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How do you get around 403/401's from WSJ/Reuters/Axios? Because I've tried user agent manipulation and it seems like I'd have to use selenium and headless to deal with them.

> Another area is with software we’ve had to build (instead of buy). When we started out, we strongly preferred buying software over building it because a team of only a few engine…

Actually it seems pretty accurate. Novelty-seeking is a well known phenomenon in curious individuals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_seeking Literally getting dopamine rewar…

This is not really "sieve-ing" per the article, but what prevents me from running another process that periodically queries the data in a cache? Like just running a celery queue in…

There's a piece of graffiti from the May 1968 Paris riots that goes "I have something to say but I don't know what." Reminds me of this. I can't find the original French but I thin…

Hello, I work on a 6500+ file, 1-2 million line, 30 year old code base in C++. There are many problems with it, and we've been gradually ratcheting up the use of tools to improve c…

I started as a python programmer and was very used to package managers. I believed in them, I championed them. When I switched to C++ for work I was very disheartened that there wa…

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics https://pimbook.org/ It introduces math from a mathematician's point of view (complete with proofs, etc.) rather than rote memorization a…

You have me thinking about kind of a cool board idea. 150 person twitter boards. Cap it at 150. People in that group can all vote on their own moderation, they can't interact with …

When I run ls I don't want to see all the configuration files. Just my files. I think that's the point of hidden files. > One more example. Imagine if you have a project and want t…

When I started playing with C/C++ the first thing I complained about was how difficult package management was. Conan is not as simple as cargo or pip. It's often simpler to find a …

For our purposes, we never have strings that are other than the form XX.XX.XX.XXXX so there was no reason to generalize. Which improves the speed, makes it easier to read, and prov…

Its usually not so much "a range of wheels optimized for specific roles" and more "one size fits all." You want a wheel that fits your cart. You have a lathe. Why make do with a wh…

Its a numpy style docstring. PyCharm can be configured to auto generate them. I guess I just add the types to be thorough. Ideally I want to generate api documentation via a tool. …

I come from a Python background so libraries were always just a pip install away. In the past year, however, I've been working on a large C++ codebase (couple million lines) and th…

I believe he means "the use of asterisks to mark required fields" was invented for the web. Otherwise, you'd have to be quite young and quite sheltered to not have seen asterisks i…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement Mario's "Operation of the Machine" speech is pretty good. Also worth noting, often these groups were not quite as egalitarian as …

I can strongly recommend Fussel's (the author of this essay) book "The Boys' Crusade", which provides a very eye opening account to WWII. It is most likely a longer version of this…

Small typos everywhere. Init functions without the dunders, move_ahead in an abstract class then moveahead later.

I just linked your blog post in a separate comment because I was reading it over the weekend. I was looking for articles about writing static site generators and didn't realize mos…

This is mindblowing synchronicity. I thought this article was one I had read this weekend for a second but checked the post date and saw it wasn't available yesterday. I'm working …

I've been doing this but without the jinja. It's trivial to store a latex file or markdown file with something like %PLACEHOLDER% and then just run with open('template.tex', 'rt') …

I consider myself quite adept at cli, I can sed, grep, find, vim, and git quite well. However, what I never found convenient in cli was debugging. I was a print debugger for years …

IdeaVim works fine. I can't use vim sandwich and that's about my only complaint. I was firmly resistant to IDEs like OP and quite in love with neovim for years. Tried PyCharm becau…