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    Comment #30867310

    The specification does have a hierarchical outline, and you can click on cross references too. Of course navigation can still be cumbersome, linking to chapters can also be awkward…

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    Comment #30867257

    No worries! How did you find the "opensource.adobe.com" link? I can't hit it with google, even with aggressive searches like "site:opensource.adobe.com filetype:pdf". And I can't s…

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    Comment #30867163

    Ah, thanks for the link. For some reason that link doesn't turn up in google search for me, however hard I try. Of course the ISO one is also authoritative, but not free.

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    Tell HN: Adobe took down the PDF 1.7 specification from their site

    I just discovered that Adobe took down the PDF 1.7 specification from their site. It's used to be hosted at [1] and I can't find a replacement. Of course this doesn't mean that the…

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    Comment #30853141

    What would be also cool is a syntax aware custom merge driver for git, but that's probably even harder.

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    Comment #30720315

    You can have the numpad on the left, but I rarely saw keyboards like that. I saw some odd "left-handed" rubber dome keyboards, but that's it. You can also have a distinct numpad an…

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    Comment #30712761

    Sometimes the bottleneck is on the server end, and often they throttle throughput per connection. Some download mangers allow you to download the same file through multiple connect…

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    Comment #30712356

    I recommend aria2 for a similar purpose. Just `apt install aria2`. I'm just a happy user.

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    Comment #30709785

    From the pricing page, limits seem to be on number of documents, not number of pages. Is the number of pages per document also limited?

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    Comment #30699628

    It feels like an awkward middle ground. Like this method has a limited entropy output for the first 2000 coin flips (first 1000 double-heads/double-tails/mixed entries), and then s…

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    Comment #30698274

    > My mouse looked like Christmas tree until I installed some electron app on windows. At least solaar exists for Logitech stuff. Too bad it's still not something Logitech provides,…

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    Comment #30698120

    My impression is that arithmetic coding is the inverse. You have N symbols with different known probabilities, and you turn it into a stream of 1/2 probability random bits. edit: O…

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    Comment #30697559

    This method generates approximately log_2(sqrt(1/(2*pi*p*(1-p))) - 1000*log_2(p^p * (1-p)^(1-p)) bits of entropy from 1000 coin flips, where "p" is the probablity of flipping heads…

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    Comment #30697498

    Arithmetic coding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding

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    Comment #30675130

    As an outsider to web development, @when would be a weird choice. If CSS wants to enable 3rd party tooling to take some of the syntax space, then it should declare some parts of th…

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    Comment #30674619

    > is it even legal to memcpy more than a T's worth of data into a T? (IMO you shouldn't be doing that, but I think it's legal in C, and not with my template trick.) How can you kno…

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    Comment #30671986

    It's well defined in the system V ABI, isn't it? Compilers do follow that. Otherwise no layout is defined by the C and C++ standards, even outside of bitfields. edit: It's under "B…

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    Comment #30670073

    Bitfields are standard, what are you talking about?

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    Comment #30642964

    I expected C with libcurl on the list, but in a sense that might be the toughest to implement.

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    Comment #30642613

    From experience, opening a bank account in the UK takes a while. And for that time you need cash on hand, or a working foreign bank account/bank card.

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    Comment #30625820

    I guess I can understand that from an ease of configuration standpoint. Having said that I had no trouble with setting up zerotier VPN, which is also very easy to configure.

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    Comment #30625535

    Any reason you don't use some kind of VPN solution for that instead?

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    Comment #30613215

    That's easier said then done, when you integrate over a high dimensional (possibly infinite) space.

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    Comment #30612631

    Keep calm and continue using Debian.

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    Comment #30612570

    `puts` has a return value indicating success or failure. edit: https://cigix.me/c17#7.21.7.9.p3