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Comment · 4 years ago
There's a MASSIVE impact crater on the far side of the moon which we never see.

Imagine if it was inverted. It would look like a MASSIVE eyeball staring at us during our evolution.

Imagine how that would have impacted religion!

Comment · 5 years ago
> I really don't see how this is going to end well, there could be perfectly innocent photos on someone's phone of their own children doing perfectly normal things that kids do. Like a kid running butt naked around the house, or a photo of something like a rash that is sent to a nurse friend for advice on what it is etc.

These are still illegal in the US right now right? It's been a major criticism of these laws that they can hurt people accidentally.

Comment · 5 years ago
It's super sad that the history of Senet is mostly unknown.

The texture we have of Chess history for example is part of the allure. That the rules have changed, we know how they changed, why they changed, how people played in the past, etc.

Comment · 5 years ago
The problem is that 95% of users are awesome but 5% are VERY aggressive and angry.

The amount of people that personally attack you and accuse you of horrible things should be zero.

I've also seen users personally using our forums to try to get the software for free and complaining it costs too much money.

As soon as it's clear that one of the developers is listening they go quiet but it's super disheartening when your community, which should be supporting you, feels so entitled.

Comment · 5 years ago
Do we / did we even have the tech co be able to build this in a lab? I don't think we do.

It MIGHT have been possible but Occam's Razor says it's more plausible it evolved naturally and just jumped species.

FAR FAR FAR more plausible.

Comment · 5 years ago
Noe that when deployed properly, we MIGHT not need 85% if we have secondary protocols to inhibit the growth of covid.

For example, requiring all airline passengers or anyone leaving their state to be vaccinated and vaccinating frontline workers including those that work at grocery stores, etc.

Comment · 5 years ago
About a year ago I was trying to figure out how important dark mode was for our app so I created a poll on Twitter and linked to it here on HN.

https://getpolarized.io/2019/11/19/Dark-Mode-Should-Be-The-D...

The idea being, if you were FORCED to pick one, would you rather have light or dark mode.

90% preferred dark mode with nearly 1000 votes.

That blew me away honestly.

Before that I thought that dark mode was a 'nice to have' but clearly I was wrong.

The other issue isn't just dark mode but 'true black' mode for mobile devices and OLED. True black just looks better on mobile devices.

Most dark mode skins can usually be converted to true black but you have to make sure the fonts don't become too strong.

Comment · 6 years ago
When I first installed Growl I remember literally thinking "wow, this is really cool!"

... Being a tech geek means my nostalgia memories are 'weird' by normal standards.

Super happy now thinking about the time I first installed Growl

Comment · 6 years ago
We went full dark mode when we released the 2.0 version of our app which has PDF and EPUB support:

https://getpolarized.io/2020/10/05/Polar-2-0-Release.html

the issue we had was that we were using a CSS filter like other commenters mentioned.

The problem is that it inverts images too and pdfjs doesn't actually specify which parts of the document are an image as it's just writing to a canvas.

My plan moving forward is to fix pdfjs so it can invert natively and the actual canvas is inverted so that images won't be inverted.

I think figures would STILL be a problem though.

EPUBs are much easier and we're not inverting there because we can see which one is an img.

Comment · 6 years ago
This isn't official btw. I didn't even know about this! I suspect this is a 1.x build. Make sure it's 2.0 :-P

This is the interesting thing about Open Source is you get interesting developments like this that you didn't anticipate!

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes... if you delete documents it those won't count against your quota.

We've also tried to make it pretty cheap so if you have a huge repo it won't be super expensive. It also won't bloat your local computer so if you have a large repository most of that data will be on the cloud.

Comment · 6 years ago
I also wanted to point out that Polar is Open Source.

https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf

If you'd like to look at the code.

We have a unique build environment so DM me on Discord if you want to build it... You just have to use lerna and our npm repo but should work well.

Comment · 6 years ago
Totally agree.. We want to have a Safari and Firefox one and are working on having that resolved quickly.

The code actually is written to be portable as a 'web extension' as both Safari and Firefox use the same general API.

I'll try to get some time and see if it works on Firefox. The biggest issue we have is testing. If something breaks on FF I want to know and we don't have a testing environment there.

Comment · 6 years ago
If few equals two then companies like Apple have some explaining to do as to why their hardware can't be serviced.

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