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by jonatron 5y ago
The Computerphile "How JPEG works" playlist is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckoAod3z31QE... Specifically I found the DCT explanation useful
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by jonatron 5y ago
If you're willing to take your TV to bits, you could replace the motherboard with a generic LCD controller board from aliexpress.
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by jonatron 5y ago
Not sure about the snippet: // when the DOM is loaded document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { // find every element with the class "close" (document.querySelecto
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by jonatron 5y ago
The end of the notice period roughly lined up with the start of the ski season, so I'm going to do a ski season.
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by jonatron 5y ago
And here's a project that's mostly Python, and optionally uses Cython https://github.com/falconry/falcon
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by jonatron 5y ago
It can run most unmodified Python code, but it needs types for the big speedups.
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by jonatron 5y ago
Instances include 20TB of traffic, which is better than paying thousands to AWS for it.
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by jonatron 5y ago
This is a better idea than searching for word+" pronunciation" , because of videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hx052Tiz9E
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Tech news sites Bit-tech.net and Hexus.net have shut down(bit-tech.net)
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Bit-tech.net and hexus.net shut down today(bit-tech.net)
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by jonatron 5y ago
I haven't tried to scrape Ryanair, you could be right that it's trivial. It's the legal side that has a long and interesting history. Personally I wouldn't scrape them unless it was when working for a company that can af
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by jonatron 5y ago
If you look at Ryanair, they've had legal battles with scrapers for more than 10 years, so it's not that simple.
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by jonatron 5y ago
Legitimate uses of scraping include price comparison, and finding copyright or trademark infringement.
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by jonatron 5y ago
A residential IP would help for IP based detection. As the Readme mentions, there's also Javascript based detection. If, for example, your browser has navigator.webdriver set incorrectly, then you can still get blocked even on a reside
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by jonatron 5y ago
There's a hidden "Hotel Mode" on many TVs. I don't know if that would disable ads?
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Find the Next Page – A Mini Puzzle(jonatron.github.io)
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by jonatron 5y ago
Part of the problem is too many databases have been compromised. If a scammer calls up and knows all the victim's details, the scammer is much more convincing and the victim is much more likely to be fooled. As for why the UK is a hot
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Find the Next Page(jonatron.github.io)
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Find the Next Page(jonatron.github.io)
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Find the Next Page(jonatron.github.io)
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by jonatron 5y ago
You could take the titles from these: https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/commits/0_ea7001173eca.json https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/commits/10_ad7b545d89c5.json https:/&#x2
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by jonatron 5y ago
I use Cython for the small part that has a tight loop in a Django project. Using Cython with Django itself sounds difficult, but the Falcon framework looks like it uses Cython.
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by jonatron 5y ago
Happened during the 2012 petrol crisis: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-1...
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by jonatron 5y ago
Power supply caps fail so often that maybe they should be socketed?
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The OpenSSL Guide to Code Quality(wiki.openssl.org)
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by jonatron 5y ago
The guy I was on a call with just had to switch to tethering, he's on Virgin.
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by jonatron 5y ago
Not the cheapest. Rent would be more like $900.
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by jonatron 5y ago
Not quite $1k per month, but in the cheap areas of the UK you can rent for $620/mo, call bills another $230. After adding food, you won't be far over $1000. Just in case you wanted an English speaking country and could stretch the
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by jonatron 5y ago
Anyone else looked found relatively reasonable instance pricing on cloud, but then calculated the bandwidth would bankrupt the company?
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by jonatron 5y ago
It can be used to detect scrapers/bots that don't use a browser.

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