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To be fair, Esperanto is, as far as I can tell, not very widely used. The letter ĝ mostly returns Esperanto results. Using that letter in a place where others may need to communicate or type the letter would be a severe burden on almost anyone else you interact with, outside of Esperanto communities.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who share your frustration with accented letters, ñ, umlauts, etc, though. I'd hope that most systems can handle those letters, although I wouldn't hold out hope that Ĝ/ĝ would be high on the priority list.

Maybe a new paradigm for code formatting could be local-only. Your editor automatically formats files the way you like to see them, and then de-formats back to match the codebase when pushing, making your changes match the codebase style.

I was using a similar extension which whitelisted / blacklisted IP addresses in Chrome. I had it set to blacklist my home IP, which I paired with an in-browser VPN app. Since Chrome's latest extension update (about 3 weeks now?), I've had Chrome send requests to pages which were open before the extension loaded, leaking my IP. I assume similar issues could happen extension-to-extension, so this shouldn't be used for any privacy-related reasons - can't trust a Chrome extension to block 100% of anything.

Sounds like you made most of these changes upstream? What about the background chats and the chat tree overview, are either of them in Open WebUI, or are they also custom to PolyChat? I run OWUI locally and am interested in those features for selfish reasons. If for some reason your multi-model idea doesn’t pan out, I’d love to see it merged upstream, too. Thanks for your contributions!

(Another annoying thing about OWUI is getting logged out every time the image upgrades… is that something else you’ve looked at?)

Does contactless payment help at all? I know it uses a different card number, but I’m not sure if it’s a rotating number.

Another option is Typst, which claims to simplify the workflow for producing similarly structured documents.

Here's an example of a simple resumé [0].

You can see in the "Quick Start" section how the resumé template is used, which is very similar to how you described yours.

[0]: https://typst.app/universe/package/basic-resume

re: side story: Our name is fairly unique (at least for me, I've only met one or two others around my age with our name). The past decade, and especially what feels like the past five years, have been very jarring now that I hear the name elsewhere - I always react, even when I don't recognize the voice. It's invariably some 5-11 year old being called on. I assume people with more common names don't have this reaction. What's been your experience with having a name which was extremely uncommon for us but is now one of the most popular names?

> And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.

> And he said:

> Your children are not your children.

> They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

> They come through you but not from you,

> And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Kahlil Gibran, On Children

https://poets.org/poem/children-1

Interesting!

Is there a reason that consumer solar can’t be accounted for as smaller stable nodes in the system (sounds like they are still considered volatile and not a reliable source of inflow power)? For instance, maybe a rooftop solar array can easily be sucked up if the home decides to do a few loads of laundry that day, and therefore since there aren’t enough homes with solar arrays, it’s harder to predict an average influx per day from consumer solar to power the grid?

Are there any goals to shut down larger plants or not build larger solar fields by instead subsidizing distributed solar on peoples’ property?

Utilities are so interesting. The other afternoon I was looking out at the hills as the trees change, and said to my friend, “what a beautiful view… besides all these power lines! Although, I’d rather have the infrastructure than an unmolested view…”

This is the only reply I understand, so I’ll follow up here - in this case, is the end user paying to push the energy into batteries that the power company owns? Or is the extra energy just dissipated somewhere? Or does the power company stop producing their own energy once the grid is saturated? (I believe that electricity doesn’t actually flow like water, so it’s not the exact same electrons that the solar panel is producing which would be stored on batteries or dissipated somewhere)

What is a healthy ratio of protein to veggies to fats? Do you have a recommended protein other than steak or chicken which is less chewy?

What about a field like “I go by…” or “Preferred Name”?

You could also have some examples of how their entry will be used which follow your currently defined business logic, so

“Full Name:” S. Smith

Example: S. shared this with you

S. wants to be your friend

Let the users get immediate feedback about their choice

I read the “in a few weeks” totally differently than the other reply. In my mind, I was thinking, “wow, you’re able to plan that far ahead and stay on track??” And now you say you’re able to accomplish that by dedicating a time block per day?! That’s superhuman level of control that I can only dream of!

Take a look at Advanced Select. I think that’s the one he was referring to.

> Versus with our voice which is the clunkiest, slowest and least precise input method we have.

Some related issues I have:

- my thoughts always seem to be jumbled when talking to AI

- I rush to talk quickly because any pause seems to trigger a response

- I worry words or DSL I use won’t be interpreted properly

This all leads to a pretty poor voice experience for me, and I usually forget half of what I want to talk about.

Thanks, Tony! I’m actually an Elite member of the off-road flavor! Is your recommendation to essentially use waypoints for the info?

In my mind I’d really like to host my own map which neighbors could share, just starting from a baseline of parcel boundaries and a way to drop info on each plot (onX does this wonderfully already).

Back in the day, my mom would make a little neighborhood diagram using MS Publisher and drawing boxes at the approximate locations of houses, and include names & phone numbers of each house. She would then distribute copies to the neighbors to hang on fridges. I loved that idea and basically want an online version of that, in a perfect world!

My first thought was similar - assuming this is truly forcing websites to implement a “one-click” flow, I’m worried that people will accidentally unsubscribe without an easy way to pick up where they left off. At least an “are you sure?” button would be nice. (Although I hate companies who force me to choose a reason why I’m ending our relationship)

This is neat! After the huge price increase a couple years ago with GMaps, it looks like you’ve come up with a creative way to offer much of the same functionality for most users. It’s unfortunate to still see small business sites to this day with error messages on their map widgets because of the API change from Google.

I know nothing about mapping, but I’ve always had a dream of making a private neighborhood map which labels each house with people, sort of like a visual Rolodex. It would be great to have property boundaries, too. Do you have any suggestions for places to start? I don’t even know what file formats would hold this sort of data.

I would go as far as to say short flags should never be shared or saved (besides man pages or similar). Long flags help anyone who needs to review something in the future, even the author. Perfect for scripts of all sorts, tutorials, anything checked into git, etc.

> What we need is physical community based social media - ie: a facebook with only your high-school, which becomes inaccessible upon graduation.

That’s a really interesting suggestion. It reminds me of haolez’s comment yesterday (abridged by me) [0]:

> I was a CTO and was a member of a group chat for CTOs. We had very insightful and rich discussions about topics that affected our roles, like vendor reputation, frameworks, team management, talent acquisition and so on.

> The group became popular and the admin […] merged all group chats into a single one of thousands of users. […] What ended up happening was that the discussions plummeted in quality, where a very noisy minority would take up most of the space in the discussions. There were some high profile CTOs that stopped engaging at that point.

> This left me wondering if there is enough demand for smaller social networks with very limited visibility that can foster rich and insightful discussions (although this sounds like forums from the nineties).

———

Both of you get at the same point - private and manageable (and moderatable) communities are probably a much better option to allow everyone freedom to interact without feeling insignificant (due to size), and with the right moderation, can be a place which allows healthy conflict, discovery and rule-bending, and the other things that we were able to get up to as kids without our parents knowing, while maybe being moderated by a third party who isn’t acting as an authority figure (people won’t get in trouble for reasonable rule-testing), maybe even some sort of private task-specific bot which looks only for egregious bullying, hate, and scheming?

I really like your suggestion and would love to see it fleshed out.

The one thing that I feel differentiates from current-day is that I would like to see automatic enrollment (or ability to enroll) for everyone from the target audience, e.g. not student-run and only one clique, but nothing wrong with it also allowing private sub-areas. There shouldn’t be a technological or social barrier to entry, it should be up to each person (child, in this example) to log in and participate. That would probably help a lot of the shy or socially awkward kids bridge the gap.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40673691

Buffering seems to have been chunked for a long time now, though. Ten years ago we could buffer an entire video. Now it’s limited to about 5% at a time. I guess that’s how the chunked HLS streams and such work, and YT could probably avoid serving certain chunks without some unique token received from watching the ad.

Yes, like Hulu (not sure if they still do).

I think doing this would be a positive thing for some consumers. It’s a good blank space to reflect on whether our time spent watching the video is actually worth it.

I’ve done my best to move away from real-time YT viewing and instead download set channels into Plex for on-demand viewing. This somewhat helps binging, as it is not infinite and does not suggest the next video via algorithm. This method wouldn’t affect my viewing to any meaningful degree.

Often I'll think about spending money on a 'dumb' phone because I'm convinced it'll fix my problem, but then I realize that I'm just giving into another vice, which is buying technology. I am trying to instead focus on what the root cause of my over-use of technology is.

I don’t think it’s available on mobile, if that’s where you are. On desktop, you can switch between previous edits.

I’d be interested in seeing what you made though because I’m really interested in the idea of a branching UI

Direct link to original archived copy of this article for those who want to avoid page views on the OP post:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220611064229/https://michaelde...

I’ve just started reading the Introduction to Internal Family Systems and your comment resonates.

Here’s a short overview of what it is, from the IFS Institute website:

> IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.

> no web interface

Same with HomeKit Secure Video (HKSV). The only way to access recordings is through the Home app. I'm surprised nobody has figured out a way to browse them outside of the app.

A lot of the time, the hardest part for these things is finding the dataset (and the hardest part of personal projects in general). How did you curate yours?

I haven't gone through the registration & creation process, so maybe there's something that I'm missing, but it seems like this is just scraping data from Spotify anyway?

or maybe the "about" section and socials links are user-inputted?

Anyway it would be neat if you were able to auto-generate the page on your end rather than require a user to log in and do it, and then for already generated pages let the artist "claim" it somehow, maybe based on spotify auth where the logged in account matches the artist page, or something?

The nice thing then would be that we (as users) could visit a page for a band who you haven't generated yet, and we could be presented with a page like "(artist) page hasn't been created yet. Generate?" and then you could queue a background job that would put together a skeleton page. that's when the "claim" process could come in to allow bands who haven't created their own page to claim it and add details.

I could see the main use of this being consumers and not bands, as others have said, so this flow would make more sense IMO - you'd have way more band pages populated, and you wouldn't need one big scraping job (could still auto-generate the top X artists each month), so you could semi-organically build your DB and then start doing recommendations and features yourself.

On sedans, sure. At least where I live, sedans are in the minority. You’d have to find a good sized buck to worry about that on the average suv.