It works well with bookmarklets. This swizzles between arxiv.org <-> www.talk2arxiv.org. I've now added it to my Favorites bar, next to arxiv.org/abs <-> arxiv.org/pdf and twitter.org <-> nitter.net. Thanks for the service!
To be clear, that’s a link to a library meant for use in projects like yours. I’m not promoting a competing project (and haven’t provided a link to one).
Very nice! If you want to add a feature, feel free to make use of https://github.com/osteele/prompt-matrix.js, which I (well, ChatGPT and I) created for use in my own playground so that I could enter e.g. "Write a <Python|JavaScript> program to look for anagrams, in the style of <Norvig|Carmack>".
* Porting code (generally code that I've written) from one language or framework to another. For example, porting Python to JavaScript. [1]
* Getting started with a new platform. For example, describing the problem, and having it create a template in a front end framework, CSS framework, API generator.
* Creating instructional materials. Pasting in code and generating explanations, assessments, and grading rubrics. [2]
* Generating the first pass of API documentation, READMEs, test suites, and configuration files. Modifying configuration files. Finding configuration options based on NL descriptions.
* Quickly generating examples of API uses that are specific to my application. Finding out what libraries and APIs are available for a use case, based on an NL description.
* Learning what algorithms exist for a problem. Generating implementations of these in different languages, or that are specific to my code or data structures.
* Rarely-used system administrations commands. For example, how do I flush the DNS cache on macOS Safari and Chrome? (Questions such as this are actually better on Perplexity.ai than on ChatGPT.)
* Pasting in error messages or descriptions of problems, and asking for solutions.
* Tie-breaker questions about what to name a file, function, or set of functions.
In general, I find that it takes a lot of the drudgery out of programming. (Similar to Copilot, but for a different, generally more macro, set of areas.) For example, I asked it to solve a geometry problem and generate a test harness for both interactively and batch testing it. It's solution to the problem itself was a non-starter, but the test harness was great and would have been involved boring work in order to write.
I also use it to generate emails, project proposals, feedback, etc. I don't think it's ever come up with anything usable, but seeing what's wrong with its attempt is an easier way for me to get started than looking at a blank page or searching for examples of the writing form on the web are.
This looks really nice. Here's something I wrote when I starting learning music theory. It ended up sort of cluttered; I like yours better. But please feel free to take any ideas from it that you think might be useful.
Hospital capacity is one motivation for flattening the curve. The other is to move infections later in time, when there will be more effective treatments and therefore lower rates of fatality and permanent disability.
iMovie, Adobe Premier, Final Cut Pro, and Screenflow (screen casting software) all have chromakey.
The Zoom app, and the Logitech C922, each have live background replacement ("virtual green screen").
For post-production without a physical green screen, you can use a green rectangle as your virtual background in Zoom or with the Logitech, import into iMovie etc., and chromakey there.
"The drone project involves young tech enthusiasts from the Jinkui Community Youth Science and Technology Innovation Center. Every day — for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon — youngsters wearing masks and gloves fly drones to patrol the community.
The drones carry loudspeakers which announce: “Please stay at home as much as possible. If you have to go out, don’t forget to wear a mask.”
The drones can also scan car plates and record which vehicles have entered the community.
The drones are also equipped with thermal scanners which can measure the temperatures of people idling in the community.
Those found with normal temperatures will be encouraged to return home. Officials will be alerted of people found with fever."
Yes, there was a famous incident a couple of weeks ago. [1]
I remember reading in the local paper that you have to register with the pharmacy in order to buy fever medicine but I can't find an online source now and I haven't been into a pharmacy to observe it myself.
In Shanghai (pop. 24M), IR scanning is also required to drive into the city and to enter the subway. The paper says that anyone with a high temperature is held in a quarantine area for hospital pickup.
In my district at least, an IR scan is also required to enter shopping malls, and at least some apartment complexes (including mine).
This morning the nearest Starbucks started requiring IR scan.
In Shanghai (at least, Pudong and Puxi), mask usage has jumped dramatically since last week. I haven't actually kept score, but my impressions of usage from walking around a lot are:
- Summer/spring (lower pollution — Chinese AQI around 60–100, with spikes to 150): 5-10% of people wear masks outdoors. The indoor rate is lower (2-3%?).
- December/early January (AQI typically above 120): 20-30% outdoors. The indoor rate is much lower.
- As of January 23/24: 80-90% outdoors. The indoor rate is at least as high. This time period includes a couple of anomalously low-pollution days (AQI 30 — the lowest I've ever seen in Shanghai), when I might otherwise expect mask usage to be even lower than that 20–30% from before the Wuhan events escalated.
This is just people walking around and shopping. As of a few days ago, some businesses, such as Starbucks and Didi (Chinese Uber/Lyft), require employees to wear respirators (and they've messaged to customers on WeChat and in the Chinese Starbucks and Didi apps).
This seems to be the default for web apps here in China, such as Taobao or JD. Either the home page or the login page presents a QR code, and the mobile app has a scan icon.
I'm talking about High Sierra, and apps loaded from App Store or non-store download links. For example, System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility lists (among others) “Backup & Sync from Google”, BetterTouchTool, Dash, Dropbox, Google Chrome, Google Software Update, Keyboard Maestro, Little Snitch Agent. Many of these aren't even available from the app store. If I keep Accessibility unselected, some of these have degraded functionality. For example, I keep the Google apps and Dropbox unchecked, and then they can't annotate my Finder icons. (I'm okay with that.) I keep Dash unchecked, and keyboard snippets don't work.
You're right that this isn't super fine-grained. This single checkbox seems to govern several unrelated things, such as keystroke logging and insertion (Dash and Keyboard Maestro), mouse recording and control (Keyboard Maestro), and whatever APIs are used to badge Finder icons (Google and Dropbox). My belief is that an app that I haven't checked off there doesn't have access to my keystrokes. (Maybe this is wrong?) In which case I'm surprised there's nothing like this for recording the screen.
I submit that the macOS interface leads to a reasonable expectation of greater security than an old-school executable running in the 90's or 00's, because macOS requires that the user explicitly grant permission to access so many other sensitive resources, such as location and contacts.
If an app has to ask me permission in order to access my keystrokes, I think it's fair to assume that the same would be true of apps that read (anything outside their window regions) from my screen. The fact that macOS doesn't require this is discoverable by sleuthing (browsing the Privacy pane, or remembering that screenshot apps don't ask for it), but there's reasonable, and probably common, mental models that don't make it obvious.
It would be like renting a house with four locks on the front door and none on the back. Yes, you could audit the house, but it's a weird asymmetry to have to look for.
Thanks for you effort. I prefer Mac app store apps, when they're at parity with non-store releases, because there's fewer licenses to install and manage (even if they all go in my password manager), and because I can upgrade all the app store apps at one go instead of being nagged by each one separately.
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