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Comment Useful as an intercom (Score 4, Interesting) 135

Last year, I started looking for a way to communicate with my 3 teenagers while they were in their rooms with the doors closed, without yelling at the top of my lungs to be heard over their airpods. Texting would have probably worked but felt wrong. Dedicated wireless intercom systems are clunky, unreliable, and expensive.

Giving the kids each an Echo, either the Dot or the Flex, and putting one in the kitchen as well gave me an easy way to solve this problem. I can use the Echo as an intercom to drop in on one or all of the kids when I need to. This has been a lifesaver for us! I also use the kitchen Echo to play music, which works quite well of course.

I'm not a fan of the privacy implications of having Echo devices in my house. Amazon does provide some controls for that, at least.

Submission + - Scientific Publishing is a Joke (theatlantic.com) 1

shanen writes: Hilarious new meme. I wish I could take the blame, but I was retired from the racket some years ago. But I thought it was getting worse and worse at the time...

The generator for new ones is especially impressive. Unfortunately, I'm too shallow and humor-impaired to generate one.

Comment Web Pages Use Same Imaging Model (Score 1) 227

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

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