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FranOntanaya

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About FranOntanaya

Hi! I'm a PHP cowboy coder, ffmpegger of videos and regexer of subtitles.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49224272

    "There Will Be Blood" but it's 2026 and Plainview's child is AI.

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    Comment #49224183

    After a decade and half we had to restrict our public side and reorganize our old TED content because scrappers were really hungry for assorted captioned videos. If you have anythi…

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    Comment #49195717

    Well 2010 PHP and the frameworks at the time were still going through the 5.x desert journey, and the prospects weren't entirely clear with the cancellation of PHP 6, so you wouldn…

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    Comment #49079550

    Some specialized models may end solving themselves by helping fit the problem with the appropriate regular algorithms/formulas, which are a million times more efficient. So they ar…

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    Comment #49015700

    I think it's partly because of where they come from to the problem. I have education/experience in both literature and coding, I have a pragmatic starting point when approaching te…

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    Comment #49015616

    A lot of what would be the top "reference" works aren't even that good either, they were a successful marketing phenomenon or had cultural or social relevance at their time. So, yo…

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    Comment #48909280

    Most places where people do their weekly groceries in Spain have at least a small book section if not a bookstore by the entrance. It's a typical thing to bring over to the beach o…

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    Comment #48330640

    I'm going to say something that is a bit out there, but to this day web frontend still feels like a downgrade in some ways to basic things Visual Basic had in 1998.

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    Comment #48210169

    Only if you would use this pelican picture in production.

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    Comment #47813434

    Well, sort of. Solar wind does include oxygen ions, so it's exposed to a small extent.

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    Comment #47588128

    That looks a bit bare minimum, not the use of regex but rather that it's a single line with a few dozen words. You'd think they'd have a more comprehensive list somewhere and assem…

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    Comment #46719631

    Solar pressure would be a small factor too, though I assume it's not a big deal compared with orbital speeds.

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    Comment #45504040

    A lot of styling is done still in the old Advanced Substation subtitle format, which is nice in a whole number of ways but doesn't have any standards working group behind and so it…

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    Comment #44930407

    The amount of calls on some pages displaying the simplest stuff is mind-boggling. 160 requests for a page just displaying a HTML5 video and a title, 360 requests for a Reddit page,…

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    Comment #44215917

    Don't remind me, Front Page Express' generated HTML was the stuff of nightmares.

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    Comment #43758908

    It's tablet cases with bluetooth keyboard now.

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    Comment #43170672

    Even Citroen has an EV Berlingo and that model is the bread and butter of Southern Europe.

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    Comment #42891326

    To be fair to our ancestors, their sewage composition was much simpler than the exotic chemical cocktail we send down the drain nowadays.

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    Comment #42164723

    irssi had a plugin to read and post to Twitter from IRC, it was neat.

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    Comment #40927181

    Ticket price doesn't tell the whole story, if those euros are staying in Europe instead of leaving the union and funding someone else's space program.

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    Comment #40737848

    I assume they don't want wild animals that are ridden with diseases to end in something like cattle feed more than unavoidable.

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    Comment #40599550

    Clicklock is much nicer in Windows than the awkward methods I've found so far with Linux.

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    Comment #40599488

    I use an ultra wide screen and do both coding and video operations so I'm always having side by side layouts mixed in with tabbed windows. One typical case is navigating a file man…

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    Comment #40443616

    It's still boosting the science profile of the mission to use it as test bed for Americium. There's a lot of science to be done in the Kuiper belt and further out where longevity m…

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    Comment #40371443

    Very much this. Specially if any relative has to watch their weight or sugar intake and a lot of "No sugar added" products are getting in the house, a very worrying amount of them …