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Re:Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code by nkmnz on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:49AM (#47044447)
Not sure what "baking your own bread" means if you are using wheat grown by someone else in an oven that you didn't build that is run with electricity you didn't created from your muscles' force. You haven't even contributed to the nuclear fusion which created the oxygen for the water molecules you've been using! How dare you, standing of the shoulders of giants!
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Re:Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code by ktm5j on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:48AM (#47048807)
This is more like buying a loaf of bread from the store and saying you baked it yourself. They did nothing even close to making an OCR engine.
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Re:Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code by patmorgan23 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:44PM (#47050428)
Is it "building your own oven" if you go to Lowe's, buy an oven, and installed it yourself? You've done some work, but your integrating a pre-built appliance into your kitchen, not built your own oven
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Re:Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code by nkmnz on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:49PM (#47054545)
The title is "rolling your own", not "building your own"
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Re:Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code by ranger_danger on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:52PM (#47056949)
why are chefs baking bread? there's buildings to construct
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