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by xnyan 5y ago
>The FBI can't just arbitrarily order state and local police to participate in their programs. In practice the federal government has a huge amount of influence over what states do because they are one of the most important sources
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by xnyan 5y ago
Lack of IPv6 support is unfortunately quite common among devices, as are buggy/bad/underbaked implementations.
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by xnyan 5y ago
I get it, I leaned bash and never really saw the need for powershell. I typically would write only very small shell scripts in bash, and everything else in Python. I had to learn some powershell to deploy a windows application and was immed
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by xnyan 5y ago
Things change sometimes. MacOS and linux could learn several things from windows, for example sting based shells feel as rickety as an old set of stairs after using microsoft’s object based shell.
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by xnyan 5y ago
I’ve never had a single crash in two years of daily use.
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by xnyan 5y ago
Selenium and other tools in that class essentially just build an api on top of a standard consumer browser engine(s). There are some differences that are difficult to completely hide, but it’s about as close to real as it gets and can be v
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by xnyan 5y ago
Unfortunately, the days of reliable non-JavaScript capable scraping are over. Fortunately there are plenty of tools to handle this, and at a hobby level not particularly resource intensive. Something like this is simple and reliable in many
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by xnyan 5y ago
Just got my contacts without an RX from contactsexpress.ca. Thank you!
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by xnyan 5y ago
From your link: "men in highly developed world regions were less neurotic, less extraverted, less conscientious and less agreeable compared to men in less developed world regions" If these personality traits are influenced by what
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by xnyan 5y ago
That's kind of the opposite of the conclusion of the article. Now, the conclusions of the article (cultural, social and political differences have a huge impact on what what men and women do) may be incorrect, and you may be more corre
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by xnyan 5y ago
Most manufacturers have already moved from hydraulic to electric motor steering systems, and steer-by-wire is the next step. It's not very common today, but the pace is picking up because the advantages (far fewer mechanical parts, aut
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by xnyan 5y ago
>garbage humans There will always be people without a place to live, and people with substance abuse disorders. We can both agree that they do exist, even if we are upset by that fact and wish it was not so. So, what do you think a good
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by xnyan 5y ago
Steve Ballmer was making sales projection claims. His biggest objection was cost of the phone, and apple overcame that with carrier financing. He never claimed that was Apple was trying was not physically possible according to our understan
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by xnyan 5y ago
> https://github.com/cdr/code-server This may be what you're looking for? An agent runs on the development computer, and you get everything that it has (debugging, compilation, etc).
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by xnyan 5y ago
>I now just buy contacts online from Europe or New Zealand. I would love to do that, could you share which vendors you use?
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by xnyan 5y ago
> the cost of healthcare and other benefits. Low wage hourly workers rarely get benefits, so does not apply in this situation.
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by xnyan 5y ago
This is not scientific so not exactly what you are looking for, but I think I can say from personal experience that not being touched/held as an infant can and often does have horrible outcomes. I volunteered in an orphanage in eastern
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by xnyan 5y ago
Interesting you pick the unpopular one, whereas Medicare (62 million people covered) is widely liked and considered successful. In fact, satisfaction levels of Medicare are considerably higher than most private coverage. The difference of c
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by xnyan 5y ago
> For many years, their software was trivial to pirate Many years, including this year (or at least, that's what a "friend" who's running Photoshop 2021 tells me).
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by xnyan 5y ago
There's a very common and overused saying along the lines of "If you owe the bank $100,000, you have a problem. If you owe the bank 1,000,000,000, the bank has a problem." The point is that in a debt relationship, the lender
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by xnyan 5y ago
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Fix economic problems is my position, leave subjectives like decent and should to philosophers.
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by xnyan 5y ago
Terms like common decency and backbone are words used in place of payment to dupe/guilt people to work for the benefit of someone else without fair compensation. You don’t need to use emotional arguments to get someone to do something
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by xnyan 5y ago
>Plus store security is not allowed to actively interact with thieves This is a common misunderstanding/misrepresentation. Yes, most stores have polices against physical force but those policies exist to control a minority of securi
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by xnyan 5y ago
If the developer is here, I like the website! One question that stands out to me, after visiting your site I don't really see how this is significantly different from a VPS. The features (CPU, ram, bandwidth, public IP address, semi-ma
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by xnyan 5y ago
I think you mean every 24 months.
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I agree with your conclusion, but in any discussion about web scraping it's probably a good idea to mention BeautifulSoup given how popular it is (virtually a builtin in terms how much it's used) and given all the documentation av
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by xnyan 5y ago
Playwright is essentially a headless chrome, firefox, and webkit browser with a nice API that's intended for automation/scraping. It's far more heavy than something like curl, but it has all the capabilities of any browser yo
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by xnyan 5y ago
I’ve had tinnitus for ~20 years. I’ve tried everything (as far as I can tell), and by far sound therapy has been the most effective. It’s basically the same techniques used to manage chronic pain, but used to teach you how to minimize and e
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by xnyan 5y ago
>Reddit >I wonder if it wouldn't be more efficient if scientists were writing press releases themselves Agree, and I think everyone here has experienced the phenomenon where someone on reddit/HN/twitter has explained so
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>aligned with banks doing risk control This goes beyond risk control. Insurance has had this figured out for a long time. You can model the risk of porn chargebacks and charge fees accordingly that cover the increased risk of chargeback.

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