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Option-Shift-Hyphen for em-dash

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So, this is a genius way of optimizing for that!

I totally want something like this here in Sydney.

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I've got a cute little portable setup using it, a Raspberry Pi 5 with a 1TB m.2 SSD, 15" portable USB-C monitor and a Keychron low-profile keyboard and bluetooth mouse. Works amazingly well.

I'm betting that just about any controller would be worth a shot.

I’ve never read anything that so clearly communicates and leads you into a state of mind that COMPELS you to prove mathematical conjectures from first principles.

I found myself furiously sketching geometric proofs and simplifying algebraic conundrums with an enthusiasm I haven’t experienced in decades.

And a course on sewing for beginners and continuing Japanese.

This was recommended by the delightful and talented Tibees YouTuber.

A few pages in and I was absolutely hooked and ready to start proving geometric conjectures…

A truly amazing communicator and educator.

Would be VERY interested in having visualizations of Apple Music data. I've had 20+ years to build up pretty significant play history.

Certainly being able to look into every type of health data would yield interesting insights.

One minor thing that does bug me: US date format. Probably be better to default to whatever short-date format is the user's preference in iOS. Same goes for metric/imperial.

Looking forward to seeing more visualizations!

I was 13 at the time, and I was lucky enough to have a passionate English teacher that gave us challenging books to review. I chose "1984". It was the first book I'd read, up to that point, that didn't have a "Hollywood ending". The hero didn't save the day and get the girl… just the victory of tyranny over individualism. Admittedly, I had read a lot of crap, up till then.

As the leader directly tells Winston (i.e. you, the reader): "If you want a picture of the future, think of a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

I was gripped by the writing up till the very last words, then a panic set in… I thought that there were pages missing… I literally checked that someone hadn't torn out the last chapter where everything is made right again. No. There was no liberation. I sat stunned for the better part of an hour.

"The Dispossessed" by Ursula le Guin: never have I experienced the idea of a working anarchism described in such a genuinely coherent form.

I love that yours is web based! Can see it being much more reusable in a number of use-cases.

Calca was originally MacOS/iOS, but has since been ported to Windows.

I think that the notation in Calca to use a `=>` to display results maybe adds a bit more clarity to the math expressions, but your display style seems to work pretty well too.

The only advantage Calca seems to have is they’ve had almost a decade to add things like extra functions (compound interest, trig, …), constants, operators, etc.

I’ve always thought that style of simple but highly visible calculation is a far superior alternative to spreadsheets. Jupyter, LiveBook, Mathematica, etc… have shown that it works, but the world is still enamored with Excel, despite its propensity to hide mistakes.

There are only 2 hard problems in computer science:

1. Naming things 2. Cache invalidation 3. Off-by-one errors 0. Asynchronous callbacks 7. Buffer overflowA203FE11980018900000

Was extremely interested in the Inmos Transputer in the 80s. Seems like an idea way ahead of its time… a bit like REX.

I find the parallels in design with the Actor concurrency model of Erlang, Elixir and Transputer/REX are very compelling.

Really hope something happens with this project or some spinoff from it.

The current interest in RISC-V is testament to the fact that it may still be viable.

I wish you great success. Wish there was a way to sponsor or crowd-source fund this.

It's not at all clear from the documentation or the onboarding notes how to seed a SQLite in-memory database and the CSVs in the `seeds` directory are sometimes referred to in the sample schemas, but sometimes not. So, kinda got stuck.

I know if I stuck with it (I got impatient), I'd figure it out myself, but it does seem to be a missing element in the docs.

Looks fascinating, though.

Kinda like Elixir LiveBook, but focussed on DBs.

“Yeah, brah! This’ll help you build your sweet-as rock band… or jazz or some shit, whatevs…”

Pros:

* Salaries are pretty excellent for tech-workers and pretty active demand for talent.

* Sane healthcare system (can get free/cheap, quality medication but can also pay more for private/better healthcare)

* Retirement funds NOT managed by whatever dodgy-as-fuck company you work for, compulsory, and regulated by the government. i.e.: you WILL actually receive one.

* Mercifully sensible attitude to work/life balance. Decent annual leave allocations, parent-friendly attitudes (often in law).

* Well-educated population with enthusiastic attitude to embracing positive tech trends.

Cons:

* Jesus, why is real estate so expensive here? (As said above). We have so much land! The answer is: it's complicated.

* Abominable level of right-wing media disinformation via TV/Newspapers because Rupert Murdoch is a complete asshole and unfortunately Australian. Try sitting in a taxi with the radio tuned to Ray Hadley or Alan Jones for the delightful experience of hearing racism, bigotry, class-warfare, victim-blaming and never-ending scapegoating for an exercise in tolerance.

Australia had laws like this in the past (thanks Liberal Party, you pricks), but they were being seriously abused and eventually rolled back. Abuse still happens though, just less of it.