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by showerst 1y ago
How would that scale to 10TB+ of plain text though? Presumably the indexes would be many gigabytes, especially with full text search.
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by showerst 1y ago
Agreed on all points except [2], I run many scrapers and sites change _all the time_, often changing markup for seemingly random reasons. One government site I scrape changes ids and classes between camel and snake case every couple of week
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by showerst 1y ago
What a great article. My first exposure to real programming was VB and it’s hard to overstate how magical it was to just drag a button onto a form, and double click on it to write a few lines of code and wire it up. TBH it’s still something
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by showerst 1y ago
I’d take a 100 random IT folks with gardens over a single growth hacker, crypto bro, or “I created an ai bot to do (X)” ChatGPT wrapper site shill.
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by showerst 1y ago
Oh, good. All you have to do is happen to grow up somewhere with opportunities, move home for a great job, happen to have the house next door to your family's go on sale at an affordable price at a time you can afford it before having
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by showerst 1y ago
I think all marine mammals fit this, right?
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by showerst 2y ago
Just by sheer numbers, the comment you're replying to must be one of the provably wrong-est comments in history of hacker news =).
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by showerst 2y ago
I think of it as an older midwestern guy speech pattern. Strong “dad who stopped swearing when he had kids” energy.
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by showerst 2y ago
Even if you believe that every one of these things is correct (which is a big _even_) -- It's a really bad idea to let private actors break the law, then decide not to punish them if it turns out to be useful enough. It's bad for
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by showerst 2y ago
Foriegners like the US citizen spouses and (ex)girlfriends of NSA employees? https://www.reuters.com/article/world/uk/nsa-staff-used-spy-...
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by showerst 2y ago
I have heard many stories of being a Sesame Street zombie once upon a time, so I doubt you were much more resistant to Mr Rogers gentle charms =). There's a definitely a big gulf between the Mr Rogers / Daniel Tiger / Bluey e
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by showerst 2y ago
The real revolution would be an end to end machine transliteration to translation pipeline. …Which will require lots of sample data for all the steps.
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by showerst 2y ago
While there's certainly more overlap than a random group of people, in discussions like these I think even the most anti-gun people recognize that the broader "I like guns because guns are fun" community isn't really the
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by showerst 2y ago
If your threat model includes intelligence services and mitming AWS you should not be using tailscale, and you would hopefully already know that.
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by showerst 2y ago
Fun concept, but there are some really generation specific references here. Smurfs, Brady Bunch, Payphones...
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by showerst 2y ago
I'm familiar with Steve via his various donations and tours on CuriousMarc's Apollo restorations, it's cool to get some background on the guy. He sounds like a lot of fun. I had to check the publish date, I know it's a p
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by showerst 2y ago
A version of this is common now in the US through Tax Increment Financing. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/value_capture/defined/tax_incre...
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by showerst 2y ago
The thing about many combat sports is not the short term injuries, but the long term CTE risk. Especially with the rise of meteoric rise of MMA, I think the community is going to have to take a hard look at blows to the head and choke-outs
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by showerst 2y ago
In Judo and gymnastics you're generally also traveling slower. Judo falls are also from a lower height and generally under control (just not yours, heh).
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by showerst 2y ago
What's everyone's recommended replacement brand for home users? Mikrotik?
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by showerst 2y ago
Oops, I meant to say generally 'include', not list. I'll reword that.
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by showerst 2y ago
NAL but I have written legal database software, and helped to get a few bills passed. Codified laws are "full" printings that include new laws that were passed, and laws that were explicitly repealed. This is not the whole scope t
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by showerst 2y ago
If you want to go crazy deep into the spacecraft side, CuriousMarc has a restoration/replication series on youtube that explains it.
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by showerst 2y ago
There have been updates since 2019, most states publish an updated code annually. I wonder if there are licensing issues w/ that, since it's a scrape of Justia. US law falls into a slightly complicated legal situation where the la
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by showerst 2y ago
This is called inertial navigation, and it works over short distances but then breaks down due to cumulative error. This is a pretty cool use case though since as you said it would be much easier over a fixed route.
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by showerst 2y ago
His books are still kicking around, although not as big as they used to be. My toddler has a few. They're still lovely books, but I think they're less popular mostly because they're a bit dated now; lots of obsolete jobs and
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by showerst 2y ago
Micro machines were awesome! I still remember the commercials with the fast talker. It's funny how a random thing can date you so specifically, it seems like their heyday was only from 1987-1994 or so.
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by showerst 2y ago
> This is going to create a lot of distrust in the international supply chain. Is it? If your threat model includes Mossad (or really any nation state) then you shouldn't have trusted those devices in the first place. Even if you di
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by showerst 2y ago
The problem is that there’s nobody I trust to do the deciding on whose choices were bad. So I say we just save them all, and let god sort ‘em out.
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by showerst 2y ago
C'mon Bill, you don't want to go full time and start making SHOCKING EVENTS, ENGINEER REACTS!! videos? I think your viewers appreciate quality over quantity.

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