Hacker News: nfd

New comment by nfd in "Blissymbols – Ideographic Writing System"

nfd — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 05:47:44 +0000

Blissymbols is kind of fun to look at for a toki pona speaker; sitelen pona (the most popular hieroglyphic script for the language) shares a lot of features with it and Egyptian hieroglyphics. And it's pretty comprehensible—maybe easier for beginners than Roman script in some weird ways—while being tied to a whole speakable language that is decently easy to pick up. Might be fun for some of the people who think Blissymbols looks cool.

New comment by nfd in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"

nfd — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:51:27 +0000

In brief, an extensible, syncable tool for making lightweight personal Markdown wikis. Emphasis on being very smooth and stylish. Emphasizes giving you a lot of tools that can suit a lot of writing/note taking workflows.

If I were to need to start writing a book this week, this is probably where I'd organize the research and composition.

New comment by nfd in "US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse"

nfd — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 03:40:40 +0000

> It was a reaction to the previous administration's foreign policy strategy, which was to position America as less of a world leader and more of a partner.

Happen to know of any direct discussion of this being the intent behind that slogan from the Trump administration? Especially from Trump himself?

New comment by nfd in "US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse"

nfd — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 03:24:53 +0000

I have fair understanding of a teachers' union. I think I can say that the NY situation is pretty degenerate relative to most places/unions. My cursory understanding is that if NYSED made an effort to actually push through their arbitration backlog at various points in the past, that situation would be much less ridiculous.

Around plenty of municipalities, teachers' unions are just trying to get teachers slightly closer to living wages, and trying to best advocate for their students. That's the impression I've gotten from being vaguely around during a lot of bargaining meetings.

New comment by nfd in "The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader"

nfd — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:41:30 +0000

rM support's statements in the past have been to the effect of "we aren't going to remove the root access; you need it for GPL compliance, and we need it for troubleshooting. And merely using it doesn't void the warranty, but we don't support third-party modifications." So if there's e.g. a flaw in the hardware that you didn't obviously cause by doing something absurd with modifications (e.g. overriding the temperature lockouts, deliberately wearing out the eMMC with writes, ...) they say that it shouldn't really effect your claim.

Now individual experiences with rM support have varied rather wildly between "they're great!" and "they're the worst!" so feel free to temper your expectations.

New comment by nfd in "The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader"

nfd — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:37:34 +0000

Color e-ink probably isn't going to be at quality-parity with e.g. LCD displays anytime especially soon. Kaleido is still really cool, especially when it's used properly, but it's probably going to be a bit too weird for something really like reMarkable for a little while yet.

Sometimes there's Indiegogo hype for "ooh, a large color e-ink tablet!" and I'd encourage cautious pessimism about those listings. Might be a good idea to wait for them to ship, and to wait for some reviews.

New comment by nfd in "The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader"

nfd — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:29:21 +0000

I was under the impression that rmcloud was an application grafted onto Google Cloud. Sure you're not mixing them up with Onyx?

New comment by nfd in "The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader"

nfd — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:26:11 +0000

rM seems to omit backlight as a philosophical idea; if you're mainly interested in similar form-factor of hardware with backlights, https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/ is upcoming. (Firmware/software support's not going to be up to "whatever-Android" or rM quality in a hurry, of course, but it's starting out as a hacking platform anyway.)

New comment by nfd in "Monads for Clojure Programmers"

nfd — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:45:33 +0000

"Flatmappable"

New comment by nfd in "Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust"

nfd — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 16:50:16 +0000

librespot is a reverse-engineered thin client (using the same api that e.g. your "smart speakers" would). It doesn't use official APIs, arguably violates DMCA, and you pretty much have to use it if you don't want to simultaneously run the full thick official client on the same device at the same time.

New comment by nfd in "Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?"

nfd — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:12:26 +0000

https://b.nfd.moe

Over the past several months/years, I've usually gone around in my life with a notebook on my person. Some of these notes/lingering ideas seem like things about which I should go write essays.

I've got three posts live at the moment, all of which have something to do with my (generally leftist) takes on the far right--though I might be coming at things a little bit more sideways than that implies. I've got some ideas for both more-of-that and not-that. You should read it because I'm digging into cultural issues (and probably other things) via some ideas you may not have seen before.

New comment by nfd in "Ultimate Hacking Keyboard"

nfd — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 00:28:12 +0000

I mean, no product HAS to be for you, but part of the point of the board is that it's really, really easy to change the keymappings on a whim. If/when they finish the adaptive mode on Agent, you can in-fact make it switch bindings when you're in an editor/shell. Swapping ESC for ~ will take you no more than a few seconds using Agent, and doing any other remapping isn't drastically harder; I've messed with my maps plenty since I got my device.

As someone used to ANSI boards who doesn't use the arrow keys routinely (since I use a LOT of vim binding), it's generally pretty spiffy.

New comment by nfd in "Ultimate Hacking Keyboard"

nfd — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 00:19:51 +0000

Maybe under some simple chord?

New comment by nfd in "Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?"

nfd — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:59:20 +0000

I suppose they can. Please do!

Show HN: Literally Run Your Code

nfd — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:54:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nfd9001/LiterallyRunYourCode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696380

Points: 1

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New comment by nfd in "The compelling case for working less"

nfd — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 04:54:36 +0000

I'm glad you've got the surplus cash for however many years of school, then.

New comment by nfd in "The Depression Thing"

nfd — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 07:25:13 +0000

Whoa, cool. I guess I ought to go visit a psychiatrist. Thank you.

New comment by nfd in "The AI Misinformation Epidemic"

nfd — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:31:25 +0000

You'd do it to make money. Boatloads of delicious, steaming venture capital. Mmm.

New comment by nfd in "The AI Misinformation Epidemic"

nfd — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:27:41 +0000

It's a series of articles the author is starting. Check back soon.

New comment by nfd in "Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins"

nfd — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 09:19:58 +0000

I really hope amateurs with "a {} is a {} is a {} is a {}" level skills aren't working on cryptographic or financial software in C or C++. Write Rust, though, which is {}, and at least the box of hand grenades you're giving them doesn't have all the pins pre-pulled.