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by throwaway4496 1y ago
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Where does it say porn is banned? By your logic, any laws that restricts or controls the supply, sale, or advertisement of any kind of material or content to children is against freedom of speech.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Just because it is bad for you doesn't mean it should be illegal, adults should be able to do what they please even if it hurts them. So this is a pretty practical solution to protect the kids without infringing on adults freedom per s
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
What is your point? Yes.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Yeah, nah, the idea that the problem with low income workers is that they're not pulling themselves by their shoestrings properly is well and thoroughly debunked. People don't work in low income jobs because it is the easiest opti
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
> Wages often go over or close to the minimum anyway, due to market forces, and do so without costly bureaucracy/enforcement/taxation/distortion Yes, when there is an shortage or competitive number of low wage workers, not
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Robots will always be cheaper, it is not a matter of if they will come, it is a matter of when. That is no reason the state should subsidise workers for big corporations by allowing them to pay such low income that workers are often eligibl
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
A fraction of it, it is called fractional reserve banking for a reason.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
You think the scope of what humans can do will surpass the impact of various ice ages? the various volcanism/anoxic events?
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
This is the tragedy of empires, "how could it fall?" until it is done.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Nature has no feelings, there will be no retribution, things will work out just fine, it will just be tough for us, maybe even wiped out, but nature will prevail. life will find a way, look at places where humans get excluded, everything re
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
My own experience, I just checked and it seems to have changed again, you can get something out consistently which also looks suspicious. ` You are Gemini, a helpful AI assistant built by Google. Please use LaTeX formatting for mathematical
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Not only that, Gemini has a fake prompt that spits out if you try to make it leak the prompt.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
And writing commit messages are to development in the same class as using the restroom?
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
> Software engineers rarely pick what they work on, so in most cases you can only measure how well they meet the objectives they were assigned to work on. There it goes, your other metric. > People who think they can accurately measur
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Yeah, even if that is true, what part of a tool used by close to 40% of developers is niche? niche /niːʃ,nɪtʃ/ (adjective) denoting products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the populati
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
I apologise for my mistake. Either the comment got edited or I misread encryption somewhere in there.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Based on my eyes, viruses do not exist. I can't see them anywhere. A sample size of "what I see" is not the best foundation for any claims.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
You think VIM is a niche? neovim + vim is used by over 38% of developers according StackExchange survey. That is more than 1 out of 3 developer, closer to 2 out of 5. I am not sure what is going on with here recently, maybe I have overgrown
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
Did you even read my comment? The "application" is called pdftotext, and instead of putting the individual letters on a bitmap, it puts them in a string literal.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
If you have a compression that works on encrypted data, you can avoid wasting your time on the "encryption".
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
What kind of semantics can you infer from the text of OCRing a bitmap that you can't infer from the text generated directly from the PDF? Is it the lack of OCR mistakes? The hallucinations? Or something else?
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
I wouldn't start by rastering the rest of the PDF. In business world, unlike academia and bootleg books and file sharing, majority of PDFs are computer generated. I know because I do this for a living.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
CS post covid is in the worst state it has ever been, vibe coding and AI has enabled a category of grifters beyond the wet dreams of blockchain hacks.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
But why do you have to render it into bitmap?
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
If your rendering engine doesn't output what is shown, your engine is broken, and it can be broken whatever you render it into bitmap or structured data.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
I have explained the details in other comments, have a look. But you can start by looking at pdftotext from Poppler, it is ready to go for 60-70% of cases with -layout flag, with bbox-layout you get even more details.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
It is a hard problem, yes, but you don't solve it by rastering it, OCR, and then using AI. You render it into a structured format. Then at least you don't have to worry about hallucinations, fancy fonts OCR problems, text shaping
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
It is called rendering. MuPDF, Poppler, PDFjs, and so on. The problem is that you and everyone else thinks "rendering" means bitmaps. That is not how it works.
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by throwaway4496 1y ago
The mistake all of you're making is the assumption that PDF rendering means rasteration. Everything else crumbles down from that misconception.

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