and time travel and consciousness and whatever.

But then I actually saw some of the math (very basic Hisenberg uncertainty equations) and good comparisons to classical wave mechanics and wave interference. Everything made more sense.

As a layman with some very rudimentary understanding of the math, I would ignore ALL talk about "farming out" and "parallel universrs" and similar concepts. I think thise ideas are charged with too many interesting but fantastical elements which you probably don't find in actual quantum mechanics.

Whenever I ask a musician at a concert how to best support them, they tell me to buy a tshirt instead of a CD. That is bonkers.

Tidal still has support for DJ software. I know that’s niche, but it matters to me.

I stay on Spotify because Tidal's search is bad. Whenever I fire it up and search for music I literally have to type the full artist name sometimes. If I'm off by 1 letter it will often not find the song for me. This is especially true when not searching for particularly unpopular tracks. I would have switched to Tidal ages ago if I could actually find music when I wanted it.

Does anyone here work at Tidal?

Hi there. Tidal... The only reason I still use Spotify is that your search is quite bad. I would love it to be more fuzzy and include approximate results so I can actually find music in it. I have to be TOO exact/specific when searching for something to actually find it, especially if it's niche music.

I would also like it to be easier to drag music between playlists/search results.

If you fix those 2 things, I will switch. A good search is the only reason Spotify has me hooked.

As a kagi early adopter… why would I bug report on a feature I actively avoid using?

I can totally recommend search to anyone, but I agree with others in this chat that most toys feel beta. I’m glad to have them but can’t recommend them.

For maps, your goals of being ad free go against what I need from maps search. 90% of the time I search for restaurants, museums, businesses, opening hours, phone numbers of various local shops. People add that data to google, and not that many other maps services :(. That is where they advertise how to be contacted. Addresses and directions are really secondary to a maps search.

That's my question. I'm also under the impression that optimizations CAN be made manyally, but I find it surprising that "current compilers aren't smart enought to find them" isn't improving

"enabling frame pointers is a 1-2% performance loss, which translates to the loss of about 1 or 2 years of compiler improvements"

Wait, are we really that close to the maximum of what a compiler can optimize that we're getting barely 1% performance improvements per year with new versions?

Having a few eink readers/tablets, I can say that I almost never care about battery life. You end up charging them once a week or two anyway. I never look at battery stats for them because it almost never ends up important in practice. I don't even look at the battery stat when deciding which to buy or when I recommend one to a friend.

I "love" that almost everything I want to see in a browser (content, shops) wants me to install an app, and almost everything I want to have as an app (tools, editors, email... MS Office is the biggest offender here in my books) wants me to be in a browser or is just a bloated packaged website with subpar UX.

Can you even win a war without winning some battles? I joke there… but keys assume you have the research on the topic, then how do you answer if you want to fight a battle and give out an answer?

The way I read the article it doesn’t talk about producing a better argument. It talks about being a better listener/reader such that the other party is more killed to listen to the argument you already have.

I do see it worth spending the 1000x effort at times, but not to convince someone else about topic A. I would spend that if I’m unsure of my standing on topic A.