saamm

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by saamm 7y ago
I wrote a bad Python script that I use to encode WAV files, upload to B2, and generate an RSS feed. I host my MP3 files on Backblaze B2 and the RSS feed on GitHub pages. With my usage, I stay in B2's free tier.
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by saamm 7y ago
If you happen to be on Firefox, you can use this extension to get around it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
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by saamm 7y ago
While I agree that most technologies can be used in both ways that are good and those that are evil, some technologies "appear to require, or to be strongly compatible with, particular kinds of political relationships" [0]. I find
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by saamm 7y ago
Check out this paper for ideas: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05840.pdf
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by saamm 7y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10811 There's some description in here you may find relevant.
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by saamm 8y ago
Poetry is great! To me, it seems like there should be more software folks interested in it. I definitely see a few parallels.
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by saamm 8y ago
For retention, I find making cards in Anki to be helpful.
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by saamm 8y ago
I know of at least one person who offers a code review service (specifically for Python).
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by saamm 8y ago
Small sample size, but in Austin I've seen 5k-10k.
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by saamm 8y ago
My ML professor used this book, and I loved it. Some presentations of ML make it seem like a bag of tricks; this feels like the opposite of that.
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by saamm 8y ago
Yes! I recently adapted a project of mine to be available as an Alexa skill, and it only took ~40 lines to get it working [0]. 0: https://github.com/ssaamm/pun-generator/compare/24188aceb3da...
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by saamm 8y ago
Not exactly what you're talking about, but the most important tool I use for ingesting/remembering things is Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
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by saamm 8y ago
This is interesting! It sounds like this v1 gets your local environment up and running in a Docker container. I maintain something similar for analysts on my team, and we've seen success in terms of decreasing time spent on environment
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by saamm 8y ago
Huh, TIL. Thanks!
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by saamm 8y ago
Thank you for this! I used it to make a little script to download audio from each lecture: youtube-dl --get-id https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyGKBDfnk-iAQx4Kw9JeVqspbg77sfAK0 -i > ids.txt while read id; do
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by saamm 8y ago
You may also be interested in Kill the Newsletter: https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ (I think a fellow HN user made it? Can't remember)
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by saamm 8y ago
Maybe this[0]? I'm unaffiliated but have found use in it. 0: https://www.careercup.com/page
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by saamm 8y ago
For #1, it's not an API, but you may find this interesting: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/category-trends
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by saamm 9y ago
Somewhat orthogonal, but if you prefer RSS, I highly recommend using this site: https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
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by saamm 9y ago
I found this one after watching your talk at PyCon last year. Thank you for writing this!
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by saamm 9y ago
Seconding the recommendation on Chapter 3! Well-defined special/dunder/magic methods can make your code way more readable.
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by saamm 9y ago
My experience of high school debate was dramatically different from that of the author, though I also did policy + engaged in spreading. I learned a ton about research, writing, and effective argumentation.
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by saamm 9y ago
Closest thing I can think of is CodeMirror: https://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html
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by saamm 9y ago
If you'll suffer a shameless plug, a friend and I made an (imperfect) ASL learning project at TAMUHack one year. If you're interested: https://github.com/ssaamm/sign-language-tutor
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by saamm 9y ago
For internal/experimental/exploratory use, I like Jupyter [0]. 0: https://jupyter.org/
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by saamm 9y ago
We thought about doing that but were scared of the repercussions from the school. We felt like it was much easier to argue for notification than for automatic sign-up. Luckily, we didn't get in any trouble, so we didn't have to ar
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by saamm 9y ago
The nearest thing I can think of is Scrapy ( https://scrapy.org/ ). For airfare, I think there's already a few players in the "this flight got cheaper" space (Kayak and Hopper come to mind), but they don't
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by saamm 9y ago
Apologies for the mislead! When I titled this, I imagined talking a lot more about stepping through the registration system in something like mitmproxy to find the exact requests to send, which feels a lot closer to hacking/reverse eng
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by saamm 9y ago
Author here--you're totally right. When we did this for our actual registration site, we spent hours inspecting requests in a proxy[0] to get to ~194 lines of PHP. 0: We used https://www.charlesproxy.com/
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by saamm 9y ago
I've been using Tinyblu [0] for this, which seems to be simpler/have fewer features. 0: https://tinyblu.com/

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