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New comment by TheCabin in "Zotero 6"

TheCabin — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:53:19 +0000

I used Zotero quite a bit in the past, the thing that ultimately drove me away is that when synchronizing you couldn't easily access the PDFs just via the filesystem. I use a nextcloud and also wanted to access PDFs from devices without Zotero installed and this turned out to be a pain at the time. Is this possible with more recent Zotero versions? Is the sync still cumbersome with a zotero account + self-hosted webdav?

Synthesia, which is developing AI to generate synthetic videos, secures $50M

TheCabin — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:40:17 +0000

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/2021/12/08/synthesia-which-is-developing-ai-to-generate-synthetic-videos-secures-50m/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29556391

Points: 2

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New comment by TheCabin in "Moving to London for a Tech Job"

TheCabin — Fri, 14 May 2021 15:47:46 +0000

Sadly many countries have 0 education on this topic and it might not be straightforward to get hold on good information about the subject.

New comment by TheCabin in "Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?"

TheCabin — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:02:08 +0000

Just logged in to say that this work is amazing and that I really like your style :)

I also keep coming back to generative art and think about getting a pen plotter for years already. Now I am getting one!

New comment by TheCabin in "3500 packages uploaded to PyPI, pointing to a malicious URL"

TheCabin — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:32:42 +0000

Many people here say that slowing down is a must -- and I agree it's probably the best solution -- but surely there are more approaches we could think of:

* Not allowing packages with similar names to popular ones

* Not allowing packages creation to be anonymous (in the extreme case you would require to validate your passport or similar)

* Automatic detection of malicious code

* Central auditing organization ...

This is just on top of my head, there must be many more ideas.

New comment by TheCabin in "Zoomquilt 2 (2007)"

TheCabin — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:10:40 +0000

The website says "ZOOMQUILT 2 An infinitely zooming painting created in 2007" (Version 1 is from 2004) and on both pages it says "A project by Nikolaus Baumgarten". So it doesn't seem to be the case that we compare two eras of web-dev here.

New comment by TheCabin in "On the Graying of Gnome"

TheCabin — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:58:08 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I'll probably give this a shot.

New comment by TheCabin in "On the Graying of Gnome"

TheCabin — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:44:27 +0000

Very interesting article, thanks for sharing the information.

FWIW, I used to be very happy with the Gnome environment but 2 recent (nautilus related) changes frustrate me incredibly:

* Copy / paste file paths from nautilus to terminal is broken. (You get this extra meta information in the path starting with `x-special/nautilus-clipboard`)

* Type ahead is gone. Previously you could type the first letters of a file / folder and select it this way. Now typing automatically triggers a search (equivalent to ctrl+f), which is much slower.

These might be minor things but I hit them so often that I was driven away from Gnome.

New comment by TheCabin in "The death of corporate research labs"

TheCabin — Thu, 21 May 2020 09:38:19 +0000

> My answer: you will suffer from brain drain.and reputation loss,when you buy a smaller company,consumers assume that brand is now dead.

Not so sure about that. Maybe if you read HN a lot, but I think most users won't even notice.

New comment by TheCabin in "Second-Guessing the Modern Web"

TheCabin — Mon, 11 May 2020 08:56:36 +0000

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

New comment by TheCabin in "An Introduction to Modern CMake"

TheCabin — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:37:50 +0000

This. A 1000 times.

Nobody really wants to focus too much on build configurations when working on things, they should 'just work'.

And CMake, although I am using for a long time already, is not the offering this 'just works' experience I am afraid. It is so easy to introduce side-effects, and figuring out the intended way to include a project can be a big pain when documentation is sparse. Sometimes I wished I had a CMake debugger. And with modern CMake I feel like this got worse to some degree.

New comment by TheCabin in "Using Anki to remember what you read"

TheCabin — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:08:58 +0000

Is someone here running an Anki sync server[1]?

I would be keen to know about the experience of setting it up and maintaining it. The github project doesn't seem active, which I always find fishy for server applications.

[1] https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

New comment by TheCabin in "GitHub CLI is now in beta"

TheCabin — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:35:12 +0000

Not the point, I know, but the 3D diff is pretty cool actually :)

New comment by TheCabin in "[dead]"

TheCabin — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:44:26 +0000

The article actually sounds pretty alarming to me, no matter what title.

New comment by TheCabin in "Responsive Pixel Art"

TheCabin — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:51:14 +0000

Really nice!

It reminds me somehow of work from Dirk Koy: https://twitter.com/DirkKoy

New comment by TheCabin in "“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”"

TheCabin — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:36:51 +0000

What exactly do we actually see here? (I am surprised because there are vertices not connected to the origin, how were these detected?)

New comment by TheCabin in "Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees"

TheCabin — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:29:07 +0000

Really cool!

I sometimes find it amazing that we do computer science for decades now, but there is still a lot of room to improve very basic things.

New comment by TheCabin in "Anna Wiener on her book “Uncanny Valley”"

TheCabin — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:18:35 +0000

> written with a mild sense of superiority

I like how this perfectly describes your own comment

New comment by TheCabin in "An Attempt to Recreate the Blender 2.8 ToolBox in Qt5"

TheCabin — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:51:51 +0000

It would be amazing if this is turned into a reusable widget!

New comment by TheCabin in "Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities"

TheCabin — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:40:53 +0000

I tried a few note taking apps but in the end came to the realization that regular editors are actually better at the job.

My reasoning:

* _Sync_ should not be solved by the note app (applications that implement sync themselves are usually buggy, I prefer to outsource sync to nextcloud / dropbox / ...)

* I want the same _editing capabilities_ as usual (block edit etc., note apps are usually less power full editors)

* A _tree organization_ is important to me, which is trivially solved using editors and the file system

* There are _Markdown_ packages for pretty much every editor.

Note taking apps tend to ship these features but are not as mature as editors are.