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schestowitz<schestowitz>                                 Dec 27 05:02
schestowitz<li>Dec 27 05:02
schestowitz                                    <h5><a href="https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/12/tagged-pdf-funsies.html"> Tagged PDF funsies </a></h5>Dec 27 05:02
schestowitz                                    <blockquote>Dec 27 05:02
schestowitz                                        <p>Going through these lesser used parts of the file format teaches you quite quickly that the PDF specification varies wildly in quality. For example let's look at said references. PDF has both dictionaries and arrays as native data types. Thus if you have to map arbitrary text keys to values you'd use a dictionary whereas mapping consecutive integers from zero upwards you'd use an array. Seems sDec 27 05:02
schestowitzimple, right?</p>Dec 27 05:02
schestowitz                                    </blockquote>Dec 27 05:02
schestowitz                                </li>Dec 27 05:02
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-nibblestew.blogspot.com | Nibble Stew: Tagged PDF funsiesDec 27 05:02
schestowitzx https://text.npr.org/1221128925Dec 27 07:28
schestowitz# spam from the sponsorDec 27 07:28
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-text.npr.org | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the promise and potential perils of AIDec 27 07:28
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schestowitz>> That is some great deny comedy:Dec 27 18:14
schestowitz>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedyDec 27 18:14
schestowitz> :-)Dec 27 18:14
schestowitz> Dec 27 18:14
schestowitz> Dec 27 18:14
schestowitz> I'm told a major (subscription) TV channel in Brazil launched a showDec 27 18:14
schestowitz> with a number of black comedians.  They named it "black comedy" (HumorDec 27 18:14
schestowitz> Negro, in Portuguese).  I've never watched it, but I found the nameDec 27 18:14
schestowitz> quite brilliant.Dec 27 18:14
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Black comedy - WikipediaDec 27 18:14
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