burpsnard

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by burpsnard 11mo ago
I've only used tesseract, 'recreationally', but i tried generating images of random chars to see what resolution/contrast/noise was minimally recognisable; shocked at how bad it was. heavily relies on language model
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by burpsnard 4y ago
Well search has become a lot worse than the heady days of Lycos and altavista
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by burpsnard 5y ago
"The FBI, National Security Agency, and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a report on Wednesday alleging that since at least January 2020, the hackers have been collecting information that is unclassif
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by burpsnard 6y ago
In the olden days, it was just out.flush(); out.close();
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by burpsnard 6y ago
I start thinking about c++ 'placement new' and COBOL copy record structures. And aquire/release objects from resource pools that manage themselves. And message queue handlers. And pass-by-reference, and object pools..
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by burpsnard 6y ago
It's worth popping the hood and getting your fingers dirty. C was written in an era where memory was a scarce and precious resource to be grudgingly used if absolutely necessary
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by burpsnard 6y ago
IIRC the chinese were exporting tea, oranges and porcelain to Europe in exchange for silver. Early/mid 19C, with metal-backed currencies, as most of the circulating Silver had ended up there, it was deemed necessary to reverse that flo
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by burpsnard 6y ago
This: perl ..
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by burpsnard 6y ago
See also : SATAN https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_...
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by burpsnard 6y ago
The game
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by burpsnard 6y ago
Just search for the project/deliverable/system/protocol on LinkedIn ;) ;) ;)
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by burpsnard 6y ago
> lot of sacrifices Just chickens, I hope
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by burpsnard 6y ago
What is the term of art ? To be anti-grandfathered ?
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by burpsnard 6y ago
Is also a species of (Australian?) Lizard, just fyi
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by burpsnard 6y ago
* trans women are women
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by burpsnard 6y ago
Im crap at math, but annoyed at why. Read about math teaching, and what I found was that there's nothing that correlates with math ability except interest and encouragement (and general iq). There's no genes, brain scans, blood te
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by burpsnard 6y ago
That's awesome
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by burpsnard 6y ago
in the 80s, alongside ibm, cray, heimdall, amdal, hitachi, etc etc you had the volume generics - intel. the generic overtook the custom, enough so the revenue and economy of scale won big. it came accompanied with a sci mindset of functiona
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by burpsnard 6y ago
one client of mine has stuck to java8, way ahead of your curve there ;)
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by burpsnard 6y ago
in a way it's quite a testament to it's utility. Allaire were there with a workable solution, before jsp, php, (?) asp. Iirc only perl was serious competition. I still sometimes see lotus notes '.nsf' links
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by burpsnard 6y ago
> some poor guys.. still going at it that's how you earn your thousand yard stare
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by burpsnard 6y ago
i ran it on my laptop (colour screen!) 20y ago. mapped my apartment into it, with triggering objects etc.
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by burpsnard 7y ago
first software i bought came in a box, disks and manuals. now i rent an online service. the coders behind each of these ventures have different tasks : the first, devising installation and operating manuals for an offline world, the second
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by burpsnard 7y ago
assuming 'what happened to X' involves looking in logs
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by burpsnard 7y ago
it's bad enough guessing dmy or mdy, without wondering if we earned interest on that 10 billion euros that appears to have spent an entire second in a transit account earning 2.7% per annum (legal think 'annum' implicitly inc
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by burpsnard 7y ago
Brazil? isn't it mostly there in work-alike saas?
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by burpsnard 7y ago
sounds like a 70's IBM COBOL VSAM batch job jcl script
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by burpsnard 7y ago
Widget w; // stack Widget *pw = new Widget(); // heap Memory is no longer highly constrained
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by burpsnard 7y ago
I am that old curmudgeon. There's a cycle in tool ecology: - simple useful tool - adds formats, integrations, config, etc - codebase is large and change is slow - the skijump has become an overhang on the learning curve - a frustrated
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by burpsnard 7y ago
Famously, early pc assembler a86/d86 claimed to able to identify unlicenced used from byte-patterns http://eji.com/a86/

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