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Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue

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Rewriting my site using AI

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I wrote a file watcher

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Waiting for Dependencies in Tests

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ToyDB: Distributed Database in Rust

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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go

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How are Unix pipes implemented?

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How do Unix pipes work?

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Memory palace technique

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vegardstikbakke.com 8y ago

Learning about iterators and generators in Python

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

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www.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp 9y ago

University of Tokyo Graduate School Entrance Exam – Mathematics (2016) [pdf]

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Interesting, thanks!

Do you happen to know how to paste regular UTF-8 text into Excel/Google sheets as multiple cells? If I copy two cells in Sheets, I get a tab character (\t) between the cells. But if I try to paste "hello \t world" into Sheets then it's just dumped into one cell.

Thank you! I have also been kind of obsessed with this problem. I have tried to solve it myself, going from an image to bounding boxes and trying to separate the boxes into columns. But that problem is just fraught with edge cases, so I decided to just use an existing tool.

This currently returns an error if it doesn't find exactly one table in the image, so it might be able to work with larger images, but probably not if there are multiple distinct blocks of text.