westcort

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   A loop of streaming radio shows from Archive.org(locserendipity.com)

   2 points by westcort 4y ago|0 comments
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   by westcort 4y ago

   I am currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry of the Future" and these seem like a great thing to have in the future, when heat waves might be so extreme at times, that they threaten survival.
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   by westcort 4y ago

   I am not sure ics invites will still function universally in a decade and our our attitude toward today's phones might resemble then how we regard a PalmPilot today, but I am sure this plain text file system will continue to work. Here
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   by westcort 4y ago

   Although well written, I find that some of the content is a bit difficult to understand. Pershing Park appears to have some statues in place. There was a ceremony dedicating the park in 2021, but I assume that 2024 is the expected date for
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   by westcort 4y ago

   This bookmarklet is one way to cut out the cruft: javascript:void%20function()%7Bjavascript:(function()%7Bvar%20a=Math.floor,b=document.querySelectorAll(%22p,%20title%22),c=%5B%5D,e=%22%22,f=%22%22,g=%22%22,h=0,k=0,l=%22%22,m=%22%22,n=windo
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   A search engine of gov sites (& weather-related sites to kill off AccuWeather)(locserendipity.com)

   2 points by westcort 4y ago|0 comments
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   by westcort 4y ago

   Try these bookmarklets: With a peach background color and a pivot character one-third of the way through the word (plus one): javascript:void function(){javascript:(function(){var a=Math.floor,b=document.querySelectorAll("p, title&quot
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   by westcort 4y ago

   Kind of similar to this bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){var q="p, title",e=document.querySelectorAll(q),o=[],str1="",str0="",str="",j=0,pivotchar=0,finvar="",ans="",d=window.op
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   by westcort 4y ago

   Okay I will not post these anymore. I might share the summarization algorithm I wrote that enables me to create these quickly, though. Thanks for helping me understand the ethos of curiosity and the diffs as the underlying principles.
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: * In a perfect world, there would be a more ambitious program developing the breeding technology in parallel to ITER, Willms says, so that by the time ITER has perfected the fusion reactor there’s still a fuel source to ru
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: * SSI is run by the Social Security Administration (SSA), and it is a basic income of sorts given to some people who have little or no other income * While SSI and its asset cap are obviously not taxes —the government is
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: * An analysis of online sales listings turned up more than 1,200 species of spiders, scorpions and other arachnids; just 2 percent of them are subject to international trade regulations, the researchers report * Fish and W
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: * The free AI breast cancer detection website took coolwulf about three months of spare time, sometime he had to sleep in his office to get things done, before the site finally went live in 2018 * The website also gained a
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: * Miller and Chesney’s lectures describe the course of the war up to that point, with Chesney focussing first on fighting in Virginia and then on operations in the west and south, such as Sherman’s March to the Sea * In hi
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: * This extraordinary book will win devotees among that minority who don’t see “stories” everywhere, who resent the hegemony of narrative, and who perhaps experience time more like a spiral or, as Roberto Bolaño puts it in
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    by westcort 4y ago

    Formatted with https://locserendipity.com/Hyper.html
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    The Scarlet Plague: A Novel by Jack London Set in the 21st Century (1912) [pdf](locserendipity.com)

    6 points by westcort 4y ago|2 comments
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: * A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this summer as heat, drought, shuttered power plants and supply-chain woes strain the electric grid * The Electric Reliability
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    by westcort 4y ago

    This bookmarklet is one way to fix it: https://www.locserendipity.com/Hyper.html
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    by westcort 4y ago

    Key takeaways: * Nona uses a technology developed in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics that removes salt and bacteria from seawater using an electrical current * “Because we can do all this at super low pressure, we don’t need the hi
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    by westcort 4y ago

    This is a great idea. I tried doing this with all of the .edu domains on the former DMOZ and created this for simple searches: https://locserendipity.com/edu.html?q=astronomy Also, I created a pure JavaScript (no dependency
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    by westcort 4y ago

    Key Takeaways: * “Right now, the Lower Basin uses over 10 million acre-feet a year, while the Upper Basin uses under 5 million acre-feet,” says Rebecca Mitchell, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board * I’m thrilled to death we h
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    Show HN: Hyper: A bookmarklet and web application to optimize reading speed(locserendipity.com)

    7 points by westcort 4y ago|0 comments
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    by westcort 4y ago

    "There is a kind of serendipity in a library that never happens online." Perhaps that was true in 2014, but I recognized that and created this: https://www.locserendipity.com
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: 1. Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots 2. In summary, if they break through the current reverse proxy level protection, options include an invisible ReCAPTCHA (but given I’ve some
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: 1. Remote work, no code, social media, and ecommerce platforms all make it easier to bootstrap new businesses from zero to revenue 2. (From Wikipedia) Mittelstand commonly refers to a group of stable business enterprises i
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    by westcort 4y ago

    Here is a good TTS implemented in a few lines of HTML and JavaScript: https://www.locserendipity.com/TTS.html
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    by westcort 4y ago

    This is one way to discover new things from the Library of Congress and other catalogs: https://www.locserendipity.com
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    by westcort 4y ago

    I switched from FoxIt to Okular and have been very happy with the improvement in performance.
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    by westcort 4y ago

    My key takeaways: 1. When I say "as backwards compatible as possible," I mean that this website will be usable on as many browsers, connections, and hardware as I can reasonably support 2. Raw HTML is Your Friend Remember the <