writeslowly

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   by writeslowly 10y ago

   Have you run into any issues from running all of your scrapers off of AWS, or just from sites detecting that you're accessing large numbers of pages in some sort of obvious pattern? I guess I was hoping there would be sites with more
2. 92.▲
   by writeslowly 10y ago

   The ones I've seen included with MAME (or maybe it was a MAME front end) are pretty easy to configure to get the look of a nice CRT display. Maybe because of the focus on emulating high-end arcade hardware instead of the sort of telev
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   by writeslowly 10y ago

   I've wondered if this creates an unintentional selection process, even if the scammers aren't aware of how it works. Like, if the linked paper is correct, then the most successful scamming strategies involving Nigerian princes et
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   by writeslowly 10y ago

   I was actually pretty impressed by Dwarf Fortress's use of the extended ASCII set (or whatever the technical name is). Most of the non-creature symbols were easy enough to guess based on appearances.
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   by writeslowly 10y ago

   I've been experimenting with Stanford's CoreNLP to identify named entities for analyzing RSS feeds and I was really impressed by how well it worked, having known nothing about the state of NLP research before I started. Especiall