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by jgrahamc 3y ago
I actually opened it in emacs in hexl-mode before I ran the file command!
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Thanks. Unfortunately, the images are all missing.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Not sure that's really true. It did something but the images are a mess and a lot of formatting is gone. I think LibreOffice is still the winner here.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
I think your summary is a bit short. Sure, LibreOffice opens the file but there are multiple problems with the formatting that need correcting. Your screenshot shows at least one of them (there shouldn't be any headers on the first pag
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Is the formatting correct? Are the images visible? Because others report (see other comments) that Word opens the file but the images are missing. See the Word generated PDF here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=393590
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Yes, it opens it and throws away the graphics, so not "just fine".
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Right. So all the images are missing. LibreOffice still gives the best conversion I think.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
That may go some way to explaining some of the differences I see, but the main thing I was looking for in the emulation was the font sizes.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
No, you're not wrong, another commenter points out that latest Word opens the document but doesn't display the graphics.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Well, except for all the problems I outlined in the post.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Word is already available on the Infinite Mac as it's under Productivity inside the Infinite HD. No need to install it.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
I would be interested to see a PDF generated from Office 365 to understand how flawless it really is.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Yes, LibreOffice opened it right up with the wrong font sizes, headers and footers messed up, incorrect gutter and margins, and a bunch of other problems. But they were all fixable.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Sort of. What I wanted was to be able to get a PDF version of it. I was hoping that a modern word processor would read the file format, and LibreOffice did. But it's also true that using emulation I was able to get a PDF (albeit one th
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Ah. Great suggestion! I just used Print2PDF to make a PDF from Word. Will update the blog.
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Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?(blog.jgc.org)
478 points by jgrahamc 3y ago|205 comments
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Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial(blog.cloudflare.com)
1074 points by jgrahamc 3y ago|410 comments
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
Also was the first 2 paragraphs of the "In summary" written by ChatGPT? No.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
You can always email me the ticket number.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
And that is me. The car gets driven around Lisbon in electric power almost 100% of the time. When leaving Lisbon for long distances petrol is needed.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
I have no desire to buy a Tesla. Every single one I have been in has been a disappointment. They are ugly, have no style or finesse, and are poorly made.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
He didn't say anything that many, many people weren't already thinking. I too love electric vehicles but they just aren't there yet. I'm very happy driving a hybrid. One day the battery technology, range, and charging in
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
The Atrocity Exhibition is a strange book: I both found it very hard to read and utterly enthralling and fascinating.
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connect() – why are you so slow?(blog.cloudflare.com)
5 points by jgrahamc 3y ago|2 comments
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
And you're welcome to find it funny. But I don't welcome a long thread of Reddit-style stupid jokes about this here. If I wanted that I'd go to Reddit.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
No, let's not. We don't "need this freedom". And we're not "all thinking of several". Grow up.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
I think I've read every one of his books. My favourite is The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. .
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
> A great deal of content about whatever Neal Stephenson is nerding out about at the time This was so true in SEVENEVES. There's a whole section about debris avoidance by a constellation of orbiting spacecraft and it was so tedious.
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
I keep meaning to buy one of your bottles but my wife says we don't have any room for it. I keep telling her it has zero volume. [edit] I went ahead and ordered one :-)
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by jgrahamc 3y ago
You and met at Kepler's way, way back when you were talking about your "Silicon Snake Oil". You signed my book and wrote in it "I hear you, John!". I have no idea what we talked about or what you agreed with me abou

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