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by aragonite 2y ago
I did this very recently for a 19th century book in German with occasionally some Greek. The method that produces the highest level of accuracy I've found is to use ImageMagick to extract each page as a image, then send each image file
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I'm pretty sure they are from this collection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka:_The_Office_Writin... (Also I believe these letters are 'anonymous' not in the sense that their authorship is unkn
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Project Cybersyn(en.wikipedia.org)
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At least you can't trivially circumvent the redaction just by copy and paste which was the case for lots of PDFs from the Obama years, such as this one: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files
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by aragonite 2y ago
He voted against the March bill that narrowly focuses on the TikTok issue, but voted for the April bill which also includes foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel. They are not the same bill. > The decision by House Republicans to include Ti
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The ranking member (senior Democrat) on the intelligence committee voted against the ban ( https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/tiktok-ban-jim-h... ): > One key for him is that it’s only a possible threat.
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Key Rollover(en.wikipedia.org)
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Hidden Champions(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aragonite 2y ago
> Google used to watermark internal emails using non-visible Unicode. It would catch people copy-pasting things to the press. How does that even work? I assume the unique identifiers are generated along the lines of https://zw
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Slum: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor(open-slum.org)
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Most AI-generated images I've come across (I have in mind Substacks, Medium posts and other personal blogs) are purely "decorative" & having the same (lack of) purpose as stock photography - e.g. a generic photo of people
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by aragonite 2y ago
Not the GP, but just last week Google automatically removed a single use extension ( https://readermode.io ) from my browser after flagging it as malware (as I recall the extension updated itself a day before the removal). The ext
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It's when a company takes a static snapshot of who officially owns shares which is then used to determine who's eligible for things like dividends or voting on company decisions. You'll often see it in dividend declarations (
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It’s true that trying to state complicated necessary and sufficient conditions will inevitably involve a ton of essential complexity due to the nature of the subject matter, but there may still be room for improvement by eliminating additio
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Plotting Prime Numbers (2021)(jaketae.github.io)
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Egyptian Fractions (2023)(r-knott.surrey.ac.uk)
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If you must pronounce them, all the characters I listed are, in fact, pronounceable (as you can verify by googling them & visiting their Wikitionary pages) since they aren't actually symbols but letters from the alphabets of diff
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by aragonite 2y ago
Instead of "kep", if you want something that visually stands out, there are also lots of fun little symbol-like characters you can use, even when you're dealing with a language where identifiers are limited to ID_Start/I
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by aragonite 2y ago
OED added this use of "ask" (as in a big/huge ask) in 2005 and said it's originally Australian. https://english.stackexchange.com/a/111601
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Ha, interesting. FWIW the response I got is much shorter. It second-guessed itself once, considered 2 alternative interpretations of the question, then gave me the correct answer: https://justpaste.it/fqxbf
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I know of at least one other instance. But note that the same is true of English speakers. Becoming literate in English isn't just a matter of learning the alphabet (otherwise a Frenchman automatically qualifies as literate in English
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The low literacy rates in pre-Hangul Korea had less to do with phonological vs. logographic writing systems and more to do with the fact that in Korea at the time Chinese played the role Latin played in medieval Europe: it was the language
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Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx) (2017)(slhck.info)
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Why on Earth do we have 29.97fps? (2021)(old.reddit.com)
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IPC: To Share Memory or to Send Messages [video](youtube.com)
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TSMC Arizona sued for race and citizenship discrimination(tomshardware.com)
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In philosophy this piece is also known for containing towards the end an influential early statement of the primary-secondary quality distinction (roughly, the view that qualities like color, odor, taste, hot/cold, sound ('seconda
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I think there may be some confusion. The standard Chinese characters for 1, 2, and 3 (一, 二, 三) are among the simplest characters in Chinese: literally just one, two and three horizontal strokes. These would be extremely difficult to forget!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type–token_distinction :)
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> However I think there needs to be more "safety" around them. It's very easy to accidentally have multiple cursors active without you knowing ... Relatedly, if you've created cursors across many lines (or more lines

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