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surelythisisfree t1_j8rdhnl wrote
Reply to comment by n1gr3d0 in TIL that back in 2013, Xerox had scanners that would randomly change numbers after scanning a document. by COMPUTER1313
Most copier manufacturers have their own pdf compression that generally puts a scanned page between 50 and 150kB, down from about a Meg if they don’t do anything fancy. I only realised after years of working with them how that isolated out things that looked like letters and basically averaged each letter representation on the page to slow better compression. The only reason I realised was due to a big in a released firmware that only affected compact pdf (that was quickly pulled within 24 hours). The big basically made all the letters not line up in a row on each page so they’d move up and down the line a bit.
surelythisisfree t1_j6mazsv wrote
Reply to comment by Muted-Mistake-6678 in Xray of my fully horizontal wisdom teeth. by kasuma9999
I think this is pretty common. Mine were almost the same as this.
surelythisisfree t1_j289jsd wrote
Reply to TIL of the neenish tart - a type of pastry popular only in New Zealand, Australia and ... the Falkland Islands. by ScissorNightRam
From Australia. These are awful. I’ve only ever seen them in 80s cookbooks.
surelythisisfree t1_ixnm8wz wrote
What was stuffed????
surelythisisfree t1_iultpbg wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in [OC] There are more self-described vegans than vegetarians among US users of Twitter by jasonjonesresearch
Vegetarian spectrum disorder.
surelythisisfree t1_iu3pv30 wrote
Reply to comment by topcat5 in Best cordless vacuum cleaner: Is Dyson still the winner? by Twi2122
Gotta agree here. Dyson is good enough and better than most but not bifl. I had to send away my corded upright after a year for repair because an internal bolt dropped out of it. This replaced a 7 year old barrel dyson that the end kept falling off and we couldn’t get a replacement for as it was too old.
They’re just good enough in all regards.
surelythisisfree t1_iu1fvy8 wrote
Reply to comment by superior9 in Just throwing it out there: Peugeot pepper and salt mills by Alb1rdy
It generally won’t damage it. It just doesn’t work. The damage they did was hitting it down thinking that was how to get the peppercorns into the burrs.
surelythisisfree t1_iu1fo5c wrote
Reply to comment by Amazon-Prime-package in Just throwing it out there: Peugeot pepper and salt mills by Alb1rdy
Yep. That’s pretty accurate.
surelythisisfree t1_itz2409 wrote
My parents in law bought a Peugeot pepper grinder the same as ours after we got one as a wedding gift. They destroyed it in 2 years because they couldn’t comprehend that a burr grinder is designed to operate one way. So instead of rotating it clockwise, they’d rotate it back and forth angrily and then start hitting it at the table when nothing came out.
surelythisisfree t1_j8zt4n6 wrote
Reply to [OC] Firearm availability compared to homicide rates around the world by blizzard36
This data representation is not beautiful. It’s the complete wrong kind of graph for representing information like this.