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mircea_popescu: this whole tex/svg/png/
pdf/fuckall thing is becoming a major problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even a
pdf to png transfer, with the images pasted on a html page, would be preferrable.
pete_dushenski: archive.is, webarchive, jpeg thingies... none of them could save it. so there's a 16mb
pdf. hooray
phf: Framedragger: alf's archive link ~is~ bitsavers, it's just not like 1
pdf. it's about 200 of them, so you kind of need to narrow it down a bit
phf: fwiw dpans has a copy of tex source, first or second to last draft before the standard was sent over to ansi. there's two projects that cleanup that tex, one is dpans2texi which produces texinfo formatted (this is what i use from emacs) and another by some russians that produces a clean
pdf with hyperlinks
mircea_popescu: bring this argument again once you're
pdf free, ye hear ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 03:12 pete_dushenski:
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MeredithStatement.pdf << you can't resign from usg.trump just because you're illiterate and didn't do your job (resignation letter from speechwriterlady who not-so-lightly lifted bits from usg.michelle and gave them to usg.melania)
pete_dushenski:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/workingPapers/2016/WP249.pdf << "The results indicate that scientists, engineers or technicians were not well-represented among the British great inventors, and their contributions remained unspecialized until very late in the nineteenth century. For developing countries today, the implications are that costly investments in specialized human capital resources might be
jurov: Apocalyptic: have you actually read that
pdf?
mircea_popescu: you load crapolade websites all the time ; and
pdf meets your attack criteria.
mircea_popescu: i was stuck publishing a
pdf in my latest article because fuck me there's no sane ocr ;/
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's vaguely inhuman, this. the scholar in me is constantly opressed by various shits. 1. "oh we don;t alphabet -
pdf" 2. "oh you can't reference text snippet" 3. "oh we forget, what was this ? linkrot ?" and i think there's more
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess i'll have to get my
pdf decoder ring later an see what's in there
phf: there's a "mail client" which is a modality, can be inline, can be a popup, as long as everything's kept in same modality. "now i interact with electronic mail, what pray is this
pdf document??"
phf: i guess the two are in lockstep. you get
pdf in your email, you save it to file, you open it with xpdf. a dwim equivalent is to open it, dwiw style, right in the mail client. can't do that with xpdf (actually you can but need to read specs for x11, yawn), so make xpdf into a library, embed the whole thing into client.
mircea_popescu: myeah i was looking more for a single line from credible souce. "
pdf" from usg exact opposite on all scores.
mircea_popescu: otherwise... a piece of
pdf reading "supoena" is not distinguishable or to be distinguished from an email reading "you have won the google intel microsoft award"
mircea_popescu: for maximal lulz, return
pdf subpoenas, "unreadable proprietary format - please resend in latex".
Framedragger: ..and then they render to
pdf. but yeah good people also link to tex source on their websites, true..