john00088876

8 years agodiscuss

Sublime or VS code, as markdown in Dropbox for constant backup and easy roll-back for up to a week or something. I had used Ulysses on the Mac but an iCloud sync bug caused me to lose 8 hours of notes from customer meetings so that was the end of that. VS code has a lot of nice markdown plugins and I also use the “highlight” plugin for arbitrary colour based on regex for custom things like tags I include.

john00088876

8 years agodiscuss

It’s completely fair to target them since they’re responsible for choosing the administration who initiated this, and it’s totally clear what’s going on. Very different than dishonest manipulation of people’s ideas through fabrications. Targeted consequences to actions as a retaliation are very different to secret manipulation ahead of an election.

john00088876

8 years agodiscuss

His stated goal seems to be related to “bringing back American jobs” but it’s really all marketing for himself as usual since while this action will cause more American job loses than it creates, that doesn’t actually matter because it’s just about optics.

Also the authority he invokes is specifically for national security so increasing jobs or any other non national security reason shouldn’t even be a factor. His comments that it’s a negotiating tactic also prove there’s no actual national security rationale.

“...the Trump administration promised its voters more big action on trade. Further WTO challenges could take years, so to make policy more quickly, Trump invoked section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which grants the US the ability to impose trade restrictions in the name of national security.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1221853/donald-trumps-ta...

john00088876

8 years agodiscuss

I don’t know enough about them to comment but situations like that is why trade agreements have tribunals and things go through the WTO etc etc. It’s a very complex balance with complex systems.

Canada also imports more than four times the dairy than it exports: http://www.cdc-ccl.gc.ca/CDC/index-eng.php?id=3803 (poutine 2-3 times per day adds up I guess).

Trump’s only direct authority for imposing steel tariffs is a narrow national security clause which is absurd and insulting to use against Canada and demonstrates that America can’t be trusted.

Even if a future president tries to rebuild international relationships I would be hesitant to waste years of effort working out any international agreement with America when the next TV populist president can easily tear it up. Unfortunately it takes a lot more effort to build things than tear them down.

john00088876

8 years agodiscuss

If you think calendar apps are a pain try television broadcast automation... frame accuracy instead of per second, with fractional frame rates (29.97, 23.98, fps) and a mix of content of different frame rates on the same playlist and conversion to different frame rate on the way out, plus operators in a different timezone than the channel and the need to handle timezone changes without messing things up on air.

I have nothing to do with it but this is an open source automation project I have bookmarked with some of those functions:

https://github.com/jaskie/PlayoutAutomation/blob/develop/TAS...

Lots of hassles.