I think this is one of the exception cases where the initialism is better known than the full name.
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If you don’t accept whatever some org’s data is encoded with, they won’t consider it a win for standards, or swap out whatever is producing that data for something more compliant. They’ll consider it a bug, and probably use some other more flexible processor.
On the other hand, if you can be flexible enough to allow quirks on import while not perpetuating them on export, eventually you and other software built with the same philosophy standardize the field.
I do think there’s a point where things are standardized enough that you can safely stop doing that—when all the extra quirk code is so rarely used as to be irrelevant—but I’m unsure if we’ve reached it yet. It would be something to actually analyze, though, rather than just a philosophical decision.
But you can use off the shelf Pilot Frixion pens with all of them, including the OG Wave version (which they do still sell as one of their cheaper ones, but looks like it can only take a few erase cycles).
This looks surprisingly good. The app that does the scanning and transfer to other services has a 4.7 on the iOS App Store, so I assume it works reasonably well, and I don’t see any subscription fees whatsoever.
$20-60 for a notebook is pretty dear, but certainly cheaper than $200-300 for an e-ink tablet as long as you can get enough reuse out of them.
I really like that in landscape mode, it’s the same size as two 7” Oases side by side. It feels like reading a paperback when I display the text in two page-sized columns, and I hadn’t realized how much I missed having that. It turns out the “look to the left, then to the right” thing you do to read the two pages makes the experience feel much more authentic to me.
It’s also a manga-reading beast, for the same reason. It’s much more enjoyable to read in two-page mode for me.
I am impressed with how good the writing feels on the surface. It’s very tactile compared to my iPad. I’m looking for places I can try to work it into my flow. I’m sure there’s a ton of stuff that has simply not occurred to me because I’ve become so used to not having pen and paper around.
It doesn't seem to do it on my iPhone now unless it's directly preceded by "Apple." But I wonder if they're hitting that because I notice a lot of different people are capitalizing the word.
The FDA finally banned brominated vegetable oil very recently so maybe they’ll get to the rest of it too. Assuming they can make rules anymore, anyway.
I don’t think I realized the game itself was so venerable though!
For example, ```tasks blocks are used in Obsidian Tasks to denote queries. The extension replaces the block with the rendered task list, when in wysiwyg editing or in the rendered view.
In your case the results would just appear, a la soulver, but the way of setting it up would be familiar.
I guess the OG NV didn’t have that but I used them pretty extensively in nvAlt and in Obsidian (not that I’d expect anywhere near what the latter does with analyzing them).
I will admit I never saw the custom instructions option though, which would have covered pre-prompting.
But regular Kagi is one of those “take it out of my cold dead hands” sort of techs. Now that the iOS extension mostly works for bang redirects and such, it’s been a great experience on all platforms.
I have an iOS shortcut built around the Summarizer that has been invaluable for my TL;DR moments on sprawling articles. If I get bored I share to that shortcut and instantly get back bullet points in a popup window. Brilliant.
I’m happy to hear Kagi is successful and will likely be around for awhile. Going back to straight Google or DDG would be rough.
When I moved to the SF Bay Area in 1991 I couldn’t figure out why the BBS scene in tech mecca sucked so badly. Then I got my first phone bill and discovered out here local calls were metered for anything over a few miles away…
Unfortunately, I don't think they're planning on offering it free to my model or earlier, and I don't know if the same deal exists for ICE cars.
His mental health wasn’t relevant to the attack from any report I’ve read. That makes it a bit odd and more than a little thoughtless to highlight it.
People slow down on projects for a ton of reasons. The guy could have been in chemo or had a kid. The result would be the same: he’d need a co-maintainer to keep the pace. The attackers would’ve capitalized on that. They’d plainly been waiting for whatever opportunity would work.
Schneier then follows that linkified fact up immediately with a parenthetical that Collin isn’t to blame. But then why call out that very potentially stigmatic thing at all, with sources to boot?
That explanatory note from Collin was buried in a mailing list and was at most a footnote to this story. Now it’s going to be part of the public accounting pushed by a famous security pundit with international reach, and with very little other context given to mitigate.
Either Schneier was trying to make a point of some kind, in which case he sure wheedled around it, or he should’ve been considerably more careful with essentially the only personal fact he chose to highlight about Collin. Either way, I’m disappointed.
It usually implies Apple deliberately studied your specific app or replicated it based on details revealed in B2B licensing/acquisition meetings, similar to what MS pulled with Stacker back in the 90s.
Well, at least it wasn’t the front that fell off.