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Post by precompute »

replwoacause wrote: post #480
abnercoimbre wrote: post #94

A new terminal emulator [0] from scratch. It's native and cross-platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming progress on Twitch. If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1]. [0] https://terminal.click [1] https://warp.dev

There's also https://www.waveterm.dev/

I don't understand why people need bloated electron apps for something as simple as a terminal. XFCE4-terminal just works for me.

Having to open a RAM-hungry application to execute command-line applications is just negative progress.

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Post by madacol »

webspinner wrote: post #494
madacol wrote: post #135

A bookmarklet store https://getbookmarklets.com/ Though I am having trouble figuring out a simple way to solve discovering and make it work autonomously without leaving it open to spam Any ideas or feedback appreciated

I've always looked for something like this. Submission approvals. If you don't want to do approvals, perhapse charge $5 per submission. Also limit them from the same person to at least once every 24 hours, but probably more, if you want to keep it free.

Thanks!, I really like the idea of doing some kind of rate-limiting

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Post by czam »

addandsubtract wrote: post #299
z3n0n wrote: post #124

Been working on making learning German just a little bit more fun with interactive stories: https://learnoutlive.com/stories/

Is it only for German? I'm looking for something like this to read in Spanish.

You could try https://electriclingua.de/es/index.html

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Post by OisinMoran »

webspinner wrote: post #492
OisinMoran wrote: post #120

I've been working on a social link sharing site called lynmki that allows you to follow a subset of someone's interests rather than having to follow everything they post. E.g. Someone posts lovely examples of typography, and also about events on in their city but you live halfway across the globe so just want the typography. I'm focussing on smaller circles, avoiding "algorithmic" feeds (aware sorting by reverse chro…

Are you going to add RSS? This would be cool!

Yes it's on the roadmap for sure! Want to be able to import RSS feeds and also have an RSS feed for every tag.

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Post by koeng »

datascienced wrote: post #490
koeng wrote: post #453

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can you give a specific instance of a sequence that would be dangerous in a cloning strain and not screenable?

You are asking for a counterexample but I think s/he was asking for what assurances the software can provide. Is it proven to be perfect, bug free in both specification and the physical analysis? Remember compared to you assume we are all laymen. It would be interesting for us on the armchairs how such software even works. Is it like (ahem!) antivirus software looking for patterns?

The reasons I ask for a counter example is because the number of “what ifs” are pretty much unlimited and easy to come up with, whereas I have to do a lot more thinking to answer them. It’s asymmetric and gets tiring

Answer is: no, not proven to be perfect. Most source is closed for the software. There is no specification. Never been a red team trying to break it. Unknown if it’s ever stopped any threats. There is no requirement to do it, and it’s all voluntary (though pretty much all synthesis providers do it). Mostly they just hash kmers and translations thereof and scan a pathogens/functional database. So implementable in a simple KV store for the most part. The bigger problem is false positives, and most work is done in de-shittifying the upstream pathogens data.

Here’s a good paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9988571/

Last I checked all the groups charged a lot of money for access, unfortunately, and I’m not really big enough to join a group like the International Gene Synthesis Consortium :(

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Post by oq_pmg »

NoTranslationL wrote: post #33

We’re working on a privacy-focused iOS app that enables you to track anything. It’s called Reflect. The app enables you to answer questions like “how does meditation affect my mood” or “how does this new supplement intervention affect my sleep”. We already support detailed visualization and correlation between all of the metrics you track and are working on some very exciting features to make self-guided discovery ev…

Is something like the Reporter App?

PS: not an affiliate, just curious

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Post by moralestapia »

willemh wrote: post #485
moralestapia wrote: post #465

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Hey, just a suggestion, I thought of doing this a while ago but for children books , never went on to actually do it but I definitely see a need in there, * Children books are quite expensive * Most of those you get over them in a couple minutes to an hour * Your kids want new books every single day Buying 5-10 and regularly trading them with other parents seems like a neat solution.

I like this idea. Would you imagine the functionality being much different to what is already there? Or is it more a difference of framing?

I think it's mostly a framing situation.

Two big things that are different:

As an adult, many of the books one buys is to keep them. There's even that saying "He who lends a book is an ..."; working against you. In contrast, most of your children books you get rid of them, garage sale, give them away, whatever. Save for a few of them that become special, most are pretty much disposable.

As an adult, buying books is not a pressing situation, sure there's a lot of those you'd want to buy but you can easily put that for later, even forget about it. Take a kid into a bookstore and they want all the books, and they want them at that moment. So, it is more of a pressing issue to keep your kids busy with new books all the time.

PS: If you need a partner on this, I'd be up for it! My daughter is past the stage of kid books now but I wouldn't mind building it for the benefit of other kids.

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