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Category: Tech

  • Kagi puts greg.app at top for [yerba buena cat safety] also

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    David Faden
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    Seeing A Three Month Review of Kagi Search on Hacker News got me curious about Kagi again. My first search, following up on a previous post looking at Google’s results for the same, was [yerba buena cat safety]. I was a little disappointed to see this: You can take a look at the Reddit post…

  • What the heck, Preview?

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    David Faden
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    Occasionally, Preview gets persnickety about saving changes to images: Turning on streaming of log messages in Console, I finally got some details on it: Text from that: Other people seem to be complaining about a similar Preview issue here as well: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255194116?sortBy=rank. From that discussion, it sounds like certain images trigger the behavior. Hovering over…

  • Chrome crashing

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    David Faden
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    I’m unsure what triggered it — updating Mac OS, updating Chrome, or something else — but Chrome has started crashing for me consistently within seconds of starting up. I haven’t figured out a fix yet so I’m back to my old friend Firefox, but I did learn a few things. Crash logs go in ~/Library/Application…

  • Have any of the authors of “Attention Is All You Need” written a book?

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    Gemini doesn’t think any of the authors of “Attention Is All You Need” have written a book: Honestly, I didn’t know the answer to this when I asked it. I was curious about this because I was thinking of reading their books if there were some to read. It’s a nice answer at least in…

  • Fixing “xcode-select: error: tool ‘xcodebuild’ requires Xcode…” with one click

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    David Faden
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    Going through the instructions for building Chromium from source on Macintosh, I ran into this weird error: This was (and remains) mysterious to me because I do have Xcode installed along with the commandline tools. I was also able to generate the same error message by calling xcodebuild directly: A Stack Overflow user mentioned that…

  • Fraction north of Fresno

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    David Faden
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    I had a Google Sheet with data like the following: City Count Los Angeles 10000 San Diego 9000 San Jose 1000 Tiburon 10 Palo Alto 5 I wanted to understand what fraction of the count was in cities lying north of Fresno — “Northern California”. My first thought was to look up latitude using a…

  • ArcGIS map linking

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    David Faden
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    Something I’ve found frustrating with a few different instances of ArcGIS-based maps is the lack of an easy ability to share or link to a particular location. E.g., one of the water districts shares this map: https://valleywater.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=39632100ff6d48dcab9405ee080b142b. After some fruitless searching in regular search, Gemini helped get me on the right track in response to…

  • Playing with iNaturalist taxonomy data in MariaDB

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    David Faden
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    You can download the iNaturalist taxonomy data (updated monthly) from https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers under “iNaturalist Taxonomy DarwinCore Archive” (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip). After unzipping, you’ll find “taxa.csv”. Here’s one way of importing this into MariaDB (and I guess MySQL too). I know that the schema for my table isn’t optimal. (I would love to hear suggestions on how to improve…

  • Get rid of Reels

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    David Faden
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    I suppose the real answer is to be more disciplined about using Facebook at all, but I’m disgusted with myself for wasting time on Reals when I do get drawn in. Is there a nicer and less fragile way to identify the block and get rid of it? Not sure if any of the CSS…

  • Choosing a newsletter service

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    David Faden
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    I’m planning to use this blog for quick thoughts, then less frequently send out a newsletter with more fully digested ideas plus other things that didn’t fit. I’ve looked at a few alternatives: I also thought about some of the others mentioned in Best Newsletter Platforms for 2024: Comparing 13 ESPs. For example, Michael Betancourt…