That’s my biggest gripe with audiobooks: good for fiction, not so good for learning.

For me they are actually best for non-fiction, but it has to be books. Papers are too information dense.

I get easily distracted and lose attention while listening to an audiobook. This is usually problematic with fiction, because suddenly I don't know who this new character is or what's happening. And rewinding to the precise position where I stopped paying attention is of course much more difficult than in written text.

I found that non-fiction books work great for me, because even if you ignore a page or two it makes no difference, the author keeps repeating their point and propping it up with many arguments anyway.

Gemini 1.5 indeed is a lot of hit-and-miss. Also, the politically correct and medical info filtering is limiting its usefulness a lot, IMHO.

I also miss that it’s not yet really as context aware as ChatGPTo4. Even just asking a follow-up question, confuses Gemini 1.5.

Hope Gemini 2.0 will improve that!

I invite everyone to have a look at compiling LibreOffice [0].

Doing a full compile, has been known to bring even the most powerful machines to their knees.

They’ve employed a lot of the referenced article’s suggestions and it still is a massive code-base to compile.

[0]: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnLi...

If on Fedora, you can give it a whirl like so:

    cd $(mktemp -d)
    fedpkg clone -a -b f38 libreoffice && cd libreoffice
    fedpkg mockbuild

This requires the 'fedpkg' and 'mock' packages be installed, and that your user is in the 'mock' group

Compiling is one of many benchmarks I do, lol

Edit: note for posterity -- the branch will change as time goes by. Fedora 38 is the current release, so f38 is used.

The source for the code and the target for the build don't have to match. Look into different 'mock roots' at /etc/mock/*.cfg

Full compile is rarely an issue, because most of the time is spent in incremental build.

I’m convinced that the Erasmus programme (and it’s not so serious counterparts such as AEGEE and IAESTE) contribute to lasting peace in Europe by marrying people between nations.

Berbel has a unit that opens when using the unit and closes, when not in use. Quite ingenious, if you ask me.

[1]: https://www.berbel.de/dunstabzuege/zubehoer/abluft-zubehoer/...

That's clever, but this [1] is already common and I guess not much worse?

[1] https://www.ventilatieshop.com/terugslagklep-in-ventilatieka...

It is much worse. The Berbel retains the insulation provided by the wall, when closed. This is nothing more than a fancy hole in the wall.

Opening and closing, means you get the best of both worlds.

Did anyone try opening LibreOffice master in it?

LO has a reputation as an IDE-killer, as it’s so large and complex.

This got me curious, so I gave it a try. It opens instantly (as always) and parsing the complete codebase in the background took about two minutes. After that everything is practically instant and there is no problem searching through the code, finding references, code completion, etc. Reopening the project is also instant and it takes less than ten seconds to fully load the cache in the background. Since I don't know the code I can't really comment on whether everything got parsed correctly, but the random bits I tried seemed to be right.

This doesn't seem to be worse than the Unreal codebase, which 10x also handles with ease. I highly doubt that there is a codebase in existence which could bring 10x to its knees. It does use quite a bit of memory, but nothing a modern setup shouldn't be able to handle. Currently it seems to be about 4GB for both Unreal and LO each, with LO being just slightly larger.

This of course are extreme cases, so you can imagine what performance for "normal" projects is like.

the three accounts that are praising this editor, including the one from the developer, are all new hn accounts. are you the same person?

Nah just some early adopters who found this post because it was shared on the 10x Twitter and Discord after it made the HN homepage. I don't know why none of us had accounts before, it may have something to do with the particular niches most of us are from (game dev etc), where HN may not be as popular as you might expect.

I only signed up because I saw a lot more questions than people reporting their experiences with it, so I figured you would like to hear from people who actively use it (and why). Some of us then prodded Stewart (the dev) to also sign up so he could answer the more specific questions.

I hope it is shorter than the startup time for LO itself

If _one_ bad experience turns you into a lost customer, then this business model purely operates on the happy-path and hopes for the best.

I am highly sceptical that the core promise “anything, anytime“ is really what people need: they use it, because it’s possible, not because they want to use it.

The alternative to your problem would be asking a friend/relative to do the shopping, using the in-house delivery service or simply make do without. All more secure options than ordering something and not being sure, you’ll actually get it.

I say good riddance for this petty excuse of a business!

Pseudo-engagement, optimised for easy and massive consumption, pushing you to compare yourself constantly.

And all we have to protect ourselves, is our over-exerted self-control mechanism.

This is indeed the correct reason. The app is much more usable.

That’s why I switched to teddit.net. It’s much faster, resembles the old Reddit layout and supports dark mode.

I second PowerApps. There’s a to user-friendly tutorials out there and their programming model is based on concepts similar to Excel.

It should be fairly easy to pick up for end users. But only if you don’t use denormalized tables. If your DB is in 2/3NF you’ll run into issues, e.g. the ever so useful DataTable cannot update data across table.

Also, there’s a pretty significant hard limit on 500 rows.

PowerApps is a great tool, but be aware of its limitations and see if that works for you.