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Lumifer comments on Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 02 April 2014 09:44:20PM 1 point [-]

Oh. In that sort of scenario, I depend on my Evernote, having included it on gwern.net/Google+/LW/Reddit, and my excellent search skills. Generally speaking, if I remember enough exact text to make grepping my local WWW archive a feasible search strategy, it's trivial to locate it in Google or one of the others.

Comment author: Lumifer 03 April 2014 04:04:57PM 1 point [-]

Ah, I see. So your system is less of a knowledge base and more of a local backup of particularly interesting parts of the 'net.

Thanks :-)

Comment author: gwern 03 April 2014 06:24:43PM 0 points [-]

Yes, it's the last resort for URLs which are broken. It's not much good having a snippet from a web page so you know you want to check it, if the web page no longer exists.