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I had very high hopes for matrix because of the bridging capabilities but I was sorely disappointed after spending a couple hours to set it all up. Some of the bridges require violating the TOS for other applications, or going into the dev tools to copy cookies. Basically completely unapproachable for non-programmers. Once you have a bridge it's impossible to start a new chat with someone in another app. You need to start the chat in the other app, wait for the matrix bridge to be notified of the chat, and then you can continue the conversation in matrix.

As someone who went to multiple schools for undergrad including brown I fully disagree. Brown is a very libertarian school with regard to the student body. Sure this example sucks but how many people at brown were involved with this decision making process? This feels like a situation where technical administrators who are not in charge of normal student life made a decision which is both highly unusual and clearly controversial. I would say the main people I came into contact with at brown for instance RAs in dorms and my professors and course staff were absolutely understanding, kind, and liberal in a way that I did not experience in other schools.

looooove this. any chance we could express "select inner word", for example `viw` or `vaw`.

I feel like this is widely desired and could be implemented as a language server and then used in the text editor of your choice.

I love this question. It’s plausible enough to imagine Apple charging for ads. But the implications are huge. Imagine every hardware platform charging for transactions made on that platform. It would be like landlords getting a flat percentage of your income on top of an annual fee.

I would not even touch vega, it’s the engine vega lite is built on. Vega lite is a declarative json format for representing charts. The spec is very well thought out and you can rapidly iterate on prototypes. Altair is a python wrapper for vega lite

You seem to know a lot about Andy. Do you know which tools he uses to write his notes and keep track of back links?

How about design or other backgrounds such as hci?

Thank you for your effort. It clearly shows both in your work which is prolific and creative as well as in your writing.

Funny I broke my arms a couple months ago and wish I had known this. I put two keyboard on my desk and was incredibly annoyed when I found out I could chord keystrokes together across keyboards.

Its a good point. The counter point is the process of reviewing your notes to formalize these connections helps cement those connections into your brain. Basically when you have a thought these two things are connected the system lets you document that thought with minimal friction.

The connections between notes ideally provide an element of surprise. The process is geared towards the long term while minimizing immediate friction.

They posted yesterday that it was not linked. but they delayed the release because of the incident.

In the brown undergraduate computer vision course one of the homework’s (or final project; my memory is a little hazy) was to improve the tracking of webgazer. People were pretty successful from what I remember. As an undergrad I didn’t think much of it but as a grad student I would be slightly mortified if undergraduates were improving on my current research for homework.