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Yeah I don't see how LLMs are ever supposed to be reliable enough for this, but they did say "at some point in the future", which leaves room for another (better) technology.

It reduces screen tearing without adding all the latency that vsync introduces.

> The world deserves a Python-like language with a better type system, a better distribution system, and not nearly as much dynamism footguns / rope for people to hang themselves with.

Nim. The tooling is still immature though.


First time I've heard of Arcan. Sounds intriguing.

As much as I appreciate Go, putting it on bare metal makes me cringe a little.


If that makes you cringe, I cannot even begin to imagine what this https://tinygo.org will do to you.


Why? You can’t just leave that dangling like a meat stick.


Why? Xerox PARC used to do this.

As did all machines that booted into a Lisp or BASIC REPL.


The context for OP posting this is that many of the recently-released Epstein documents were PDFs "redacted" by being drawn on top of.


Is there a good free tool to properly redact PDFs? My workflow is to place black annotation rectangles on top and then print as PDF with "force rasterization" on. The resulting PDF files then just consist of pages with one image each. But this tends to be really suboptimal, because it's usually a grayscale or color rasterization, so file sizes are very large vs. monochrome PDFs with CCITT G3/G4 compression (which is absolutely what you want for text content, excellent compression and lossless). Post-processing PDFs to convert them to CCITT is rather annoying and I only know of CLI ways.


I wasn't sure of this, even though sometimes you'd see remains of the original characters near rectangles edges.. does this mean the leaked documents have been de-redacted ?



oh that's a beautiful sight

hopefully this is straw that breaks the camel's back


Why would that be the case? The government isn't redacting "yes we contacted aliens" they're redacting information about military capabilities that might be of use to adversaries.


How do you know if its redacted?

sorry the title mentioned epstein files, so i was hoping incriminating facts that would accelerate trump's fall


No reason to be sorry ... you are right and the other person seems quite confused about the context.



yeah i expected every political team, even the low level ones, to be fully aware of naive pdf "edition"... alas, incompetence often does that


Checks and balances for a more technological era.


Survival of the leetest


I'm actually surprised not to have yet heard widespread conspiracy theorization that this is deliberate for some inscrutable reason or other.


Something something "chess, not checkers, this proves he has them on the run!"


Also good for UFO/UAP/"anomalous phenomena" documents and remote viewing PDFs for what it's worth :)


It reads like a creepypasta, which is cool, but definitely not convincing.


I use it as an accelerated search engine to learn about things quicker than I otherwise would. But that's it. I ask it a question, it tells me an answer, and I work from there myself. Slapping it into your editor to write the code for you sounds disastrous to me. And also incredibly boring.


This just in: people make mistakes on occasion.


I never grew up in a British family, or had any sort of close proximity to British things. But I still somehow ended up using "grey", "colour", and "behaviour". They just look more correct.


Grey is an English spelling? I had no idea it was.


Both the spelling and the dominant colour of the sky.


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