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Hey guys, we're building LuxPDF.com, an ongoing project to develop the most transparent PDF WebApp in the world. We just launched (so expect some bugs, UI problems etc.), and our site is currently in early-stage development. We offer over 15+ PDF Tools, all completely free, all o

There is a lot valid concern on accessibility and abuse this could result in, but it think it's important to see the other side of the argument.There was a really good thread on Twitter a couple of days ago:> In light of recent Figma news, lemme reiterate that of all the goods th

I think the Figma IPO proves Khan was right. $60B market cap today vs the $20B Adobe offered in 2023. There was some criticism about regulatory overreach when the deal got blocked. Now Figma employees are rich, the design tools market stays competitive, and we have another major

thinning gray hair, a mustache and a stoop, something he jokingly attributed to a lifetime of bending over babiesMy granddad always used to say his lack of hair on top of his head was from all his teachers patting him on the head and telling him how a good boy he was when growi

A lot of the purposes in education for which the use of AI would be considered "cheating" involve writing assignments of one sort or another, so I don't know why most of these education scenarios don't simply redirect the incentive.For example, in an English class with a lot of e

I spoke to them a lot at OpenSauce.- The body panels were composite but they want to go to stamped metal for production. - It's based off of the subaru ascent; at least most of the frame and suspension is. - NMC chemistry, didn't get an OEM name for the actual cell/pouch though.

Cool but ... this also sounds like hording behavior. The number of things I've saved over the years only to throw them away years later and realize that saving them in the first place was a waste of time.In the 90s my friend's mom would video tape AMC movies. She had 300+ tapes.

Without having read into this deeper, it sounds like someone could take an original video which has this code embedded as small fluctuations in luminance over time and edit it or produce a new video, simply applying the same luminance changes to the edited areas/generated video,

This is one of the features that Ruby cribbed directly from Perl. The Ruby documentation seems really bad, in particular “interpolation mode” is grievously misleading.Perl’s documentation is far more clear about the consequences:(https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop#Regexp-Quote-Like-

Looks like this is a wrapper around: https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llmWhich has a full web demo: https://chat.webllm.ai/ Fun demo but the model that's used seems to be pretty stupid:> What's the best way to get to space?>> Unfortunately, it's not currently possible for humans to