natemcintosh
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Comment · 7 months ago
Personally, I'd expect a few good years of stewardship, and then a decline in investment. I can only hope there are enough community members to keep things going by then.
Comment · 8 months ago
I used Texmacs all through my Master's degree. I loved it because it was excellent for quickly writing math, and building tables (I had to do this often). It would not have been excellent if I hadn't dedicated time to learning the keyboard shortcuts, but once I did, I could write math faster than writing it, and much faster than writing it in LaTeX. In timed take-home exams, I would just write the whole exam in texmacs because it was the fastest way for me to work.
To a lesser degree I also appreciated that the files have a similar feel to XML; I think it makes a lot of sense for this type of document.
I remember hearing about the macro system, but never looked into it. It sounded neat though.
When creating a technical document these days, I'd probably reach for typst though.
Comment · 11 months ago
As a Kagi subscriber, I find this to be mostly useful. I'd say I do about 50% standard Kagi searches, 50% Kagi assistant searches/conversations. This new ability to change the level of "research" performed can be genuinely useful in certain contexts. That said, I probably expect to use this new "research assistant" once or twice a month.
Comment · 1 year ago
Tried it out on Linux. Worked better than I expected. Sites that are text heavy render well, and quickly. Sites with more "customization" sometimes struggled with rendering; stuff all over the place. Memory usage seemed a bit higher than Firefox with the same tabs, but not out of this world higher.
All in all, an impressive release.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would love to have something like this for all the chores around my house. But I also have serious reservations about the increased level insight into my private home life this could provide to the manufacturer. Look at cases like the ring camera security violations [1]. A moving robot could be an order of magnitude more invasive of your privacy. If I were to purchase this, I would want serious privacy guarantees.
[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/...
Comment · 1 year ago
I watched the video on the open source maintenance fee page (https://opensourcemaintenancefee.org/) and it explains that the fee is for 1) people/orgs who make revenue from the open source code AND 2) want to interact with the GitHub project (e.g. open issues). You can however 1) make revenue from the open source code, but not interact with the GitHub project without paying the fee.
For instance, if I'm an organization that wants to use this open source project for free, I can download and build the code, but not download a GitHub generated release binary.
Comment · 1 year ago
Seems like this space is really heating up the last few weeks. The rust based tool sps[0] is also looking to fill this niche, though perhaps being much closer to brew's system.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think this will be a big boost to the swift ecosystem. The ability to add and remove language versions as needed is so convenient, and I'm glad more and more languages are adding it.
Comment · 1 year ago
This was a really great write-up, and gives me a lot of hope for the future of Typst. I think one of the best ways to overcome the enormous momentum of TeX is to point out its limitations (while still keeping an eye on Typst's limitations), and explain how Typst overcomes them.
Comment · 1 year ago
And what about, for example, those government contractors who are in the same position as you: they have a large C++ codebase that currently works, and is too big to re-write in rust? Now they're being asked to make it safer. How will they do that with the "existing C++ process"?
Comment · 2 years ago
Been using taskwarrior (and the really great TUI interface https://github.com/kdheepak/taskwarrior-tui) for about 6 months now. My favorite things:
- really fast day-to-day navigation using vim-like controls in the TUI
- automatic sorting using due date, task dependencies (A must be done for B to start), age, etc.
- task dependencies. This is really helpful for me
- decent enough cross-device sync with syncthing (I already had it up and running)
- ability to produce reports. E.g. what tasks did I complete for project X last month?
- whole system has a good set of hooks into it, making it relatively hackable
Downsides: - was slightly intimidating at first. If you're starting out, definitely start on the simple end, and slowly add complexity to your setup (creating tasks -> due dates -> using projects -> creating task dependencies -> using contexts for work/play/study -> ... -> ...)
Comment · 2 years ago
So many negative takes here. Does it look perfect? No, it's an alpha. I think the most important thing is that it's built on a solid base that will allow it to grow into a really really great DE.
Comment · 2 years ago
Tried the advice, but wasn't able to change behavior. Added a [comment](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/13552#issuecomm...) to an existing issue
Comment · 2 years ago
Anyone else get ~60-70% CPU usage when moving the mouse around? And no GPU usage.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, these mechanical engineering senior design projects at JHU are all sponsored by some organization or another, and the sponsor gets to keep the end product (and in this case also patent pending). Source: did a mechanical engineering senior design project at JHU 6 years ago (though mine was less successful, haha)
[0]https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-outbreak-analytics/index.html