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Show HN: Extract diagrams from PDF to SVG(github.com)
11 points by mbrukman 9mo ago|0 comments
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by mbrukman 4y ago
https://misha.brukman.net Most posts are about tech topics (solving a problem I ran into that I figured might also be of interest to others). Also some about typography, languages, etc.
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by mbrukman 5y ago
Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on the Google Drive team specifically. Sorry about the issue, folks! The Google Drive team is aware of it and is working on remediating it. And thank you all for the many test cases! :)
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by mbrukman 6y ago
That's a fair point, thanks for the clarification.
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on Copybara. I've seen Copybara used at Google in both directions: for some projects, the internal repo is the authoritative one, and for others, the external repo is authoritative. Copybara is not
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Looking at the Canonical CLA [1], you're right that it allows Canonical the right to relicense contributions under any other license: > 2.3 Outbound License > Based on the grant of rights in Sections 2.1 and 2.2, if We inclu
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by mbrukman 6y ago
I've responded to the CLA / licensing issues in a separate sibling comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365535); this comment is to respond to the rest of your post as it's a separate topic that&#x
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. I've added a clarification separately, please take a look there first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365469 > The point is that when a non-Go
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by mbrukman 6y ago
I've added a response to your earlier comment to clarify: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365469
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Sorry for not making it more clear; I was responding to the statement: > Not really open. If you submit code, you grant a license to Google to use it in non-proprietary code.[1] So, at some point, once users and developers are locked in
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Disclosure: I work at Google (but not on Fuchsia), and I contribute quite a bit to open-source projects. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc. I'm not sure what you mean by "you grant a license to Googl
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Learning Japanese, Starting with Hiragana and Katakana(misha.brukman.net)
2 points by mbrukman 6y ago|0 comments
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Enable both Vim and Emacs key bindings in Zsh (2019)(misha.brukman.net)
1 points by mbrukman 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Note that I'm not the owner/developer of that site, so I can only guess how it's implemented there. However, I can give you a general overview for why logins are typically required for such use cases. While you're correc
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Just wanted to let you know that I fixed this (and a few other issues I found upon re-reading my post for the Nth time). Thanks again for your help!
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Blog post author here. It's easy to get a blog going with either GitHub or GitLab plus their "Pages" hosting environment, or Netlify. Here's how you can do this with just GitHub Pages or GitLab Pages: * https:/&#x2
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Blog post author here. I haven't tried it myself (yet), but I don't see why Wine wouldn't work from a container, if you propagate access to the display into the container, as I have done in the Dockerfiles in my post. Here ar
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by mbrukman 6y ago
> Your email is nowhere to be found, so it's impossible to email you about typos or bugs. Typos in this case. You're right, I don't post my email address on my blog, and yet it's widely available and discoverable (whi
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Thank you for the kind words! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Blog post author here. Looks like Crysis ( https://www.gog.com/game/crysis ) is a Windows-only game, so you'll need a different approach than what I've described in my blog post, which is running Ubuntu inside
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Hi HN, blog post author here. Rather than just posting the end result that worked, this is my trial-and-error "walthrough" of building a container from start to finish, in order to run several games from a while back. Hopefully, t
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Blog post author here. A virtual machine solution (such as VirtualBox) requires more CPU/RAM resources than a container, because you're running an extra copy of the entire operating system, in addition to your base system that you
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by mbrukman 6y ago
Blog post author here. Yes, I'm planning to do this for much older games in the future, and you're also right that DOSBox does a lot of that for you! One thing I've noticed is websites that let you play using old DOS games vi
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Add a REPL to any CLI tool(misha.brukman.net)
2 points by mbrukman 6y ago|0 comments
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Running decade-old games in containers(misha.brukman.net)
72 points by mbrukman 6y ago|55 comments
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OO-Style Testing in Go(misha.brukman.net)
1 points by mbrukman 6y ago|0 comments
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TensorFlow-Based Quant Finance Library(github.com)
1 points by mbrukman 7y ago|0 comments
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Rome, a New JavaScript Toolchain(jasonformat.com)
5 points by mbrukman 7y ago|0 comments
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Useful Git shortcuts to streamline workflows(misha.brukman.net)
4 points by mbrukman 7y ago|0 comments
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by mbrukman 7y ago
Hi Mats (or do you prefer Matsemann?), I am an engineer on Google Search. Sorry to hear about your experiences; I would like to better understand the issues that you're seeing and reproduce them on my end, so that I can file detailed b

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