1. Tree view in a sidebar; can open/close with a hotkey.
2. Human readable data format; if one syncs data btw. different machines, the bookmark file should be able to be synced to/from and when you open the browser, it just works without having to import/export.
3. Able to navigate the tree as well when saving new bookmarks.
4. Remember the last save-to folder.
5. A special folder for bookmarks (and folders) to appear on the (horiz.) bookmark toolbar.
6. Any other special function folders such as "recently visited," "favorites," or what have you should be able to be collapsed and not get in your face if you don't want to use them.
All of the above can (almost) be done in Firefox. Here's some ideas to make it better:
A. Make it possible to break up the description text into multiple fields; then make a column header thingy like in a file manager, so you can click the headers to automatically sort the view of the bookmarks by field, up or down. The column headers and sorting system must obey the tree hierarchy! Ie., if you can have folder "Ugh" sorted by the first field, and folder "OhNo" sorted by the second. You should also be able to move the fields on the column header bar on a folder by folder basis. This should just affect the mapping of stored fields to displayed field order. The actual fields encoded into the file remain as defined by the user.
The point of this might be: I tag some music video bookmarks with a "grade". I may want to sort them by grade today, to see my favorite ones. However, I also tag them with another thing: symbols *, #, or $ to indicate if I downloaded them already, as both.mp4&.mp3, just.mp3, or just.mp4 respectively. Tomorrow I may want to sort them by that field. See where I'm going with this? Not being able to sort by fields causes headaches, often resulting in time wasted hand editing the damn things again to try to work around the browser's limitations, to no avail.
Also, indiv. bookmarks could have a little '+' to expand/collapse the view of additional, detailed description text. This should be able to be collapsed with a hotkey and/or menu entry.
A good selection of menu options to expand/collapse all, selected folders, sub-descriptions, etc. would be killer.
B. For Pete's sake, make it possible to edit a bookmark description by simply pressing or something, instead of having to right click, "Properties". Most functionality should be reachable by using arrow keys, function keys, hotkeys, etc.
C. Be able to select groups of folders or indiv. bookmarks (as in a file manager) and selectively save just the selected ones to a file with a new name. (Some approximation to file manager style bookmark management is in Firefox, using the "Library" window. It has some very awkward and counter-intuitive behavior, however. If an additional window is needed for re-organizational tasks, then it should operate much like a file manager.
D. Don't take away the bookmark from one folder if I re-bookmark it to another!
E. The Search capabilities of Firefox for bookmarks are crappy. It throws away the tree view when a search is done. WTF? I want to know where in the tree the target is, not a list of 1000 hits with organizational context lost.
F. Finally - Some sort of SYMLINKS! E.g. I have a Shopping/Amazon/Tools and also a Mechanical/Tools. Hmm. This leads to the problem that hierarchical organization sometimes cannot adequately express the organizational relationships needed. Symlinks could greatly help this.
Some of this might seem bizarre to casual www users. But when you have 10000s of bookmarks as I do, many of which are critical sources of products and information related to real work, limitations in being able to implement sophisticated levels of organization result in more headaches.
It is the same sort of limitations that make it almost impossible for me to use Windows any more, since I simply cannot function without both the simplicity of the Linux filesystem (no unnecessary abstractions) and its sophistication (powerful symlinks).
Just some ideas. Hopefully not totally pointless to have responded to an A.C.
It is completely unobvious to me. I'm an electrical engineer. My thinking process and the Chinese women that I knew who were engineers were not different.
I asked for evidence. "It is obvious" to you is not evidence. You can repeat this idea over and over, but so far it appears to be nothing more than a belief or unsubstantiated assumption, from which all sorts of problematic conclusions are being drawn.
Politics is about dragging people off to prison at gunpoint for pete's sake! It is nothing more, nothing less than deciding who to drag off for what reason, and who does the dragging.
You can choose to do what I usually do: "I am not knowledgeable enough to evaluate this conclusively, therefore I will simply accept that I don't know."
I don't know is a very liberating state of mind, far better than "believing."
Alternately, you could do what I sometimes do: "it appears to me that the climate science does indicate that humans are screwing up this planet's climate, but I don't know for certain if there is some serious error that won't come out for another 20-30 years. I estimate that it's much more likely than not that the scientists are right. (But the political solutions proposed are much more likely than not to have seriously adverse unintended consequences)"
This is still not believing. I still accept that I do not know, and have merely assigned educated guesses as to probability of correctness to various positions.
So if you are laying on the floor dying of not enough carbonate in your blood stream, and there's a hypodermic syringe nearby, a gallon of distilled water, and a box of baking soda, are you saying you won't shoot it up?
Also, I doubt that it is so complex to determine how to sterilize material with gamma rays. If you are an expert on this subject, please explain more and I'll be happy to listen and hopefully learn something. AFAIK if you want to kill some proportion, say 99.9% of pathogens, all you need to do is ensure that the material receives dose X, and you can base the dose determination on the most resistant known/common pathogens.
It should not matter how the pathogens are distributed in the sample. The dose is uniformly distributed over each incremental unit of volume.
If the staff microbiologists think that they have too many unanswered questions about the nearby gamma ray facility and it's applicability to their problem, fine they can simply boil a large pot of the solution. Or take a $30 CFL shortwave UV lamp and dip that into the solution and stir until its sterilized. These techniques are quite well characterized and extremely simple to perform.
You are missing, however, my main point which is that having to get government approval for every possible step stifles any chance of being able to adapt to changing circumstances in a timely manner.
"all science is still belief, just well supported beliefs."
No. Belief has no place in science.
Science has hypothesis, theory, and natural law which translate roughly into "it might be this way, let's see if we're wrong...", "it's looking very likely that it's this way, currently with >95% chance of being so", and "it is almost certainly this way, since every prediction has not been falsified for several hundred years of determined attack."
There is no proof, ever, of "truth" in science. There is only proof of falsehood. Everything else is varying degrees of probability of being correct.
Understanding this creates a frame of mind in which belief has no place.
"Climate science didn't "align itself with a particular political leaning". It's exactly the reverse: a particular political leaning aligned itself with climate science."
Why didn't scientists disassociate with this particular political leaning then? Couldn't the scientists imagine where things would wind up?
Scientists where I work are mostly left-leaning, and almost without exception the newest 1-2 generations are predominantly "progressive".
"Don't forget that part. Science shouldn't dictate policy, as that undermines democracy, but if a shitty policy get proposed, science can (at least try to) tell you how it's going to blow up in your face."
We have predictive, scientific, socioeconomic/sociopolitical models now?
This is exactly the problem with Climate Change. Nobody has any idea if the political solutions will work or blow up in our faces, or create yet another massive self-enriching bureaucracy and corporatism.
Scientists should have stayed out of the political aspect of this.
"barbarians have been at a distinct disadvantage."
A perfectly plausible scenario right now is that the mostly non-Muslim civilization nukes itself into oblivion, and Islam completely takes over the surviving human societies.
I'm not saying this to bash Islam. It's just something that cannot be ruled out. One might even think we are trying our best to bring this outcome about. Bin Laden lost the battle for his life, but his plan is still in play because we are playing his game and are too stupid to stop it. Ie.,
"The only way to win The War On Terror is not to play."
"trying to make the world more just is likely to make most of us better off."
Not even wrong. A misguided implementation can make things wind up turning out much less "just" than where we started. Simply enforcing "ideals" by using political force is almost certain to result in disaster. We are toying around with systems which we do not yet understand well enough scientifically to be able to predict the outcome. Systems that when tweaked the wrong way can spiral into civil wars, Dark Ages, etc.
Does anyone even "precautionary principle" anymore?
Anyone who groks where neuroscience is heading should know that this is exactly the frame of mind about which we need to be constantly on guard. Humans are inherently biased and prone to many cognitive limitations. It's remarkable that we ever managed to arrive at the current scientific method at all.
I consider the scientific method to be the greatest intellectual achievement of humanity.
"If you are a white cis man you almost certainly should resign from your position of power."
These people simply need to be locked up. They have engaged in an active conspiracy to undermine civilization itself, and are now using positions of power themselves to engage in overt racial, gender, and political discrimination.
There are already laws against this, and those laws need to be turned on these people relentlessly until their "movement" is utterly destroyed.
This is a humane thing to do as well, because if this continues, instead of being locked up temporarily, I fear that they as well as all the "disadvantaged" groups that they agitate "on behalf of" will wind up being the ones piled up in ditches when this movement ultimately precipitates a civil war.
Nobody should want to see this happen, because the people that are likely to come out on top in such a scenario are just as horrifying as SJWs are when combined with the ever increasing backing of the state.
I'm on board. I advocate attacking the sources of funding: Abolish all college financial aid and.gov backed student loans. Then watch "Gender Studies" departments implode. Abolish all public employee unions. There are many laws that enable this mess. It will only get worse unless the bad policies are rescinded.
They aren't just getting us down. SJWs are hell bent on dragging anyone off at gunpoint to prisons if they don't obey. It is disingenuous to downplay the seriousness of the threat this poses to liberty.
I once worked in the analytical laboratory at J.T. Baker as an analytical chemist. I personally tested NaHCO3 among many other chemicals to USP, FCC, and ACS standards. We had a warehouse with plenty of barrels of these kinds of commodities. Also, I seem to recall that the ordinary box of Arm&Hammer on the supermarket shelf is actually very high quality material, almost pure enough to use for creating primary standard grade sodium carbonate by baking out some water and CO2 at a specific temp.
Note that the costs to certify to USP grade are little different than for the other grades. It is important to understand that many chemicals which come into a chemical plant never require any further purification. In such cases, a portion is split off to be packaged as ACS, another portion goes in the USP bottles, etc. The remainder can be sold off as "Technical" grade if there isn't enough room to store it. If there is room, it might be preferable to store the raw material that meets the higher specs. rather than sell it all off as tech. grade, because the next load that comes in might not meet the requirements for certs. and thus would need to go through a purification process.
What's sad about this story is that because of the regulatory/liability state, it is impossible to engage in simple acts of innovation ("winging it") that could solve problems such as this "shortage." E.g.:
Find a chemical company with some barrels of bicarb. that has been tested to one of the specs., or USP if possible. If they don't have the USP, then have them test the ACS or FCC to the USP std., which would probably pass if it already met one of the other stds.
Then just procure the damn stuff!
If additional sterilization is needed, have the truck routed to an accessible sterilization service. Ie., a facility with a gamma ray sterilization unit, where the material could simply be put on a belt and sent through the rays.
Hospitals should have the capability to filter small lots of solution to further remove any particulates if necessary.
But no, we'd rather incur large risks of an actual death to a patient to stave off some tiny risk.
Of course it was the same fools who didn't see the crash coming that suddenly became experts and began dishing out lectures about how we had to bail out the banks.
The extreme absurdity of all this, in my case:
I was literally laughed at for years leading up to 2008 when I would tell people that the housing market was a bubble. I had to endure several lectures by my literal communist and socialist cousin in-law and cousin, why I should buy a house.
The next time I saw these Marxists, after the crash, they started in with the "why we must bail out the banks..." garbage. I could have slapped them.
I haven't seen them since. They are almost singularly responsible (long before 2008) for making me become anti-political/statist, and anti-Marxist.
People who argue for this are directly responsible for the breakdown of the rule of law that, among other horrors, is leading to countless blacks and other people getting gunned down by police unnecessarily, with rarely any repercussions.
Almost nothing offends me. But when you work in a place where you know without a doubt that you would be hauled off to prison for pulling even 1% of the stunt that Clinton got away with, because you are told this fact day in and day out by actual intelligence agents and legal professionals, you have seen the convictions occur of ordinary "peons" who simply possessed classified outside of proper controls, etc., well you make me sick.
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Which is why I'm happy with my i4790K.
1. Tree view in a sidebar; can open/close with a hotkey.
2. Human readable data format; if one syncs data btw. different machines, the bookmark file should be able to be synced to/from and when you open the browser, it just works without having to import/export.
3. Able to navigate the tree as well when saving new bookmarks.
4. Remember the last save-to folder.
5. A special folder for bookmarks (and folders) to appear on the (horiz.) bookmark toolbar.
6. Any other special function folders such as "recently visited," "favorites," or what have you should be able to be collapsed and not get in your face if you don't want to use them.
All of the above can (almost) be done in Firefox. Here's some ideas to make it better:
A. Make it possible to break up the description text into multiple fields; then make a column header thingy like in a file manager, so you can click the headers to automatically sort the view of the bookmarks by field, up or down. The column headers and sorting system must obey the tree hierarchy! Ie., if you can have folder "Ugh" sorted by the first field, and folder "OhNo" sorted by the second. You should also be able to move the fields on the column header bar on a folder by folder basis. This should just affect the mapping of stored fields to displayed field order. The actual fields encoded into the file remain as defined by the user.
The point of this might be: I tag some music video bookmarks with a "grade". I may want to sort them by grade today, to see my favorite ones. However, I also tag them with another thing: symbols *, #, or $ to indicate if I downloaded them already, as both .mp4&.mp3, just .mp3, or just .mp4 respectively. Tomorrow I may want to sort them by that field. See where I'm going with this? Not being able to sort by fields causes headaches, often resulting in time wasted hand editing the damn things again to try to work around the browser's limitations, to no avail.
Also, indiv. bookmarks could have a little '+' to expand/collapse the view of additional, detailed description text. This should be able to be collapsed with a hotkey and/or menu entry.
A good selection of menu options to expand/collapse all, selected folders, sub-descriptions, etc. would be killer.
B. For Pete's sake, make it possible to edit a bookmark description by simply pressing or something, instead of having to right click, "Properties". Most functionality should be reachable by using arrow keys, function keys, hotkeys, etc.
C. Be able to select groups of folders or indiv. bookmarks (as in a file manager) and selectively save just the selected ones to a file with a new name. (Some approximation to file manager style bookmark management is in Firefox, using the "Library" window. It has some very awkward and counter-intuitive behavior, however. If an additional window is needed for re-organizational tasks, then it should operate much like a file manager.
D. Don't take away the bookmark from one folder if I re-bookmark it to another!
E. The Search capabilities of Firefox for bookmarks are crappy. It throws away the tree view when a search is done. WTF? I want to know where in the tree the target is, not a list of 1000 hits with organizational context lost.
F. Finally - Some sort of SYMLINKS! E.g. I have a Shopping/Amazon/Tools and also a Mechanical/Tools. Hmm. This leads to the problem that hierarchical organization sometimes cannot adequately express the organizational relationships needed. Symlinks could greatly help this.
Some of this might seem bizarre to casual www users. But when you have 10000s of bookmarks as I do, many of which are critical sources of products and information related to real work, limitations in being able to implement sophisticated levels of organization result in more headaches.
It is the same sort of limitations that make it almost impossible for me to use Windows any more, since I simply cannot function without both the simplicity of the Linux filesystem (no unnecessary abstractions) and its sophistication (powerful symlinks).
Just some ideas. Hopefully not totally pointless to have responded to an A.C.
Thanks for the link. I watched a good doc. about Stalin yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIzApqzlP3Q
Of course, the "social justice" talk was used then as well.
It is completely unobvious to me. I'm an electrical engineer. My thinking process and the Chinese women that I knew who were engineers were not different.
I asked for evidence. "It is obvious" to you is not evidence. You can repeat this idea over and over, but so far it appears to be nothing more than a belief or unsubstantiated assumption, from which all sorts of problematic conclusions are being drawn.
Politics is about dragging people off to prison at gunpoint for pete's sake! It is nothing more, nothing less than deciding who to drag off for what reason, and who does the dragging.
You can choose to do what I usually do: "I am not knowledgeable enough to evaluate this conclusively, therefore I will simply accept that I don't know."
I don't know is a very liberating state of mind, far better than "believing."
Alternately, you could do what I sometimes do: "it appears to me that the climate science does indicate that humans are screwing up this planet's climate, but I don't know for certain if there is some serious error that won't come out for another 20-30 years. I estimate that it's much more likely than not that the scientists are right. (But the political solutions proposed are much more likely than not to have seriously adverse unintended consequences)"
This is still not believing. I still accept that I do not know, and have merely assigned educated guesses as to probability of correctness to various positions.
It is never necessary to believe anything.
So if you are laying on the floor dying of not enough carbonate in your blood stream, and there's a hypodermic syringe nearby, a gallon of distilled water, and a box of baking soda, are you saying you won't shoot it up?
Also, I doubt that it is so complex to determine how to sterilize material with gamma rays. If you are an expert on this subject, please explain more and I'll be happy to listen and hopefully learn something. AFAIK if you want to kill some proportion, say 99.9% of pathogens, all you need to do is ensure that the material receives dose X, and you can base the dose determination on the most resistant known/common pathogens.
It should not matter how the pathogens are distributed in the sample. The dose is uniformly distributed over each incremental unit of volume.
If the staff microbiologists think that they have too many unanswered questions about the nearby gamma ray facility and it's applicability to their problem, fine they can simply boil a large pot of the solution. Or take a $30 CFL shortwave UV lamp and dip that into the solution and stir until its sterilized. These techniques are quite well characterized and extremely simple to perform.
You are missing, however, my main point which is that having to get government approval for every possible step stifles any chance of being able to adapt to changing circumstances in a timely manner.
"Everyone that matters..."
That you would say such a thing says more than anything else you said.
"a lesbian is likely to have different ideas on some things"
Why? What evidence supports this?
Before the crash it was only hard-core capitalists sounding the alarm and we were without exception laughed off of every stage.
"all science is still belief, just well supported beliefs."
No. Belief has no place in science.
Science has hypothesis, theory, and natural law which translate roughly into "it might be this way, let's see if we're wrong...", "it's looking very likely that it's this way, currently with >95% chance of being so", and "it is almost certainly this way, since every prediction has not been falsified for several hundred years of determined attack." There is no proof, ever, of "truth" in science. There is only proof of falsehood. Everything else is varying degrees of probability of being correct.
Understanding this creates a frame of mind in which belief has no place.
"Climate science didn't "align itself with a particular political leaning". It's exactly the reverse: a particular political leaning aligned itself with climate science."
Why didn't scientists disassociate with this particular political leaning then? Couldn't the scientists imagine where things would wind up?
Scientists where I work are mostly left-leaning, and almost without exception the newest 1-2 generations are predominantly "progressive".
"Don't forget that part. Science shouldn't dictate policy, as that undermines democracy, but if a shitty policy get proposed, science can (at least try to) tell you how it's going to blow up in your face."
We have predictive, scientific, socioeconomic/sociopolitical models now?
This is exactly the problem with Climate Change. Nobody has any idea if the political solutions will work or blow up in our faces, or create yet another massive self-enriching bureaucracy and corporatism.
Scientists should have stayed out of the political aspect of this.
"barbarians have been at a distinct disadvantage."
A perfectly plausible scenario right now is that the mostly non-Muslim civilization nukes itself into oblivion, and Islam completely takes over the surviving human societies.
I'm not saying this to bash Islam. It's just something that cannot be ruled out. One might even think we are trying our best to bring this outcome about. Bin Laden lost the battle for his life, but his plan is still in play because we are playing his game and are too stupid to stop it. Ie.,
"The only way to win The War On Terror is not to play."
"societies that cling to truth always win out over post-truth societies"
Uhh, have you run your ancestor simulation for an infinite amount of time?
"trying to make the world more just is likely to make most of us better off."
Not even wrong. A misguided implementation can make things wind up turning out much less "just" than where we started. Simply enforcing "ideals" by using political force is almost certain to result in disaster. We are toying around with systems which we do not yet understand well enough scientifically to be able to predict the outcome. Systems that when tweaked the wrong way can spiral into civil wars, Dark Ages, etc.
Does anyone even "precautionary principle" anymore?
"When you say to yourself I am above this..."
Anyone who groks where neuroscience is heading should know that this is exactly the frame of mind about which we need to be constantly on guard. Humans are inherently biased and prone to many cognitive limitations. It's remarkable that we ever managed to arrive at the current scientific method at all.
I consider the scientific method to be the greatest intellectual achievement of humanity.
It won't simply fade away. It is enabled by certain laws/policies. Until those are removed, it will get worse.
"If you are a white cis man you almost certainly should resign from your position of power."
These people simply need to be locked up. They have engaged in an active conspiracy to undermine civilization itself, and are now using positions of power themselves to engage in overt racial, gender, and political discrimination.
There are already laws against this, and those laws need to be turned on these people relentlessly until their "movement" is utterly destroyed.
This is a humane thing to do as well, because if this continues, instead of being locked up temporarily, I fear that they as well as all the "disadvantaged" groups that they agitate "on behalf of" will wind up being the ones piled up in ditches when this movement ultimately precipitates a civil war.
Nobody should want to see this happen, because the people that are likely to come out on top in such a scenario are just as horrifying as SJWs are when combined with the ever increasing backing of the state.
I'm on board. I advocate attacking the sources of funding: Abolish all college financial aid and .gov backed student loans. Then watch "Gender Studies" departments implode. Abolish all public employee unions. There are many laws that enable this mess. It will only get worse unless the bad policies are rescinded.
"Don't let them get you down"
They aren't just getting us down. SJWs are hell bent on dragging anyone off at gunpoint to prisons if they don't obey. It is disingenuous to downplay the seriousness of the threat this poses to liberty.
Look at what law just passed in Canada.
Right, because "investigators" are pure angels who are completely immune to bias.
I once worked in the analytical laboratory at J.T. Baker as an analytical chemist. I personally tested NaHCO3 among many other chemicals to USP, FCC, and ACS standards. We had a warehouse with plenty of barrels of these kinds of commodities. Also, I seem to recall that the ordinary box of Arm&Hammer on the supermarket shelf is actually very high quality material, almost pure enough to use for creating primary standard grade sodium carbonate by baking out some water and CO2 at a specific temp.
Note that the costs to certify to USP grade are little different than for the other grades. It is important to understand that many chemicals which come into a chemical plant never require any further purification. In such cases, a portion is split off to be packaged as ACS, another portion goes in the USP bottles, etc. The remainder can be sold off as "Technical" grade if there isn't enough room to store it. If there is room, it might be preferable to store the raw material that meets the higher specs. rather than sell it all off as tech. grade, because the next load that comes in might not meet the requirements for certs. and thus would need to go through a purification process.
What's sad about this story is that because of the regulatory/liability state, it is impossible to engage in simple acts of innovation ("winging it") that could solve problems such as this "shortage." E.g.:
Find a chemical company with some barrels of bicarb. that has been tested to one of the specs., or USP if possible. If they don't have the USP, then have them test the ACS or FCC to the USP std., which would probably pass if it already met one of the other stds.
Then just procure the damn stuff!
If additional sterilization is needed, have the truck routed to an accessible sterilization service. Ie., a facility with a gamma ray sterilization unit, where the material could simply be put on a belt and sent through the rays.
Hospitals should have the capability to filter small lots of solution to further remove any particulates if necessary.
But no, we'd rather incur large risks of an actual death to a patient to stave off some tiny risk.
What a pathetic thing we have become.
Of course it was the same fools who didn't see the crash coming that suddenly became experts and began dishing out lectures about how we had to bail out the banks.
The extreme absurdity of all this, in my case:
I was literally laughed at for years leading up to 2008 when I would tell people that the housing market was a bubble. I had to endure several lectures by my literal communist and socialist cousin in-law and cousin, why I should buy a house.
The next time I saw these Marxists, after the crash, they started in with the "why we must bail out the banks..." garbage. I could have slapped them.
I haven't seen them since. They are almost singularly responsible (long before 2008) for making me become anti-political/statist, and anti-Marxist.
"Emails ... No crime"
People who argue for this are directly responsible for the breakdown of the rule of law that, among other horrors, is leading to countless blacks and other people getting gunned down by police unnecessarily, with rarely any repercussions.
Almost nothing offends me. But when you work in a place where you know without a doubt that you would be hauled off to prison for pulling even 1% of the stunt that Clinton got away with, because you are told this fact day in and day out by actual intelligence agents and legal professionals, you have seen the convictions occur of ordinary "peons" who simply possessed classified outside of proper controls, etc., well you make me sick.