Re: [dev] Djvu viewer

2016-09-13 Thread ilabdsf
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:20:57PM +0200, Hadrien LACOUR wrote: > Well, because of the massive compression improvements, and because I prefer > free stuff. > Massive compression improvements of DjVu are due to MRC, not some superior compression. PDF MRC document with JPEG2000 and JB2 is almost the

Re: [dev] Djvu viewer

2016-09-13 Thread ilabdsf
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:23:52AM +0200, Hadrien LACOUR wrote: > I'm becoming interested in converting all my PDFs to Djvu Why would you want to do this? It makes some sense to save new scans to DjVu because the format is simplier, but converting one lossy format to another lossy format is not a

Re: [dev] How do you do statistics?

2016-09-10 Thread ilabdsf
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 08:09:41PM +0200, Antoni V. wrote: > Hi everyone from suckless. > > I wanted to know how you perform basic (and not so basic) statistics. > There are programs like R, but they are generally too big and complex. > > I'm aware of desc [1] but it's missing a lot of useful too

Re: [dev] pledge(2) patches

2016-05-18 Thread ilabdsf
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:46:16PM -0700, Evan Gates wrote: > > #ifndef __OpenBSD__ > > int pledge(const char *promises, const char *paths[]) { return 0; } > > #endif > > Why the full function instead of > > #define pledge(x,y) 0 > > (perhaps to enforce correct types?) When using such trick

Re: [dev] Suckless font rendering library

2016-05-14 Thread ilabdsf
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:23:08PM +0300, Alexander Krotov wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 09:03:44PM +0200, robin wrote: > > So i took up the challenge of making a suckless font rendering library. > > The problem: my lvl is barely above noob. > > Maybe it will spark some motivation in someone mor