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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by ken »

snazz wrote: post #162
CivBase wrote: post #159

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Huh... I've always described 2^10 bytes as a "kilobyte" (kB) but I've always hated the ambiguity, even if the difference between 2^10 and 10^3 is usually not important. Thanks to this comment, I learned there is an formal set of units which are distinct from their SI counterparts[0]. 1000^1 kB, 1024^1 kibibyte (kiB) 1000^2 MB, 1024^2 mebibyte (MiB) 1000^3 GB, 1024^3 gibibyte (GiB) 1000^4 TB, 1024^4 tebibyte (TiB) 100…

Notably, storage vendors and many operating system vendors use different units to describe capacity, so hard disks will always seem small as a result of this. [edit: add qualifying "many"]

Who? Not macOS [1], or Ubuntu [2]. Does Windows still use base-2? They probably shouldn't [3].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402 [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy [3]: https://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by 1f60c »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #108
apozem wrote: post #105

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I want to love Joplin (open source! markdown!) but I just can't get past how ugly it is. Its iPhone app is just a horrendous mishmash of colors and non-native UI elements.

I'm only a week into using it, but check out Notion. I really love it so far. The UI has blown me away in both beauty and how it gets out of the way.

Notion is amazing, and they recently removed the cap on the amount of "blocks" you're allowed to use on the free plan[0].

No affiliation, just a happy customer. :-)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by snazz »

salmo wrote: post #114
chadlavi wrote: post #64

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It's so hard to take a site with serif fonts seriously. It would be worth the 8th css declaration if the author added `font-family: sans-serif;`.

I don't have data to back it up, but I've understood from typography gurus that sans-serif fonts are great for signs, short blurbs, etc. But for long (multi-paragraph) reads serif fonts reduce eye fatigue. I think blogs typically fit in that category.

This is true on paper. Sans serifs are more readable at small sizes on lower-pixel-density screens.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by mbrameld »

CydeWeys wrote: post #110

Small suggestion -- it seems like you're using the wrong units (or maybe abbreviations) for your displayed average page sizes. You're using lower-case b to indicate bits, but I suspect you mean upper-case B to indicate bytes? Also, the lower-case k is the correct prefix for 1,000, but lower case m is milli, or 1/000. You want M for mega, which is 1,000,000. Also if you really want to be precise you should consider wh…

mb means millibars to you in the context of file size? How does that make any sense?

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by cbnotfromthere »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #150
dylz wrote: post #121

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I'm slightly amused by the domain hacks, but also concerned about a few of the ccTLDs, especially when it comes to user generated content and blogging/opinions. For example, the leader of .ph routinely calls opponents gay, is not known for human rights or free speech, and I am curious how this might reflect on it. I have the same concerns with user generated content in/on .de and their Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz law…

I mean, the leader of the country represented by .us brags about raping women, threatens nuclear wars, etc.... no country is uncontroversial.

"the leader of the country represented by .us brags about raping women"

Care to provide ANY proof? I mean exact words, not hearsay or convoluted explanations of his saying.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by snazz »

chrismorgan wrote: post #56

Heads up: it doesn’t have no JavaScript at present, because Cloudflare’s email protection system is in place. (I hate that thing. It mangles non-email addresses all the time if they look even vaguely like an email address, e.g. a package with version number “foo@1.2.3”. Penalising users that disable JavaScript.) https://herman.bearblog.dev/ contains a “Get in touch” mailto: link that gets ruined, and the following sc…

As a site owner, forcing non-JS users to click through a CAPTCHA is worth it since I get zero spam as a result. It might not be appropriate here, but it's appropriate for most personal websites.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by cbnotfromthere »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #150
dylz wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm slightly amused by the domain hacks, but also concerned about a few of the ccTLDs, especially when it comes to user generated content and blogging/opinions. For example, the leader of .ph routinely calls opponents gay, is not known for human rights or free speech, and I am curious how this might reflect on it. I have the same concerns with user generated content in/on .de and their Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz law…

I mean, the leader of the country represented by .us brags about raping women, threatens nuclear wars, etc.... no country is uncontroversial.

"the leader of the country represented by .us [...] threatens nuclear wars"

Why would that be controversial at all? Reagan won the cold war against the Soviet Union by calling them an evil empire and repeatedly talking about nuclear war. Kennedy was able to get the Soviets out of Cuba also by raising the spectre of nuclear war.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by snazz »

ken wrote: post #171
snazz wrote: post #162

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Notably, storage vendors and many operating system vendors use different units to describe capacity, so hard disks will always seem small as a result of this. [edit: add qualifying "many"]

Who? Not macOS [1], or Ubuntu [2]. Does Windows still use base-2? They probably shouldn't [3]. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402 [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy [3]: https://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html

Windows does. The df command does by default. Those are the two I use.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by chrisweekly »

1f60c wrote: post #172
PascLeRasc wrote: post #108

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I'm only a week into using it, but check out Notion. I really love it so far. The UI has blown me away in both beauty and how it gets out of the way.

Notion is amazing, and they recently removed the cap on the amount of "blocks" you're allowed to use on the free plan[0]. No affiliation, just a happy customer. :-) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786

Agreed, Notion is awesome.

I have even stronger feelings about Roam though. Notion is "better" than just abt anything else like it, whereas Roam is different -- there is nothing else like it.

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