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I am exploring ways to work with my PC that doesnt involve always sitting at a desk and typing with hands like a cave man. Testing out using Wispr Flow and similar voice inputs -- seems to work fine for some use cases.…

There is no visible scrollbar for https://gemini.google.com on Chrome and Edge -- though I see it on Firefox. (desktop) I also checked the smartphone apps -- Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, NotebookLM -- none of…

Is there a tool that exists for this purpose? I have an idea to vibe-code a tool but I know I will struggle and might give up midway -- so putting this idea out here in case there are tools that do this already: Say you…

I have noticed my own decline in terms of attention spans, and (in)ability to read long-form text online or offline. This leaves me with a disaatsifaction and I would like to rebuild a good habit cycle. Curious to know…

Has anyone built a Javascript un-obfuscator / un-minifier that not only improves the formatting but also swaps in more meaningful variable and function names, and adds some human readable comments explaining the…

Is there a good bookmarklet / browser extension or service that lets us convert a webpage into a clean readable PDF (without ads and wired formatting)? Or ame thing for sites like archive.ph? I remember there was a…

I want to consume Udemy course content on a big screen TV using mostly just a TV remote to browse (play/pause/skip/back/speed) Similarly some other commonly used websites like say Hacker News In the absences of an…

I host a personal blog as Static website on Amazon S3 -- really small one -- I suspect I may be the only one who reads it :) I used plain Hugo on my local desktop initially to build and publish. Once it got tedious I…

I frequently need to deal with spreadsheets having numbers in the Indian currency (INR). I have a custom number formatting pattern saved in my notepad that I apply manually when I need it. > [>=10000000]"Rs.…

Can we do this directly on cloud without an "on-prem" (at home) component doing ths sync? I have a valuable repo of documents that is a few hundred MB and grows slowly -- need to have a Plan B in case MegaCorp decides…

Sometimes I prefer sharing a PDF copy of an article instead of a archive.ph link to an interesting article. Is there a simple way -- say through a bookmarklet or a browser extension -- to comvert a news article either…

Is it just traditional ML? Traditional ML would do a lot of feature extraction and engineering -- from a very specific problem space --before throwing the training compute at it. I think there are good pattern…

is it just plausible deniability to weasel out of any controversial 'part' of the video later? Of is the specific portion of the video that is sponsored actually specified somewhere in the contract?

I have decent / beginner level understanding of ML and a bit of hands on experience using algorithms and training models; but have not jumped itno the LLM / GenAI whirlpool yet. The latest "code intepreter" release from…

As per this paper: “Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors Zhiying Jiang, Matthew Yang, Mikhail Tsirlin, Raphael Tang, Yiqin Dai, Jimmy Lin…

I want to solve crosswords that appear in my local daily newspaper (physical) -- but prefer doing them on an online tool like the NYT crossword that makes it easy to enter / overwrite our answers. Is there a tool or app…