douglasg14b

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Anticompetitive feature!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I'm strangely good at catching things intuitively (??).

Like, if my kid throws something at me, I can catch it without looking at it. Almost every time, it's fun

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It needs some categorization filter, or maybe just normalization?

I scrolled for.... Quite a while and it was people, places. Just... People and places.

I assume because that's the bulk of wikipedia content, which is where the normalization comes in.

Cool thing regardless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why?

I know the knee jerk reasons of course.

However, GitHub is a fantastic ecosystem for an application to thrive. Contributions on other platforms are greatly reduced.

Then again, the actual Lemmy development is a bit of a mess.

Once it gains critical mass of engaged developers, that's a good time to migrate off GitHub. Doing it earlier just slows the project down.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck yeah TimeSquirrel!

My name is Doug I love sci-fi EDM smoking weed, devops, and C#!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, life be that way sometimes.

But at the same time receiving just plain "Hello"s on the regular gets.... Difficult.

Tell me a bit about yourself who are you? I've gotten burnt out by investing into playing hellos and then them ghosting so I have a difficult time responding to them now. I definitely put a lot more effort into someone that reaches out with something to kick a conversation off with.

Kind of sucks if you, the person receiving the hello, are expected to bring the conversation.

Keep at it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

And your alternate options are what?

Why should we ditch Firefox now? Because they have moved slightly in the direction we dislike but are still light years ahead on privacy?

This is the tech version of single issue voting. All the nuance is lost and ignored, and it's just a knee jerk after knee jerk.

Mozilla is doing this because funding is difficult, if you wanted a free and open web then you should have been donating to the foundation. To some degree we all should have. The majority of their funding comes from Google, when that gets cut they have to make huge changes to their organization or they will completely die.

That's the reality we live in all those Mozilla engineers have to be paid money, they aren't working for free. How do you expect a company to function without an income source?

Have you thought about this at all before making statements like those you have made?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure it's me ADHD that causes me to accumulate tabs like this...

I'll have dozens and dozens of windows full of tabs.

I recently did a tab clean out before moving. And had tabs up from ideas or to do's or items that interested me from 4+ years ago.

Every time I restart my computer or close Firefox I always restore my previous session and get all those tabs back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like I said, I'm not arguing that many apps are built as electron apps when they're just glorified web apps. Though I'm neutral on whether that's a bad thing or not. I'm definitely against apps being built with electron that don't really have UIs, defeating the entire point of electron and friends...

VSCode is another example you're missing. And they have put a LOT of work into making as many features available in the web-version as possible, the feature parity isn't an accident.

Or Obsidian.

Examples aside, you might be surprised by applications you may not think of as not using native features, that rely heavily on them, expecting to be executing in a Node environment and not a browser one. Especially on the networking and process side. Browsers are extremely restrictive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

What are you talking about....? Please re-read my comment above :/

An electron app is a natjve application that renders a browser based UI. You appear to be conflating the browser-based UI with the whole "native application" thing.

It comes with all the advantages a native application does, like having hardware access, working natively offline, working with the filesystem, interfacing with the OS and installed OS packages, being able to use other native binaries,, being able to use more native networking capabilities....etc

Sure lots of electron applications that people make could just be a web app, I'm not arguing that.

I am, however, pointing out that you are grossly incorrect that electron (and all other technologies like it, we're not really just talking about electron here) is 'just a web app". It's a native application server and a web-based UI, which means I can write an application in C# with all of the .Net advantages, with a web UI, that runs natively on your device for example.

This lets me ship a product much faster than if I was going to build that UI in QT or GTK, with a significantly upgraded user experience that is consistent across all platforms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depression or ADHD?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

A bit miserable this week. Got sick, and haven't been able to sleep more than a few hours a night as a result, which is making it worse.

A misery snowball effect.

Hoping I can get a full night's sleep soon 🤞

 

This is kind of cool, "polaritonic chemistry"

 

I have ADHD diagnosed in my 30's, and can't seem to remember names even seconds after they are said. Sometimes I try so hard that I can't follow the conversation because I'm focusing on repeating their name over and over so I don't forget.

Inevitably I focus back on the conversation and the person's name is lost.

Texting their name to me tends to work, but others tend to find this odd/annoying/off-putting if I halt an organic conversation to text myself their name. And can even find it quite disrespectful.

So, Title: Have any of you "cracked" how to remember names in active conversation?

 

The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency.


I found this to be a fascinating read. Wish the paper was linked, but it looks like it's slated to be released in a journal later this week.

Though it looks like this research isn't exactly new as this 2013 article would suggest: https://news.mit.edu/2013/secret-of-efficient-photosynthesis-decoded-0514

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