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Nice. I would love to import the metadata from my Calibre Library. Calibre is great, but it is ancient and its evolution is glacial.

Same. Try the "books on the Battle of Midway" query on Perplexity. The results are great and include the book mentioned in the article (authored by the Naval Aviator).

I graduated from "Annapolis" (AKA USNA, "The Boat School") in the 70's. My second career was in high-tech here in Silicon Valley. Let me state the "quiet part" of the Naval Academy…

POPclip deserves its own entry. It adds an action menu popup to any selected text. I find it indispensable. (I'm told that IOS has similar features.) https://www.popclip.app/

And Paypal stretched banking laws. And Youtube was built on the back of countless music and TV videos under copyright. And Airbnb played/plays free & loose with hoteling laws. And …

"End of Programming" will look like a Mag-7 interview: [program design] + [leetcode].

The chart in this article tells a more balanced tale. The size of the US EV pie doubled and Tesla's growth didn't. But while Tesla's share is not yet in freefall, the trend is quit…

> taxing copyrights and patents It's an interesting point. I believe (chatGPT4 agrees) that taxes on IP occur via licensing deals, on transactions, and/or through registration fees…

The USPTO grants human artists an early victory in their struggle with AI generation. I personally don't think that this ruling will withstand the AI tidal wave that's coming. But,…

This is interesting but it's old news. Both the linked article and the "FBI PSA" are dated late December of 2022.

To be fair, Microsoft's "AI BING" demo wasn't exactly flawless either. But the popular press didn't seem to notice. https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/microsoft_ai_bing_err... …

Interesting product. I first encountered this "data painter" paradigm in the 80's in a product called DataDesk. That software was created by Cornell professor Paul Velleman. Paul w…

I use this category of tool all the time, and I've tried at least a dozen of them. Based on about an hour of usage, Unclutter is my favorite -- nudging out my current tool-of-choic…

Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but "...sorry to inform you..." is just one post of many on the blog. Those seeking more context should check out the home page and some of the oth…

> Pine Bluff, Arkansas You know this now, but most crime databases have Pine Bluff as one of the most crime-riddles metros in the country. It rates a "1" on a scale of 100, with 10…

> there's nothing left to do besides the production migration. And this is considered easy/low-risk? It seems like the most frightening part, although perhaps less frightening as t…