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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 25, 2022

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

Posted because I didn't see Zorba post one today. Feel free to delete if that's an issue.

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Have you considered searching your browser history?

Another option would be just a full text searchable (instant search, like the google searchbox or https://hn.algolia.com) archive of every article you've ever read. Technologically very doable, and there are implementations on github but idk how well done or useful they are

It's definitely not worth the time to manually maintain a list, you don't really know beforehand when yo'll need an article in the future, and it'd take a solid minute or two to copy that all in, which would really add up if you read tens of thousands of articles. (and if you only save the "most important ones", you probably aren't gonna save the one you need in a few months)