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by x3blah 6y ago
"Which shows that there are 39 movies in Amazon Prime US from Ebert's "Great Movies," not 21 like this guy's spreadsheet says." I could be wrong, I am not a Prime Video user, but the result I got was that there
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by x3blah 6y ago
No agent at all is required. I got past the anti-robot response using no user-agent header and a simple delay.
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by x3blah 6y ago
Instead of using Python, here is a solution that only requires sh, curl, sed, sort, uniq and grep. This solution uses a generous 87s delay to retrieve the Amazon pages. There are 328 films listed as "great movies" on rogerebert.c
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by x3blah 6y ago
If Pike and his crew represent users, then the tech industry are the Talosians? Absolute favourite episode hands down, The Cage. According to Shatner's autobiography, NBC called the pilot "too cerebral" and "too intelle
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by x3blah 6y ago
"The Commercial Web (of Marketing) There has always been a place for commerce and marketing on the web." Not really true as I remember it. The web opened up to the public in 1993. There was no commerce and marketing in the begin
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by x3blah 6y ago
Why dump billions of dollars then? Nowhere else to spend it? Effective marketing?[1] Is no one asking this question? "... and critically: there's no one to hold responsible for getting it wrong." Could this be part of &quo
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by x3blah 6y ago
"DNA is not code, it's just a molecule that reacts with stuff, as are all other molecules." This sentence exemplifies the perspective to which I referred.
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by x3blah 6y ago
Improved #/bin/sh test -s max-PMID||echo 32449615 > max-PMID;read x < max-PMID;h=pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov; test ${#x} -eq 8||rm max-PMID;sed -i "s/[0-9]\{8\}/$x/" $0; case $1 in update)
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by x3blah 6y ago
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemire/fastbase64/master/s...
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by x3blah 6y ago
"It's not super productive to try and understand this stuff through analogy to computers and algorithms." You mean like this: https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna Having worked in both industries I prefer working with
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by x3blah 6y ago
What if PubMed had something like Google's "I'm feeling lucky"? What if we could explore PubMed by selecting a random PubMed URL instead of searching? This script generates a random PubMed URL. To do this we need to kn
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by x3blah 6y ago
For those not using Javascript (SSRN uses third party scripts), link to PDF: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=5550640311191050...
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by x3blah 6y ago
The long line of sed is out-of-date and thus "broken". For something simpler that works, try this: nyt tr |sed 's/ *//;/</!d'|uniq > travel.html This will produce a simple web page
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by x3blah 6y ago
"It's text, just send the damn text." They only send what the user requests. Using a software program that makes automatic requests that you are not easily in control of, e.g., a popular web browser, might give the impression
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by x3blah 6y ago
"Which brings us to the question - what is the point of all this? These platforms are all losing money. Just think of all the meetings and lines of code and phone calls to make all of these nefarious things happen which just continue t
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by x3blah 6y ago
There is a link to the PDF on the page. No ACM membership required. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3317550.3321445
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by x3blah 6y ago
"Also known as rump kernels a name inspired by the infamous purge of royalists from Parliament following the English Civil War this process involves creating a fork of an existing kernel codebase and manually purging it of the componen
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by x3blah 6y ago
"They are redirecting those customers to their platform where they can purchase from a competitor or they can charge us a fee to provide food to that same customer. Whereas the customer could have just gone to our website and ordered
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by x3blah 6y ago
One can use "port knocking" for more than remotely opening ports. It is a crude form of messaging in its own right, that can be based on some pre-determined code, like Morse code. The "secret knock" need not open any p
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by x3blah 6y ago
"How do you reconcile this narrative with the fact that Grubhub turned a net profit every available year until 2019 per their SEC filings." Easy. Take away the VC funding and see if anyone wants to try or can manage to start a si
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by x3blah 6y ago
"This whole industry is yet another example of "fake markets" that were created by just massively subsidizing something with VC cash." To what extent has America (and its followers) been led to believe these types of com
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by x3blah 6y ago
The article is about Canada not America.
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by x3blah 6y ago
Protocol mandates use of nothing less than TLS v1.2 so one could skip/remove all support for lesser versions.
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by x3blah 6y ago
known servers: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/serve... spec: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/... docs: https://portal.
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by x3blah 6y ago
"I'm really sick of everything being made "secure", when in fact the "security" is for someone other than the legitimate user of the thing." There must have been some groundswell movement amongst users all
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by x3blah 6y ago
Are farmers considered to be "working from home"?
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by x3blah 6y ago
"An arbitrary gTLD is not something you can get from free, until we have a better solution for DNS that the current appraoch." This implies that there is a better approach. I agree. There are many possibilities. I have been run
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by x3blah 6y ago
That's a good point. I mainly use it for browsing websites that change daily as well as ones with many successive pages, e.g., 1, 2, 3, etc. that IA does automatically not crawl. Thus, not many existing copies if any. HAproxy changes
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by x3blah 6y ago
If the point of the domain name for you is marketing, then get one you think is "memorable" and use it as a CNAME. The point for me would be non-marketing uses, e.g., to get an SSL cert so I do not have to use a self-signed on
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by x3blah 6y ago
What if no one gets "x3blah" and we each get some random string, e.g., an ed25519 public key. Handshake looks like it wants to create another "gold rush" for "vanity" names. We have already had that. We have

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