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burpsnard | 4 months ago | on: DeepSeek OCR

I've only used tesseract, 'recreationally', but i tried generating images of random chars to see what resolution/contrast/noise was minimally recognisable; shocked at how bad it was. heavily relies on language models of character sequences, pretty useless On 'line noise'

burpsnard | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Isn't HN freaking out at Bing's results ironic?

Well search has become a lot worse than the heady days of Lycos and altavista

burpsnard | 4 years ago | on: Russians have hacked American military-industrial complex – US

"The FBI, National Security Agency, and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a report on Wednesday alleging that since at least January 2020, the hackers have been collecting information that is unclassified but contains “significant insight into US weapons platforms development and deployment timelines.”

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster

In the olden days, it was just out.flush(); out.close();

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster

I start thinking about c++ 'placement new' and COBOL copy record structures.

And aquire/release objects from resource pools that manage themselves. And message queue handlers. And pass-by-reference, and object pools..

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000x faster

It's worth popping the hood and getting your fingers dirty. C was written in an era where memory was a scarce and precious resource to be grudgingly used if absolutely necessary

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism

IIRC the chinese were exporting tea, oranges and porcelain to Europe in exchange for silver.

Early/mid 19C, with metal-backed currencies, as most of the circulating Silver had ended up there, it was deemed necessary to reverse that flow.

The Opium wars began, to get all the silver back.

I think westerners underappreciate the salience of these events in the chinese worldview.

And which Colony was established by treaty with the chinese defeat ?

Hong Kong.

https://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/trading/story/trade/4...

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

This: perl ..

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system

The game

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system

Just search for the project/deliverable/system/protocol on LinkedIn ;) ;) ;)

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system

> lot of sacrifices

Just chickens, I hope

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system

What is the term of art ?

To be anti-grandfathered ?

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system

Is also a species of (Australian?) Lizard, just fyi

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

* trans women are women

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

Im crap at math, but annoyed at why. Read about math teaching, and what I found was that there's nothing that correlates with math ability except interest and encouragement (and general iq). There's no genes, brain scans, blood tests, or behavioral signs at preschool age that can predict math success. Teacher ability and enthusiasm likely plays a role.

burpsnard | 5 years ago | on: Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

That's awesome

burpsnard | 6 years ago | on: New Grad vs. Senior Dev

in the 80s, alongside ibm, cray, heimdall, amdal, hitachi, etc etc you had the volume generics - intel. the generic overtook the custom, enough so the revenue and economy of scale won big. it came accompanied with a sci mindset of functional perf, * / ÷ / ^ / sqrt, rather than tps or $/transaction.

The big iron was a product of large-data-volume business problems - payroll, airline reservations, insurance quotes, credit cards, catalog order stats.

But comp-sci mostly put FLOPS ahead of TPS.

hands up who's heard of data flow programming

burpsnard | 6 years ago | on: New Grad vs. Senior Dev

one client of mine has stuck to java8, way ahead of your curve there ;)

burpsnard | 6 years ago | on: New Grad vs. Senior Dev

in a way it's quite a testament to it's utility.

Allaire were there with a workable solution, before jsp, php, (?) asp. Iirc only perl was serious competition.

I still sometimes see lotus notes '.nsf' links