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“ It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick.[2][3]” you can’t make this stuff up!
I know, not reddit, but I simply can't resist: > Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 in 1965 by Don Nelson and Dick Pick [...]
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Sorry, but many localities make it illegal for bicycle on the sidewalk (where they should be doing it). That's why many folks do it. Laws making that illegal are extra stupid since it's relatively hard to kill a pedestrian with a bicycle but downright easy to kill a cyclist with a car.
Sorry you're forced to slow down and pay attention occasionally
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Sorry, but many localities make it illegal for bicycle on the sidewalk (where they should be doing it). That's why many folks do it. Laws making that illegal are extra stupid since it's relatively hard to kill a pedestrian with a bicycle but downright easy to kill a cyclist with a car.
No, they shouldn't. The sidewalk is for pedestrian traffic; that's what the "walk" in the name signifies.
> Laws making that illegal are extra stupid since it's relatively hard to kill a pedestrian with a bicycle
Sidewalks can't handle much bike traffic, are suboptimal for it (which is why purpose-built separated bicycle trails are built like roads, not sidewalks), and are in many places less safe for bicyclists, crossing driveways with less visibility for drivers and bicyclists than is the case with the road proper.
Unpopular, at least compared to cars: e-bikes. - costs next to nothing to charge - fast and fun to get around - never pay for parking - cheap maintenance - hauls groceries easily - good exercise
It's a protocol/tool for async file transfer, built for disconnected/intermittent connectivity amongst known parties (trusted friends as p2p), allowing even for sneakernet-based file transfer.
It's started as a modern take on usenet, but it boggles my mind how cool it is:
Want to send a TV Series to your friend? send it via nncp, and it will make it through either via line-based file transfer (when connection allows, pull or push, cronjob, etc), or even via sneakernet if there is "someone going that way".
Comms priority system lets you hi-prio message-checking via expensive network link vs bulk file transfer using trunk lines later.
It even can be configured to run arbitrary commands on message receive, to allow indexing/processing of files (like a ZFS-receive hook, mail/matrix ingestion...)
See all the usecases: http://www.nncpgo.org/Use-cases.html
As with many of these cool techs, I just wish I had a good reason to use it =D
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I know, not reddit, but I simply can't resist: > Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 in 1965 by Don Nelson and Dick Pick [...]
I'm sad hearing Dick Pick died aged 54 of stroke complications.
Turn your Postgres database into a REST API: https://postgrest.org Previous discussions on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=postgrest
At one point, I really thought it was used in Supabase. But I guess they only wrote the js wrapper for it. https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-js Came here to mention Hasura as well (not sure of it's popularity though) https://hasura.io/graphql/database/postgresql
I'm thinking unpopular could mean the tech is polarizing or frequently dismissed/overlooked. * APL -- I haven't dedicated the time to learning in part because there's little support where I normally work. I'd love for APL to have be adapted like a domain specific language a la perl compatible regular expressions for various languages (april in common lisp, APL.jl in julia). * regular expressions. https://xkcd.com/117…
Greenclip is exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks! Also how do you use zimwiki? I've been trying it for a month and I don't find it that great compared to something like Obsidian or QOwnNotes or even TiddlyWiki. Do you have a specific workflow?
I have an ugly and now likely outdated plugin for Zim to help with this. There's a small chance the demo screenshots for it help tie together what I'm trying to say. https://github.com/WillForan/zim-plugin-datelinker
On the tech side: My work notes (and email) has shifted into emacs but I'm still editing zimwiki formatted files w/ the many years of notes accumulated in it Though I've lost it moving to emacs, the Zim GUI has a nice backlink sidebar that's amazing for rediscovery. Zim also facilitates hierarchy (file and folder) renames which helps take the pressure off creating new files. I didn't make good use of the map plugin, but it's occasionally useful to see the graph of connected pages.
I'm (possibly unreasonably) frustrated with using the browser for editing text. Page loads and latency are noticeably, editor customization is limited, and shortcuts aren't what I've muscle memory for -- accidental ctrl-w (vim:swap focus, emacs/readline delete word) is devastating.
Zim and/or emacs is super speedy. Especially with local files. I using syncthing to get keep computers and phone synced. But, if starting fresh, I might look at things that using markdown or org-mode formatting instead. logseq (https://logseq.com/) looks pretty interesting there.
Sorry! Long answer.