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chrisma0 commented on Typst: Compose Papers Faster   typst.app/... · Posted by u/ZeroCool2u
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
One of the advantages of Overleaf is that I can share a link with a collaborator and they only need a browser to participate. I assume with this, everyone will need to download the editor?
chrisma0 commented on Cold emails and Twitter (2018)   guzey.com/personal/what-s... · Posted by u/herbertl
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
Especially in the research space, I really recommend Twitter. In Software Engineering many really interesting researchers and practitioners tend to share their experiences there. In my experience it's a great way to virtually meet others who you would probably otherwise never encounter.

Heard of "Scrum"? Follow Jeff Sutherland (https://twitter.com/jeffsutherland). Like Conway's Law? Follow Melvin Conway (https://twitter.com/conways_law).

chrisma0 commented on Interview with Hermann Hauser, Founder of Arm   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/samizdis
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
Ah, right, this article reminded me of the fact, that ARM was bought by SoftBank back in 2016. Seems they actually picked some winners, not just WeWork and Wag.
chrisma0 commented on Florida chef’s pink sauce videos stir up TikTok backlash   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/nigerian1981
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
Pink sauce?!

Wait, hold up: "She makes it in a commercial facility that is certified by the Food and Drug Administration", and she's been "serving it to my clients for a year", but also "This is a small business that is moving really, really fast".

A small business using a commercial FDA-certified facility to make a pink sauce and the recipe has apparently been used for a year is moving really, really fast? Really, really fast in the marketing department, I would assume...

chrisma0 commented on Show HN: Formie – an open source (WIP) form website made with pure HTML/JS/CSS   github.com/div72/formie... · Posted by u/div72
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
"pure HTML/CSS/JS" sounds great, but then there is no demo hosted directly on GitHub pages? Form submission could just go nowhere.

I would love to get a quick taste of what you think makes this special.

chrisma0 commented on Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy   filfre.net/2022/07/discwo... · Posted by u/doppp
Swizec · 3 years ago
For a modern and non-British take on this genre I would strongly recommend The Tales of Pell by Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson, if anyone’s looking. It’s got that same vibe of absurdist humor with real life references in a fantasy setting. The politics are less about class and more about identity.
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
Hey, thanks for the recommendations! These sound great.
chrisma0 commented on US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)   phys.org/news/2010-12-air... · Posted by u/jamesdhutton
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
This is one of those headlines that initially reads like a joke until you think of the economics of it. "cost is about 5-10% of the cost of an equivalent system built with off-the-shelf computer parts."

I wonder if this is due to the fact that the Playstation hardware is (was?) competitively priced to encourage revenue generation through games? Or was Sony simply very good at mass-producing these units?

chrisma0 commented on Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy   filfre.net/2022/07/discwo... · Posted by u/doppp
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
> “At least you can say that in Pratchett’s books, the bloody elves never sang!”

Terry Pratchett I think is one of my favourite writers to read. The absurdity of his fantasy settings is just the right level of entertaining for me. Everything flows so smoothly that I sometimes get the subtle jokes only on my second read-through.

chrisma0 commented on Immortal Game – The next generation of chess platform powered by blockchain   immortal.game/... · Posted by u/timetraveller26
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
So this is the killer application for the blockchain? Not a store of value, but a store of chess games?

In all seriousness, I'm not sure chess needed an "entertaining crypto layer" or "NFTs tied to pieces"... Best of luck

chrisma0 commented on Show HN: A site to send to people who whine about how unreliable Wikipedia is   readthecitations.com... · Posted by u/TheresNoTime
TheresNoTime · 3 years ago
Great points! In an ideal world, editors would note exactly where in the referenced work they found the information — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Ident... has some guidance on how to do that :)
chrisma0 · 3 years ago
I mean, there is even stuff like linking to pages in PDF files... but I feel like it's another feature that's rarely used.

Maybe, in an ideal world, I could imagine an editing experience with a split screen editor with the article text and the references open at the same time. Right now, it does feel like references are an afterthought in the editing workflow.

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