plantteacher

Agreed.

As a kid I recall stepping on one and thick white milk squirted out. Another kid said “just like a Jr. mint!” Ever since then, I have been unable to mentally separate Jr. mints from cockroaches. And to be clear, that association was not an upgrade for the roaches.. it was a mental downgrade to Jr. mints.

That was my intuition but then consider this bug in unpaper:

https://github.com/unpaper/unpaper/issues/230

I have a script that runs unpaper on PGM files. When the DPI is 600, that bug in unpaper is triggered, but no problem if the source is 300dpi. So it means there is a difference. Although I suppose it’s possible that it’s not really DPI that causes unpaper to produce a truncated image; it could come down to sheer number of pixels. Guess I could work that out by testing further with smaller source scans.

The reason for my question is that I’d like to write my script to work around that bug. If a source file has more than 300 dpi, I would use ImageMagick instead of unpaper to do the bileveling.

(update)
I cropped a 600dpi image in half using GIMP. Then fed that into unpaper. The bug was not triggered and the full canvas was processed correctly. So I think you are right.. DPI is not a concept on PGM files. Which implies unpaper’s bug is simply a limitation on the number of pixels it can handle. It’s apparently incidental that scanning a full size page at 600 dpi results in more pixels than unpaper can handle.

I’ve not heard of Conker. I think it’s not in my area. Looks interesting though particularly because they have a decaf version. Although the color makes it look weak:

https://www.conkerspirit.co.uk/coffee-liqueur/

The cocktail on that website involves just adding water and shaking. I think I would sooner brew coffee and add gin, than to dilute the shot.

For centuries, saffron has been a prized dye

Bizarre that such a costly substance would be used as a dye for clothing. Why pay what’s likely the equivalent of HP ink when you can just get a box of Rit yellow dye at the supermarket?

Surely the price will drop when someone figures out that drones can fly around and harvest the saffron.

As a test, I enabled js on the onion site and tried again to post from the onion connection. Again my message was simply blackholed. So noscript’s default disabling of JS is not the issue.

(edit) then I posted from the clearnet site mader.xyz.. no issue. This problem is onion-specific.

I would assume the extent of the uniqueness is probably unknown at this point. The researchers probably meant uniqueness within a group. Though I suppose the population is small enough that the names could be unique globally.

Also worth noting that AI was used by the researchers. It’s not mentioned in the article, but I guess AI helped sort out which sounds might be a name.

That would make sense. In Europe I got an IV just for blood samples. They could have been anticipating the possibility that I would need pain killers later, but seemed like it would have made more sense to use a normal needle and only do the IV if it came to the point of needing meds.

⚠ Folks-- use lynx to view that article. It’s fully #enshitified in GUI browsers (autoplay, ½-screen blocking bullshit) but decent in text browsers.

Indeed.. now that we can simply enter a couple ingredients into a search field and get countless recipes, and also w/Youtube, I would expect people to be better equipped in recent decades.

The article covers that: “Of course no amount of cooking prowess will help if you can't afford a basket of groceries.”

Weren’t bread machines all the rage because you just dump in the ingredients and it’s autopilot from there? I see a lot of them at 2nd markets and in dumpsters, so I wonder if their usefulness was overestimated.