I fell in love with elementaryOS when I first learned about it c. 2013, and followed it closely (used to read commits weekly) for perhaps a year. It was one of the first open source projects I really loved. But I eventually went back to Ubuntu because I was newish to Linux and I needed something that Just Worked™, without the funny business.
I eventually fell out of love with elementaryOS when the team seemed to double down hard on some unpopular design decisions wrt window control buttons/behaviour, for instance.
I always felt that they had taken on more than they could chew, and all the good will of their community wasn't going to change that fact. To this day I maintain that the project should have just been Pantheon, the Desktop Environment. The team seems to have strong opinions about UX, and that's where most of that matters.
I'm not the only one who thought of that, and the team's justifications for their decision to roll their own distro never came across as strong.
I've since moved on (to macOS and Ubuntu one the side), but once in a while I browse the official sub for the latest. I've never shaken off that feeling that the really talented founders could have spent their energy more wisely.
> If the elite colleges are not comprised of the rich and well connected it beats the entire point of an elite college.
Depends on how you define "elite", and I assume you mean some sort of hereditary or economic-class-based definition. But elite colleges could (and should) still work if they run on competency-based merit. I believe elite talent in as many fields of endeavour should absolutely be catered to.
> The entire notion of "elite" universities is discriminatory.
Well, when you put it that way, many things are discriminatory, for better or worse.
I tend to see a lot of criticism of the Trump administration when such topics come up. One "standard" HN tends to uphold is not following every single turn of the news cycle. This is why political discussion isn't as active here as it is on, say, political communities on reddit.
The name of your app reminds me of one I had started working on when I was out of employment: the app was going to send periodic reminders of stuff you've bookmarked/saved on various social media sites.
I was just about working on the Twitter api when Musk bought the company and restricted access. Real bummer. I got employment weeks later.
That's definitely the right name for periodic reminders right. Years ago I wrote an API called remindme which was supposed to provide pings for when you were in proximity to a location and it would remind you if you needed to pay someone, buy something, do something, etc. Never went anywhere but totally unrelated to this.
The Quran itself is referred to as the reminder. Because it's supposed to remind us of why we're here, our purpose, who made us, and all that.
how did it go wsgeorge? is there like a 10 second pause between each word when running on a Mac? I thought I could only run 8b models on it from what I remember last year and even those were super slow!
Then there's my phone (when testing apps), so sometimes I do 4 screens. That's my limit.