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"Which shows that there are 39 movies in Amazon Prime US from Ebert's "Great Movies," not 21 like this guy's spreadsheet says." I could be wrong, I am not a Prime Video user, but t…

No agent at all is required. I got past the anti-robot response using no user-agent header and a simple delay.

Instead of using Python, here is a solution that only requires sh, curl, sed, sort, uniq and grep. This solution uses a generous 87s delay to retrieve the Amazon pages. There are 3…

If Pike and his crew represent users, then the tech industry are the Talosians? Absolute favourite episode hands down, The Cage. According to Shatner's autobiography, NBC called th…

"The Commercial Web (of Marketing) There has always been a place for commerce and marketing on the web." Not really true as I remember it. The web opened up to the public in 1993. …

Why dump billions of dollars then? Nowhere else to spend it? Effective marketing?[1] Is no one asking this question? "... and critically: there's no one to hold responsible for get…

"DNA is not code, it's just a molecule that reacts with stuff, as are all other molecules." This sentence exemplifies the perspective to which I referred.

Improved #/bin/sh test -s max-PMID||echo 32449615 > max-PMID;read x /dev/null;test -p 1.fifo||exec echo need 1.fifo; (grep " PMID .* is not available" PMID //;s/ *//;s/ .*//;wmax-P…

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"It's not super productive to try and understand this stuff through analogy to computers and algorithms." You mean like this: https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna Having worked in both indu…

What if PubMed had something like Google's "I'm feeling lucky"? What if we could explore PubMed by selecting a random PubMed URL instead of searching? This script generates a rando…

For those not using Javascript (SSRN uses third party scripts), link to PDF: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=5550640311191050...

The long line of sed is out-of-date and thus "broken". For something simpler that works, try this: nyt tr |sed 's/ *//;/ travel.html This will produce a simple web page of titles a…

"It's text, just send the damn text." They only send what the user requests. Using a software program that makes automatic requests that you are not easily in control of, e.g., a p…

"Which brings us to the question - what is the point of all this? These platforms are all losing money. Just think of all the meetings and lines of code and phone calls to make all…

There is a link to the PDF on the page. No ACM membership required. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3317550.3321445

"Also known as rump kernels a name inspired by the infamous purge of royalists from Parliament following the English Civil War this process involves creating a fork of an existing …

"They are redirecting those customers to their platform where they can purchase from a competitor or they can charge us a fee to provide food to that same customer. Whereas the cus…

One can use "port knocking" for more than remotely opening ports. It is a crude form of messaging in its own right, that can be based on some pre-determined code, like Morse code. …

"How do you reconcile this narrative with the fact that Grubhub turned a net profit every available year until 2019 per their SEC filings." Easy. Take away the VC funding and see i…

"This whole industry is yet another example of "fake markets" that were created by just massively subsidizing something with VC cash." To what extent has America (and its followers…

The article is about Canada not America.