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by TomNomNom 5mo ago
The difference is that despite the fact that I will never use this, I am nonetheless here to celebrate the effort. What difference does it make if someone runs a marathon or takes an uber given they may arrive at the same location?
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by TomNomNom 6mo ago
Cool tool! Really appreciate the shoutout to gron in the readme, thanks! :)
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by TomNomNom 11mo ago
I tried the oracle and got this: > Your accent is Dutch, my friend. I identified your accent based on subtle details in your pronunciation. Want to sound like a native English speaker? I'm British; from Yorkshire. When letting it kn
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by TomNomNom 1y ago
There's a bunch of open source work in the robot combat space, but it doesn't have to be used for robot combat specifically. The Malenki Nano is a great example: a tiny, open source receiver with three speed controllers on a singl
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by TomNomNom 2y ago
Not directly relevant to the post, but seems like a good place to share. My team and I once took on a very tricky automation project. At the time we had a complex software deployment done about once per month that involved a team of about a
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by TomNomNom 2y ago
Back in 2020 my Swedish employer booked me a flight and I used Google Translate on the confirmation email. It changed the airport I was flying from https://twitter.com/TomNomNom/status/1233058805598031873
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by TomNomNom 2y ago
A ~20 minute video on a particular number cropping up all over the place and not one mention of the frequency illusion / Baader–Meinhof phenomenon feels at least a little bit disingenuous. I don't doubt that it crops up a lot when
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by TomNomNom 3y ago
A bug in the spec doesn't necessarily mean there will be a noticeable bug in the browsers; e.g. a crash. The browsers may have been written to "work" / not crash over adhering strictly to the spec.
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by TomNomNom 3y ago
Super, thank you! I look forward to it :) I've worked on similar problems recently so I'm well aware of how difficult this is. An example I've given people is in automatically detecting base64-encoded data. It seems easy at
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by TomNomNom 3y ago
It provided the wrong file-types for some files, so I cannot rely on its output to be correct. If you wanted to, for example, use this tool to route different files to different format-specific handlers it would sometimes send files to the
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by TomNomNom 3y ago
Sure thing :) Here's[0] a .tgz file with 3 files in it that are misidentified by magika but correctly identified by the `file` utility: asp.html, vba.html, unknown.woff These are files that were in one of my crawl datasets. [0]: https
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by TomNomNom 3y ago
This looks cool. I ran this on some web crawl data I have locally, so: all files you'd find on regular websites; HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts etc. It identified some simple HTML files (html, head, title, body, p tags and not much else)
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by TomNomNom 3y ago
Thanks for the shout-out :) I like the idea! I'll see if I get a chance to play around with it at work next week.
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by TomNomNom 3y ago
Just a silly aside with regards to the regex to extract domains from URLs, my little tool called unfurl [0] exists to solve that exact sort of problem :) [0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/unfurl
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by TomNomNom 4y ago
I strongly disagree that nearly 20% of the median household income (£31,400 [0]) is reasonable for a family's annual energy bill. Median income for the poorest 20% is £14,600 - the chances they could afford £6k a year on energy are sli
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by TomNomNom 5y ago
The Git Parable [0] was the thing that gave me my "aha!" moment with git. It may work for you too [0]: https://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.ht...
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by TomNomNom 5y ago
In a "Business and Communication Systems" exam at school I got the question "Explain how email works". Being the nerdy teen I was, I wrote about SMTP, MX records and that sort of thing. That was not the right answer.
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by TomNomNom 6y ago
Tension is used in English to mean voltage sometimes too! The most common place I can think of is in the HT (High Tension) leads leading to a car's spark plugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tension_leads
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by TomNomNom 6y ago
If you were a bug bounty hunter and wanted to sign up for as many platforms as possible to maximise your potential scope, this list would be really useful. Seems to me like useful content for hackers, which is what I would expect to see on
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by TomNomNom 6y ago
1. There isn't really a name for it, but it's a subset of JavaScript and the grammar is available here specified in EBNF, with some railroad diagrams to aid understanding: https://tomnomnom.github.io/gron/ 2.
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by TomNomNom 6y ago
No problem at all! I'm as surprised as you are to be honest! Still makes me happy to see people getting use out of any of my tools though :)
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by TomNomNom 6y ago
I'm sorry to say this is down to my (the author's) mental health issues over the last few years. I hope to be able to face dealing with people's issues and PRs soon.
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by TomNomNom 6y ago
I think this is a good point. It's definitely hard to grep for certain parts of gron's output; especially where there's arrays involved because of the square brackets. I find that using fgrep/grep -F can help with that i
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by TomNomNom 6y ago
As someone who was a bit of a weird kid, I definitely think it's easier to be a weirdo today. The main reason being: I can find my fellow weirdos. When I was at school and my peers made fun of me for my even slightly esoteric interests
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by TomNomNom 7y ago
My advice is to sort the files just-in-time using the shell: comm <(sort fileA.txt) <(sort fileB.txt)
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by TomNomNom 7y ago
Ran the example on my machine and can confirm it's broken. Be careful relying on the results of the Go playground; it has a bunch of differences and probably has GOMAXPROCS set to 1, which most other systems will not. You need a sync.M
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by TomNomNom 7y ago
That looks to be an INET Spectra of some kind. Possibly an 8243-1 based on a few searches.
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by TomNomNom 7y ago
The word that surprised me the most when flipping through a dictionary as a child was probably 'set': https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set
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by TomNomNom 7y ago
Wait, what?! I've been subscribed to Niels Provos on YouTube for years for his swordsmithing content without realising who he was outside of that. What an amazing guy :) Thanks for pointing that out!
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by TomNomNom 7y ago
That actually sounds like slightly cut-back version of Microsoft FrontPage. Best of luck!

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