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WASM to PS Compiler
- Gys 5y ago> but none target the untapped potential of the shitty PostScript interpreter your printer has Maybe because the options for interaction with the output are non-existing ;)
- ithkuil 5y agoYou just need too hook it up to a prescript scanner
- jackdaniel 5y agoBrilliant :)
- edgeform 5y ago> The so-called compiler implemented uses the dumbest possible implementation I love remarkably blunt comments in code. The Quake III code that caused the uproar recently with Copilot probably being the most famous example.
- pmarreck 5y ago> The Quake III code that caused the uproar recently with Copilot I've been in the hospital for a few days. Fill me in?
- wolfgang42 5y agoCopilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments (1 day ago, 626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 The code in question, with the “remarkably blunt comments” 'edgeform refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overview_of_the_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...
- pmarreck 5y agoHa, that's amazing. To be fair (if this is even a defense), that algorithm is famous, as is its source, so "leading" the AI in that direction just got it to keep going in that direction.
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoThought process: > WASM to PS compiler. Huh, PS meaning PowerShell? > Oh, PS meaning PostScript. > Wait, PS meaning PostScript?!
- infogulch 5y agoTuring completeness never fails to deliver program translation surprises.
- b33j0r 5y agoSo it’s a print driver only for WASM source code? Yes, I had the same thought, but it turned out to be Photoshop ;p
- jhgb 5y agoAm I too old when PS means PostScript to me by default?
- cogburnd02 5y agoThe only thing you are is too correct.
- cesarb 5y agoI think it's a matter of environment, not age. If you're more used to the Windows ecosystem, you'd think of PowerShell by default; if you're more used to the Linux ecosystem, you'd think of PostScript by default. PowerShell (and dotnet in general) doesn't have much relevance to those who run Linux exclusively, while PostScript doesn't have as much relevance to those who run Windows exclusively (unless you have to deal with certain kinds of printers).
- jhgb 5y agoEven on Windows I've used PostScript many times more than I've used PowerShell.
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- xbar 5y agoTimely. I've been looking for ways to abuse the HP ink-junkie in the corner.
- ygra 5y agoThat one speaks PostScript? I though most inkjet printers relied heavily on drivers to supply the next line to print and have no capacity (compute or memory) to rasterize a complete page and for that reason don't need PostScript either.
- tadfisher 5y agoMost do now, as "driverless printing" (sending some PS to an IPP URL) has come into vogue.
- amelius 5y agoHow to access its ethernet port?
- tedunangst 5y agoBring back NeWS and we can eliminate the browser entirely.
- spullara 5y agoBack in college I wrote some Postscript code to change gnuplot to do some 3D stuff that I needed for a visualization project. Fortunately, I don't remember it at all.
- LadyCailin 5y agoSounds like a PrintNightmare.
- dng88 5y agoWow. Can this be used to attack the printer.