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I've only used tesseract, 'recreationally', but i tried generating images of random chars to see what resolution/contrast/noise was minimally recognisable; shocked at how bad it was. heavily relies on language models of character sequences, pretty useless On 'line noise'

Well search has become a lot worse than the heady days of Lycos and altavista

"The FBI, National Security Agency, and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a report on Wednesday alleging that since at least January 2020, the hackers have been collecting information that is unclassified but contains “significant insight into US weapons platforms development and deployment timelines.”

In the olden days, it was just out.flush(); out.close();

I start thinking about c++ 'placement new' and COBOL copy record structures.

And aquire/release objects from resource pools that manage themselves. And message queue handlers. And pass-by-reference, and object pools..

It's worth popping the hood and getting your fingers dirty. C was written in an era where memory was a scarce and precious resource to be grudgingly used if absolutely necessary

IIRC the chinese were exporting tea, oranges and porcelain to Europe in exchange for silver.

Early/mid 19C, with metal-backed currencies, as most of the circulating Silver had ended up there, it was deemed necessary to reverse that flow.

The Opium wars began, to get all the silver back.

I think westerners underappreciate the salience of these events in the chinese worldview.

And which Colony was established by treaty with the chinese defeat ?

Hong Kong.

https://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/trading/story/trade/4...

This: perl ..

See also : SATAN https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_...

The game

Just search for the project/deliverable/system/protocol on LinkedIn ;) ;) ;)

> lot of sacrifices

Just chickens, I hope

What is the term of art ?

To be anti-grandfathered ?

Is also a species of (Australian?) Lizard, just fyi

* trans women are women

Im crap at math, but annoyed at why. Read about math teaching, and what I found was that there's nothing that correlates with math ability except interest and encouragement (and general iq). There's no genes, brain scans, blood tests, or behavioral signs at preschool age that can predict math success. Teacher ability and enthusiasm likely plays a role.

That's awesome

in the 80s, alongside ibm, cray, heimdall, amdal, hitachi, etc etc you had the volume generics - intel. the generic overtook the custom, enough so the revenue and economy of scale won big. it came accompanied with a sci mindset of functional perf, * / ÷ / ^ / sqrt, rather than tps or $/transaction.

The big iron was a product of large-data-volume business problems - payroll, airline reservations, insurance quotes, credit cards, catalog order stats.

But comp-sci mostly put FLOPS ahead of TPS.

hands up who's heard of data flow programming

one client of mine has stuck to java8, way ahead of your curve there ;)

in a way it's quite a testament to it's utility.

Allaire were there with a workable solution, before jsp, php, (?) asp. Iirc only perl was serious competition.

I still sometimes see lotus notes '.nsf' links

> some poor guys.. still going at it

that's how you earn your thousand yard stare

i ran it on my laptop (colour screen!) 20y ago. mapped my apartment into it, with triggering objects etc.

first software i bought came in a box, disks and manuals.

now i rent an online service.

the coders behind each of these ventures have different tasks : the first, devising installation and operating manuals for an offline world, the second for a day by day continuous challenge of measuring and updating the service's capabilities and market value

assuming 'what happened to X' involves looking in logs

it's bad enough guessing dmy or mdy, without wondering if we earned interest on that 10 billion euros that appears to have spent an entire second in a transit account earning 2.7% per annum (legal think 'annum' implicitly includes the leapsecond, an assurance resting on dozens of assumptions and misunderstandings of many ibscure treaties and standards and policies, modulo the case law in jurisdictions where precedents can redefine)

Brazil? isn't it mostly there in work-alike saas?

sounds like a 70's IBM COBOL VSAM batch job jcl script

Widget w; // stack

Widget *pw = new Widget(); // heap

Memory is no longer highly constrained

I am that old curmudgeon.

There's a cycle in tool ecology:

- simple useful tool

- adds formats, integrations, config, etc

- codebase is large and change is slow

- the skijump has become an overhang on the learning curve

- a frustrated person writes a simple useful tool

- goto 10

I haven't used k8 but it looks useful for uncommon workloads.

I expect some nu shinyee thing will replace it eventually.

Famously, early pc assembler a86/d86 claimed to able to identify unlicenced used from byte-patterns

http://eji.com/a86/