This product doesn't look to me to be compelling enough to switch away from Finder and ranger. I use Finder when I want to browse pictures or other rich media and ranger when I just want to browse source code and other text files from the command line using vim-like hotkeys.
Readit Newsmattlevan commented on Show HN: Marta – A fast and minimalistic file manager for macOS marta.yanex.org/... · Posted by u/yanex
mattlevan commented on Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society? truthhawk.com/is-facebook... · Posted by u/jonstokes
This is nice story but how is this any different than looking at wikipedia for a bit, reading and making notes on a kindle, etc. Your grandpa sounds like the type to use tools for personal enrichment so shouldn't the tools not matter?
It matters when the tool you're using doesn't respect your privacy, yea.
mattlevan commented on The Myth and Magic of California Style racked.com/2017/2/28/1475... · Posted by u/pmcpinto
I'd say it matters a great deal what it is -- for instance if your cause is the pro-life movement or the expulsion of illegal aliens then you might have difficulties getting social approval in San Francisco.
I find it a hilarious instance of California insularity that the grandparent post thinks it "doesn't matter what it is" -- I'm guessing that he'd failed to consider the fact that non-left causes even exist.
You can't blame him. SF is a giant leftist bubble.
mattlevan commented on The rise of the useless class ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of... · Posted by u/uyoakaoma
I want to be like my dog, but smarter and with more freedom.
Every day I look at the lazy beast and wonder at the simplicity of its existence. Give me that life and an allowance for supplies to create, eat, socialize, and travel and let me loose.
Ha. I think just about everyone with a pet has thought of that..
But, if actually given the opportunity, I doubt most people would take it!
mattlevan commented on The rise of the useless class ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of... · Posted by u/uyoakaoma
> Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning, followed by a period of working. Very soon this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives and to reinvent themselves repeatedly.
That's already the case, imo.
Agreed. It'd be quite difficult to measure whether or not someone learns something new, anyway, because of the variety of things available to learn (large and small). If we're talking about learning entirely new skills, though, yea, obviously a cashier will probably not need to learn any significant new skills over the course of their career.
As always, people who do make learning new things a part of their life's rituals will generally be more successful than those who do not.
Nice username, by the way.
mattlevan commented on Expanding Fact Checking at Google blog.google/topics/journa... · Posted by u/mpweiher
Expanding fact checking at Google?
Fine.
DuckDuckGo[1] it is for me, then.
mattlevan commented on Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future nextplatform.com/2017/02/... · Posted by u/Katydid
Could someone explain what a neuromorphic chip is?
The article assumes we know, but I haven't heard of it. And the wikipedia article on "neuromorphic engineering" talks about stuff like analog circuits, copying how neurons work, and memristors, none of which seem that related.
All of the subjects you mention at the end of your comment, especially memristors, are indeed the focus of neuromorphic computing. It's a nascent technology field, but there are plenty of papers available on IEEExplore or ACM Digital Library to satisfy curiosity! I'll take a look at the survey paper I wrote a couple summers back-- if it's decent I'll edit this post with a link.
Edit, links: Paper: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7QHR9a8j1iiU3RxSHZSNFh2cEdv... Slides: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7QHR9a8j1iiSE1ET2ZTb09aNFBP...
mattlevan commented on Standing up for what's right facebook.com/traviskal/po... · Posted by u/smaili