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We use pdf.js, a bunch of problems I encountered when testing and comparing (17 MB, 158 pages, many images, Windows):

* Links don’t work

* Bookmarks show up but don’t work either

* Text selection doesn’t work in FF

* Middle-clicking (to scroll) in Chrome triggers text selection

* Very slow rendering, when I scroll in pdf.js, everything looks fine. When I scroll in this, everything looks low quality and blurry for ~500-1000ms. Worse for jumping multiple pages at once, e.g. using "end", I get a white page instead of a low quality page.

* Up/Down, Page Up/Down, Home/End don’t work in FF (left/right does work)


Hah, timely. Apparently there is a current (or at least I only encountered it recently) marketing trend in (at least) Germany and the USA of calling cow mozzarella "Fior di latte", to make it out as something special, when all it means is that it’s the slightly cheaper Mozzarella made from cow’s milk instead of buffalo’s, and is what the vast majority of Mozzarella is made out of in both countries.


> fior di latte

Same in the UK at fancy pizza places. It's £2-4 extra for buffalo mozzarella


Buffalo mozzarella is actually a trap on pizza. It contains more water and it tends to dampen the dough as it melts. Fiordilatte or Treccia are actually better, even though they're cheaper.


Oh that's interesting. Soggy pizza is the worst.

Not sure why they'd even offer it as an option but I think they've given up with the British public as they even let you order a pizza with a topping of fries !


> DDR5 has some nasty training times

I was having a hard time figuring out what’s wrong with my new system, until I read an offhand comment about DDR5 having long training times on AMD, and I should just leave the system running for 5-10 minutes… sounded like an urban legend, but turned out to be reality.


Yeah, it's super frustrating, I'm happy I knew about it before I did my ddr5 build. And then my board has this cool feature where when I load the XMP/EXPO profile from the ram, it turns termination from Auto to Off, and won't boot... sometimes it figures it out and goes back to the JEDEC profile, but usually I have to clear the CMOS. Tons of fun! And latest BIOS does the same thing, I updated recently cause I was having weird things, which did go away but not sure if the BIOS update or new fan settings helped more.


Confusing marketing. It supports PCIe 5 for storage, but not the GPU. Nothing official changed.


Yeah so I just noticed, that is indeed confusing, though partly confusing on the post author's part. The marketing does indeed only mention PCIe 4.0 for the expansion slots.


Human slop instead of AI. Our race is catching up to the machines again.


I self host the controller/network (slightly outdated, 9.1 vs 9.3) with no cloud. Adopted a new U7 pro a few weeks ago, still no cloud.

So everything still works as it used to.


That's not normal, that will probably be the vendor skin you use enforcing that. Maybe samsung, as they tend to try and be apple at home.


I have a Samsung phone and I was never forced to use a Google account.


I have been using AI to solve ReCaptchas for quite some time now. Still the old school way of using captcha buster, which clicks the audio challenge and then analyses that.

Bots have for a long time been better and more efficient at solving captchas than us.


Captchas seem to work more as "monetary discouragement" from bot blasting websites. Which is a shame because this is precisely the sort of "microtransaction fee" people have said could improve the web (charge .1 cents to read an article, no ads needed) except the money goes into the void and not to the website owner.


> comparing your answers with actual party votes

Wahl-o-Mat is *not* the same, it’s stated politics. One of the criticisms of it is that actual voting might (lol) differ. There was an alternative one, [0] Real-o-Mat that checked actual voting behavior. Though that has its own set of issues.

[0]: https://real-o-mat.de/


Been using it for a while, now all other tools feel lacking. The multistep process with manual refinement options after every step just works so much better for keeping LLMs in line. The only times I’ve used anything but kiro since, has been when the Sonnet 4.0 was once again overloaded (tried it with 3.7 for a bit, but it went way off the rails of kiro’s tasks structure every time).


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