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The people who predict the weather are often damned smart and very experienced. It's the problem that's hard.

Cloud formation is affected by cosmic ray flux. It's effectively random. But the real problem is chaos - which says that even with perfect data, unless you also have computations w…

They partly broke hierarchical tags with the rewrite. If you have a tag hierarchy a.b.c and you put a note at a or b, it will not show up in the tag list. That ruined my main organ…

I went to Syncthing.net and they didn't mention iOS or Android. Does it run on those?

What's the beef with Electron?

Apple may be upfront, but a couple of years ago they pretty much suddenly destroyed Progressive Web Apps by disallowing a whole bunch of modern, open standard browser capabilities,…

Standard Notes claims to, with a caveat that there may be a format it can't handle due to Evernote adding features. A transfer-in from Evernote, either natively or through some thi…

It looks really, really interesting. But when you say it syncs super fast... is syncing initiated manually, or do you mean that changes on one device appear on another device quick…

You can export your notes as HTML, or better, .enex files. The latter are XML, with embedded stuff encoded with base64.

I'm still a paying customer. But I don't trust them and haven't since they made it difficult to export all of your notes. And, they damaged tag-based organization by changing to on…

As a co-founder, I'd say you can get wealthy or at least comfortable. But, we started with two people. At some point we needed funding. That put us on a track of angel investors, V…

If you export it, you get XML, with embedded HTML in <CDATA TAGS, among other things. But the point is the same - it's not hard to parse. It also has base64 encoded images and pdf'…

Public funding contributes basic research. Corporations contribute other things, like design for actual use and production, production tooling design, production tooling production…

As one who wrote (over 10 years ago, still improving it) and sells a weather app targeted at storm chasers, weather enthusiasts and spotters... I find the NWS data to be fragmented…

It's internal Aspergers, not just ADHD. Google seems to have no insight into its users.

That low contrast stuff is what bugs me. I often go out into rural areas. Try making out where the (white) minor roads are against the (almost white) background. Now, try that in b…