pronoiac

They got used drives. I wonder if they did any testing? I've gotten used drives that were DOA, which showed up in tests - SMART tests, short and long, then writing pseudorandom data to verify capacity.

Comment · 1 year ago

There's a flamewar detector, which triggers when there are far more comments than upvotes.

Comment · 1 year ago

Kern Type, perhaps? https://type.method.ac/

Comment · 1 year ago

Feel free to run EasyOCR against it and submit a PR

Comment · 1 year ago

I attempted OCR, and while it's not great, it's a start. I considered adding a reference to "software wants to be free!" or the Open Letter, but I'm winding down for the night. https://github.com/pronoiac/altair-basic-source-code

Comment · 1 year ago

I attempted OCR with OCRmyPDF / Tesseract. It's not great, but it's under 1% the size, at least. https://github.com/pronoiac/altair-basic-source-code

Comment · 1 year ago

Checking diskprices.com - https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new,used&disk_ty... - there's a cheaper outlier for DVD-R, then it's 25GB BD-Rs for a bit.

LTO tape can be cheaper, but the cost of the drives has long been an obstacle to dabbling.

Comment · 1 year ago

I've used ocrit, which uses those APIs. https://github.com/insidegui/ocrit

There are also:

* swiftocr - https://github.com/fny/swiftocr

* macos-vision-ocr - https://github.com/bytefer/macos-vision-ocr

Comment · 1 year ago

They asked for something like Bluesky starter packs on Mastodon, not Bluesky starter packs on Bluesky.

Comment · 1 year ago

I knew I'd seen something, but I just searched for for it; Fedidevs have something like that - https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/

Comment · 1 year ago

I think Pandoc and Calibre could work for you.

I've worked on PAIP, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, and I might be able to help you a bit. It's around 1k pages long. I used Pandoc to generate an epub file, and then Calibre to turn that into a PDF file. I just tried using Pandoc to generate the PDF file directly, and it/LaTeX choked on some Unicode characters.

For internal ebook links, there's a Lua script. You'll have to keep anchors unique across the book for this:

* good: "chapter1#section1_1" and "chapter2#section2_1"

* bad: a "chapter1#section1" and a "chapter2#section1"

WIP: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/pull/195

For line wrapping of code, there's CSS. I first used it over on "Writing an Operating System in 1,000 Lines"; here's the PR: https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines/pull/...