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by hnick 6y ago
> A tool like qpdf to deconstruct a PDF to an uncompressed form is very handy. Forgot to say this in my reply, likewise pdftk's uncompress option is my #1 stop for learning about how a PDF is built when we have issues. You can poke
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by hnick 6y ago
pdftk is by far my favourite for this too. It's quite fast but it does run into some file size problems when merging files as it doesn't deduplicate resources, and can crash outright on some bigger files.
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by hnick 6y ago
The spec is really well written, and will take you far if you just want the basics (i.e. not the scripting stuff they added after 1.4 which is around where you should usually stop if you just care about printing). My only issue with it is w
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by hnick 6y ago
It's a bit more complicated than it sounds, text streams are generally just compressed as good as they can be using whatever available scheme, the bulk of the space usage is often fonts and images. A PDF itself is not compressed so muc
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by hnick 6y ago
Yes I watched many a YouTuber avoid saying the C-words (COVID/Corona) last year over fears it'll be flagged and demonetised.
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by hnick 6y ago
How far should we push this? I was watching someone (an American because I guess it's relevant) narrate a game on stream and he wouldn't say "niggling" out loud.
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by hnick 6y ago
> apparently the far-right is able to taint any word they choose Oh yes I hate this. I saw a long argument either here or on Reddit where someone made the tired old "something #2: electric boogaloo" joke as has been done for ma
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by hnick 6y ago
I agree with your take on intent mattering and I'm of a similar age. I suppose some of the backlash is to remove plausible deniability of dog whistling, but it's gone further than I think is reasonable. Besides, an honest person w
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by hnick 6y ago
I read that after patches GTA V is now around 95GB. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is around 200GB fully installed with all features (HD textures etc). Some people have insinuated this is intentional to crowd out other games on console ha
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by hnick 6y ago
I've seen numerous teachers on Reddit talking about the staff they work with and how hard it is to get rid of some, the usual teacher union protection complaints, and students complaining about bad teachers (what else is new though). I
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I think you need both the carrot and the stick. The problem with low pay is, if you get out the stick, you're only left with people with nothing left to lose. The bottom of the barrel. With higher pay, people have something to lose. Bu
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That's what the higher salaries supposedly avoid, you are less beholden to moneyed interests. I think the reality is that people often get accustomed to money and seek more of it unless there is a true downside. Singapore has a very si
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They get pensions too. Those things most people used to get. The idea is that sets them up because going back to working as a butcher or something would be a bit weird after being a national public figure. The reality is they do speaking en
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by hnick 6y ago
Yes I think they meant they saw a weird name that stood out (I've seen Donald Duck at work) and they investigated more, finding it was test data.
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by hnick 6y ago
Per Wikipedia: "As of 1 July 2019, Australia's prime minister is paid a total salary of $549,250. This is made up of the 'base salary' received by all Members of Parliament ($211,250) plus a 160 percent 'additional
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by hnick 6y ago
The article mentions story mode loading as well as online loading, but as I mentioned in another comment the story time shown there is much lower than what I experienced, probably because SSDs are now standard and were rarer in 2013 (I coul
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by hnick 6y ago
I remember as a kid I went to someone's birthday party in the 80s and we wanted to play a karate themed game on something that used a cassette tape. It took so long to load we went and played outside! To be fair to GTA V, I don't
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by hnick 6y ago
I quite like our Google TV Chromecast too (I think that's the name, the new one with the remote). Our old Samsung from 2013 had a lot of issues, Netflix would stall a lot, and Disney Plus never even released an app for it. Turns out it
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by hnick 6y ago
Maybe the load times inadvertently work like the intentional spelling mistakes in a Nigerian scammer's email. It's bait for the non-discerning customer who is more likely to empty their wallet for microtransactions because they ha
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by hnick 6y ago
Doom Eternal's load times were so good I didn't even bother moving it to my SSD (I junction to a larger HDD by default).
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by hnick 6y ago
> Plus load times are usually the one thing you start ignoring early on, just start the session, go take a coffee or a piss, and by the time you're back it's loaded. In GTA V, when I tried to enjoy multiplayer with my friends t
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by hnick 6y ago
Paths can drop the drive letter e.g. del \file will try to delete a file in the root of the current drive. On modern Windows you can use slash, but you have to quote the argument e.g. dir "C:/windows" You can even mix both ty
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by hnick 6y ago
How do they handle it? A keep-alive style ping, or something like a beforeunload event hook?
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by hnick 6y ago
In some locations bus drivers go "on strike" by refusing to take fares for a set period of time. The service is provided, they are paid their usual salary, but magically it seems no one caught the bus that day when we look at the
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by hnick 6y ago
Just do what they do where I work, move to a new tracking product, if you really care then you have to go and open bugs in the new (more annoying to use) system :) We're on our 3rd or 4th now.
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by hnick 6y ago
It sure is a lot of money for their spin machines. Making it even easier to drown out the independents who, if I understood it when I looked into it earlier, aren't getting a cent [in Australia at least]. I hope I am wrong about that l
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I understand your point, nothing is perfect, but surely a public easily-audited blockchain does more to deter corruption and, if it occurs, find the perpetrators? As compared to a traditional system which is basically a log file that anyone
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by hnick 6y ago
Yes that's the one, I think I tried some kind of chocolate/hazelnut but it's been a while. I strangely detest rose flavour unless it's also mixed with chocolate in which case I love it (and will devour a bag of chocolate
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by hnick 6y ago
Looks like Turkish ice cream (I don't know who invented it, it's what I've seen people call it). The article mentions this a bit. There is a place in Sydney in Newtown that makes a great tasting one, and I had some from a the
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by hnick 6y ago
It looks like he ducked inland quite far on the southeast. Really wanted to avoid Canberra I guess :) More seriously does anyone know why? Just personal preference? My understanding is that it's mostly national parks down there in VIC

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