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arstechnica, to random
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Ultra low-cost smartphone attachment measures blood pressure at home

Clever use of physics uses pressure on the skin and optics to track blood flow.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/ultra-low-cost-smartphone-attachment-measures-blood-pressure-at-home/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

kickingvegas,
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@arstechnica This is clever. Rooting for this tech to get better though.

ctietze, to random
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@xenodium I have a friend who isn't into Emacs (couldn't bear to stay in it), but loves the idea of Org-Mode.

What do you think about a "Plain Org" Catalyst release so it runs on macOS, too, for filtering and overviews? Do you think that would work? 🤔 The .org file would still be there to dive into

kickingvegas,
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@xenodium @ctietze @objcio Can you pass results from a previous src block into a SwiftCharts block?

kickingvegas,
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@xenodium @ctietze @objcio Bravo!

dekkzz76, to random
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OK folks

How many of you use fonts with coding ligatures

kickingvegas,
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@dekkzz76 nfw

kickingvegas,
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@dekkzz76 This is really a personal preference, so ymmv. But when working with text files, I don't want the editor to play typographic tricks to elide two or more characters into one. Especially when dealing with unicode characters where the possibility of aliasing to a editor-created ligature is real. So it's nah for me.

kickingvegas,
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@dekkzz76 on occasion

kickingvegas, to random
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Wrote a post on adjusting to appearance changes (light, dark) on macOS. It's doable, but with a caveat. http://yummymelon.com/devnull/automatically-adjusting-emacs-to-macos-switches-in-appearance.html

kickingvegas,
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@mykhaylo that's all good but note that it only works with the homebrew-emacs-plus variant. There is no common way to do this among all variants of Emacs running on macOS.

mergesort, to random
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I swear apps are getting worse at properly caching data. Every day there’s a new app that incorrectly displays an unread indicator or doesn’t properly mark a message a being viewed, I’m wasting so much time dealing with incorrect state that should bother the app’s author as much as me.

kickingvegas,
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@mergesort So many places to point the finger at: 1) the preponderance of apps that treat offline-mode as a second or tertiary thought, if at all. 2) Immature/unqualified developers and product managers shipping apps with an incomplete understanding of concurrency and state. 3) QA? YOLO.

kickingvegas,
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@mergesort I suspect that this post by Baldur points at some of the reasons why. https://mastodon.online/@macdonst/110455044779503796

kickingvegas, to random
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I could totally see a future having a UX like Mercury. https://www.mercuryos.com

kickingvegas,
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@ctietze Kinda all of it. Thinking off the cuff, imagining Embark+GPT-style behavior tied to a rich UX that emphasizes (but not necessarily enforces) time-based organization (shades of lifestreams from the 90s http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html). Literate programming/notebook style behavior is available to process/transform any content put into it. I'm not suggesting that could support such a thing any time soon; really more thinking what a future hot-reloadable environment could do; maybe a Smalltalk-style environment for the 21st century?

kickingvegas,
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@dekkzz76 @ctietze MercuryOS is imagineware. It's a UX study.

kickingvegas,
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@ctietze TBH, I'm just thinking out loud what a different experience would look like. My first impressions of MercuryOS was like, "oh wow, has got some parts that could do that." Also, I'd observe that so much development effort in Emacs seems to be in accomplishing context-dependent actions. Add to that the UX work by Rougier, it's tantalizing to synthesize these things and think of a far future Emacs that had support for rich UX.

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