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by vram22 3y ago
Yes, it seems reading about the concepts should be done first.
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by vram22 3y ago
>somehow "internally" play the video, Analogous to how headless browsers are used for automated testing or scraping of web apps.
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by vram22 3y ago
Apropos of the post: sometime back I had wondered if it would be possible to search videos for content by text keywords, but not to match text occurring in the video title, chapter titles or comments. Instead, if an app or library could som
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by vram22 3y ago
>There is no objective proof That was exactly my point above, though stated indirectly as a reductio ad absurdum style argument, somewhat sarcastically. IOW: Either one can make a rigorous argument, XOR one can make an informal one. Up
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by vram22 3y ago
And that drawing of the watcher at the top of the post is by yours truly :)
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by vram22 3y ago
There is also watch, a Linux command. Had blogged about it here, along with a Python program inspired by it, that I wrote: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-python-version-of-linu...
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by vram22 3y ago
https://catonmat.net/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer is a related tool.
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by vram22 3y ago
>Nature isn't here for us, to make our lives easy. Or for that matter, hard. It just is. So, you're doling out (what you think is) knowledge, while objecting a couple of levels above, to others doing the same? Did you invent Na
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by vram22 3y ago
Yes. One of the Wikipedia articles I linked above, talks about and has a photo of an official receiving an award from the then US president, from preventing thalidomide from being approved for use in the US (early on). And yet there were de
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by vram22 3y ago
IMHO, the best resource to learn about both Unix shell usage at the command-line prompt, and shell programming in .sh script files, is still the book "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike, except for shell gotc
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by vram22 3y ago
>Another common footgun is not including a double dash ('--') at the end of command options so that the following filename won't be interpreted as an option when it begins with a dash. Yes. And if you have a file name that
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by vram22 3y ago
Not only American.
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>now as a society we uncover problems, we fix them. We're doing pretty well. Doing pretty well? Doubt if the parents of all those severely deformed thalidomide-affected babies, or the babies themselves, would agree: https:/&#x
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by vram22 3y ago
More info for some of them that I gave incomplete info for above, after googling: https://www.amazon.in/Sql-Professionals-Swapna-Kishore/dp/00... https://www.amazon.in/Object-Primer-Agile-Model-Dri
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by vram22 3y ago
Not all of the ones below may be textbooks, sorry, but IMO they are all very good. I cut my programming teeth on some of them, and read others at different times later in my career. How to Solve It, by Georg Polya. A famous Hungarian mathe
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by vram22 3y ago
I had posted this comment on HN around 3 years ago, on a related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827234 Some people appreciated it, and one person said it gave them a lot of material to work on (downthread).
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by vram22 4y ago
Thanks, all. FWIW, here below are some of my past comments about Red on HN, including the one about crypto, written using my main HN id, this one, vram22. The langfan id I did the OP under is just a new one I made up to comment from another
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by vram22 4y ago
Exactly what I thought at the time, I mean, that it was not a good direction to go in, and was depressed about that, due to having played around some with Rebol before, but not knowing much about crypto, I kept mum, except for possibly com
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by vram22 4y ago
>“So,” I said, “you do not know why you are hiring me, and you do not know what I would be hired for, but no matter what it is, the job is in Silicon Valley? Cue that well-known [1] joke about an engineer and a manager/MBA and a ho
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by vram22 4y ago
Sure you can. I'm not a language expert, but IIRC, static linking was the only option at first for C, Pascal, FORTRAN, etc., earlier. Dynamic linking came later.
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by vram22 4y ago
Veering a bit more off-topic: - La Guillotine - Madame Defarge and friends - etc. from A Tale of Two Cities. IIRC (may be wrong, read as a kid), those ladies used to signal which aristocrats should be chopped vs. not, by signalling with the
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by vram22 4y ago
Put those questions to ChatGPT.
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by vram22 4y ago
One for C++ is https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt by https://www.emweb.be/
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by vram22 4y ago
Right. Or a ship in Arizona to sell you. GP and others who believe that should google "our incredible journey" - and look at multiple hits, not just the first few. It has become a meme by now.
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by vram22 4y ago
> Yahoo! Groups lasted 19 years. >I co-admin a large group that had to find a new home when it was killed off. We went to a third party ( groups.io ) that accepts money in exchange for services. Irony / wheel coming full circle,
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by vram22 4y ago
Those new to vi(m), check this vi quickstart tutorial that I created. https://gumroad.com/l/vi_quick From the start of a Twitter subthread I wrote about the tutorial (thread unfortunately deleted later by accident - T
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by vram22 4y ago
From HN: Beginning Woodworking http://woodgears.ca/beginner/ Interesting thread that also talks about Japanese saws and their pros and cons.
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by vram22 4y ago
>Funny how we have a post here from some company selling these and it feels like the thought is "this is new". Yes. Related: Russian stove: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove And this article sh
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by vram22 4y ago
>Google reacted to this as they usually do to criticism. Which is how? Not been folllowing them lately, for obvious reasons, so interested to know how they react these days. Constructive non-egoistic non-spin engagement with the critics
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by vram22 4y ago
Eggs pensive ... nice, after ChatGPT, now they made eggs think. But grammar not eggsactly right, adjective should be before noun.

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