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Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:45PM (#21365110)
PDF is an open format. Scanning PDF for the links is probably the least you could assume.

You gotta assume they will reconstruct generations of your family tree if they can from your chat history.

Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:13PM (#21220960)
TensorFlow & PyTorch, Angular & React,

Or even Karma & Jest,

Facebook seems to be late to market, but learns from Google's mistakes, to create simpler and more elegant tools.

Re:Computer Stupidities (2013) on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:48AM (#20633213)
> My coworker (who uses Windows 95) was having trouble downloading a self-extracting archive off the net. In an attempt to make it easier to open the file with WinZIP, he associated *.EXE with WinZIP.

> Nothing worked after that. Every program he tried to run would load WinZIP first. He couldn't even run REGEDIT to delete the association.

Happened to me.. :) One of those Windows 95 days!

Re:A History of Visa on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:30PM (#20536012)
> If built correctly it's genuinely difficult to mess things up.

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) [0], Indian Institue of Management - Ahmedabad [1], and (the not so known) Physical Research Laboratory [3], premier institutions in India, all of them founded by the same person - Vikram Sarabhai. Each of them stood the test of time.

Given the situation of all other government run institutions in India, ISRO is truly a marvel. Maybe "it's genuinely difficult to mess things up"!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisa...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Management...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Research_Laboratory

Re:Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @06:57AM (#20505779)
Firefox uses PDF.js[1] to render pdf. This is a standalone project to render pdf in the browser using html and js. If I remember correctly, you can even render pdf in chrome using this.

[1]https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/

A non-techy person who has heard of emacs!
Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:05PM (#20437825)
Essentially with all that data, YouTube still hold a bad recommendation engine.