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nutsack

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  • What are your cheap, but not miserable, recipes?

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  • im regularly cooking lentils with beef/chicken, eggs and vegetables

  • Who still uses IRC and why?

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  • it's extremely good and it has every feature that it needs.

    it comes from the era of the internet that developed communication protocols instead of proprietary for-profit software applications running on an electron gui or whatever.

  • This major city just banned fat tire electric bikes

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  • wouldn't they then just modify and drive some type of skinny tire electric bike?

  • What To Do When You Can't Find a Job?

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  • run out of money and then die. that's my plan

  • What are your cheap, but not miserable, recipes?

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  • put anything you want into a rice cooker and that's it

  • What happens to the human body in 49C heat? Australians are finding out

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  • yes. everyone is inside because it's hot, and everyone is getting drunk because that's the only thing there is to do, and everyone is driving a car because that's the only way to get there. if you didn't drive, then you're waiting around for the person who drove you, and you're getting really drunk because they don't want to leave yet. what a stupid ironic life

  • Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2)

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  • explain

  • What happens to the human body in 49C heat? Australians are finding out

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  • The Doom loop is actually more to do with architecture that is not designed with hot temperatures in mind, because it's assumed that central air conditioning will be used.

  • Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2)

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  • sorry I don't know what any of these things are

  • What happens to the human body in 49C heat? Australians are finding out

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  • it kind of sucks living in a part of the world that requires you to sit in air conditioned bubbles all day. it's a fucking depressing way to live.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • The machine also traps water vapor, and uses electrolysis to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen instead of destroying your car's cooling system.

    what the fuck does this even mean

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • also don't do this because fuck that

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • WHAT

  • What's the best free version of word?

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  • I could not get pandoc to work on my system. after a few attempts going in circles with dependency packages, I gave up

  • PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you?

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  • i don't care about the lemmy.ml drama because im not on there

  • With what's happening in Gaza, what can we as socialists (and non-socialists) do to fix Gaza?

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  • you could try protesting and getting shot by cops

  • How can I ensure any videos I record on my phone aren't deleted by the cops?

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  • live streaming from a phone is very practical. I don't think I'd be flying a drone around

  • How can I ensure any videos I record on my phone aren't deleted by the cops?

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  • if you want to be really super sure then you live stream the video. That's how it was done at occupy.

  • What's the best free version of word?

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  • I am composing my resume with markdown and then using a python script to produce a PDF. The result is vertical and clean and machine readable: 

     
        
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Convert Markdown files to PDF."""

import argparse
import sys
from pathlib import Path

try:
    import markdown
    from weasyprint import HTML, CSS
except ImportError:
    print("Missing dependencies. Install with:")
    print("  pip install markdown weasyprint")
    sys.exit(1)


CSS_STYLES = """
@page {
    margin: 0.5in 0.6in;
    size: letter;
}
body {
    font-family: "Courier New", Courier, "Liberation Mono", monospace;
    font-size: 10pt;
    line-height: 1.4;
    color: #222;
    max-width: 100%;
}
h1, h2, h3 {
    margin-top: 1em;
    margin-bottom: 0.3em;
    padding-bottom: 0.2em;
}
h1 { font-size: 16pt; }
h2 { font-size: 13pt; }
h3 { font-size: 11pt; }
h4 { font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em;}
ul {
    margin: 0.3em 0;
    padding-left: 1.2em;
}
li {
    margin-bottom: 0.2em;
}
p {
    margin: 0.4em 0;
}
p + p {
    margin-top: 0.2em;
}
strong {
    font-weight: bold;
}
"""


PAGE_BREAK_MARKER = "<!-- pagebreak -->"
PAGE_BREAK_HTML = '<div style="page-break-before: always;"></div>'


def process_page_breaks(html_content: str) -> str:
    """Replace page break markers with actual page break HTML."""
    return html_content.replace(PAGE_BREAK_MARKER, PAGE_BREAK_HTML)


def md_to_html(input_path: Path) -> str:
    """Convert a Markdown file to HTML content."""
    md_content = input_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
    html_content = markdown.markdown(md_content)
    return process_page_breaks(html_content)


def convert_md_to_pdf(input_paths: list[Path], output_path: Path) -> None:
    """Convert one or more Markdown files to a single PDF."""
    html_parts = []
    for i, input_path in enumerate(input_paths):
        if i > 0:
            html_parts.append(PAGE_BREAK_HTML)
        html_parts.append(md_to_html(input_path))

    full_html = f"""
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head><meta charset="utf-8"></head>
    <body>{"".join(html_parts)}</body>
    </html>
    """

    HTML(string=full_html).write_pdf(output_path, stylesheets=[CSS(string=CSS_STYLES)])
    print(f"Created: {output_path}")


def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert Markdown files to PDF")
    parser.add_argument("files", nargs="*", type=Path, help="Markdown files to convert")
    parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", type=Path, help="Output PDF path")
    parser.add_argument("-m", "--merge", action="store_true", help="Merge all input files into a single PDF")
    args = parser.parse_args()

    # Default to all .md files in current directory
    files = args.files if args.files else list(Path(".").glob("*.md"))

    if not files:
        print("No Markdown files found")
        sys.exit(1)

    if args.merge:
        if not args.output:
            print("Error: --output is required when using --merge")
            sys.exit(1)
        for md_file in files:
            if not md_file.exists():
                print(f"File not found: {md_file}")
                sys.exit(1)
        convert_md_to_pdf(files, args.output)
    else:
        if args.output and len(files) > 1:
            print("Error: --output can only be used with a single input file (or use --merge)")
            sys.exit(1)

        for md_file in files:
            if not md_file.exists():
                print(f"File not found: {md_file}")
                continue
            output_path = args.output if args.output else md_file.with_suffix(".pdf")
            convert_md_to_pdf([md_file], output_path)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()