nattaylor

He links to https://www.qutebrowser.org/

Chrome announced it will drop support for third party cookies within 2 years. https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-...

I painstakingly convert some PDFs from Boston and Massachusetts government into HTML and people prefer them for the flexibility and accessibility.

My workflow is to use pdftohtml then edit the result as Markdown and screenshot the figures before converting to HTML with pandoc.

I have been pushing to publish in HTML from the get-go, in part by citing this blog, with some success.

For example, the Massachusetts Secretary of the Office of Environmental Affairs recently published a typed letter as a raster PDF, which I converted into https://nattaylor.com/eastboston/blog/2019/3247-2017-logan-a... from https://eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/EEA/emepa/mepacerts/2019/s...

As developers, can't we use progressive enhancement to support as many scenarios as we want?

I use FILTER once in a while on a postgres database I work with, so I am happy to see it added to SQLite

Reminds me of https://web.archive.org/web/20171023045242/http://www.samefa...

"What is this simple free best personal finance advice that fits on a 3×5 card? "

* Max your 401k (or equivalent)

* Buy low fee, diversified whole market funds

* Never buy or sell individual stocks

* Save 20% of your money

* Pay your credit card balance in full every month

* Maximize tax-advantaged savings vehicles like Roth, SEP & 529

* Pay attention to fees and avoid active management

* Make financial advisors commit to a fiduciary standard (or fee-only!)

* Promote social insurance programs to help people when things go wrong

I got a Duo ad Hulu yesterday. I think it will survive

If you accept that advertising is necessary to some business models, I hope to see publishers move ads back to the server because I think eliminating all the code from the client would drastically improve user experience.

This would make them tougher to block and hinder users ability to control privacy, but it would also restrict tracking to that specific site.

Amazon and Facebook already have integrations with third parties

Some fleets have implemented special bottom paint to reduce drag by reducing algae growth.

I believe the unloaded freeboard of a typical containership is 80-100' The bridge (navigation deck) is higher, but the "sails" would be mounted from the deck, so I expect most ships would be OK.

The Google Translated version is pretty good: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&...

Thanks for the explanation!

I have done things on my site like inlining CSS and minimizing requests because it feels fast, without knowing exactly why. I didn't know that a single request can actually have multiple round trips!

My WordPress homepage is 2.4kb gzipped and just a single request :) so it is fast but its, uhh, a little boring and only 158 words.

(Just got back from Googling.) So basically, if the content can be sent within the window then you save a roundtrip?

Minimizing requests, using system fonts and using vector images are what makes this great because it makes the page loads so fast. Does 7kb really make much of a difference?

I've subconsciously noticed all those little UI things and it's a treat to read how much thought and engineering went into them

Some people just trust cops.

I sat on a jury that included testimony by a police officer.

Many months had passed since the incident and the cop said a bunch of things, then the defense said "You just said X, but in your incident report you wrote Y."

One of the jurors was stuck on "We should believe the police officer because he is a police officer" for about 60 minutes, before eventually becoming convinced that nothing he said added up.

I thought the same, but I could use this to check messenger & groups while skipping the feed.

A fun read on this subject: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/26/clawback

I'm not a Californian or a farmer.

I read there's a 50% increase in wages, during a period when CPI is up more like 30% in California [0], and I'm saying I agree with the article: it seems like a reasonable economic incentive.

To respond to your comment: isn't a farm worker different from a farmer? I thought the former was someone who does things that require little to no training, like picking grapes, and that these are the people the article references.

0 - http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/LGCentral/DivMeasure/AdjustMeth...

The article indicates a 15-year trend of rising wages, yet we don't see American farmhands flocking to CA, so it seems like a fair headline to me.

Are you in-market for a car?

I'm unaware of a ML-based solution, but GCE has an endpoint that _can_ do this, though it is better at short sentences.

I completely agree. In other software labeling (albums, location, faces, tags, etc) is tedious, time consuming and fragile. In Google Photos I barely even think about it.

Dataloss/lockout is a great concern of mine and I am somewhat exposed. For DSLR photos, I persist them on disk, then upload to Google Photos. For smartphone, I periodically copy the new ones to disk. Then that disk is remotely backed up. However, I am exposed to losing all of my GPhotos meta data (primarily albums and captions) as well was the smartphone photos since my last manual backup.

I have accepted this tradeoff. It would be pretty devastating to loose all that organization, but its recreatable and the value I get out of Google Photos trumps that risk.

This may sound defensive, but its just a genuine answer, as I agree that many photos are pretty pointless.

In my case I uploaded every photo I've taken since I got my first digital camera in 2000, and I do look at some of them.

To try to answer your question directly: I just checked and I have roughly 100 albums with roughly 50 photos, so I expect that I'll go back to those when I want a trip down memory lane, etc.

As for the other ~36k, I don't have any statistics but:

* On ~10 occasions I've sent emails to friends after getting one of the "this day in YYYY" notifications with a link to the photos

* On a few (~4) occasions, I've used the faces grouping to find old, fun photos of friends

* Yesterday I happened to get a "This day in YYYY" notification that reminded me about an event I photographed at my neighbors house, but had forgotten to send the photos (7 years ago, oops)

* I'd rediscovered some DSLR photos I probably would have missed thanks to the "approx location tagging" (that taps in my phones location history)

* I share photos far more frequently since its free, unlimited and auto-upload

* The auto-animations and auto-panoramas have made me go back and rediscover photos from some old trips

* Just the other day my Mom was interested in a photo she remembered me taking on a trip in 2013. I was able to search the place name and find the photo in seconds

I started down the path of Google Photos because my old workflow of manually merging smartphone and DSLR pics on disk and then not having a good centralized album management system felt clunky.

I'm surprised by how often I find myself going to http://photos.google.com now.

I'm betting that Google Photos will necessarily stick around in order to keep Android competitive with iOS (and perhaps Windows.) I desperately hope they make it a paid service, if needed, rather than shutter it.

I've fully committed and have uploaded 40,932 photos. All of the automation has been amazing.

>for every one of those 750 lines, I've had to examine, rework, and reject around 5400 lines of code.

I guess there's no such thing as "good enough" with a compiler?

Those are staggering numbers to me. Kudos to the author.

>Experiments have been unable to find a binary encoding that is significantly smaller or faster than a plain text encoding. (The present implementation parses JSON text at over 300 MB/s.)

I understand that JSONB in Postgres is useful primarily for sorts and indexes. Does SQLite work around this somehow, or is that just not included in their experiments?

My limited experiences with the USPS have been quite positive. The two times I've called to inquire about packages they routed first to the manager and then to the actual postman who delivers my mail. He remembered details about my building's entrance like the location of a small basket, and explained where the mail in question had been left.