burpsnard
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Comment · 1 year ago
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'
Comment · 3 years ago
Well search has become a lot worse than the heady days of Lycos and altavista
Comment · 4 years ago
"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.”
Comment · 6 years ago
In the olden days, it was just out.flush(); out.close();
Comment · 6 years ago
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..
Comment · 6 years ago
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
Comment · 6 years ago
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...
Comment · 6 years ago
This: perl ..
Comment · 6 years ago
See also : SATAN
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_...
Comment · 6 years ago
The game
Comment · 6 years ago
Just search for the project/deliverable/system/protocol on LinkedIn ;) ;) ;)
Comment · 6 years ago
> lot of sacrifices
Just chickens, I hope
Comment · 6 years ago
What is the term of art ?
To be anti-grandfathered ?
Comment · 6 years ago
Is also a species of (Australian?) Lizard, just fyi
Comment · 6 years ago
* trans women are women