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try gImagereader.

it’s a frontend to tesseract and is more workable via its GUI and option menus.

Load the file, execute the program.

That’s all I had to do for a successful OCR.

i did this with a chinese book, but have to check what i used.

The translation was entirely readable.

i think i used tesseract.

No, GImagereader!

that was it.

tesseract was also very straightforward, but gimage reader had a GUI, and all I had to do was import the file and then click export and it did the whole thing.

high five.

i make my own noodles thanks to babish.

babish is cool.

or was when he taught me about noodles.

you bought it, why shouldn’t you also rent it?

only if the corporate citizen promises really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.

really good article with a couple surprises in there.

"some people speculated that, because of the political pressure against it, its release must have been an act of resistance by someone within the IRS. But the open sourcing of the program was always part of the plan, and was required by a law called the SHARE IT Act. It happened “fully above board, which is honestly more of a feat!,” Given told 404 Media. “This has been in the works since last year.”

Vinton told 404 Media in a phone call that the open sourcing of Direct File “is just good government.”

“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"

haha, yea these guys look real dapper.

haha, yeah, apparently when they’re skinny fellas they call them crab-eating raccoons… or Wikipedia does anyway haha, all the locals here just say “mapaches” without any qualifiers.

they are also pretty chill.

they have the chunky ones living in the forest here apparently, but these sleek fellas just run all around along the coastline.

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these sleek crab-eating raccoons in Panama City are pretty cute:

very cool, I found it, I’ll be reading it after a couple books I’m working through right now.

thanks!

ooh, no, thank you very much, I’ll check it out now.

28 is probably my favorite zombie series, and those zombies are heavily magic.

moving super fast and uncoordinated means rapid dehydration coupled with injuries, blood loss and tissue loss and damage.

their bodies can’t endure that kind of activity for more than a couple hours, and they’ll rapidly render themselves immobile, deteriorate and decompose. there aren’t going to be any zombies milling around inside houses or crawling around in fields 28 weeks later.

asymptomatic carriers are normally accounted for with any new pathogen, and with the rapid deterioration, incapacitation and death of any symptomatic infected, there aren’t going to be major societal collapses.

asymptomatic carriers are going to be an important vector of disease to account for as soon as the disease is recognized, and they’ll have to be separated from the rest of society as a vaccine is developed, but given the rapid onset, obvious symptoms, rapid deterioration of the symptomatic carriers and physical transmissibility, a short quarantine period indicates there aren’t going to be many asymptomatic carriers.

rabies is a good example, because it’s basically 28 days later zombies in real life.

extremely contagious, no cure, carriers become very violent but uncoordinated, they are fast for a very brief period of time but fundamentally incapacitated after a few hours because of dehydration and tissue damage, and then die.

conditions like transmissibility and natural human resistance make the 28 scenario unrealistic but for the most part, the rapid deterioration of the symptomatic carriers is the silver bullet here.

they are still great movies and I’m very excited to see 28 years later next month.

there are a few big issues here.

1. The consistency and efficacy of that pathogen

2. those people wouldn’t be zombies, they would just be carnivores.

3. if cannibalism/societal colapse/megetables are going on, people are going to notice.

there are already pathogens that make someone vegetarian, but because of the resilience of the human body, the effect only takes hold in a very low percentage of people introduced to the pathogen (they’re not sure which mechanism in tick spit prompts the meat allergy yet, afaik).

The brain is incredibly complex and can rewire itself, so to have even 10% of the population have consistently perfectly rewired brains while maintaining all other normal functions and the coordination to conspire, cannibalize people and change the global food supply is a pretty magical scenario.

that sounds like a magic zombie scenario and the aforementioned guidelines apply.

their dead tissue will break apart and decompose very rapidly, and dehydration will prohibit any complex movement after a few hours.

if reanimations are moving their dead bodies around without connective tissue or the fuel/cell requirements needed to work those bodily systems, that’s magic.

expecting non-magic zombies to be able to chase someone or gather in a horde is like expecting a car to run without any fuel, engine, or drivetrain.

the closest thing we have to a non-magic zombie but still similar to zombies in movies is rabies. the person becomes violent but extremely uncoordinated, aquaphobic, and then dies because the human body doesn’t function without the constant ingestion of water and fuel sources.

“they need no circulating blood nor an heart pumping it?”

yup, those are the magic zombies. real complex organisms whose muscles won’t function without energy/water/bodily structure are much more demanding.

and keep in mind that every moment after death those bodies will be decomposing, that that body is not living, then it is decomposing a piece of steak left over from a picnic in the forests decomposes.

All of the dead soft tissue is going to break apart very quickly and won’t be able to hold the body together.

“moving in hordes”

a horde could be a problem for the few hours that they are coordinated enough to move until dehydration sets in.

“Pure brain rot instead of flesh rot…what would I do…I would be throwing all the books from my personal library at them”

this is a great idea, very poetic retaliation.

I’m of the firm “no magic zombies” camp.

If the zombies aren’t magic, they aren’t going to last long, whichever form of zombie they are. Wait inside a few days, most of them should be dead or immobile.

If a zombie loses blood, they aren’t going to keep walking, their muscles won’t work without blood.

If you have a strong door, zombie arms will break before the door breaks.

Dehydration. Organisms need water to function at all, let alone move, and zombies aren’t big on water fountains.

I see zombies as dangerous for a few days, with their senses failing so they can’t track you effectively for the majority of the outbreak, then it’s over.

Anything other than that scenario is a magical zombie, who can move without energy, function without a body, or unrealistically mutate.

I love zombie movies and comics, but for real real, no magic zombies.

update: I’m going to do a podcast episode about magical zombies now.

fascist top-down government that rules without checks and balances stripping away civil rights through exploitation of the vulnerable using fear-of-the-other propaganda and outright lies to further centralize its abusive, selfish control over society while a small dedicated decentralized band of civil rights activists fight the expanding power and influence of the dark side.