sportsaw

I love this:

> In the Trellis project we experimented with a “time travel” interface, allowing a user to move back in time to see earlier states of a merged document, and automatically highlighting recently changed elements as changes are received from other users. The ability to traverse a potentially complex merged document history in a linear fashion helps to provide context and could become a universal tool for understanding collaboration.

I love markdown. I hate making slide decks. I’m looking forward to comparing this to similar tools I’ve tried. In a perfect world I would be able to `brew install fusuma` and not need node, but that’s a small thing. Thanks!

I admit that I like Reddit for product or local-area research.

But whenever I find myself filling my time by scrolling through popular subs, I end up feeling like shit. They're teeming with misanthropes and the low-IQ'd. For example "Ask Reddit: What's one thing you wish guys knew?" or whatever. Or r/WatchPeopleDieInside (you mean watch someone have a disappointed look on their face... why is this entertaining?).

Reddit is like any popular entertainment (music, film, Nascar...), with a typical bell curve of un-intellectual stimulation.

Do you have an example of a site that blocks this? I don’t use gmail anymore but used this trick for many years and wasn’t blocked once.

Actually it makes perfect sense: clear images are identifiable.

This sounds sentimental, I can’t think of anything worse than being stuck in a coffee shop talking to people all day.

But the Stoics put a stake in the ground about what is virtuous. Doing so definitely has utility to society, but it has no more of a claim to being “correct” than a spider’s idea of a virtuous life: “eat flies and sometimes your offspring,” or whatever.

To me #1 sounds like an appeal to nature without basis. It sounds a little like “The Secret”—positive actions have positive reactions—which I haven’t seen evidence of sufficiently to make a law of.

I don’t know what “listen to our conscience, inner voice regularly” or “abide by virtues in your thoughts“ mean.

I like Stoicism and have read many books on topic. Stoicism provides me with mental tricks to think more positively and be more resilient. However, there are some presuppositions that underlie the philosophy that must be take on faith. “Lead a virtuous life,” for one. But why? What’s the difference if I do not live virtuously? As an Atheist I suppose I do look for these answers in part because I have not accepted the answers from religion. Perhaps Stoicism never claimed to provide a deeper meaning to life, and if one goes in without that expectation one will likely be less prone to disappointment.

I think the example was silly, but think about finding the epoch in, say, a log file. With this system you could just click and see the human readable. With the date command you'd have to switch to terminal, type "date -r", paste, enter.

I haven’t used the Acme text editor, but this reminds me of what I have read about it in that any text can be a command. Very neat looking.