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I have heard people pronounce lib with a long I, but it’s very uncommon.
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VagueRant posted:Trying to write a Cron schedule expression that triggers on the last Sunday of March (at 00:50). yeah. usually you'd have access to the thing the cron job is running and have it do the check inside the script or whatever to see if it's really the last sunday.
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# ? Apr 4, 2024 22:23 |
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mystes posted:For linux at least, I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce it any other way than rhyming with nib one of my professors (a native Russian speaker) pronounced it as the first syllable of Library.
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# ? Apr 4, 2024 23:14 |
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It’s pronounced like the ‘i’ in ‘linux’
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 08:19 |
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DoctorTristan posted:It’s pronounced like the ‘i’ in ‘linux’ I'm case you're joking, that does have one officially correct pronunciation, using i as in Linus as pronounced by a Swedish-speaking Finn. He owns the trademark, and while he didn't name it, it is based on his name; he gets to dictate how it should sound.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 11:58 |
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Computer viking posted:I'm case you're joking, that does have one officially correct pronunciation, using i as in Linus as pronounced by a Swedish-speaking Finn. He owns the trademark, and while he didn't name it, it is based on his name; he gets to dictate how it should sound. while I am sympathetic to that idea, the preceding discussion demonstrates that even though the common prefix "lib" is based on the word "library", most people take the view that it isn't pronounced as that relationship between words might suggest. So this isn't a dependable principle in general
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 14:23 |
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ShoulderDaemon posted:This is the stupidest aspect of cron. Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:yeah. usually you'd have access to the thing the cron job is running and have it do the check inside the script or whatever to see if it's really the last sunday.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 16:10 |
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Thanks for the anecdote on how y'all pronounce lib. I'll keep saying lib like gib in my head. For the people who pronounce lib like the first syllable of library, how do you say "bin" as in /bin? I've always called it bin as in trash bin but now I'm thinking some people call it bin like the first syllable of binary? For the German speaker upthread I guess this would be "bein" as in bone.
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 16:04 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:Thanks for the anecdote on how y'all pronounce lib. I'll keep saying lib like gib in my head. no one calls it "bein". its "bin" as in garbage [ie, what you find in it]
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 16:30 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:Thanks for the anecdote on how y'all pronounce lib. I'll keep saying lib like gib in my head. Same kind of pronunciation as GIF.
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 16:53 |
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Computer viking posted:I'm case you're joking, that does have one officially correct pronunciation, using i as in Linus as pronounced by a Swedish-speaking Finn. He owns the trademark, and while he didn't name it, it is based on his name; he gets to dictate how it should sound.
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Volmarias posted:Same kind of pronunciation as GIF. soft g per specification
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 20:07 |
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leper khan posted:soft g per specification Uh there's no g in specification
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 20:49 |
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Ah always the most fun teaching Linux courses or pair debugging with people who spend their lives clicking little buttons with a mouse who need to do something from a shell: "Go to /etc"
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:Ah always the most fun teaching Linux courses or pair debugging with people who spend their lives clicking little buttons with a mouse who need to do something from a shell: "Go to /etc" One of the joys of working where I do is that while I have to do this, the people involved are usually smart, curious and motivated. It's kind of fun teaching people who actively want to learn. Even if we have to start at "what is a command line"
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# ? Apr 7, 2024 02:33 |
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More of a documentation question: What is the process for generating system req's for an app? (minimum). Does anyone have experience with writing these?
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:35 |
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Tacos Al Pastor posted:More of a documentation question: What is the process for generating system req's for an app? (minimum). Does anyone have experience with writing these? what is the lowest spec thing youve tested it with? what is its worst case resource usage?
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:44 |
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Ask your testers what their machine specs are, and what performance issues they faced. Derive minimum requirements accordingly. Everyone knows that system requirements are bullshit to some extent, so you shouldn't feel like you need to get them "correct".
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Of course if you have some hard requirements, do list those. Like if you need some certain GPU features to do anything at all, or you need a significant amount of disk space for working storage.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Everyone knows that system requirements are bullshit to some extent, so you shouldn't feel like you need to get them "correct". This is kind of how I feel about it too. Even a processor from 15 years ago can run a lot of applications. leper khan posted:what is the lowest spec thing youve tested it with? what is its worst case resource usage? So yeah thats the thing. Having the lowest benchmarked item to test with. Im not even sure how to deduce that without having it in hand
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 21:18 |
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Tacos Al Pastor posted:This is kind of how I feel about it too. Even a processor from 15 years ago can run a lot of applications. the question isnt what is the lowest benchmark item that could run it. its what is the lowest benchmarked item _that has_
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 21:24 |
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Basically, ask around for someone who has a really old, lovely laptop, and ask them to play your game and see what happens.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 21:49 |
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I play games below min spec all the time. Nobody gets it "correct." Even companies with tons of resources won't tell you what the lower bound for being capable of running the game is. They more go for the lowest spec at which they can guarantee a certain experience. And that can include things like "I can't support that hardware because I don't have access to it to test on it."
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 22:06 |
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games seem pretty dependent on specific hardware features from the GPU so they're hard to test for but for regular software couldn't you just run it in VMs with restricted cpu/ram to see how it goes?
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Probably not the right place for this question, but I had a data set from possibly the early 90s. Does anyone recognize some of these extensions? How would you recommend opening these?
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 02:54 |
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Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:Probably not the right place for this question, but I had a data set from possibly the early 90s. Does anyone recognize some of these extensions? How would you recommend opening these? I have seen .dta used for stata, depending what your data set is that may or may not make sense. .bak is usually a backup of some kind but I've seen it used by many different programs.
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 03:02 |
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BAK used to (still does) stand for "backup". And from the screenshot they seem to be a backup of the other file with the same name, but different extension. DTA most likely stands for "data". What does it contain ... is application dependent. NDX most likely the same thing. You most likely need the application that created these (or a reader) to be able to see what's inside them. For now I'd just open them up in a hex editor or just plain notepad to see if there are any strings in there that may make any sense.
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Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:Probably not the right place for this question, but I had a data set from possibly the early 90s. Does anyone recognize some of these extensions? How would you recommend opening these? Borland DataBase Toolbox (based on https://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1369943) edit: looking at https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturseToolbox1985_5104586/mode/2up, this seems like a Berkeley DB style key-value store, so you'd have to use or reverse-engineer the original program to interpret the data. pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Seems like ndx would be the index associated with the data. https://fileinfo.com/extension/ndx This matches with the lbl being a dbase file, though the .cal may still be readable with existing calendar tools. The ovr was likely Windows proprietary, maybe an SVG like label/drawing format. Fortunately they are unlikely to be encrypted, possibly some minor compression, probably fairly easy to reverse engineer.
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This is a picture from a blog post in which text that is italicized is adjacent to non-italicized text. Because of a flaw in how the text is rendered (I don't know whether it's the fault of software, web standards, the blog author, or whether the fault lies elsewhere) the ascender on the letter "d" at the end of the word "should" isn't visible; the word looks like "shoula". Is there a name for this phenomenon?
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Hammerite posted:This is a picture from a blog post in which text that is italicized is adjacent to non-italicized text. Because of a flaw in how the text is rendered (I don't know whether it's the fault of software, web standards, the blog author, or whether the fault lies elsewhere) the ascender on the letter "d" at the end of the word "should" isn't visible; the word looks like "shoula". Is there a name for this phenomenon? clipping?
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# ? Apr 12, 2024 11:59 |
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Yeah, this sounds like a pretty strange clipping error. Why is the entire italicized segment being rendered separately, rather than onto the canvas everything else would be using? I don't know if there's a term for this because it's a baffling decision, and one that should have been handled already.
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Volmarias posted:Yeah, this sounds like a pretty strange clipping error. Why is the entire italicized segment being rendered separately, rather than onto the canvas everything else would be using? I don't know if there's a term for this because it's a baffling decision, and one that should have been handled already. Looks like the italics tag is overflow:hide, so anything inside it that goes outside the bounding box is getting clipped. You can do very stupid things with CSS if you want to, and the browser will faithfully render that even when it's dumb.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 02:09 |
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Typographically, "insufficient leading" (that being pronounced "led", as in Pb) or "excess kerning". Graphically it would translate to an improper/insufficient bounding box, because the (likely vector) ascender position has been miscomputed when the italics/slant variant is in use. Without additional data it's hard to say if it's clipping or overwriting by the subsequent character (though I'd tend to agree with the others that it's being clipped to its bounding box).
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This may be more appropriate for the data engineering thread, but what is the best solution to extract tables from pdf files using python? I'm looking at these reports, the tables in them are pretty simple and don't seem like they should be that hard to extract. It's not an image, it's text with formatting https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/dfast-archive.htm I've tried using pypdf, the built in linux pdftotext, tabula, camelot, none of them do it properly out of the box. Is there anything that does, or is this not really a solved problem? Obviously just copy pasting it would be easy, but I'm doing this out of curiosity
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# ? Apr 17, 2024 19:53 |
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It's definitely not a solved problem in general because a lot of PDF tables are badly formed. Nested column headers like you have there can be particularly nasty, especially if every document is different. I've had the best luck with Parsr, but there's no magic easy button. https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr
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icantfindaname posted:This may be more appropriate for the data engineering thread, but what is the best solution to extract tables from pdf files using python? I'm looking at these reports, the tables in them are pretty simple and don't seem like they should be that hard to extract. It's not an image, it's text with formatting
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mystes posted:Is that table not in the csv files also linked there? It is, but I’m trying to get it from the pdf directly as a challenge
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icantfindaname posted:It is, but I’m trying to get it from the pdf directly as a challenge I do this for a living and PDFs are literally the worst. Every document will be different and it will always be a finicky pain in the rear end.
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Feed it to ChatGPT-4-vision and have it OCR the content and render as a CSV?
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