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New comment by jasaldivara in "Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal"

jasaldivara — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:59:49 +0000

Do you know TreeSheets[1]? It kind of sounds similar to your notebook idea.

https://strlen.com/treesheets/

New comment by jasaldivara in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

jasaldivara — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:25:29 +0000

Not just Tailwind; most of the listed criticism are still valid and relevant, even after those products had success.

New comment by jasaldivara in "Microsoft makes Zork open-source"

jasaldivara — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:03:43 +0000

I suggest: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

New comment by jasaldivara in "Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml"

jasaldivara — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:42:23 +0000

I don understand: If there are so many developers willing to contribute with non OCaml languages, why they don't just implement their own mod installer in Perl, Java, PHP or whatever a "sane" language is?

New comment by jasaldivara in "Laptops with Stickers"

jasaldivara — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:33:46 +0000

I don't get what's miserable or unhappy about criticizing the political incoherence of some people. You may disagree with them, but why the personal attacks?

New comment by jasaldivara in "Laptops with Stickers"

jasaldivara — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:15:33 +0000

If you won't say who is the person you're talking about, can you at least tell an example of that cringe behavior?

New comment by jasaldivara in "Abstraction, not syntax"

jasaldivara — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:44:43 +0000

I think if people want a more powerful, programmable config language, maybe they should use something like Lua or Scheme instead of reinventing the wheel with those new niche languages.

New comment by jasaldivara in "The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)"

jasaldivara — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 03:35:26 +0000

For correctly obeying the rules, you first need to understand and interpret them.

New comment by jasaldivara in "Father tries to block daughter's euthanasia in landmark Spanish case"

jasaldivara — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:04:26 +0000

Any scientific source on that "well accepted fact"?

New comment by jasaldivara in "Inkscape 1.4"

jasaldivara — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:27:51 +0000

I don't think they are saying "proprietary" as in "secret, closed source", but just as in "custom format" that is built around one particular application.

New comment by jasaldivara in "An ordinary day with a Linux mobile device"

jasaldivara — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:05:26 +0000

I assume those scripts are edited on a regular desktop/laptop computer and then uploaded to the phone

New comment by jasaldivara in "Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch"

jasaldivara — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:43:42 +0000

> I do not know what the next-best single-user, single-process, non-bloated OS would be to run on modern hardware that still has some reasonably modern software and can be used for distraction-free (hobby) development the way FreeDOS could.

Not sure why would you want a single-process OS on modern hardware, but there are some alternatives that run much less things on the background than regular Linux: Haiku, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or some lightweight non-glibc, non-systemd Linux-based like Adelie or Alpine.

New comment by jasaldivara in "Linux When?"

jasaldivara — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:36:50 +0000

It's just common online courtesy to add to the title a short description of the project like (Zed, code editor) to save users some valuable time.

New comment by jasaldivara in "HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI"

jasaldivara — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:36:25 +0000

There are Javascript frameworks and CSS frameworks. Tailwind is the later one. Even the Tailwind front page describes it as a CSS framework.

New comment by jasaldivara in "The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped"

jasaldivara — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:07:55 +0000

Well, if you don't populate all expansion slots, it takes more space than it needs.

New comment by jasaldivara in "Ledger"

jasaldivara — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:08:02 +0000

This, but with SQL instead of Excel.

New comment by jasaldivara in "FreeBasic"

jasaldivara — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:16:33 +0000

With GOSUB you can use RETURN, but not with GOTO. GOSUB is for subroutines. (At least that's how it was on MS BASIC.)

New comment by jasaldivara in "FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE"

jasaldivara — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:41:42 +0000

What advantages do you find over Linux?

New comment by jasaldivara in "Lichee Console 4A: Mini Laptop with a RISC-V Processor and 7 inch display"

jasaldivara — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:16:36 +0000

What's wrong with Pinebook Pro's keyboard? I have one of those, and the keyboard works just fine.

New comment by jasaldivara in "Zig is now also a Windows resource compiler"

jasaldivara — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 20:10:14 +0000

There are GResources for the GTK/GObject ecosystem:

https://docs.gtk.org/gio/struct.Resource.html