You're talking about WURFL and Luca Passani. I recall working with it for a project 15 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WURFL

Same here... back in 2011 or so. We needed something much more performant than WURFL. My efforts eventually became a feature/product at Akamai known as "Edge Device Characterization" (EDC) using algorithms not dissimilar to how LLMs are trained today.

I can't speak to how good the actual product is today (or even when it launched, but that's a whole 'nother story), but during development it was capable of processing 100K RPS in a footprint of ~30MB RAM with ~98% accuracy compared to WURFL as a baseline.

Wow, I remember WURFL! I used this at my second-ever job, back when mobile was still taking off, and we were trying to create some sort of mobile-server-plugin-thing for a big Java CMS monstrosity thing, as well as running NYC Restaurant Week's mobile site.

Those were not the good ol' days.

BTW: It looks like WURFL is still a thing. He seems to have made a business of it[0].

The key to WURFL was a massive XML file. That was constantly updated with the latest gizmos, and whatnot.

[0] https://www.scientiamobile.com

Yup. That's it.

All of that would be great if it was actually available to me in the smaller country/market I live in, which is less of a priority for Google. I still paid for them as part of the phone.

I use Obsidian as a journal but I have year-long notes. Each day is a H2 heading and each task/note is an H3 heading, with structured tags for each task/note in the same line. This way I can quickly scroll through my recent notes. Splitting them into years (7 of them already) keeps the size somewhat contained - I would happily have 1 large file if Obsidian and all the plugins I use was more efficient about scrolling through it.

To quickly navigate them I have the plugin Quiet Outline open on the right tab. To focus me I also have a single very short file called Current Priority Work open in a top left tab in Reading View with links to the currently important H3 headings.

New tasks automatically get a "#todo" tag. Currently worked-on tasks get a "#doing" tag. I also use priorities ("#priority/low") and search as such `line:(#priority/high #todo)`.

I also use more tags such as "#client/XYZ", "#systems/ABC". They help a lot to find related notes on various topics.

I used to have a separate file called "doing" that used DataviewJS to create links of all the "#doing"-tagged H3 lines but "Current Priority Work" is better for me.

It's down to supply and demand. You get a license from local govenrment, buy some nice furniture, hire some young people, and set up shop offering a nice looking product of beach access with food, drinks, service at your umbrella, for 75 euro. More if you want front row beach access. You do leave the required free space for the public to put down their own umbrella (or not!). If you're the only shop on that particular beach, and it's a nice beach, people will come, and to enough of them your product will look "sexier" than the public beach area. By paying for it, they solve a need of theirs (beach fun) and can also brag about paying for it on social media.

Came here to say just this - it's probably the first extension I install everywhere and significantly improves usability and control.

For Firefox it's this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scroll_anywhe...

Low contraxt text tires me. I tend to toggle Reader Mode in my browser or simply click on this bookmarklet (a bookmarked link with the below in the URL field) that changes all fonts to "Open Sans" or "Lucinda Grande". I can't remember where I found it but it's been one of the first things I add in a new desktop browser.

It must be urlencoded for bookmarklets to work.

  javascript:%20%20WebFontConfig%20%3D%20%7B%0D%0A%20%20%20%20google%3A%20%7B%20families%3A%20%5B%20'Open%2BSans%3A%3Alatin%2Cgreek-ext'%20%5D%20%7D%0D%0A%20%20%7D%3B%0D%0A%20%20(function()%20%7B%0D%0A%20%20%20%20var%20wf%20%3D%20document.createElement('script')%3B%0D%0A%20%20%20%20wf.src%20%3D%20('https%3A'%20%3D%3D%20document.location.protocol%20%3F%20'https'%20%3A%20'http')%20%2B%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20'%3A%2F%2Fajax.googleapis.com%2Fajax%2Flibs%2Fwebfont%2F1%2Fwebfont.js'%3B%0D%0A%20%20%20%20wf.type%20%3D%20'text%2Fjavascript'%3B%0D%0A%20%20%20%20wf.async%20%3D%20'true'%3B%0D%0A%20%20%20%20document.getElementsByTagName(%22head%22)%5B0%5D.appendChild(wf)%3B%20%0D%0A%09var%20newSS%2C%20styles%3D'*%2Chtml%2Cbody%20%7B%20font-family%3A%20Open%20Sans%2C%20Lucida%20Grande%2Csans-serif%20!%20important%3B%7D'%3B%20%0D%0A%09if(document.createStyleSheet)%20%7B%20%0D%0A%09%09document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript%3A'%22%2Bstyles%2B%22'%22)%3B%20%0D%0A%09%7D%20%0D%0A%09else%20%7B%20%0D%0A%09%09newSS%3Ddocument.createElement('link')%3B%20%0D%0A%09%09newSS.rel%3D'stylesheet'%3B%20%0D%0A%09%09newSS.href%3D'data%3Atext%2Fcss%2C'%2Bescape(styles)%3B%20%0D%0A%09%09document.getElementsByTagName(%22head%22)%5B0%5D.appendChild(newSS)%3B%20%0D%0A%09%7D%20%09%0D%0A%20%20%7D)()%3B;
  
  

I'm also writing out the above in plaintext for reading through:

  javascript:  WebFontConfig = {
      google: { families: [ 'Open+Sans::latin,greek-ext' ] }
    };
    (function() {
      var wf = document.createElement('script');
      wf.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http') +
        '://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js';
      wf.type = 'text/javascript';
      wf.async = 'true';
      document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(wf); 
   var newSS, styles='*,html,body { font-family: Open Sans, Lucida Grande,sans-serif ! important;}'; 
   if(document.createStyleSheet) { 
    document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'"); 
   } 
   else { 
    newSS=document.createElement('link'); 
    newSS.rel='stylesheet'; 
    newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles); 
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS); 
   }  
    })();;*

Steve Holt!

Oh wow I had forgotten about your wallpapers... I loved the blue earth with tiny airplanes so much that I became a paid member back in...2009. And my account still works! Kudos.

Nowadays my monitors are always full of full screen windows so I never get to see the wallpaper.

I do something similar with the old Gmail for Domains product (or whatever it was called before Workspace) - it lets me add real mailboxes but also have a catch-all, where everything else gets delivered to a specific address.

I know this is not available any more so I've done the same with Cloudflare Email Routing which lets you set up a catch-all and is (still) free.

He's had covid twice, once in June 2020 and now in December 2021, a good example of immunity by infection not being worth much.

This is illogical.

Did he die? Did he suffer severe symptoms? No.

What makes this different than a vaccinated person contracting the virus and having mild/no symptoms?

You took a vaccine that has not been updated since it was created to target the Alpha variant. He caught a previous variant, and both of you are not protected from contracting omicron. However, both of you are at far lower risk of severe illness due to the previous exposure your immune systems have to the virus. The only difference is the payload. He was exposed to an entire virus, and therefore his antibodies/t-cells are less targeted and broader. You were exposed only to the spike protein which coats the virus, and therefore have a highly targeted immune response that is less broad. So what?

The results are what matter. This is just religious posturing. You want everyone to take the same sacrament as you, regardless of outcomes.

There are multiple studies with massive cohorts (the Israeli study has 2.5 MILLION people in it) that show that this virus is TYPICAL in the sense that when someone catches it, then clears it, the immune system is behind this. Previously infected people were proven in this study to have superior immunity to delta than fully vaccinated people, and the margins were not small.

But sure, ignore that and focus on your sample size of 1 to confirm your priors.

Looks like people are so overcompensating antivaxxers that logic went out the window. Everyone is so polarized that I’m losing faith in returning to normal life. And honestly, both sides are appearing to be equally bad, equally engulfed in their own black and white world.

Most people are pretty calm about it. It's just there's very noisy fringe elements who are dramatically overrepresented online.

It blows my mind how many otherwise smart people think that online comments are remotely representative of the real world. How many times have you seen a prominent online personality see racist/misogynistic comments from a handful of trolls and then claim that "racists are everywhere!"

It's the same with this.

Frankly, the biggest source of derangement is fear that is utterly detached from reality. Gallup's polling has revealed that 40% of self-identified Democrats think that 50% of people who catch COVID require hospitalization. The rest were slightly less wrong, but still far, far higher than the reality. The actual number is between 1-5%. It's the mirror image of immediately after 9/11, when self-identified Republicans dramatically overestimated the terrorism threat.

Also if We believe that He got it in December, that is probably a lie to not get the vaccine and enter Australia.