I have an MZ-RH10 lying around somewhere that would be neat to try working on.
Some folks have recently done screen replacements on those and that might be worth doing first.
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busterarm commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/blob/main/src/backend...
I see, in your broad and experienced mind, document editors don't have users, permissions, and the whole document management itself, comments on lines/threads, reactions on comments
Seriously, theyre all as cookie cutter perfect usecase for Django as you can get, but I guess you haven't actually thought about the domain and just wanted to take a dumb on other devs with intern-to-junior level insights
You don't necessarily need that to get these things...
busterarm commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001
busterarm commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001
Genuine question: why do you consider it to be nowhere near an "Office suite"? It seems to me it fits the definition given by Wikipedia [1]. I guess it is less advanced than Google Workspace or Microsoft Office but it would cover all of my needs at work.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_software#Office_s...
All _your_ needs at work.
All of this goes out the window when you're dealing with a government bureaucracy that has hyper specific document formatting requirements.
This is a real foundational need of nearly every business at some point. Every court system and government agency has their own rules and they need to be tracked and followed perfectly. There are whole sub-industries around dealing with this for legal documents in MS Word.
I started programming over 40 years ago because it felt like computers were magic. They feel more magic today than ever before. We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a personality. I can't believe it's actually happening, and I've never had more fun computing.
I can't empathize with the complaint that we've "lost something" at all. We're on the precipice of something incredible. That's not to say there aren't downsides (WOPR almost killed everyone after all), but we're definitely in a golden age of computing.
We definitely have lost something. I got into computers because they're deterministic. Way less complicated than people.
Now the determinism is gone and computers are gaining the worst qualities of people.
My only sanctuary in life is slipping away from me. And I have to hear people tell me I'm wrong who aren't even sympathetic to how this affects me.
busterarm commented on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein scottaaronson.blog/?p=953... · Posted by u/pfdietz
It's a very different board than it was 10 years ago.
busterarm commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
There are valid reasons to oppose regulations. They can be used to create barriers of entry for small businesses, for example. They constantly affect the poor more than the middle class.
Ah the old "it takes longer to learn how to cut hair than it does to become a cop".
busterarm commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
CEQA in California is very often used to block apartments in existing urban areas.
So, instead, California continues to mostly build single family housing sprawl into natural habitats.
A clear example of environmental regulation hurting the environment and the climate. And of course the affordability of housing.
And all of the harsh chemicals that get released when that new construction burns up in wildfires...
busterarm commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
Almost every environmental regulation has come after it was already shown that there was some harm that needed to be mitigated.
The worst environmental crisis in human history is going largely unchecked. I find it hard to take seriously any argument that environmental regulation has gone too far as opposed to not nearly far enough.
If there's a specific regulation that can be shown to be doing more harm than good I'm cool with revisiting anything, but the common sense wisdom around environmental regulation has been corrupted by corporate public relations campaigns.
How do you explain the bug up its ass that the EPA has about auto racing?
And in this case, as would be obvious from thinking about it, the only part it's not suited for is the live syncing of the text edit on the frontend, which is one one small part of the whole.