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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…

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…

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…

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Just wondered -- is contact-less finger-print scanning possible? I know some people have managed to lift fingerprints off high-resolution photographs of hands. What does it take to scan fingerprints off realtime video?…