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I once attended a short workshop where the person presenting encouraged us to switch between two modes of reading away from sub-vocalizing and into pattern recognition. The result was much faster reading without loss of understanding.

He didn't use those terms but adopting them from this thread - I learned that day that these really are two distinct modes.

I love that they explain it is "preservative-free" - given the context of a 5,000 year preservation.

No difference between us there :)

As a private practice lawyer in a tech-heavy firm, I can assure you that not all of us are stuck at the wrong end of that paradigm!

IMO it adds a lot: the article is about cuts from the diary, the result being that the picture is distorted. This is half the point of the link isn't it?

If that were the case, then the posted URL would be pure hype. I think it's more likely that they've developed something that is more bespoke than that. It's totally too hard to say though.

> Mistral Code Enterprise is a fork of Continue. All due credit to the original creators of Continue.

Source: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mistrala...

Link destination: https://www.continue.dev/

I've just looked into this, and as far as I can tell Pandoc is a dependency of Quarto and seems to be where a lot of the magic happens!

I feel like we share interests and location. The long-tailed tits in Wimbledon present no trouble for Merlin my Samsung phone, but I've never seen a nightingale round here.

Thank you for the inspiration. I'm going to look through this with interest too.

I see somebody else downvoted me: presumably they didn't like my excitement! I appreciate the positivity here.

I'm very excited to boot up and try this. I may have finally found what I need to replace my rickety pipeline of templates and pandoc conversions.

I'm happy to be wrong about this, but it strikes me that the fallacy of this argument is that it says that some bugs would be ignored because of namung confusion. But that's already the status quo for all bugs!

I have a secondary reservation which is that people don't really browse for bugs by name in the way that this argument suggests.

Also, both of them could be solved just by replacing Antelope with a serial number.

The point was about being able to write an optimal program with certainty, not about just getting the thing to operate.

You could potentially do a pipeline -

first converting xlsx to csv with libreoffice using approximately: `soffice --convert-to csv *xlsx`,

followed by `pandoc in.csv -o out.md`.

[Edit: The more I think about it, the more I can see lots of ways this could go wrong.]

This is very cool.

> Writing in the journal Cell[0], the scientists describe how they made soft contact lenses seeded with upconversion nanoparticles. When worn, people could see Morse code-like signals flashed from an infrared LED and tell what direction infrared light came from.

> Their infrared vision improved when they closed their eyes, because eyelids block visible light more than infrared, so there was less visible light to interfere

[0] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00454-4

This seems like a residential address. Irrespective of whether the creator deliberately exposed it, I would be a little bit cautious about sharing it further.

This sounds a fantasic idea. Will you be releasing it?

Thanks for the insight. Yes, the AGPL isn't a problem for me - I didn't check your licence as I could just view source :)

Weird: Your link is broken for me, but typing in exactly the same text to the address bar resolves perfectly.

Is it somehow filtering out referrals from this site?

Nice work. I've been building something lately to manipulate PDFs in the browser for privacy, although it's quite a different use case.

I think I see you're using pdf-lib and jspdf - both great libraries, and I'm using both, but:

(1) Have you seen the recent WASM compilation of MuPDF? I am also using it for some functions and find it really excellent with accessible APIs and highly functional. Worth an try!

(2) We chose different forks of the (unmaintained) pdf-lib - is there a reason you went with `pdf-lib-plus-encrypt`? I chose the cantoo fork, which seemed well-maintained to me - but I didn't research many others so would be interested to know if there is a good reason.

The faces are exceedingly like the uncanny early AI-generated smears.

If he laughed and talked in court over the judge, he would also be scolded.

I want to make two observations here.

First, the order being reported is made against the lawyer, not against the lawyer's client - And it is in order not to do this in future. So, while your observation is good I think the conclusion you draw from it doesn't follow.

Secondly, one aspect of your good point is that arguments are filed in a very plain format. The point being that the format does not detract from the message. In this case, the format heavily detracts from the message. Have you seen the PDF? It's absolutely nuts. I hope he doesn't turn up to court wearing a dragon mask.

Same concept, but I found yours more informative. Quite different overall.

Thanks for emphasising the US perspective, because it matters.

IAAL outside the US, and I'm aware in UK and EU law copyright can subsist in typefaces, and there are specific provisions relating to them. Since FACT is a UK Org, taking UK law as an example, see ref. []

I personally find it a good example of aging law. It's quite difficult to reconcile the law as drafted (in 1987) with modern digital font uses. Is a PDF with embedded fonts "material produced by typesetting", or is it an "article specifically designed or adapted for producing material in a particular typeface"? Arguably it could be either.

I'm not aware of this ever having been considered by a court.

[] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/part/I/chapter/...

...as demonstrated by the analogy in the original post here, where he explains the concrete concept of knitting stitches by reference to the much more abstract concept of garbage collection in computer programming!

What's the link between coffee and iOS?

What's your definition of a scientist?

I wonder if many of history's greatest scientists might fail to meet it.

This is technicaly impressive, but I wonder if this could be put to a use which is generally more constructive. Like maybe removing stains from scans or red eye from pictures.

Just resurfacing now.