thevoidzero

@thevoidzero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Click here?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, for printing configure footnote for links.

  For example in latex, if I’m printing something I redefine \href as \fn so the text is the same but the link is on footnote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And is harmful for people like me, who like to copy paste the pdf into a markdown file write answers there and send a rendered pdf to professors. While I keep the markdowns as my notes for everything. I’d read the text I copied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well apple is succulent stem of apple tree. Potato is succulent root of potato plant. Root is stem inside ground. Q.E.D.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just semantics. PDFs doesn’t even have segmentations like spaces/lines/paragraph. It’s just text drawn at locations the text processor/any other softwares inserted into. Many pdf editor softwares just detect the closeness of the characters to group them together.

  And one step further is you can convert text to path, which basically won’t even have glyph (characters) info and font info, all characters will just be geometric shapes. In that case you can’t even copy the text. OCR is your only choice.

  PDF is for finalizing something and printing/sharing without the ability to edit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most file types are just a renamed .zip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are basically two types of files. Text files and binary files.

  Most information are stored in text files so humans can easily understand it, and it’s easier to find errors, review, parse. But text storage takes more space than binary files. And many complicated softwares normally need multiple text files or data files, many of them just store them together as a zip file so that it’s easier to handle. Examples are .docx,.pptx, etc files in MS Office, try unzipping them and see what they contain. Zipping also has advantages of reducing file sizes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on what video player you use. Of we have control of that, then sure it works. I use mpv to play things, so for radio streams or live videos I can go back/forward as long as it’s cached.

  But if it’s the web service, even though the browser video player has something cached, the player is still controlled by the website. And considering most of the people use chrome/chromium derivatives or YouTube app, it wouldn’t be hard for them to make it so that the player itself will collaborate with whatever they want to do.

  If YouTube was a separate organization it wouldn’t have been the problem it is because of how Google has been taking over all the different parts they need for advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallileo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, and no one will believe me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I could screenshot my dreams⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to screenshot dreams because you are in your dreams and have very low conscious control over your real body.

  But you can start the screen recording before you goto sleep so that it’ll be recorded automatically. You can extract frames. Good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s horizontal growth vs vertical. Growing by getting more coverage is growth but it’s not sustainable growth that you get by getting the next generation into it.