retlehs

Read more about Common Crawl

smj-edison

{
    "output": {
        "blocklist": [],
        "compressor#0": {
            "attack": 20.0,
            "boost-amount": 6.0,
            "boost-threshold": -72.0,
            "bypass": true,
            "dry": -100.0,
            "hpf-frequency": 10.0,

mbafford

PDF tools for comparing PDFs visually (overlaying two PDFs to see changed areas) and using a perceptual hash (numerical value indicating visual difference between the two files).

Useful for command line review of PDFs and de-duplication. Configure git to use these tools for better PDF history / comparison in git.

These scripts require imagemagick and poppler. Both installed from homebrew.

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Setup git to use a custom diff using:

getaaron

• Call 1-800-829-1040
• Press 1 for English (or other language as desired)
• Press 2 for personal tax
• Press 1 for form / tax history
• Press 3 for other
• Press 2 for other
• Ignore 2 SSN prompts till you get secret other menu
• Press 2 for personal tax
• Press 3 for other
• Wait for agent!

cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

See the new site: https://postgresisenough.dev

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• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• Just use Postgres
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database

bokwoon95

-- how to model threaded comments (e.g. reddit comments) in SQL with a simple 'ancestors' column

-- The comment tree:
--          [1]
--         /    \
--       [2]    [4]
--      /   \      \
--    [3]   [7]    [6]
--   /
-- [5]

typokign

Zoom Sucks

• Zoom abuses the installer flow on MacOS to bypass permissions dialogs (source)
• Zoom sends identifying device info to Facebook, even when users don't have a Facebook account (source) (fixed)
• A bug in Zoom sent identifying information (including email addresses and profile pictures) of thousands of users to strangers (source)
• Zoom claims that meetings are end-to-end encrypted in their white paper and marketing materials, but meetings are only encrypted in transit, and are available in plaintext to Zoom servers and employees. (source)
• zoomAutenticationTool can be used to escalat

swalkinshaw

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

jdfr

#This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 as published by
#the Free Software Foundation.

"""Algorithmic pseudo-random permutations for large sequences.

Module to generate random, arbitrarily large permutations. Random permutations
can be generated in Python with random.shuffle or numpy.random.shuffle:

  import random

jaypozo

def trapBOM(fileBytes []byte) []byte{
  trimmedBytes := bytes.Trim(fileBytes, "\xef\xbb\xbf")
  return trimmedBytes
}