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And I said nothing because I went paperless. Unfortunately that decision left me with > 5mil digital files

by xref 4y ago

imgabe 4y ago
Just use your digital stapler to combine files together until there's fewer than 5 million.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > digital stapler Perfect name for some PDF editing software.
  - imgabe 4y ago
    Bluebeam is some PDF editing software (mostly used for architectural drawings) that calls its PDF combining feature the "stapler".
  - mananaysiempre 4y ago
    ... That happens to be a Python alternative to PDFtk[1]. It’s been kind of abandoned in recent years, though. Also, in the early times of OLE 2.0 MS Office included a utility called Binder that could put several Office documents in a single file and edit them using a common interface. Nothing came of it. [1] https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler
- jpalomaki 4y ago
  I would love if Node could consume dependencies from archives (even uncompressed, like tar). Those hundreds of thousands of files make certain things slow on Windows and are cause problems if you want to sync stuff betweek computers.
  - demurgos 4y ago
    Yarn provides a "Plug'n'Play" mode implementing exactly this behavior. Dependencies are kept as compressed archives and a loader file is generated so Node can read them directly. If you start Node through Yarn (`yarn node main.js`), it automatically passes the correct flags, but you can also do it manually (something like `node -r .pnp.cjs --experimental-loader .pnp.loader.mjs main.js`). Overall I found this mode to work pretty good. I'm using it for a medium-sized Angular (+ TypeScript) project. It also noticeably improves install times. The PnP mode is stricter about dependencies and expects dependencies to be readonly. A couple dependencies may need to be marked as "unplugged" (installed a regular decompressed dependencies) as a workaround. I'd recommend using this mode if you can.
candiodari 4y ago
I set the building on fire. I warned them many times.

And I said nothing because I went paperless. Unfortunately that decision left me with > 5mil digital files

by xref 4y ago

And I said nothing because I went paperless. Unfortunately that decision left me with > 5mil digital files

imgabe 4y ago

Just use your digital stapler to combine files together until there's fewer than 5 million.

justsomehnguy 4y ago
> digital stapler Perfect name for some PDF editing software.
- imgabe 4y ago
  Bluebeam is some PDF editing software (mostly used for architectural drawings) that calls its PDF combining feature the "stapler".
- mananaysiempre 4y ago
  ... That happens to be a Python alternative to PDFtk[1]. It’s been kind of abandoned in recent years, though. Also, in the early times of OLE 2.0 MS Office included a utility called Binder that could put several Office documents in a single file and edit them using a common interface. Nothing came of it. [1] https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler
jpalomaki 4y ago
I would love if Node could consume dependencies from archives (even uncompressed, like tar). Those hundreds of thousands of files make certain things slow on Windows and are cause problems if you want to sync stuff betweek computers.
- demurgos 4y ago
  Yarn provides a "Plug'n'Play" mode implementing exactly this behavior. Dependencies are kept as compressed archives and a loader file is generated so Node can read them directly. If you start Node through Yarn (`yarn node main.js`), it automatically passes the correct flags, but you can also do it manually (something like `node -r .pnp.cjs --experimental-loader .pnp.loader.mjs main.js`). Overall I found this mode to work pretty good. I'm using it for a medium-sized Angular (+ TypeScript) project. It also noticeably improves install times. The PnP mode is stricter about dependencies and expects dependencies to be readonly. A couple dependencies may need to be marked as "unplugged" (installed a regular decompressed dependencies) as a workaround. I'd recommend using this mode if you can.

candiodari 4y ago

I set the building on fire. I warned them many times.