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> Will our preferred notes system last the sands of time?

Yes... My note system will last.

> Could you see yourself using your note-taking app you use today in 30 years?

No, I do not trust apps to last. Therefore I use a simple file system hierarchy to categorize everything. Then I use the best avaliable browser and editor.

My setup is Markor on mobile for browse and edit. Syncthing-fork to get it all into my big system where I run customized Neovim and can make scripts to interact with the data as well as syncing any generated output to the phone.

Having been a Obsedian fan, with similar plug-in fascination, I also experienced the negatives the article mention, and I finally settled with a simple file hierarchy and resorting to as few and basic tools as possible. Obsidian is great, but I didn't need all the features. I need a way to categorize, to quickly find, to edit, and to easily sync and my current setup satisfies that and I'm productive with it. (of course it does not reflect Obsidian's second brain feature, but personally I found that concept to require more work than reward and it wasn't intuitive for me to get accustomed to, but I guess the second brain thing is more like a lifestyle).

Interesting! While it is about accidental art caused by bugs, it had me think of what bugs significantly defined part of my user experience throughout life. I know I have experienced a lot of bugs, but can't come to think of any particular one—only bugs of generic company software forcing employees to invent counteractive routines that then become habit. The habits can be seen as a kind of performance art, on part of the bug, similarly to how bugs create the accidental art the article highlights... Accidental performance art with unwilling humans as performers, where the very same humans are also subjected to the art.

You are right and my answer is yes. (I elaborated my thought in another reply under my parent comment; the essence being that tattoos with the function of fashion likely lead to regret, while other tattoos don't.)

I tried to not make an all inclusive statement, thus formulating it as "Tattoos as fashion", as I do recognize there are people happy with their tattoos, thus not subject to regret.

What I tried to get at, but wasn't clear about, is that tattoos serve a functional purpose (in your case it seems to partly be an identifier).

Then, specifically, tattoos with the function of fashion, is what likely leads to regret by the general laws of fashion. To quote "Project Runaway": "one day you're in, the next day you're out."

Tattoos as fashion: The height of youthful confidence; when one's 20-year-old self presumes to know what one's 40-year-old self will desire.

I don't know about Unix users, but perhaps, instead, it is they are able to not use IDEs.

I recently rewatched an episode of a popular show from my childhood, from he '80s,for nostalgia. In it, an interviewer asks a group of teenagers a series of questions regarding some sensational issue. The level of steady attentiveness and calmness they exhibited was astonishing, like literally focusing with eyes and body language on the interviewer for the entire discussion without flinching or turning awa, contrary to what today seem to be the "passive-hysterical" undercurrent of young people.

Not seen any mention of KeyDB... Maybe I miss something obvious, but it solved my small use case that would stretch to the other side of Redis pay wall. I'm very happy with KeyDB.

When I first heard of CSS in a brief discussion, background-repeat and background-position felt like liberation and magic, but also as a strange thing intruding into HTML, as techniques specific to HTML had become tradition, like layout using tables and the 1-pixel gif method to create borders.

Then, later, CSS Zen Garden was very impressive to me, given my limited understanding of CSS.

It sounds more advanced than it is.

It's a function wrapping the functionality of its host environment. Then provides the caller with its own byte code language to execute instructions. The virtual machine translates those instructions to the corresponding real functionality of the host environment (Javascript) upon execution.

This particular case is sophisticated but the idea is simple.

Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not knowledgeable in this. This is my current understanding of it.

It's an excellent strategy for the reasons you mention. And a kind of "security by principle of least privilege".

The expectation of mine is that there should be a "technical" perspective to general topics. What I mean is there need to be more critical thinking and intelligent analysis, just as is the case with all technical topics. Just consider the other post about decensoring pixelated videos with Ai. If the same kind analysis and style of thinking about the topic is brought to political discussions... that's what I mean. For example, intelligent sociological analytical perspective of the political thing at hand. An unconditional exercise of critical thinking...

However, political discussions seem to not even devolve from a higher standard, but remain at the most infantile level of emotional outbursts. Oppiniated without interest in analysis. Well... likely exaggerating, but anyway. (perhaps my bias)

And... Try having a stool, like a one-step folding stool under the feet while sitting. Drastically changes the experience for the better while sitting. There was a post on HN long time ago on it with research on it. It aligns more with how the body is designed to preform the other need for elimination, and my suspicion is it applies to the first category of elimination too.

The town square is the mainstream's niche.