I guess yeah. In that condition the algorithm would probably destroy all universe. Although you might be able to set a threshold and not destroy when it is over the threshold.

But situation where you don’t know the answer is not for this algorithm as this one came from sorting problem.

It’s not fun when you have to explain it. But basically it is based on the infinite multiverse theory. Since the multiverse splits whenever you make choices, in this case the program would spawn a large number of multiverses each with different combinations of those bits, which means at least one of them would have the exactly the combination we want. If the program destroys the multiverse it is in after it determines it is not correct, only reality that remains is the one with correct combination of bytes. Making it that we will get the code we want on the first try.

Just ask if it’s correct. If not destroy the universe. Only The correct will survive, it’s O(1)

M-x M-c butterfly

Underscore to delineate different parts, hypen to delineate words.

Like: my-resume_draft.pdf

And to make it consistent and easier to reuse parts for project names and such, I have a command line utility written for it. It caches the parts and uses a template system (support for generating current datetime in parts)

Available here (is in AUR too):

https://github.com/Atreyagaurav/nameit

I wouldn’t say that. For primitives yeah, day or two. But if you want to build a proper program, it’ll take time to get used to it. For my first few projects I just used clone everywhere. Passing by reference and managing lifetimes, specially when writing libraries is something that takes time to get used to. I still don’t feel confident.

Besides that I do like Rust though. Sometimes I feel like “just let me do that, C let’s me”, but I know it’s just adding safety where C wouldn’t care.

Yeah. I’m just worried when extractor fails they put it in discard pile, or human pile which’ll delay my application by a lot.

Ocular shows a warning ⚠️ this file requires new version of adobe acrobat DC, press ok to download latest version or see your system administrator.

Installing it is such a hassle, and booting is too, I used to just close while saving state, but that messes up the time in VM and it leads to problems… Is there any light weight basic windows type VM you use? Or is it the generic iso?

I know it’s adobe problem. Because they deprecated it in PDF 2.0, last support is in 1.7, but they have continued using 1.7 with adobe extension 1 to 1.7 with Adobe extension 8. So it’s like they have their own branch of PDF versions. But most people don’t care, and here a government agency is using that and it’s not accessible for linux.

Wine needs 32bit libraries that’s why I’m not using it. I read the snap package handles the wine part for us, so I tried that in VM but didn’t work. I’ll try to follow your suggestion in VM and see if it’ll work.

Some parts already have filled text that are dynamic fields (but without the support it becomes fixed text). So I can’t write over it. And Firefox doesn’t recognize them as fields, otherwise I could delete the part. It’s so frustrating.

Draw seems to disregard the form fields, so I could probably fill it in Firefox, and use draw to edit the auto calculated fields. It’ll work for printed forms, but if any org uses pdf fields extractor wouldn’t that be a problem?

Thank you.

From my interactions with the people that’ll fund this. It does look like they want me to just develop this. But my advisor has not done this kind of software development grants. And the people I talked to might also not know what their organization’s legal requirements are put in contract. That’s why I want to know what kind of language I should use in proposal so that it can be used as a point of discussion if someone from their organization says we can’t do that. Instead of them just assuming I’ll hand over everything.

Yeah, but my program does not have such things in the code. And if you add it, GPL will make it so that they have to share to code, so people will be able to tell if they try it, right?

Thank you. I’m a PhD student, so I do not have access to Lawyers that I can ask, and it probably will cost me money to get their opinion if I seek professional lawyers.

If whatever changes/improvement they make is available for everyone to use, I consider that contributions to the open source.

I don’t mind them making money off of it, as long as they contribute to the open source community by improving it, contributing upstream, or using it in other systems and keeping those open source as well. I want other people to benefit from the effort I made and published, and if someone wants to improve it, I want others to benefit from there too.

I don’t want the case like insulin in US, where the first invention is free because they wanted everyone to benefit from it. But now it’s super expensive because of the incremental advances other corps did that are patented. And the free version is no longer viable to use without those incremental improvements.

I’m fine as long as it is used in other GPL projects. I just don’t want them to take this, use it on some proprietary code and make money/mine data and other things and not contribute to upstream or open source in general.

I hadn’t thought about the network usages, I though GPL covered it. So, is AGPL everything GPL has plus software service from network? If yes, then I will use that license. EDIT: Saw that AGPLv3 is indeed GPLv3 + the network thing.

Further points:

I also have a lot of other libraries and programs that I have developed and published with GPLv3 license, so I also want to integrate them with the new program. Since I don’t want to reinvent the wheel for things I have already done. And I’ll probably want to integrate this software on things I might make in the future.

Yeah it is sad that we don’t have flash. But today I saw there’s a program Ruffle (written in Rust) that can run flash, and add support to browser through extensions or something.