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Naresh is a CS student and he kept running into the same annoying problem: every time he needed to merge my assignments, compress a heavy textbook, or sign a document, the only free tools available online required him to upload my files to their remote servers.

Aside from the privacy concerns of uploading tax forms or personal documents, they usually hit you with a "File too large" error or a paywall after two uses.

So, he built LocalPDF to solve this.

It’s a suite of 15+ PDF tools, and everything runs locally inside your browser using WebAssembly and Web Workers. Your files never leave your device.

He just pushed the v3.0 update, which includes:

Textbook Splitter: Automatically slices wide, landscape scanned textbooks into single A4 pages.

Deskew Studio: Manually straighten crooked document scans with micro-degree precision.

Compress & Merge: Shrink files or combine them instantly using your device's own RAM.

Sign & Redact: Black out sensitive text and drop signatures locally.

It's completely free, there are no file-size limits (since it relies on your own hardware), and there are no creepy tracking scripts uploading your data.

Try it out: https://local-pdf-five.vercel.app/

I feel this is because dot com was increased human connect and made the world closer. This boom is only about reducing cost for companies by reducing people. There is hardly any talk about improving user experience. This is very negative outcome imo. Businesses can't be only to serve their shareholders. People are under estimating the effect this would have on the economy and finally on these businesses themselves as economy is all about rotation of money. Once businesses stop paying salary and concentrate everything to their owners, economy grinds to halt.

AI boom is clearly anti human. People are fearing jobs, livelihoods, and their homes. I don't think anyone in right mind would have accepted this had this not been marketed the way it has been

paper straws do not make any sense any way you look at it. Are we saying that we are okay to cut trees to make straws when we could make them out of petroleum ?

Moreover, paper straws are not even recyclable due to water content which makes them soggy. Plastic ones are almost 100% recyclable

Most importantly, unlike plastic straws, they are laced with glue and other chemicals which gets ingested.

how about using mjpeg ?

Universities are not going anywhere MOOC are a dead end

not really. you may read the official notification here https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2197140&re...

"Manufacturers must ensure the App is easily accessible during device setup, with no disabling or restriction of its features"

98% of all websites are just database wrappers

US can simply put 20% tariffs on taiwan/chinese chips and this would be absorbed

protein can shoot up your sugar levels too. Do hba1c tests after a month to make sure they are not

Indian here. We can eat vegetarian without this processed crap. Happy to see this die. We had equivalent companies here in India too. And they also are struggling. Happy to see this being rejected by masses

An on premise deployment ?

Nopes. Bharat stage 6 and eu6 norms are exactly same. https://gomechanic.in/blog/bs6-vs-euro6-what-is-the-differen...

Moreover, we are really really mileage conscious so our cars are very fuel efficient, leading to lower emissions.

It would happen in poor countries and won't result into much "discourse". It has already happened actually. Moreover, even if it happens in the rich countries, are companies & countries ready to ban crypto or AI training of LLMs ? Would we be okay to increase airline prices (by putting a tax) so that people fly less ? Will countries be willing to reduce thermal energy by prioritising solar, wind and nuclear energy ? Can all countries decide to reduce petroleum usage by putting a 100% tax on gas ? Or will be ready to go vegetarian and vegan for reducing cattle farming ? Will be okay to put fines on food wastage ? If not, then there won't be any "whatever it takes"

USA doesn't support China. It needs it because it increases the profit of megacos and saves them the hassle of dealing with litigious populace at home.

It won't come this far. First of all the website itself won't be allowed to be hosted. Moreover, the person would most likely be dead or in one of the reeducation camps for a long time. Most of the chinese large tech companies are funded by Chinese govt so complaining against them is like complaining against the govt or the party.

yups. Not to mention the amount of environmental damage such things do. For instance, all the rare earth metals have huge open air mines with of all kinds of acid & arsenic poisoning which is used during leeching & refining process

Wow: Import tariffs on components and not on assemblies sounds like corruption to me. No policy maker can be this incompetent

Americans discovering the real reason why things are made in China

you would be surprised to note as to how universally true this comment of yours is. Reporting from India. Here, these folks fight these elections as if there is a billion dollars at the end and then do moral policing ALL day long. Level of turf fights, and self importance behaviour on display at these RWAs (we call them resident welfare association and believe me there is anything there apart from welfare!) is just mind boggling. It is always boomers who win these elections and are president, secretary and treasurer of these RWAs

Good to see usa justice system rediscovering their spine against large behemoths (granted that that 60mil would have helped to grease palms of judges & others).

would have been better to see a criminal like jobs behind bars. Sadly they never found the courage

Hope cook goes

I find these studies to be deeply flawed. It is a multivariate situation and we cannot control/observe more than one variable mostly and still end up mistaking these correlations to be causation.

It could well be that it is not diary or meat but the amount of glucose/fructose one eats which really affects this. We must go back to molecular level proofs rather than these kind of statistical studies where you cannot control everything (apart from mouse models which most people reject for being a mouse model)

not at all. I feel (this data is from running SEM for large website(s)) that Google earns most of their revenue from tactical searches. For instance, most people search for website names instead of typing the url. This creates a massive tactical search traffic base for google and brings largest revenue for them. There is a huge competition in this category as most competitors bid on others.

Similarly, product searches are second largest category in which they make tonnes of money. This is also done by people as they don't really like to search on amazon or other ecommerce sites. This is also a huge money spinner for them.

Both of these are not going anywhere as both of these are tactical spends.

Now let us come to long tail. These are again big money and are at risk for Google. However, you have to understand that Goog ads are clicked by most tier 2 users. We, techies, do not really click at ads. We go for organic ranking (mostly). We are the base of chatGPT right now. Tier 2 and lower users don't really use chatgpt.

Even if they do, they would not do it for product discovery or site discovery as it has too much friction: go to chat.openai.com, type in your question, it responds in slow, jerky manner vs just type in browser bar what you are thinking.

To top it, Chatgpt also has stale data. Moreover, it is heavily lobotomized to not give any controversial or edgy answers. This curtails usefulness of chatgpt.

android and chrome both are also late but they won. In Cloud also they are late but they look like to be making big progress.

hope as much money & marketing is poured in cure, is also poured into prevention as it is better to prevent than to cure.

I believe that many types of kidney diseases are linked to metabolic syndrome. Hope media and doctors highlight this to all and sundry that eating less, moving more, keeping weight and blood sugar in control can stop disease progression.

India has a space program since 70s. It has a sent moon missions thrice now, one mars mission and has an upcoming sun probe too. It has a polar orbit launch vehicle which has one of the safest record in the world. Cost wise, it is pretty effective for satellite launched

When Elephant walks, dogs bark. Elephant doesn't give two hoots to them. Keep. walking India!!

Japan has one of the most legacy tech as they probably automated them first and an ageing population probably is resistant to change. They still use fax and telegrams quite a lot

We also know that science doesn't do a very good job when it comes to long term effects on human beings. They took awfully long time to declare that smoking is bad, despite plenty of evidence. Same goes for alcohol. They have still not figured out fat, carbs, sugar etc.

I feel, science when it comes to directly observable and measurable systems works pretty well and is accurate. However, when same is applied to systems which are not lab controlled/controllable (like human diet) then it really hard to prove of disprove anything. We are better off believing things which are proven in practice than believe bigpharma funded studies which can be (and are) manipulated by fudging, manufacturing and/or simply twisting data.

100%. FDA approval is nonsense. FDA plays in arms of big pharma to provide you good advice which also makes money. They hardly peddle any advice which doesn't make money. For instance, linkage of cancer, heart disease, kidney disease etc with processed foods, sugar, fructose (fruit juice, corn syrup) etc despite tonnes of contrary evidence

Bangalore does this and more. We pump our sewage, after secondary treatment, to nearby towns' lakes which are parched. Farmers, in that region, love this water as it is full of organic material which is great for farming. LOL! Of course, there can be issues like heavy metals etc which we do not care about at all!

Read about this here: https://www.newindianexpress.com/good-news/2022/jun/05/how-k... and https://www.deccanherald.com/city/bengaluru-infrastructure/u...