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WCDT strips 4301-4305 (6th July to 10 July 2020)
shanejayell:
I expect there's going to be complications....
(Wonder if Yay, Newfriend's money will factor into this?)
I love Roko's stunned look at the end. :D
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 09 Jul 2020, 01:57 --- Physically scan it into PDF format and the resulting file is 1-2MB per page.
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This is a subject I care about. Mostly because I've had to deal with transmitting scanned documents for real estate, and it's a huge PITA.
Tova's correct. The issue is scanning. Scanners take a photo of the image, and send the photo. Photos are complex, bulky objects. You're sending an image of the word instead of the word.
With scanned documents, you can apply optical character recognition (OCR) to turn that image into text, but usually this does a very bad job. Even if you're using an expensive, professional tool like Acrobat Pro, the program is still pretty uncertain if there's stuff in that image you care about beyond just the text, and the result is a file that's much, much bigger than a Word or properly authored PDF document.
There are free to use web pages that try and fix scanned documents, but again, they don't do a great job. Mainly because the program can never be sure if there's an actual image in there, in addition to the text it can recognize.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: Potato Farmer on 09 Jul 2020, 18:30 ---Oh dear. A proposition for fully socialized healthcare (for A.I.).
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It seems fairly often that when I'm discussing some issue or another, it turns out that the only real answer is fully socialized healthcare. It's kind of nice to see QC veer into the same territory.
Potato Farmer:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 09 Jul 2020, 19:56 ---It seems fairly often that when I'm discussing some issue or another, it turns out that the only real answer is fully socialized healthcare. It's kind of nice to see QC veer into the same territory.
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It appears to be a common occurrence when people are discussing the struggles of modern society. Of course there's always the threat of idealization...
ANeM:
While I'm certain Mae will be thrilled to hear about the progress made towards getting her a better body, I feel she will still be annoyed at the prospect of becoming a major civil rights icon.
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