OldGreyTroll

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So now I get to decide if Xtwit is worth $1/year. And my answer is "No."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Because he’s following his principles, he is literally now subsisting on bread and water,”

And my first thought was "NOW he has principles?"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Fear the Weapons of Math Instruction!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Anti-vaxers REALLY are the control group. Science!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"I'm not saying you're a republican. But republicans think you are a republican."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I the only one old enough to remember when "Brand X" was the obviously substandard brand that all the name brands compared themselves to?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

@0uterzenith I have spent the last couple of days banging on this in anticipation of moving from Evernote. Both Obsidian and Joplin look like they would work for you. I've decided on Joplin for a number of reasons that are important to me.

  1. It syncs natively through Dropbox.
  2. It has clients for Windows, Linux, and iOS so all my devices can access it through Dropbox. Obsidian requires a subscription to support iOS.
  3. It imports the Evernote .ENEX folder export files natively and pretty cleanly.

I found a web browser extension called "MarkdownLoad" that lets you capture all or part of a web page and save it to a markdown file (.MD) that you can then import into either. Solves the one issue I was really worried about in moving from Evernote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@DevCat This seems to be an application of Clarke’s First Law:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I have a pick'em up truck in my driveway.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (19 children)

If I read a book to inform myself, put my notes in a database, and then write articles, it is called "research". If I write a computer program to read a book to put the notes in my database, it is called "copyright infringement". Is the problem that there just isn't a meatware component? Or is it that the OpenAI computer isn't going a good enough job of following the "three references" rule to avoid plagiarism?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then we chop them off and display them around our living spaces.

 
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