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Looks great, can you publish it for firefox too? (If the code is open-source I can try and help with this myself.)

1chanamessinger
I will talk to the developer about it being open source - I think that was both of our ideals.
1Maxwell Clarke
I just spent a couple of hours trying to make a firefox version but I have given up. It's a real pain because firefox still only supports the manifest v2 api. I realized I basically have to rewrite it which would take another few hours and I don't care that much.

I would choose it for very different use cases to slides; I've never diagrammed anything in a slides editor. I have historically drawn things in excalidraw, screenshotted them, then pasted them into a slides editor though.

I also prefer ripgrep, because it's a lot closer to a drop-in replacement for grep, and sometimes I'm on a server where only grep is installed. I don't want to have to remember how to use 2 different programs for the same thing.

ag does have some functionality for file-matching that ripgrep (and grep) is missing, but once I discovered fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (a drop-in-ish replacement for find) and xargs I never looked back.

Typical command: fd match_some_paths | xargs rg match_lines_in_some_files (-l if i just want the matching filenames)

Haven't used Amethyst, but I do use sway on my personal machine, it's my favourite window manager! I prefer sway to my mac solution on my work computer, but that's mainly because macs are missing the $mod key, other than that I notice no real difference.

I prefer got to axios (and request, fetch): https://github.com/sindresorhus/got. I find the api cleaner (although that's a matter of taste) and it's built with typescript in mind.

Software: excalidraw.com

Need: quick diagramming

Other programs I've tried: draw.io, miro

Miro is great for involved, collaborative diagramming with a team when you want to build out a design or idea in great detail, but sometimes you just want to quickly sketch something that looks good and share it with a co-worker.

My go-to software for this is excalidraw. It's limited to shapes, lines, and text (no fancy UML), but if that's all you need to get your idea across it's extremely quick and easy to use.

1ambigram
It's been an absolute delight using excalidraw, thanks for the rec! Everything just works and it looks pretty:)
1JessRiedel
Does excalidraw have an advantage over a slides editor like PowerPoint or Keynote?
1philip_b
I have a pretty good competitor - https://tableaunoir.github.io. Here's how they compare: * Excalidraw - is more polished. * Tableau Noir - supports LaTeX formulas. It's weird in that it requires a few additional key presses: (1) make a text field; (2) write a formula enclosed in single dollar signs; (3) with the cursor anywhere in the text field, press enter, then backspace (this step is silly, but otherwise it doesn't work); (4) press Esc. * Tableau Noir - has an eraser. * Tableau Noir - you can insert pages from pdf documents. * Both - no registration, no bullshit. * Both - work alright on ipad in the browser, although I have tried both only briefly.
2NunoSempere
Oh wow, this is great.
5Robert Miles
Holy wow excalidraw is good, thank you! I've spent a long time being frustrated that I know exactly what I want from this kind of application and nothing does even half of it. But excalidraw is exactly the ideal program I was imagining. Several times when trying it out I thought "Ok in my ideal program, if I hit A it will switch to the arrow tool." and then it did. "Cool, I wonder what other shortcuts there are" so I hit "?" and hey a nice cheat sheet pops up. Infinite canvas, navigated how I would expect. Instant multiplayer, with visible cursors so you can gesture at things. Even a dark mode. Perfect.
3Gunnar_Zarncke
Another very simple one (and easy to self-host too) is WBO: https://wbo.ophir.dev/ 

Software: yabai + skhd

Need: window management for mac

Other programs I've tried: Spectacle, BetterSnapTool

If you're from a linux background and looking for an i3-like experience to manage your windows on macos, this (combination of) software is the best solution I've found. The other programs I've tried for this on mac are desktop apps, but yabai and skhd are configured in plaintext and are much more powerful and customizable.

Note: The yabai readme mentions a need to disable system integrity protection, but I have never done this and I can still resize/move windows just fine.

3madasario
Any xp with Amethyst for compare/contrast?  I'll be switching laptops soon and the biggest thing keeping me on linux is my very custom multi screen sway setup

Thanks for sharing this. When I was studying theology, I most enjoyed learning about the first and second century communities that circulated the gospels, and that was because of points like the one you've raised (although I wasn't familiar with "praus"). It's a shame most of it never made it into church when I was a kid! The messaging of those early communities and the messaging of modern churches are very different.

5alexgieg
You're welcome. There's a stronger continuity if you look at pre-modern Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but yes, Christianity changed a lot over time. By the way, something that may help you locate your own personal moment in your relation towards the religious teachings you received are in light of Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Kohlberg's theory of stages of moral development, and Fowler's theory of stages of faith development, as these helped me understand my own. They build one atop the other in this same sequence, Fowler's depending on Kolhberg's, which in turn depends on Piaget's, so it's important to read the 3 links in the order provided.

Also, there's a difference between not standing up for yourself and not standing up for others. In my understanding only the former is considered a virtue.

I think that's correct, but also I think if you practise not standing up for yourself enough, it will spill over into not standing up for others. I'm not yet clear on how I'd want to make that argument though.

Why did you pick youth school disattendance as your subject in the first place?

Because this is already being done, just on a much smaller scale. 'Fridays for Future' has that name because some students decided to start taking Fridays off and protest instead.

It would take all of an hour

If you have time to share, I'll read it!

1Stuart Anderson
I'd do little more than write a role on a card (politician, corporate interest, activist, police, teacher, parent, student, etc.), and probably public and private motivations to prompt people beyond the obvious. Then you just let them at each other. All this comes down to is putting people in situations of asymmetric power dynamics. Then it's just a matter of seeing how power corrupts.  Then when you had a play through or two and made sure nobody's completely traumatised^(1) or anything like that you have a debrief. That's when you disclose player's private motivations and then discuss the implications, both in game and in the real world. You say "If the role on this card corresponds to a real person or entity, who do you think it might be and why?". You don't have to be abstract or speculate about actions and motivations when your students just did it right in front of you and to each other. When the player with a particular card roleplays organising a school strike and then in the debrief the private motivation is revealed as "You will be paid $10M by lobby group X if you can organise a school strike" you'll literally see the lightbulbs go on, and without ever having to actually name Ms. Thunberg at all.  The other aspect is that if you're going to criticise the motivations and actions of others then you better be ready to put your money where your mouth is. That means that the second half of the lesson has to involve doing something practical that is more effective for the environment than a school strike.  ---------------------------------------- 1. That is a non-trivial risk of these kind of games involving defection and deceit. Everyone should think very carefully before they black pill anyone, let alone a bunch of minors. 

And the most important prediction (which you don't give, but should): less than 0.02 that this will actually happen

 

That's an interesting question for sure, I haven't thought much about it. However, I would argue 'could something like this be incentivised', and 'would strikers have leverage to actually achieve anything' are separate questions. I'm personally more interested in question two.

2Dagon
Seems like something to consider pretty strongly.  Why did you pick youth school disattendance as your subject in the first place?  Why not youth housework strike, or daily congregation to disrupt traffic or commerce?  Or an adult strike of some sort?  Or a mixed-age strategy? When I read this, I assumed the specificity had some reason behind it.  That would be the first part of the question to explain and predict.

I'm guessing students would probably demand goals in line with IPCC recommendations.

1Teerth Aloke
A coordination committee with a clear realistic understanding will be required otherwise radicals will accept no proposal. (Case in point: Indian farmer's ongoing protest)

Hi anon03, I tried to make this post less 'how can I help', and more 'what would happen if X'. I think politics/political organizing is off-topic for LW, but trying to model or forecast how future events might play out seemed like fair game, and I'm pretty curious about how this kind of action might go. That's why this piece doesn't talk about goals or planning.

(For what it's worth, I'm not a student, and I'm not currently involved in any organizing, but I donate 10% of my salary, roughly 3% to animal welfare, 3% to global development (both EA funds), and 3% to climate initiatives).