Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "The most absolutely frustrating thing: I clearly remember an AMAZING story from a document, but apparently I didn't take notes on it, and never wrote it down, and I can't find it among the BILLION pdf files on my computer. 🤬 (And Spotlight is trash for this sort of thing.)… https://t.co/HMskMgT33W"

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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

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The most absolutely frustrating thing: I clearly remember an AMAZING story from a document, but apparently I didn't take notes on it, and never wrote it down, and I can't find it among the BILLION pdf files on my computer. (And Spotlight is trash for this sort of thing.)pic.twitter.com/446LH3GKPx

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1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 14 Jul 2018
  
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  (OK, I checked the actual number. On my main computer it is "only" ~142,000 PDFs = 166 GB. So not a billion. But still enough to make sorting through them difficult...)
  
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1. Bernard HP Gilroy‏ @gilroy0 14 Jul 2018
  
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  Spotlight is trash for just about everything.
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1. Brewster North‏ @brewsternorth 14 Jul 2018
  
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  Gaaaaaah. (I also have too many PDFs on my drive. Sympathies!)
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1. Pls retweet ma witticisms‏ @Cancun771 14 Jul 2018
  
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  You could always ask some Linux freak to grep some keywords...
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1. Thomas Cheney‏ @ThomCheney 15 Jul 2018
  
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  hate when that happens!
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