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by taftster 5y ago
Agreed. These two ideas would be killer features! I want to analyze a game, not from where I am at now, but where I was 10 moves ago when everything started to go sideways. I want an AI that can tell me where my instincts or intuitions are
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by taftster 5y ago
What I think is interesting is the effects of this type of thing across peripheral news sites, like HN. I wonder how much spike HN gets with people rushing here to find out what's going on and to read the (articulate) related discussio
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by taftster 5y ago
I wish the ad industry (especially web) would just break and just completely fall over. Sure, we'd have this period of time where the world would feel like it's on fire. All your "news sources" (air-quotes) would disappe
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by taftster 5y ago
I feel guilty using it the first go. I figure I will click on their unsubscribe link first. And then I will click the report spam button if they continue to send me email Unfortunately, all I'm probably doing is just confirming my emai
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by taftster 5y ago
Right, exactly. I want my "promotions" to land square one in my inbox, because then I'm going to deal with them right then and there. Unsubscribe comes first. A filter comes next, if they keep sending.
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by taftster 5y ago
Nowadays? Try day one. I always thought of this as a misfeature and disabled it from the start. I have no idea how this would be useful to me.
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by taftster 5y ago
Disable auto-image loading, and it will cut down the ability for companies to do this. Unfortunately, this often times leads to direct phone calls along the lines of, "Hey taftster, did you get my email? It shows that you haven't
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by taftster 5y ago
With what? A competing python library for Google BigQuery (referencing the article)? I get what you're saying here, but I don't think this "gap for a competitor to fill" is accurate for all times that customer support ha
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by taftster 5y ago
This is when you open a can of BS and just spray it everywhere. Go for the most esoteric and ridiculous design that you can. Elaborate on the minutia of your design at the finest level. Puff your feathers and flaunt your genius. Both bore a
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by taftster 5y ago
Yeah, I'm guessing this was a deliberate joke for us here. The author knew this would be closely read and critiqued by the folks here. I'm sure s/he was waiting for exactly your comment on the HN thread.
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by taftster 5y ago
$> strings < file.pdf ?? /s/s
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by taftster 5y ago
$> cat file.pdf | strings Done. /s
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by taftster 5y ago
I love that Chris Hadfield's version of Space Oddity is "up next" after this video.
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by taftster 5y ago
Holy spam, batman.
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by taftster 5y ago
I really like AsciiDoc and would encourage anyone to give it a try, especially for things like software documentation (in all forms). I very much despise the trend to write sharepoint or wiki/Confluence pages as a means for software do
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by taftster 5y ago
Yes, I agree. But just to ask, wouldn't we consider that a form of AI testing, even just in very primitive form? We're begging the question for the very definition of AI. I would argue that your example is just the primordial vers
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by taftster 5y ago
Yes!! Totally agree. Imagine writing a method and then telling an AI to write your unit tests for it. The AI would likely be able to come up with the edge cases and such that you would not normally take the time to write. While I think the
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by taftster 5y ago
> a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot Be sure to follow the site's robots.txt rules, though. Otherwise, you could end up getting googlebot banned! /s
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by taftster 5y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by taftster 5y ago
Only if you believe that /dev/random is truly random.
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by taftster 5y ago
"seemingly identical item" - Can you give a more specific example of this? Like if it's two different brands of "chicken noodle soup", then I'd assume the ingredient list could/would change. But are you sa
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by taftster 5y ago
Cheers! Good luck to you.
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by taftster 5y ago
Sarcastic? I can't tell. I didn't mean to imply it was trivial, but the concept of crawling your own documentation is quite sound and should just be part of good document maintenance. There are some plenty good crawlers already. I
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by taftster 5y ago
Right. And this would be so easy to fix too. a) crawl your own documentation and find dead links. b) monitor 404 errors and track down the source (via referer headers, etc.). c) ask the user on the 404 page what they were hoping f
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by taftster 5y ago
I still remember this funny segment from Bill Nye the Science Guy, where he discusses naked mole rats. https://youtu.be/fj48ewrkSFQ
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by taftster 5y ago
Search is essential, no question. But I need sort even more. And it's frustrating the inability for "modern" email clients to do away with it. Gmail is the culprit. Does Spark allow you to sort your folders?
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by taftster 5y ago
> approaching half a decade So 4 years?
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by taftster 5y ago
Came here to post the same comment. Exactly right. There are lots of projects that use the term "dataflow". To add to this, the name of this product is confusing given the context and usecase shown. I assume "dataflow" t
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by taftster 5y ago
Try this list out: https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language#Java There's a LOT of real interest in Java in many many industries. Saying this like "Most devs I know" just really is more of an observa
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by taftster 5y ago
I think what's interesting about this is the tendency for it to give you the same piece over and over again. That is, until you've tricked it enough that the same piece will clear a line, then it will give you the next piece over

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