profsummergig

Thanks. I've tried SingleFile. I made some backups using the Chrome Extension. I was unable to open them a couple of years later. So I abandoned it.

Will try karakeep.

And here I'm still looking for a way, with one click, to create an offline backup of the webpages each of my bookmarks points to. Such that the offline version looks and works exactly like the online version in (say) Google Chrome (e.g. the CTRL+F feature works fine). And such that I can use some key-combo and click a bookmark in my bookmarks manager (in Chrome) to open a webpage from the backup (or the backup can have its own copy of the bookmarks manager... it needs a catalog of some sort or it won't be useful).

...every media post on IG/FB/X/YT/news sites/AI.

A bunch of people who make era-defining software for free. A labor of love.

Another bunch of people who make era-defining software where they extract everything they can. From customers, transactionally. From the first bunch, pure extraction (slavery, anyone?).

I used to go to office.com to use web versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

Imagine my pleasant surprise (/s) when recently I went there, and the icons for these apps had vanished. Instead there was a giant gaping textbox for Copilot. A minute or so of staring at it, and I noticed a "Create" link on the left. That led to a page that invited me to do various things (e.g. "create a presentation", presumably with the web version of PowerPoint). The icons were still missing though.

Also notable: My work-issued Windows computer has Copilot, and Copilot 365. I have no idea which does what, and what's the difference between the two.

I would love for you to point me in the direction of the knowledge-bases (peer-reviewed ones) that these organizations have produced. If you can also point me in the direction of the kits they've produced, that would be extra sweet.

If you don't, readers of this comment are going to assume there aren't any, and you're just doing an ego-defense of Indian "capability".

India doesn't do it in an organized way though.

You'll read about some 70 year old woman/man in an obscure village who's reforested thousands of acres on their own, or resuscitated a lake (e.g. the lake guy in Bengaluru).

But there's little effort to harness their knowledge in a systematic way, add knowledge from others into the knowledge bank, do peer review, and then systematically dispense the knowledge in the form of a kit to environmentalists and bureaucrats across the country. China did this, and that's why they're so successful.

Do you know why the mounds with half-moon shapes? Why is it more effective than simply digging a circular hole in the ground?

This is the correct take.

Let's say we beg Google to keep it open now, and they acquiesce.

So what?

Do you think this same drama won't repeat in the future?

I don't understand the appeal of Sharpies. Even if left unused, they die out in a relatively short time. The ones meant for paper are not meant to be used on whiteboards. And they don't write (flow) particularly well on either (the colored ones are particularly terrible on whiteboards).

Maybe I'm using them wrong. Happy to be corrected, and to hear your recos on better alternatives.

Don't give them ideas.

> half a percentage point

2020: 46.8%

2024: 49.8%

There was a department secretary we used to have. Whenever she'd make the community coffee, it was insanely great. She told me she just used less coffee. But when I do that it just comes out weak. I have friend who could do that too, but now she uses a Keurig. Coffee is an art. I never understood why people like the bitter, acrid Starbucks coffee.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Plus, not everyone has the privilege to put their feet up and sip green tea on a balcony to look at trees.

Beautiful writing, nonetheless. You do you, friend.

It's a national past-time over there. They'll be unearthing "King Arthur's" sword soon.

FWIW, a devil's advocate view: the UK has a long history of hoaxes designed to increase tourism. With a self-interested media that gives credence to these "discoveries".

Crop circles.

Loch Ness monster.

It's intriguing to me how people assumed that Bezos would never interfere with WaPo and then he did.

"We superior Westerners with our moral billionaires would never... Hey! What're you doing!"

The problem is opportunity cost

Of what?

Of getting on disability (back pain)

And getting more (from the govt.) to sit at home and cook up conspiracy theories on the Internet

Looking for (possibly accidental) patterns.

The obsession with prime numbers (humans decided they were "prime", i.e. most important, based on arbitrary considerations).

It seems like a version of astrology to me.

Am I wrong? I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

I've read/heard that the Sahara was a rainforest around 6,000 BCE (or at least the area around the Great Pyramids was).

Why do we believe that what is now Saudi Arabia was a desert in 11,000 BCE?

Nvidia certainly has a headstart, and great products.

But many (many) labs around the world are working on alternative chip designs for math processing.

Once a couple open-source chip designs come online, that can compete with Nvidia, it will all come crashing down.

Think Android vs iPhone.

Stoked.

Genuinely curious, not trolling, why is it considered acceptable to spray plastic pellets into the woods?

(1999) - "Spending on Amazon warehouses Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?"

2nd order effects.

One moment you allow multiple unrelated people to share a house.

Next moment they're living 5 to a room and there are 8 cars parked in their front yard.

My peeve is about banning of growing food in your front yard in many states. So much available land going waste growing grass (that is not even fed to cows).

I love Obsidian and wish I could make it my default markdown handler on Windows.

While we're on the topic: what's your default markdown handler on Windows?

You may remember that one needed to use Discord to use MidJourney initially. I was able to use it for that (although a lot of messages that streamed by were confusing to me).

After that I joined a couple of Discords with tens of thousands of users. Nothing ever seemed to happen on them. I knew I was doing something wrong but I couldn't figure it out.

I used to be disappointed in myself that I didn't understand Discord well enough to use it.

Now I'm glad I never understood it well enough to use it.

I drove-by about 5 minutes after an SUV had hit a deer and rolled over (possibly trying to avoid it). There was stuff from the car strewn all over the road, and 2 bodies lying prone in the ditch on the road side. The police were already there, trying to revive them.

Leaves an impression.

By the next day the road had been swept clean. I searched and searched for info on the crash online and in police reports. No info.

TIL that Ballmer built their enterprise division from scratch.

Figures. It was a highly profitable division that nobody could figure out what it did or how.

I like this sort of study/theory that imparts practical, actionable tips on how to reduce problems in one's life.

Been on a driving safety kick lately. There's lots of alpha on the table. My most important rules for myself: minimize driving, avoid rush hours.