Michael Carleton micycle1

Archive.org Scanned Book Downloader Bookmarklet

A simple "1-click" javascript approach to downloading a scanned book from archive.org to read at your leisure on the device of your choosing w/out having to manually screenshot every pages of the book by hand. In short it's a glorified "Save Image As..." approach but consolidated down to "1 click". BTW there may be a much better option than this out there - I just built this as an autistic project to see if it would work.

Demo Video

Obligatory Legal/Disclaimer:

By using this script you agree to delete all book files/images after your 1 hour or 14 days is up! I don't support using this script for any other use cases. After all, none of us have ever kept a library book past it's return date, right?

Language & VM design

Lexing & parsing

Articles

Parsing inputs in Nim

Writing own parser

Fast MiniMax Polynomial Approximations of Sine and Cosine

Use cases

Textures/Matrices for direct use (data!)

Moments In Graphics (void-and-cluster)
- 2D
- 3D and 4D
Bart Wronski Implementation of Solid Angle algorithm

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

	// Copyright (c) 2021 Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li>
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	// WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
	// MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
	// ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES

	using System;
	using System.Timers;


	namespace CallFunction
	{
	public class Program
	{
	public Program()
	{

	import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

	import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
	import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.GL10;
	import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Pixmap;
	import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Pixmap.Blending;
	import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Pixmap.Format;
	import com.badlogic.gdx.utils.BufferUtils;
	import com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException;