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randomcharson Show HN: Ejectify 2 Launched: No More "Disk Not Ejected Properly" notifications

I don't want to comment on the tool itself, but redirecting me to a non-english version just because I'm in a non-english speaking country (even though my browser is specifically requesting the english version!) is a already a dark pattern, but when it's clearly machine translated, and there's no way to go the english site is disappointing.

randomcharson Why Cline doesn't index your codebase

The most popular one is Screen Studio[0], but there are a few alternatives there, like Tella[1].

[0]: https://screen.studio/

[1]: https://landingpage.tella.com/

randomcharson Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today

> I dare you to watch 5 minutes of news on the government media channel (the only channels that can be accessed in the free TV tear, that poor people are able to watch) and say that it's not rigged.

This is not true. While most of the channels are government media, you also get RTL, which is very much opposition media. Source: https://mindigtv.hu/muszaki-segitseg-1/csatornak/csatornakio...

randomcharson The Code Review Pyramid

> When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style

Does this really happen, or has it just became a meme? I haven’t worked at any company where we did not have auto formatting set up with a common style config, along with some form of linting.

randomcharson DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s public self-driving test

But aren’t 10s of thousands of people dying from self-driving crashes?

randomcharson New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy

> What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?

In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.

randomcharson Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship

Hungary does not tax it's citizens living abroad.

randomcharson Next.js 11

Next supports loading env variables from files, and as far as I can see, telemetry respects this. Add this line to a `.env` file, and it's done.

randomcharson Next.js 11

https://nextjs.org/telemetry

What's the catch here? You can opt out if set an environment variable. You can surely do that on CI as well, if that's your concern.

randomcharson Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion

There are a lot of shitty companies that require you to contact support or even wait weeks before you can delete your account.

randomcharson Notion API – public beta

> there is no good company in this space

That's a bold statement.

- https://logseq.com/

- https://www.dendron.so/

- https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

- https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

randomcharson Notion API – public beta

It's not standard, but that's not a surprise, as Markdown is a pretty barebones format. Most of what they extended it with is pretty simple, like [[wikilinks]]. There are also other tools being developed that can work with the custom syntaxt extensions.

Also, at the end of the day, it's still just plain text. You won't lose any of your data if you no longer use Obsidian.

randomcharson India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first

No. 40% of the population had at least 1 vaccine already. Death and infection rates are also declining.

randomcharson My self-study plan for electrical engineering

Looping through a list of items, and doing different operations based on their value is an extremely common occurrence, and you’d hard pressed to find a codebase that doesn’t use that pattern somewhere.

randomcharson Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

> is live and always on the menubar

I spend my time in fullscreen apps. The menubar is never visible.

randomcharson Show HN: Anki alternative with integrated notes and study plan

Found it, yeah, you hid it well :D

Still, no import from Anki is a deal breaker for me, and I guess many others, especially since you seem to be targeting standardized test-takers, who have lots of pre-made anki decks available.

randomcharson Show HN: I'm making an integrated learning tool, like Anki and Workflowy in one

> Is that the fault of the app? The rabbit does nothing wrong

Look, you're free to put whatever in your app. If that's a one minute long 10fps animation of a rabbit in a suit, with a Coelho quote, all the more power to you, but I need you to understand, that makes it hard to take it seriously.

randomcharson Show HN: I'm making an integrated learning tool, like Anki and Workflowy in one

I try lot's of new tools: Remnote, Mochi cards, different srs plugins for Roam and Obsidian.

I tried to check out LearnObit as well, but a rabbit, seriously?

randomcharson Show HN: I'm making an integrated learning tool, like Anki and Workflowy in one

I have 10k+ cards, and 100k+ reviews, and I've used Anki for years. It's a professional tool, and while I hate basically every part of it, it's reliable, and doesn't do unexpected things. I'm not willing to bet on a tool, that's pushing an unskippable bunny in a suit to my face that's animating with 10FPS.

You're clearly onto something: Roam and new PKM tools are more popular than ever, Remnote is even hiring people. You just need to figure out how to present your workflow ideas.

randomcharson Show HN: Anki alternative with integrated notes and study plan

> Anki is famously difficult to use. [...]

I agree that Anki is ridiculously hard to use, I had a hard time figuring out your app too.

Also, you have

- calendar

- tasks

- study plans

- community decks

- streaks

- trophies

- microtransactions?

- $300/month personal coaching

- pomodoro timer

yet I can't import/export from the app.

I'd love for there to be a serious competitor to Anki, as it's rather stagnant, and the mobile experience is atrocious, but this just doesn't seem like it.

randomcharson Show HN: I'm making an integrated learning tool, like Anki and Workflowy in one

I'm a heavy user with Anki, and I get a lot of value out of it.

Yet I never actually recommended it to anyone, because it's basically unusable unless you're willing to tinker a lot, and put up with its very unintuitive UI.

I've had a look at your app, and it looks like a way more complicated version of Anki. I think that will put off many people from even trying it out

randomcharson AWS faulty UX cost our business $7k and they refused to do anything about it

I'd agree with you if it was -3 months, but not noticing this amount money for 8 months? For all Amazon knows, this person was just out to scam them.

randomcharson Flutter 2

Well, this was the most prominently featured demo. Is there a demo somewhere that's not badly designed?

randomcharson Ask HN: How do you take notes of interesting ideas while podcasting

If you use an iPhone, and listen to podcasts with headphones that have buttons: https://apps.apple.com/hu/app/airr-highlight-podcasts/id1355...

A triple tap creates highlights at the current location. If the podcast has transcripts, even the surrounding text is saved. It integrates with readwise.io too, so you have export/reminder options there as well.

Unfortunately nothing like this for audiobooks yet.

randomcharson Flutter 2

The idea sounds very appealing, especially to an indie developer: being able to ship your app on multiple platforms from a single codebase is kind of the holy grail. Unfortunately, the result is....

I tested this Flutter example[1], on a 16" MBP with and i7, and it is janky as it can get, it feels like I'm using a 15 year old computer. From the code it looks like the whole thing is... rendered on canvas? I'll pass.

[1]: https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/

randomcharson Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

> I have the exports if I ever need them.

Do yourself a favor and check if the exports actually have what you need, before blindly trusting it.

randomcharson Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

You could, yeah.

You could put in a lot of work, just for read-only feature parity.

Or you could work some more, and have a competing product.

You seem adamant, that the former is a better path, but I don't quite see why would you do all that work for naught.

(Roam already broke my backup script 2 times, and there are better uses of my time than interfacing with a proprietary product, if there are better alternatives.)

randomcharson Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

You could, but why? I wrote a small package to automate my backups, and transform the content into something readable for myself. It's far from feature complete, even for my simple personal use.

But if you're doing a complete read-only copy of roam, why not go all the way and make it editable, and compete with them instead?

randomcharson Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

One more point: the exported data in markdown (and maybe in json too) is lossy. It's not just that the you can't use it out of the box, but that significant parts of it are missing as well.

randomcharson Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

Have you actually looked at what's exported? You need to do a lot of parsing, and modifying before that content is usable...