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What do you use to do the actual ocr?

Facial recognition cctv, the other day some protesters in South America shot down a drone using lasers, and now this? Clearly the precursor to Ed-209. The future is here I guess. Is it what we wanted?

Once I worked at a place where ooh support accidentally pasted an entire maint guide into putty (right click paste is not a good idea) on a prod oracle server, it was fine until the lines in the doc which read:

Dbfile1 -> /path/to/dbfile1 ... Etc

Which needless to say hosed the entire box... over Christmas...

And this is why they don’t use putty anymore ;)

Eurgh. What have we done? :(

Why are they loads better btw? I think in composable commands, being able to cat my logs without first setting them up to pipe to a syslog is something I very much want...

Have you used openbsd for anything lately? Systemd is better than the horrible mess of upstart/sysv etc, although the one linux laptop I run is using void (and thus, runit) and you can type init 6 and it doesn’t randomly hang for 2 minutes while shutting down if you’re not using gnome/kde.. imagine! The future is here ;)

I dunno about that, the majority of ops guys I work with (or have worked with over the last few years) dislike it... we’re mostly angry old greybeards though.

I tend to approach such tasks by just copying and editing a unit that shipped with the os (e.g sshd) — the example the post gives as being problematic is using some timer feature instead of cron and I suppose my question is really: who is doing that anyway?

I know you can rig up systemd to act like inetd or cron, but perhaps you would be better with an actual service (how hard is quartz?) than baking your jobs into systemd units..

That said, I only use Linux in prod for enterprise stuff that depends on it, everything else is on bsd so you can probably guess my opinion on systemd ;)

You can send epub to your send to kindle email address with the word “convert” in the subject line and it’ll transform it into a mobi... as far as I know..

Edit: apparently you need to change the extension to .zip for it to work shrug

I’m sort of curious what dmr’s was now (his hash is gfVwhuAMF0Trw) from the same dump...

A lot of the buildings in Berlin have very old pipes and while the water to the building is alright, we (in Berlin) have to rely mainly on glass bottles of water (bismark) as if you don’t run the taps enough there’s a nice colour that comes out...

Can you elaborate on your experience with it? Is that thing really worth €820? I like the idea of a giant e-reader but that’s really quite a lot of money for such a device.

Murex is going “cloud”

Utter madness.

I think there’s a difference between scanning all incoming mail for spam and keeping a details list of my purchase history by scanning my inbox for receipts somehow... If they aren’t using this data for context ads it must be being used for something else otherwise why would they do it?

If they don’t scrape your email how is this page generated then?

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

Tyrion Lannistar

It’s part of OpenBSD who can’t use git for licensing reasons and the switch from cvs->svn isn’t really worth it.

There is a git mirror on github and you can work on that and submit diffs to the mailing list if you’re worried about having to read the cvs manpage ;)

If you’re looking for something bigger for aircrack etc I use al alfa networks “AWUS036NHA” which is 5dB and you can pick up off amazon for about 30 euro.

For normal dongles a search for “Anadol Gold Line Wifi AWL150 Micro 150Mbit/s USB WLAN S” shows the one I use in various bsds/linuxes with no problems.

Both re0/run0 chips.

I would be carful; if you think sap people are billed a lot per day you should see how much we’re invoiced for murex consultants.

Not the sort of companies who play nice on these sorts of issues.

Just my 0.02

Kind of curious also how this works. If they’re in YC surely someone must have noticed? Murex is in use in all the banks I’ve worked at in the last 5 years, it’s rather well known?

miniroot.fs is >4mb for 6.4 last time I checked...

How will reaching the end of Moore’s law cause a crash like this?

Do you mean that future requirements will outstrip capacity? I don’t think this has been true for some time, we run a lot more systems and tend to scale horizontally; doubling compute power every n period isn’t a hard requirement imo.

I can’t speak for the simplicity, but by all accounts the backend of this system is (it was at some point) a single ec2 instance and is a single person project.

Granted that person is cpercival but whatever :)

https://www.tarsnap.com

Right click, press q, click storage/cookies.. what am I missing here?

Added to my to-read list; thanks! Do you have any other recommendations?

Kafka is probably the only one I would recommend not reading first. If you were to summarise the plot it in a few sentences it would put a lot of people off, in murakami land though he can write a story about a guy killing his father and sleeping with his mother and while you’re in the book world it seems totally normal......

Give banana yashimoto’s kitchen a go. Besides her and murakmi I am rather derelict on the Japanese authors read front tho...

Hopeful for some pointers here too.

I would highly recommend wind up bird cronicle and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage though. The latter was pretty heavily panned by the critics but the description of sudden complete alienation without reason struck a chord with me, as well as the narrative description of how such vibrant young people ended up with such mostly mundane lives so many years on.. maybe you will feel the same.

Murakami books are sort of like being in a dream where somehow you completely understand this person acting as if you were them, even when the culture and motivations are so different and then it just sort of ends. I find myself thinking about his characters long after finishing books, which is really something few authors can provide at least to me...

This can almost certainly be avoided by typing “:set paste” before entering insert mode and pasting. Give it a try!