Eventually I concluded that language was bigger than the universe, that it was possible to talk about things in the same sentence which could not both be found in the real world. The real world might conceivably contain some object which had never so far been moved, and it might contain a force that had never successfully been resisted, but the question of whether the object was really immovable could only be known if all possible forces had been tried on it and left it unmoved. So the matter could be resolved by trying out the hitherto irresistible force on the hitherto immovable object to see what happened. Either the object would move or it wouldn‘t, which would tell us only that either the hitherto immovable object was not in fact immovable, or that the hitherto irresistible force was in fact resistible.

Bitcoin was an interesting idea for a decentralised currency, until someone thought they could profit from it. There were interesting games that people enjoyed in the crypto space until people inevitably turned them into a pure profit making ventures. And the one I personally feel most bitter about: the decentralised web is a real movement that really fucking matters. Web3 ate up that movement and fucked it up for years.

Some topics move to fast. Until someone wrote a book, blogs sometimes are the only source of insight.The day after stable diffusion appeared people were already blogging about it, long form writing can never be that fast…↳Even worse, blogs often are the only free source of insight, with books and papers locked behind paywalls.

I'd like to highlight a key idea for pack rats of knowledge/scholarship.Life is too short for content that's not worthwhile (seriously).↳If you're a serious reader, and you live upto 70+ year old, maybe you can finish off 15k books on various topics.↳Library of congress alone has 38 million books. That's a meagre 0.04% of the content available at the great library.↳

don’t debate at all, just listen.

Thinking that people are stupid is not thinking. Understanding them is.

Fanaticism is one syndrome of arrogance. Humility, on the other hand, is a marvelous medicine. One tragedy of the human being is that it is easier to be arrogant than being humble.

Always start with the people. People are shaped by their life. It‘s impossible to rapidly change a person without some crazy stuff happen.

Birds are thinkers who look at the big picture and survey the landscape from a great height. Frogs are thinkers who love playing around in the mud of specific problems, delighting in finding gems and then polishing them so that they become part of the superstructure that birds survey. Einstein was a bird, Hubble was a frog. Science needs both birds and frogs for its progress, but there are cases in which one kind of creature is more important than another.

More than 50,000 science and engineering PhDs are granted each year in the United States; that number was less than 10,000 in 1960. Federal funding for science is also (basically) at an all-time high. The total number of scientific papers is ramping up at an exponential clip, but the average number of authors on each paper has roughly quadrupled in the last hundred years.

It‘s also harder to make technological leaps today compared to fifty years ago. Doubling the number of transistors on a computer chip (aka Moore’s Law) requires 18 times more researchers than it did in the early 1970s. And an academic paper, published today, is less than half as likely to get cited in a U.S. patent than a paper published just 30 years ago.

I use Sharex on Windows and I don't think there's any better tool, so I searched for "run sharex on linux" and there is indeed a guide - https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/6531 - maybe you can get it to work?I believe it can do all of the things you want. Certainly area capture, remembered area capture, fullscreen capture, all bound to different hotkeys. Mine saves with the name = the timestamp but you can probably config it to be an incrementing index. It's incredibly full-featured.I also have hotkeys for "capture current pixel's hex code" and "measure bounded box in pixels." When you take a capture you can also annotate it including showing labeled steps. After capture you can do one or more of: save locally (to one or more places), upload (to one or more hosts), copy to clipboard, etc. That includes pastebin if you have text saved to your clipboard so I use this for that also.

I used to use TimeSnapper for that. The classic version is free.It did use a crapload of disk space though (20GB per week?), and most of the data is almost identical, so I started designing an algorithm to store only the differences between images before realizing I had reinvented video codecs... so I just made a ffmpeg one liner to convert the image sequences to mp4 :)

These may or may not help. Things have certainly changed in the past several years, but if we have learned anything, the "infinite memory of the internet" is anything but. Dependencies vanish and die all the time. So, while you may have a list of dependencies, if you don't have those actual dependencies locally with you, you may be out of luck. Even if the actual project still exists, the older versions you depend on may not.