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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 wa…

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 hac…

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 …

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 ende…

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 ge…

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 …

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 se…

> 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 installa…

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% …