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This post is full of Claude's irritating verbal ticks ("It's not X, it's Y"). It is fine to use Claude (or another LLM) to help with this kind of reverse engineering, but I would p…

This would have been more effective if written by hand. The issue content is typical LLM-generated markdown that has a lot of noise (formatting, headings, lists etc.) which makes i…

The major constraint is that the compiler needs to guarantee that transformations produce semantically identical results to the unoptimized code, with the exception of undefined be…

The custom scroll behavior on this page is infuriating and distracts from the content. It is like scrolling in treacle. If someone who works at Microsoft sees this and is able to f…

I've seen talks on this topic at Rust conferences which seemed strongly influenced by Swift's approach, so that will probably be the direction this ends up going in.

I use fish + atuin. I leave the "Up" arrow set to use fish's default history search (see https://docs.atuin.sh/faq/#how-do-i-remove-the-default-up-ar... ), which keeps the UI minim…

Good post! The inefficient code for comparing pairs of 16-bit integers was an interesting find.

> Does Hypothes.is have a self-hosting option? https://web.hypothes.is/sales/ The code for both the client and server are open source ( https://github.com/hypothesis/h ) so this is…

One interesting thing I discovered comparing various matrix multiplication implementations used in ML libraries is that several of them (ONNX Runtime, XNNPack, any others?) skip th…

For context, ultralytics is the Python package for YOLO v8 and YOLO v11, two of the most widely used object detection models. The GitHub repo has 33K stars.

A couple of suggestions: 1. Try not to stress too much. The point of review is to improve the quality of the code that lands, and the health of the codebase as a whole, not to grad…

> This effectively means that if I were to bundle ffmpeg and ffprobe executables within my app, I would have to make the app open-source as well and provide it under the same licen…

> All Maven/PIP/NodeJS/etc. dependencies are pulled through via proxy and scanned before first use. What does the scanning process check for / which tools are used?

This is not unique to X. Windows for example uses the same kind of "HWND" object for buttons as for top-level windows. Windows doesn't have the same client/server overhead as X tho…

Tools like https://web.hypothes.is exist and have a decent number of installs. The hard part of a generic third-party commenting tool is creating the right social context for it to…

You could try something like https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ or https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting . Both have support for modern handwriting. I don't know if it wil…

Related to this, I recommend Felienne Hermans' talks on Excel as a functional programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw .

Other than EasyOCR and Tesseract, PaddleOCR ( https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR ) is probably the most well known open-source OCR solution. What are you planning to do with…

In general, no. React has been around for over 10 years now, and it generally remains popular and well supported. It is not going anywhere. Some sites will choose to migrate betwee…

EasyOCR is a popular project if you are in an environment where you can use run Python and PyTorch ( https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR ). Other open source projects of note are P…

> How is Netflix so blind to this? They think they will gain those recipients of shared accounts, but in reality they're losing the ones who are actually paying for it. I would gue…

It hasn't been officially deprecated or anything like that, and it still works fine for the most part [1]. However it hasn't received a lot of active development in the last couple…

> Google does it with millions of search results Google cheats, but in a way that very few users will notice. You can only access the first 20 pages of search results. Depending on…

Thanks for this test case. When I drop that image I see that the individual words are recognized correctly, but starting from about mid-way though are not displayed in the correct …

If you want to OCR a document image, modern versions of Tesseract can work well. If you last used it a few years ago, the recognition has improved since due to a new text recogniti…