petersr
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- Comment on Tough Trolly Choices 1 week ago:
Sorry, we sold out of that 5 min before you walked in.
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
Well, I guess PDF has one thing going for it (which might not be relevant for scientific papers): The same file will render the same on any platform (assuming the reader implements all the PDF spec to the tee).
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
I hear ya. But to be honest, what they are doing here is fine, and doesn’t seem malicious. There is an Open Document specification and they stick to it, but the spec doesn’t enforce everything. For instance for the ordering of certain elements on the page, I bet you they store store those elements in memory in an efficient data structure where ordering doesn’t matter, so when writing out the memory to disk, the easiest for them to do is just write it out in what order it appears in their data structure.
But there are probably other cases where they are not so innocent.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
I will join that therapy session. This is pretty much what we did, except LFS, since it was “a requirement” to also track what they layouting of the Excel file was like.
And even extracting and inserting the code was not stable. Excel will arbitrarily change the casing of “.path” to “.Path” for no reason and add and remove whitespace between functions as it see fit. It was such a pain. We also had a hard time handling unicode strings for instance containing a degree sign. And the list goes on.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I made such a tool - and kept polishing edge cases until I gave up.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
Let me tell you something. I cannot tell you what company, but I have been tasked with putting Excel files in git “because they are just zip archives with xml” and it is just a disaster. Everytime you save the document it will save certain parts of the xml code in arbitrary ways (like each image is in a list and the order Og that list is random everytime), some metadata is re-written everytime like time of last modified and finally all the xml files are one single line. The git diffs are complete useless and noisy and just looking at the Excel file will cause git to consider it updated. So sure, you can use git to snapshot you Office documents… But just don’t.
- Comment on Anon looks up Danish cuisine 1 month ago:
Hard to argue with that logic 😂
- Comment on Anon looks up Danish cuisine 1 month ago:
I am Danish and I have never seen this…
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 2 months ago:
And how long you watched
- Comment on This is a Test 2 months ago:
Look. Doing A-E is going to be expensive enough for the young fella. I don’t think he can also afford gunshot wound treatment.
- Comment on Anon reveals their deepest trauma 3 months ago:
You knew it was fake/going to be a joke when OP got a girlfriend so easily.
- Comment on the fuckgraph 5 months ago:
And that’s even more interesting. As someone who was not part of any of the graph in high school / college, how would a big link of chains play out in real time?
Like “The Mary and Tom met at a party. Next week Tom stumbled into Lucy by the lockers…”
I find it hard to imagine.
- Comment on Anon plays poker 5 months ago:
Almost as if this was made up.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 6 months ago:
I will give you an upvote for maintaining critical thinking, but I will say that the book is not that bad. And it is really well written and interesting, but might be favoring SBF more than other books. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 6 months ago:
Read “Going Infinite” which describes the rise and tall of FTX and SBF. “isn’t smart” is not true, but he is definitely not “human smart”, but rather “math smart”.
- Comment on Let's confuse Americans! 7 months ago:
No, it is because it is not a gun.
- Comment on I wish 7 months ago:
Insert Pikachu meme
- Comment on Equally as good 8 months ago:
Is it possible to learn power?