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haroldship··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
Still not working. I am logged. I have free account
haroldship··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
Still not working
haroldship··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
I missed that, thanks. I will try it on Sunday
haroldship··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
I missed that, thanks. I will try it on Sunday
haroldship··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
How do I get this to work? When I try to access the Assistant I just get the help page: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html
haroldship··on Our data isn't safe. Resist giving it up whenever you can
https://archive.is/EzrFt
haroldship··on ‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit
This seems like the experience of Jeremy Clarkson in Clarkson’s Farm. Many things against being a successful farmer resulting in practically zero profit.
haroldship··on "The Earth Transformed" Review - why humans have always been under the weather
I listened to an interesting interview with Peter Francopan on The Rest is History podcast https://linktr.ee/restishistory. Made me want to get the book. This review adds to my interest.
haroldship··on How to use a watch as a compass
This is great! I have a Seiko Alpinist SARB017 that works exactly this way
haroldship··on A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
Does this justify Pavel Tsatsouline's Grease the Groove?
haroldship··on Japan's Paper Culture
This article discusses an interesting topic and is written in an engaging style. Nice find!
haroldship··on Non-Transitive Dice
This is a cool idea, explained brilliantly. The rock-paper-scissors reference turned on a lightbulb for me.
haroldship··on Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer Covid Shots
1) possibly, but in Israel nearly all deaths are over 60 but most infections are not so maybe not so much 2) depends on the question: if you ask if you should get vaccinated or get covid, then yes. If you ask whether it’s as safe to be around a recovered as a vaccinated, then not really
haroldship··on On academic writing: a personal note (2016)
This Coursera Course (Writing in the Sciences, Stanford University, Dr. Kristin Sainani)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite/home/welcome

haroldship··on Engineering the Apocolypse
"In this nearly 4-hour SPECIAL EPISODE, Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam) about the looming danger of a man-made pandemic, caused by an artificially-modified pathogen. The risk of this occurring is far higher and nearer-term than almost anyone realizes.

Rob explains the science and motivations that could produce such a catastrophe and explores the steps that society must start taking today to prevent it. These measures are concrete, affordable, and scientifically fascinating—and almost all of them are applicable to future, natural pandemics as well. So if we take most of them, the odds of a future Covid-like outbreak would plummet—a priceless collateral benefit. "

haroldship··on Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm
Sheldon Cooper would love this
haroldship··on Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story
Not an option for everyone. Some people ate sensitive to the sun due to medical conditions and/ or medications. Some people work night shift.
haroldship··on Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub
After having tried Roam, as well as Zettelkasten and Bullet Journalling, I'm starting to think you're right. I keep searching for a magic tool to help me organise all my reading and research. But I think it's about 90% procrastination.
haroldship··on The antitrust case against Google
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
haroldship··on Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-driving tech
My wife has Mobileye in her car - it works quite well - warning you when you're too close to the car in front or when you're wandering out of your lane.
haroldship··on Build RESTful web services with Java technology
Support for WebSphere Smash is discontinued. See

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=A...