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Interesting idea.

Do you intend to compress the vector storage in any way and do you intend to implement your own vector search algorithms or reuse some already optimized libraries like usearch?


I don't have plans for compressed vector storage. There is support for int8/binary quantization, which can reduce the size of stored vectors drastically, but impacts performance quite a lot. I'd like to support something like product quantization[0] in the future, though!

No plans for using usearch or another vector search library, either. I want to keep dependencies low to make compilingeasy, and I want full control for how vectors are stored on-disk and in-memory.

[0] https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series/faiss/product-quantizat...


More like 24/5, open 24 hours on weekdays only.


This is mindblowing. Perhaps the most elegant RPC system I’ve seen.


It's surprisingly reminiscent of Comlink[0], the Google Chrome team's library for orchestrating and messaging web workers.

[0]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink


Anyone using Freeform (the recently added iOS/macOS app) similarly?

It feels to me like it can be a powerful yet simple productivity helper.


I like it! Kind of an infinite canvas app. I had a board with boxes for upcoming meetings, notes from calls, useful links, screenshots of things I was thinking about, etc. A really good system actually.


ifixit's detailed analysis of the display's PPI/PPD basically said it so, the PPD for a good monitor is 90+ whereas Vision Pro tops at 34 PPD.

We're probably 3 to 4 generations away from having resolution equivalence for this use case.


It’s not that though, AVP apps are plenty sharp. Or rather it’s not that alone. The AirPlay’d Mac Virtual Display is blurrier than anything else in the headset. I think the other issue, which is why you can’t resize down windows as far you feel like you should be able to, is related to the PPD. It’s also why even if you had an AVP native app you might not be able to get it small enough to match the space a regular IDE takes on a monitor and/or you won’t be able to fit as much code in the same space.


> tops at 34 PPD

iFixit said AVP averages 34 PPD. The pixels aren’t dense enough I can’t tell if they’re uniform or if (like most other headsets) they are denser in the center and more sparse at the edges


iFixIt Vision Pro Teardown Part 2 [1], do confirm his guess was right. In fact they mentioned this article in their PPI/PPD analysis.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/90409/vision-pro-teardown-part-2...?


They confirm the published numbers for resolution but his claim that it’s “ridiculous” is a subjective judgement. I count the people saying the opposite after using one as more persuasive but it’s very much an area where people have different opinions so mostly I would be skeptical of absolute assertions. I know people who say it’s impossible to work without a second monitor, or high DPI, etc. but they clearly don’t speak for all or even most users.


Very interesting project, a breeze of fresh air and welcome competition to Jupyter.

I guess it's still very early but the onboarding for Mario VSCode is not great at the moment, no idea how to actually start writing a Marimo notebook (no "Create: New Marimo notebook" option like Jupyter's).

Then I then tried clone the cookbook repo, and get "module not found" errors that are even less friendly than when it happens on Jupyter: have to figure out which cell the error actually comes from to even know which module is missing.


> I'm doing everything I can to speed the collapse of a broken system

How?


By posting that comment.


Nice to see Go performing well. Would be interesting to see the results with PGO enabled.


Nice concept to keep it always on top! Would it be possible to have the current task show in the menu bar instead? would be even less obstrusive but still "always on top"

edit: would also help not having it show in the task switcher, now it sort of annoying to have it show up when Cmd-Tab'bing... while doing the task of course ;)


As a counterpoint, as someone who "single tasks" with one full-screen window at all times to minimize distractions I absolutely hate the fact that it is always there and immediately removed it for that exact reason.

Good luck with it though - the basic idea seems great even if it's not for me.


Thanks for the feedback, would it be better if the task was shown in the menu bar instead?


That would be much better from my pov.


Ok, I'll give this some thought. Appreciate the feedback!


You are most welcome. Consider that you might want to ignore me though in order to build a successful product. My preferences might not be representative of many people - I'm a bit weird.


> Nice concept to keep it always on top!

Thank you!

> Would it be possible to have the current task show in the menu bar instead?

This is something I thought people might want, so thank you for confirming. The reason I didn't do it because Apple's UI guidelines discourage using excessive menu-bar space, but I'm certainly open to it if there is demand.

May I ask, is the issue that the UI takes up too much screen real-estate? I've been wondering whether we should make it more compact, so I'd appreciate feedback on that.


I edited my original message probably right while you were posting this reply.

Main concern with the window it not so much that it takes too much space, but that it "exists" in the task switcher, which can be distracting when Cmd-Tab'ing. Without going full menu bar way, perhaps a way to make it "transparent" to task switcher could help this - in fact maybe a mix between window (for showing current task) and menubar (for actions)


Appreciate the feedback, I've added the task switcher issue to our bugtracker, will fix it ASAP.


> edit: would also help not having it show in the task switcher, now it sort of annoying to have it show up when Cmd-Tab'bing... while doing the task of course ;)

I've added this to our bugtracker, will get it fixed ASAP. Appreciate the feedback.


Pretty sure that exists already. I’ve been using this in a similar way: https://sindresorhus.com/one-thing


It's a similar concept, but that only allows you to specify one task at a time. With NowDo you have a "queue" of tasks, as you mark each as done the next one is shown.


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