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Re:10 Years of Pomological Watercolors on Friday June 27, 2025 @05:11PM (#44400279)
good shout, I think some recent typography changes made the bolding more subtle on mobile. I've pushed an update underlining them and it should be live momentarily!
Re:10 Years of Pomological Watercolors on Friday June 27, 2025 @02:09PM (#44398935)
lol thank you other Parker Higgins, always a pleasure to run into you here
Re:10 Years of Pomological Watercolors on Friday June 27, 2025 @12:09PM (#44397924)
Blog post author here! Always happy to see people looking at and reading about these paintings. Happy to answer any questions or job offers people here may have!
Re:Museums with CC0 Collections on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:39PM (#34330355)
I'm speculating a bit here, but I suspect that answer reflects a practically risk-averse read of the same case, for two reasons. One is that, as a district court opinion, Bridgeman isn't _necessarily_ binding federal precedent. (I don't want to overstate that point, because Bridgeman is well established and has been found persuasive by other courts. Still, given that this site appears to distribute the resulting ebooks itself, I assume their appetite for risk here is pretty small.)

Even following Bridgeman though, there is a teeny bit of analysis that you have to do to determine that the reproduction is a faithful photographic copy of the original. In most cases that's straightforward, but again, if you really want to limit risk and as in this case your application doesn't require a particular image, it might be worth cutting out that analysis altogether and going with media that is simply outside of the range of copyright terms.

Re:The complete list of .gov domains is updated daily on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @11:07AM (#32565992)
Includes all registered federal, tribal, state/territory, interstate, independent intrastate, and city/county domains.
Re:.gov/anime on Monday August 22, 2022 @05:03PM (#32557226)
I couldn't share a namespace with a better guy!

Really lucked out here that .gov is explicitly enumerated in a published list. For basically any other TLD your first (big!) issue will be finding such a list.

Re:USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:06PM (#30548815)
Fun to see this up here! I played a role in getting these high resolution images put online, through some FOIA work and public advocacy: https://parkerhiggins.net/2015/04/us-government-release-7584...

I also uploaded the collection to Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:USD...

And for several years have run a Twitter bot that posts one image every few hours: https://twitter.com/pomological/

Re:78rpm Records Digitized on Saturday February 13, 2021 @02:11PM (#26125855)
Thank you for sharing! If folks are interested in the code that powers the bot (it uses OpenCV to find the label, then draws frames and animates with ffmpeg) it's available here: https://github.com/thisisparker/78_sampler
This is correct. Also, since it's a terminal app, you can probably just ssh into your puzzle box from wherever :)
Oh man! I didn't know there was prior art. I think yours looks great, Rob, and I'm very eager to get it installed and compare notes. I'm impressed that you got all the clues displayed at once.
Raph! I loved that puzzle (and I've solved it in cursewords)! I may try to get together a collection of freely licensed demo puzzles, and I'd be honored to include this.
There isn't such a way yet, but I want to do that in the future. (This 1.0 version doesn't have any kind of persistent settings, so there's not yet a place to store custom key-mappings.)

In case you want to try out my defaults: `tab` and `shift+tab` advance/retreat words to the next blank, and `page up` and `page down` (on a Mac, `fn` + `up` or `down`) do blank-agnostic word advance/retreat.

(I also haven't documented this yet, but `[`/`]` and `{`/`}` do cursor-perpendicular box-wise movement in blank-agnostic and blank-aware steps, respectively. One of the hardest parts of this is just describing these kinds of movement.)

Huge fan of Phil! Keiran and I are both alumni of the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) from around the same time. It's become a real crossword programmer powerhouse.
Oh also: if you're an NY Times crossword subscriber, you can download any of their puzzles as .puz files.
This is very cool!
I wanted to ship it with an original demo puzzle but construction is really hard! That's on the roadmap for the future.
Re:Linkarchiver, a new bot to back up tweeted links on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:59AM (#14796519)
ArchiveTeam and URLTeam do great work, but those projects and the OP have different goals. (I'm the OP.) This bot will NOT produce any kind of corpus of tweeted links or links shortened by Twitter's t.co shortener; in fact, it bypasses t.co entirely and I don't have any kind of record of those shortened links.

Instead, it backs up the contents of the pages that are linked to at the time of the tweets. Frankly my tool doesn't do anything interesting at all with the URLs — it just submits the "expanded URL" that was tweeted to the Wayback Machine and lets it sort out any and all 301s.

I think this is just the de- prefix with the generic placeholder "foo".
Re:Mad Generation Loss on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @01:18AM (#10504906)
Thank you! Merged it in. It really does sound much better.

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