IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, December 27, 2023
beginning of new day, December 27
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05:02 schestowitz; <schestowitz>
05:02 schestowitz; <li>
05:02 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/12/tagged-pdf-funsies.html"> Tagged PDF funsies </a></h5>
05:02 schestowitz; <blockquote>
05:02 schestowitz; <p>Going through these lesser used parts of the file format teaches you quite quickly that the PDF specification varies wildly in quality. For example let's look at said references. PDF has both dictionaries and arrays as native data types. Thus if you have to map arbitrary text keys to values you'd use a dictionary whereas mapping consecutive integers from zero upwards you'd use an array. Seems s
05:02 schestowitz; imple, right?</p>
05:02 schestowitz; </blockquote>
05:02 schestowitz; </li>
05:02 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-nibblestew.blogspot.com | Nibble Stew: Tagged PDF funsies
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07:28 schestowitz; x https://text.npr.org/1221128925
07:28 schestowitz; # spam from the sponsor
07:28 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-text.npr.org | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the promise and potential perils of AI
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18:14 schestowitz; >> That is some great deny comedy:
18:14 schestowitz; >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
18:14 schestowitz; > :-)
18:14 schestowitz; >
18:14 schestowitz; >
18:14 schestowitz; > I'm told a major (subscription) TV channel in Brazil launched a show
18:14 schestowitz; > with a number of black comedians. They named it "black comedy" (Humor
18:14 schestowitz; > Negro, in Portuguese). I've never watched it, but I found the name
18:14 schestowitz; > quite brilliant.
18:14 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Black comedy - Wikipedia
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