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I'm against AI. I've written two books on the topic so far. I also use AI, as I must if my software company is going to make money. There is no choice any more. If I had a choice I…

One important thing the article glosses over: even if you sign your binary with task_for_pid, that does NOT mean you can attach to arbitrary processes on modern macOS, especially o…

Python 3 (latest stable) packaged as a tiny ~12 MB signed DMG built from Homebrew bottles, with only the required dependencies included. I’m providing builds for the three most rec…

I find this political mess to be interesting, but I'm not sure it's an appropriate topic of conversation for the "professional community." It looks to me like people on both sides …

I've been working on two projects recently. A video game titled TentFires, and letterpress book remastering. TentFires is a variant of the puzzle game Camping / Tents-and-Trees, bu…

The initial input is high resolution images using a DSLR and a macro lens, or at least it will be soon. Initial testing of the method has been done using 200mp images taken casuall…

Great questions — and you’re absolutely right that Latin vs. CJK is effectively two different universes in terms of reconstruction. 1. Latin vs. CJK differences Latin glyphs are st…

Yes. I did see that other article. No the process we are using is not using AI. We are not using OCR either. We are using computational geometry and forensics methodology. No flatb…

The Monotype pricing change is brutal, but there’s a workaround. Derive new Japanese font families directly from public-domain sources. I’ve been working on doing exactly that. Rec…

It isn't exactly what you are asking for but could be adapted to do that: https://github.com/dryark/curl_progress

Came here to say this. My guess is that Amazon paid them to go away. If my guess is accurate ( I could certainly be wrong ), then Amazon could have them add a robots.txt banning ar…

I don't disagree that more work can get done if you work more. What is being discussed is not "shorter work weeks" but "shorter work days", as many people who do shorter work weeks…

This comment amuses me as my company is a browserstack competitor and thus my company and our clients have large numbers of devices. When you are the cloud host, you have to worry …

I've been working with mobile device farming for a few years, and I have not heard of or seen a device that is powered down spontaneously combust despite having many with "puffed b…

They aren't just destroying hard drives. Companies are destroying iPhones too instead of reselling them. I know of at least one major tech company that is destroying several thousa…

As an expert in the field of content management and process management I've been considering what would make a better replacement for Reddit and similar social networks for years. …

Based on the responses of many mods of huge communities it doesn't seem they agree with you.

The issue in the case of Reddit is that this affects the moderators, who are doing a significant amount of work for Reddit for nothing but kudos/fame. Many/most of the moderators o…

I first saw one of these in use for visualization at a large quarry a few years after they came out. I also bought mine from Japan, around 2012. As nullc mentions, driving the moni…