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by jl6 2y ago
Perhaps a new entry in the web's most horrible standard: /.well-known/now ?
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by jl6 2y ago
You are so right about that!
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by jl6 2y ago
Do you mean there was food still on board when the ships arrived?
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by jl6 2y ago
The first two work just fine in Adobe Acrobat Reader on iOS. The third is garbage, probably because the producer didn't include a ToUnicode map or equivalent. The format supports a lot that is not commonly implemented by PDF readers
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by jl6 2y ago
Example PDF? Because I tried it too and it worked. Does your PDF use tags?
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by jl6 2y ago
It's not fine when it happens, but the issue you describe is a property of the PDF viewing application more than the PDF file format (which supports semantic paragraph tags, for example). Adobe Acrobat Reader handles copy & paste w
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by jl6 2y ago
No, /FontMatrix is part of a metadata object which can be present whether the font is embedded or external.
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by jl6 2y ago
Strict validation could theoretically have helped here, as /FontMatrix is required by the PDF spec to be an array of six numbers. The exploit string was syntactically valid but semantically invalid. Unfortunately, applications that pro
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by jl6 2y ago
PDF/A. All the good bits of PDF (compatibility, standardization, encapsulation), without the worst bits (media extensions, JavaScript). (Except PDF/A-4, which reintroduces JavaScript for some horrific reason).
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by jl6 2y ago
Unlike your spare DIMM slots.
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by jl6 2y ago
It probably costs them a ton of money, but they probably make a ton more so that’s OK. Also: bandwidth gets a lot cheaper when you own the pipes. And one that is less obvious: despite having hundreds of millions of videos available, a large
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by jl6 2y ago
The AI apocalypse isn't about killing you. It's about leaving you to die. Subtle difference.
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by jl6 2y ago
Lockheed Martin's Compact Fusion Reactor was announced in 2013. It's still up on their website[0] but the project seems to have been cancelled a few years ago, without any concluding remarks. [0] https://www.lockheedmart
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by jl6 2y ago
I find the term denialist really unhelpful. It’s a polarizing thought-terminating cliche. Outright denial that climate change is happening is now rare. It’s hard to argue with hard data so only the looniest attempt it. We have a fair few pe
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Publish and perish.
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> What ended it? Decade or quarter century - how did it subside, and why? It probably killed everyone who wasn’t sufficiently resistant to it, leaving a population who were. Natural selection. The disease probably didn’t go away - it jus
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by jl6 2y ago
I agree. An AI assistant with the following properties would make me upgrade my phone: 1) fully local / ultra low latency; 2) privacy guarantees; 3) access / training / fine-tuning over all the data on my phone. But it would
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by jl6 2y ago
Holy cow, I didn't know they spent $10bn on the car project. That's nearly a month's worth of profit!
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by jl6 2y ago
"only AI Model with Vision-to-Language Capabilities" What do they mean by this? Isn't this roughly what GPT-4 Vision and LLaVA do?
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by jl6 2y ago
How is that film just available for free like that?
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by jl6 2y ago
Someone who hates oranges might still, on rare occasion, pick one. Maybe they’re having a bad day, misunderstood the instruction, or wanted to turn their life around starting now . We might make decisions with high likelihood but it’s a qu
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by jl6 2y ago
It was probably unrelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Persian_Gulf_floods#Cloud...
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A gluten free diet may or may not help but it’s not synonymous with “a good diet”.
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Death is not the only thing to inevitably reduce population - there's also taxes. As in, give subsidies to childbearers in eras where the population is too low, and take them away when the population gets too high.
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by jl6 2y ago
Right, but what most people mean by stable population is a population that doesn’t fluctuate outside of a range. A population that grows and shrinks but has some kind of negative feedback that causes it to oscillate around a value, is stabl
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by jl6 2y ago
While we do observe a trend towards lower fertility rates as wealth/health/modernity increases, this isn’t universal. For example, there is a big gap between the fertility rates of religious and non-religious people in the arguab
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by jl6 2y ago
Conventional wisdom on population growth is that it’s a solved problem and that the population will inevitably stabilize or decline. I say let’s not count our chickens just yet. There are still countries and groups where the growth rate has
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A modern comparison might be a vantablack cloak.
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Carlisle has been a continuously occupied town since before the Romans, and continuously since. I don’t think it’s too surprising that we find Roman things underneath modern things (in fact I strongly suspect that we have yet to discover mo
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I could not agree more. “Content” comes from a world where selling adverts is the primary business and the “content” is just used as a bait or lure to attract eyeballs. The quality of the “content” is a remote concern.

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