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by zmw 2y ago
Related shameless plug: I have a small tool that prepends each output line with a timestamp (can be absolute, relative, or elapsed since last line), might be useful or pair well with this tool in similar scenarios (not needed when dealing w
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by zmw 5y ago
Yes, it's a scraper extracting results from HTML. Which is very different from a screen scraper...
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by zmw 5y ago
This dubious 78% statistic has been discussed to death in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28510520 . The submitted title is badly editorialized and leaves out the actual point of the article: only "1% on PHP 8&quot
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by zmw 5y ago
It's a CLI, not a TUI. I put quite a bit of thought into that decision, and whether to integrate a pager. See [1]. The workarounds are (1) limit the number of results per page with -n <num>; (2) use the -r, --reverse option to sh
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by zmw 5y ago
You can use whatever textual browser if you want to.
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by zmw 5y ago
I'm a maintainer of googler (though I haven't put in much work for quite a while) and the author of the linked document. No, it doesn't use a screen scraper, and I don't know how you even got that idea.
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by zmw 8y ago
People who own a Linux workstation at home and just want to play a few games is vastly outnumbered by people who own a Windows desktop at hone and just want to play a few games. Probably at least 100 to 1. And the former group, with the “al
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by zmw 8y ago
gp: Europeans feel guilty about the colonial past, so they try very hard to make the Chinese look worse. me: How can it be worse? Neither gp nor me mentioned anything being "okay", or blamed any party for completely irrelevant cri
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by zmw 8y ago
Unlike the fallacy you linked, which is comparing apples to oranges, I made a direct comparison of "colonialism" to colonialism, in response to a direct comparison of "colonialism" to colonialism. Not every comparison is
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by zmw 8y ago
> This lets them say "See! the Chinese are worse!" Seriously? Even if one believes in this Chinese colonialism thing, there's no way in hell partial economic control is worse than genocides and slavery that accompanied Eur
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by zmw 8y ago
Have you ever had the (dis)pleasure of porting to Windows? It’s a pile of hot garbage that keeps on accumulating because of so precious backwards compatibility; every single idiosyncrasy from thirty years ago lives on for ever.
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by zmw 8y ago
You mean typically “available” in pre-compiled form, right? Because Rust doesn’t have a binary distribution system per se, it is at the mercy of package managers to build and distribute binaries, or maintainers need to upload build artifact
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by zmw 8y ago
Yeah, "proudly" is probably too harsh, but I do find a general attitude of willful disregard of math and (hard) scientific education in the U.S. I don't think the disregard from policy makers is an accident. Mathematical or s
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by zmw 8y ago
"Math taught in high schools is pretty laughable" is somewhat subjective but a general observation and evaluation (this is actually easily observable even as an outsider, by looking at SAT Math, AP Math, etc.); "physics isn&#
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by zmw 8y ago
I'm not sure about geography, but the vast majority of U.S. population is proudly uneducated in mathematics and many hard sciences. Math taught in high schools is pretty laughable and physics isn't even required in many places. So
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by zmw 8y ago
I once had an ISP (non-U.S., won't name it here) that injects ads into plain HTTP. Didn't realize it was the ISP until I once accidentally loaded my personal website over plain HTTP. Turns out to get rid of that, I just had to cal
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by zmw 8y ago
The technician license exam is extremely easy, you just have to memorize a few hundred questions. Passing the exam and getting the license doesn't actually prepare you for real world operation at all... I think I spent a total of less
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by zmw 8y ago
> You can't even drag and drop files (images, html files, pdf) to it. Worse, you can’t even save from it. IIRC my first interaction with Edge was trying to grab one of my scripts or config files off GitHub. Opened the raw text file
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by zmw 8y ago
Android dominates iOS in terms of market share, sure. And testing for Android is a much worse nightmare. When I test my site in Safari in an iPhone and an iPad, I’m fairly sure it works on every other reasonably recent (think three years ol
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by zmw 8y ago
That sounds mighty weird, and honestly the statement has certain characteritics that trigger my crackpot alarm (don’t take it personally)... If what you say is true, it’s not like you don’t have recourse — you can write to the publication’s
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by zmw 8y ago
I only spent about an hour on the rust + wasm app for fun, so I treated wasm-bindgen and wasm-pack as black boxes and didn't really try to understand the inner workings. You're probably right about serialization, but I'm not
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by zmw 8y ago
You can access web APIs and access DOM in wasm today (from your comment you seem to be unware of that?). I just wrote a tiny web app in Rust with wasm-bindgen, and it’s pretty good already. With wasm-bindgen interfacing is pretty manual at
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by zmw 8y ago
As someone who ran a channel with a few thousand subscribers for a year or two, I’ve seen my fair share of 500 error pages on YouTube. Granted, it was always isolated and may recover after a few refreshes (IIRC), but still.
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by zmw 8y ago
IMO developers who work in scripted or higher level languages and never inspected a call stack have a serious problem (unless they write perfect code that works on the first attempt 100% of the time and never have to debug). I mean, printf
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by zmw 8y ago
Wayback Machine isn’t Googlebot, it doesn’t crawl the web, so there’s no such thing as “hadn’t bother to index”... Someone, be it a human or a bot, needs to submit a page for archival. Programmatically submitting to Wayback Machine is trivi
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by zmw 8y ago
I’m only at 7.5%, probably because I use uMatrix in the first place, and have gone out of my way to kill a few applications that phone home like crazy.
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by zmw 8y ago
Or they can do away with some of the useless images and save a lot more bytes.
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by zmw 8y ago
Sorry, if that was your thought, I’m afraid all design is probably lost on you. Which might be a blessing, since you can use whatever and can’t tell the difference anyway.
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by zmw 8y ago
Profile switching takes one step to use: cycle through windows.
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by zmw 8y ago
I have a self-hosted domain too, with docker-mailserver, but only for less important email. For important communications I really worry about ending up on a spam list somewhere and landing directly in people's spam box, plus there are

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