Should take... a weekend tops? ;) PDF is crazy and scary

marcosdumay 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> PDF includes eight basic types of objects: Boolean values, Integer and Real numbers, Strings, Names, Arrays, Dictionaries, Streams, and the null object

Wait, this is more complete than SOAP. It may be a good idea to redo the IPC protocol with a different serialization format!

	▲	jaggederest 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, it's a descendant of Postscript (much like JSON is a descendant of Javascript, loosely) Society would probably never recover if we started implementing RPC-in-Postscript though.

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embedding-shape 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

7.5.6 "Incremental updates" from the specification is an interesting section too, speaking about accessing data people didn't think to remove from PDF files properly.

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CamperBob2 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when we can hand that spec off to a model and tell it to build an Acrobat clone.

	▲	exasperaited 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when the AI hands it back and says "no".