anyfactor

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by anyfactor 5mo ago
In another comment, I mentioned that I was “the guy who knew about computers but was more approachable than the IT guy.” Even the rudest people tended to soften their tone when talking to me. I think when it comes to IT, most people’s defau
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by anyfactor 5mo ago
I have worked with people in their mid 30s who had an utter disgust for computers. I was “the guy who knew about computers but was more approachable than the IT guy” at a large office. Even though some people hate doing this kind of work, I
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by anyfactor 5mo ago
I am really interested in the concept of elder/senior citizen technology. The basic design concept for them is answering "what am I looking at?" I created this tool ( https://anftr.com/ ) for some of my ex-coll
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by anyfactor 7mo ago
I am sorry for the late reply. Everyone says "you need backup" but that is the thing, I need just scripts. But I will look into your recommendation for sure. Thank you!
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by anyfactor 7mo ago
My VPS was purged due to a platform hack. I did not keep a backup, and I am trying to figure out what to do. There is no plug and play solution for backup. From what I understand, I have to set up rsync and dump files via cron to a Raspberr
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by anyfactor 7mo ago
This is surprising to me. I actively used Heroku during the early to mid 2010s. I do not remember ever seeing the Salesforce logo there much later.
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by anyfactor 7mo ago
I think the "Heroku story" was less about technical limitations, but everything except technical limitations. More than a decade ago, I started learning and building on Heroku and hosted all my side projects and client projects on
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by anyfactor 9mo ago
How does the govdirectory project work? Does it use web scrapers to collect the contact details? I checked the bot repository, and it was empty. https://github.com/govdirectory/bots I would like to know about their met
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by anyfactor 1y ago
https://support.google.com/notebooklm/answer/15731776 - Afrikaans - Albanian - Arabic - Armenian - Azerbaijani - Basque - Bengali - Bulgarian - Burmese (Myanmar) - Catalan - Cebuano - Chi
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by anyfactor 2y ago
Thorium powerplants, nuclear fusion powerplants, solid-state batteries, quantum computing, and TSMC producing chips in the US are news that should be considered speculative until they go into production. There has been plenty of coverage, b
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by anyfactor 2y ago
The projects I worked on always had a mechanism to dump data into a proper database. For example, I built a daily scraper to collect some of the inventory. I didn’t keep all the data in a single sheet. Instead, all the data was stored in a
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by anyfactor 2y ago
In a separate comment, I mentioned how Mozilla should have been more like Proton with their cloud storage, VPN, password manager, and cloud office suite. In fact, they should have done that a decade a ago. Mozilla has been around since the
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I've built quite a few dashboards while working on proof-of-concept feature/product engineering. Even though people often think I'm joking, almost always the backend database was a Google Sheet. Google Sheets has great API su
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by anyfactor 2y ago
The only useful (or even paid) browser-integrated AI service I can imagine using would be a browsing history-aware AI chatbot. Essentially, it would just spit out a link from my history based on the context or prompt I give. Since privacy w
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by anyfactor 2y ago
Mozilla should have been doing what Proton is doing. But considering how far Proton has gone I wouldn't be surprised if Proton spun up their own browser at this point.
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I was an excel enthusiast and studied accounting mainly for Excel. Although I have moved to programming unlike most I still do think Excel is awesome. I sincerely commend the enthusiasm, but working in the industry as the "excel expert
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I could not find the docs. Does it offer a static storage URI for people to download stuff via a link? Can I update the contents of the storage URI without generating a new URI everytime?
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I think my phrasing of "solo founder" was not very good. I should have used another word. Zuck is not a solo founder at all but what happened to the rest of the guys. Some says Google is what it is today was largely due to Eric Sc
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I don't think Larry and Sergey is on the same level as Bill Gates. Solo founders who have raised to and led a big tech company is a different breed. I would pick Jeff Bezos, Zuck and Larry Ellison on the same level of Bill Gates. They
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I am interested in the business logic of paying to hosts. Say someone had netted sub 10 dollars for hosting their GPU on the platform. How do you make that payment? Business have to pay fixed plus variable transaction fees. So the small pa
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by anyfactor 2y ago
My rule for online presence is simple, try to convince yourself to not being impulsive. If you convince yourself you don't have to always write or participate or give a hot take, you will find yourself to be generally positive and mor
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by anyfactor 2y ago
Thank you very much for sharing your story. From what I know these days, sneaker bots as an industry have pretty much gone downhill. Not because of anti-bot measures, but because the entire industry has essentially shifted from retail store
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by anyfactor 2y ago
It is kind of like Fight Club. There are 2-3 good communities that I lurk in. The people won't walk you through your scraping problems, but if you ask the questions to the right person politely, they often help. Many residential proxy
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I would recommend checking Google to see if you can find any job openings. Please remember that it is a niche industry, so there may not be many companies currently hiring. But honestly, if you are looking to make a full-time living, consid
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by anyfactor 2y ago
The edge that every web scraper has is the knowledge they possess. In my opinion, conference presentations are usually too generalized or geared towards pitching services related to web scraping solutions. There are some communities you can
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I was a professional web scraper. I still keep up to date with the industry. These days, you do not make money by doing web scraping; you make money selling services to web scrapers. There are tons of web scraping SAAS and services out ther
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I am kinda surprised they went for an consumer grade off the shelf software.
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by anyfactor 2y ago
Thank you very much. I feel like engineering innovation has been concentrated on technology and not in defense engineering at all. Immigrants have helped a lot in building the tech sector's innovation in the last half of the century. B
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by anyfactor 2y ago
Is Anduril really that good? I am trying to figure out what is the potential of Anduril is. Their first phase product was in observability towers for border protection, then they made drone-ramming drones and now unmanned fighter jets. I am
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by anyfactor 2y ago
I think centering in general is a difficult thing. I wanted to mount an AC indoor unit over a window. Now, do I mount it center to the wall or center to the window which slightlty offset the center of my wall? I made the call to center it b

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