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Related shameless plug: I have a small tool that prepends each output line with a timestamp (can be absolute, relative, or elapsed since last line), might be useful or pair well wi…

Yes, it's a scraper extracting results from HTML. Which is very different from a screen scraper...

This dubious 78% statistic has been discussed to death in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28510520 . The submitted title is badly editorialized and leaves out the actual point…

It's a CLI, not a TUI. I put quite a bit of thought into that decision, and whether to integrate a pager. See [1]. The workarounds are (1) limit the number of results per page with…

You can use whatever textual browser if you want to.

I'm a maintainer of googler (though I haven't put in much work for quite a while) and the author of the linked document. No, it doesn't use a screen scraper, and I don't know how y…

People who own a Linux workstation at home and just want to play a few games is vastly outnumbered by people who own a Windows desktop at hone and just want to play a few games. Pr…

gp: Europeans feel guilty about the colonial past, so they try very hard to make the Chinese look worse. me: How can it be worse? Neither gp nor me mentioned anything being "okay",…

Unlike the fallacy you linked, which is comparing apples to oranges, I made a direct comparison of "colonialism" to colonialism, in response to a direct comparison of "colonialism"…

> This lets them say "See! the Chinese are worse!" Seriously? Even if one believes in this Chinese colonialism thing, there's no way in hell partial economic control is worse than …

Have you ever had the (dis)pleasure of porting to Windows? It’s a pile of hot garbage that keeps on accumulating because of so precious backwards compatibility; every single idiosy…

You mean typically “available” in pre-compiled form, right? Because Rust doesn’t have a binary distribution system per se, it is at the mercy of package managers to build and distr…

Yeah, "proudly" is probably too harsh, but I do find a general attitude of willful disregard of math and (hard) scientific education in the U.S. I don't think the disregard from po…

"Math taught in high schools is pretty laughable" is somewhat subjective but a general observation and evaluation (this is actually easily observable even as an outsider, by lookin…

I'm not sure about geography, but the vast majority of U.S. population is proudly uneducated in mathematics and many hard sciences. Math taught in high schools is pretty laughable …

I once had an ISP (non-U.S., won't name it here) that injects ads into plain HTTP. Didn't realize it was the ISP until I once accidentally loaded my personal website over plain HTT…

The technician license exam is extremely easy, you just have to memorize a few hundred questions. Passing the exam and getting the license doesn't actually prepare you for real wor…

> You can't even drag and drop files (images, html files, pdf) to it. Worse, you can’t even save from it. IIRC my first interaction with Edge was trying to grab one of my scripts o…

Android dominates iOS in terms of market share, sure. And testing for Android is a much worse nightmare. When I test my site in Safari in an iPhone and an iPad, I’m fairly sure it …

That sounds mighty weird, and honestly the statement has certain characteritics that trigger my crackpot alarm (don’t take it personally)... If what you say is true, it’s not like …

I only spent about an hour on the rust + wasm app for fun, so I treated wasm-bindgen and wasm-pack as black boxes and didn't really try to understand the inner workings. You're pro…

You can access web APIs and access DOM in wasm today (from your comment you seem to be unware of that?). I just wrote a tiny web app in Rust with wasm-bindgen, and it’s pretty good…

As someone who ran a channel with a few thousand subscribers for a year or two, I’ve seen my fair share of 500 error pages on YouTube. Granted, it was always isolated and may recov…

IMO developers who work in scripted or higher level languages and never inspected a call stack have a serious problem (unless they write perfect code that works on the first attemp…

Wayback Machine isn’t Googlebot, it doesn’t crawl the web, so there’s no such thing as “hadn’t bother to index”... Someone, be it a human or a bot, needs to submit a page for archi…