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by favorited 11mo ago
Google, through YouTube and YouTube TV, already runs one of the most significant video processing lines of business in the world. If they had any interest in supplanting FFmpeg with their own software stack, they wouldn't need to muck
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by favorited 1y ago
Before Epic Games acquired it...
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by favorited 1y ago
While it has a PDF parser, my understanding is that it is mainly used to break a PDF document into chunks, which are then handed off to various specialized models. From its docs: "The main purpose of Docling is to run local models whic
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by favorited 1y ago
Docling primarily uses AI models to extract PDF content, this project looks like it uses a custom parser written in Java, built atop veraPDF.
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by favorited 1y ago
According to the author's PR where she removed herself as a maintainer, she lost commit access. https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/8987
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by favorited 1y ago
Santa Clara's energy rates are an outlier among neighboring municipalities, and should not be used as an example of energy cost in the Bay Area. Santa Clara residents are served by city-owned Silicon Valley Power, which has lower rates
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by favorited 1y ago
I know that when you submit a thumbs up/down rating for a response, you need to opt-in to the whole chat conversation being shared with Anthropic.
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by favorited 1y ago
The browser companies weren't just onboard with WHATWG – they literally are WHATWG. The WHATWG steering committee is Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.
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by favorited 1y ago
You might be interested in this talk[0] by a WebKit engineer on how they're implementing similar approaches using libTooling and their own smart pointer types. For example, their tooling prevents code like this: if (m_weakMember)
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by favorited 1y ago
Even though the US allows copyright assignment, none of the Big Five publishing houses in the US require it as part of a standard book deal, even with first-time authors. If you open any book or ebook to the copyright page, unless it's
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by favorited 1y ago
Yeah, that PCB blew my mind as well! Especially how it enables them to have no wires in these systems.
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by favorited 1y ago
It was z, not Power, but I really enjoyed STH's recent video going through the design of the z17 mainframe with IBM folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8oLfMXUo0U
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by favorited 1y ago
Don't threaten me with a good time!
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by favorited 1y ago
That tracks. Elementary's file browser is one of the only GUI options on Linux if you want Miller Columns. Your options at this point are basically Elementary/Pantheon Files, or GWorkspace...
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by favorited 1y ago
How exactly are the Democrats supposed to do that? Somehow require everyone to get a passport card? Introduce some new kind of federal identification card? That would go over great. It's impossible enough to get things done these days,
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by favorited 1y ago
That's a great way to ensure that only folks who have had the means to travel internationally in the last 10 years are allowed to vote.
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by favorited 1y ago
> Elgato Key Light Air (or whatever its called) to work on my Unifi network I also have struggled with this, and spent many hours bashing my head against a specific setting in PFSense that requires a plugin to enable. Then, I thought to
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by favorited 1y ago
Which mainline compilers or runtimes use a generated parser? I know that CRuby does, though they've recently standardized on Prism as their public AST, and it's possible that they'll switch to Prism for parsing eventually. I
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by favorited 1y ago
The Sig P320 (M17/M18) is the successor to the Beretta 92 (M9) as the US military's standard service pistol. Glocks are the most common among law enforcement in the US these days. The FBI's service pistol is a Glock 19M. Gloc
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by favorited 1y ago
I assume they mean you don't need to modify the device's hardware or hack any software – you just need to include a blob in your ROM's header (which RGBFIX will automatically insert for you, if you're using the RGBDS too
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by favorited 1y ago
He's also on cable. When people talk about late night talk shows, they're generally referring to one of the networks.
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by favorited 1y ago
Even though markitdown is a Microsoft project, it's just a thin wrapper around a bunch of 3rd party Python packages. For example, to go from docx to Markdown, it uses mammoth to convert docx to HTML[0], then uses markdownify to convert
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by favorited 1y ago
Late night talk shows are extremely cheap, compared to regular scripted television. It's one of the reasons why NBC was so excited about moving Jay Leno to 10pm when Conan took over The Tonight Show: > The Jay Leno Show WILL be sign
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by favorited 1y ago
I can't say if there will be enough continued investment in RISC-V for it to catch up, but the mere fact that there is a viable x86 alternative today makes it easier for a third option to enter the picture.
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by favorited 1y ago
Oh man, this is great timing – I played the hell out of this game in middle school, and I've recently been investigating either getting it running on modern hardware. I got it installed & launching inside an XP VM, but that is (uns
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by favorited 1y ago
I'm glad to hear that Wind Waker HD has fan support like this. It was always a bummer to me that the best versions of Wind Waker and Skyward Sword were trapped on the Wii U, given the incredible preservation that Dolphin provides for t
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by favorited 1y ago
He also seems completely uninterested in finding that, "elegant language struggling to get out." He just asserts that it's there, as if its mere existence is a virtue. I think Herb Sutter is at least trying to find that elega
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by favorited 1y ago
For context, the "allocator engineer" I was talking to was a kernel engineer - they have an extremely solid grasp of their platform's architecture. The whole advantage of being the platform's system allocator is that you
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by favorited 1y ago
It's possible that they were referring to something specific about their platform and its system allocator, but like I said it was an anecdote about one engineer's statement. I just remember thinking it sounded fair at the time.
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by favorited 1y ago
I watched a conference talk[0] about using MSDFs for GPU text rendering recently, really interesting stuff! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQefdC2xDY4

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