flutetornado's comments

On: The Block Protocol

[flutetornado]

I have always wanted Kindle to support a lot more features than what it does today. Digital books could be a lot more than what they are today. Want to embed a python REPL in a python book for users to test things right in the book, from a common source? Want to embed function graphs in a Math book from a common source? How about a theorem prover right there in the book? How about a Wolfram engine embedded in there to solve arbitrary calculus problems? How about a section in another book - license it from the other publisher and embed it into your book? Embedding a video, a web page, a 3D visualization engine, etc should all be possible in a digital book.

Looks like this maybe able to achieve all of this. Just need to get Amazon Kindle team on board with this.

[r0rshrk → flutetornado]

FYI Kindle renders a subset of HTML[0]. They have deliberately chosen not to support everything because of security.

[0] - https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GG5R7N649LECKP7U

On: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

[flutetornado]

Not worried about the singularity anymore after listening to the smartest AI’s generated stories.

On: Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax

[flutetornado]

I like to use the vim plugin DrawIt for ascii diagrams:

https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/12/how-to-create-ascii-dra...

https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt

Pretty easy to create comments for code that need a drawing for clear expositions.