qingcharles

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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Reading these books shines a light on how the current events have come to pass.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
This is a problem whenever someone outside a culture tries to design for that culture. I have just enough knowledge of say, CJK+Arabic to read them, but not enough to know if the font/kerning/justification I'm using is attrac
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
A lot of Hathi is locked behind university and library access restrictions. I sometimes have to track down students or someone who has a local library card to get items I need.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
I agree they're the best currently available , but a lot of their scans are straight garbage and need to be redone.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Not everyone should scan stuff. If you spend any serious time looking through stuff that randos on the Internet have scanned the quality fits the Bell Curve perfectly. Biggest problems: - scanning items that are bigger than the scanner
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Many are just copyright "orphans", nobody knows who owns the copyright any longer. Maybe the author died and the copyright passed to their estate, but they're not even aware of it. One book I'm hunting for a copy of righ
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Some areas of the USA still allow it too, but it's rare.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
If it was charged as trespassing, not something higher like burglary, then the level of his trespass was probably the lowest misdemeanor. Usually trespass is a sliding scale starting with a warning not to return. Being that it was on a camp
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Whoever can create an objective way to determine the quality of legal representation is onto a real winner. I find it near impossible, even as someone with a lot of legal knowledge, to tell whether a lawyer I hire is going to advocate zealo
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Agreed. I bought some cheap host-managed SATA drives the other day that the BIOS can't see and Windows won't recognize. I asked Claude to write a Windows app so I can use them, and it resisted at first, but then gave up and wrote
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
At some point in the future would it be possible to simply download a DNA sequence of an entire animal as a "ROM" and boot it into a virtual "reality"? What detail level of reality would we have to emulate for an egg to
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Good2Go is $5/mo for a real SIM with unlimited talk/text + 1GB data.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Massively subsidized. As soon as my Claude switches from subscription to overage I have to tap out quickly.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
I use Grok 4.6 every day; it's good, but it's not Opus 5 or Sol 5.6. The gap is closing, though.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
No, there are two reasons they are being sliced: 1) It's easier to scan. 2) US copyright law (currently, sorta, kinda) requires that only one copy of the book you purchased exist. If you scan it, you must destroy the other copy.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Are Google Photos stored in Google Drive? Because Google Collab has access to Google Drive so you can write some nifty Python scripts to move your data between Drive accounts and do mass renames/deletes etc.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
I do work adjacent to the AI book scan-shred pipeline. There are definitely significant books that aren't "Windows 95 for Dummies" which are getting down to single-digit remaining copies. I just looked for one novel, which wa
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Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data(current.org)
183 points by qingcharles 2mo ago|74 comments
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Can you fit a song into a QR code? [YouTube](youtube.com)
4 points by qingcharles 2mo ago|0 comments
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
A Casio FX-730P got me through secondary school. Sitting there programming during every lesson instead of paying attention.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
And most systems and forms in the USA only provide for one middle initial, which makes things tricky for those coming from other cultures.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Having a single-letter first name is also a road to dystopian aggravation. I knew someone with a single-letter name and good luck flying anywhere -- most ticket sales systems won't allow it because the devs didn't read those Fals
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
Half the Internet was running on these in the mid-90s. Every Linux and BSD PC had one stuffed in it.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
One day those autostereo displays and 3D cameras from the early Androids will return too.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
At least Gates was honest that he "surrounded himself with smart people", and he has some really decent assembler code in his early years.
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Grok 4.6(twitter.com)
7 points by qingcharles 2mo ago|2 comments
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
https://xcancel.com/SpaceXAI/status/2087562800982077492?s=20
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
And it's supposed to be called Marathon, too.
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
I've seen how that one ends too :D https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/
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by qingcharles 2mo ago
I just set up a web server for a hobby project on a $10 Dell PC that has 2GB of RAM welded to the board. After booting Debian 13 it still has 1.6GB of free RAM. In fact, that seems a lot. Back in ~1996 I was running one of the EFnet servers

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