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Imagine this: it's Sunday afternoon at 1pm, and you want to watch some live content. But you don't have a TV subscription. So you do a little Googling, and eventually you find yourself on a sketchy website where you can watch the content you're looking for. But while the website has a video player, it's surrounded by advertisements, and probably a cryptominer too. You don't want this website eating your CPU for 2 hours while you're watching your favorite Sunday afternoon content.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could watch that video in VLC instead? Then you can close the sketchy website and still watch your content. It's like having your cake and taking a bite of it too!

Here's how you do it:

Capture the m3u8 request in dev tools. Open the site (or just the iframe, if possible) in DevTools and click "play." Search the network tab for m3u8 and grab the first request.
Run VLC with command line flags to set the User Agent and Referrer. From the request body, you need to copy the requested URL,

So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand...

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.

Streaming iterables

Your friends from pull stream, but in terms of async iterators.

source it

A "source" is something that can be consumed. It is an iterable object.

const ints = {

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

	#!/bin/sh
	# rename-pictures.sh
	# Author: Justine Tunney <[email protected]>
	# License: Apache 2.0
	#
	# This shell script can be used to ensure all the images in a folder
	# have good descriptive filenames that are written in English. It's
	# based on the Mistral 7b and LLaVA v1.5 models.
	#
	# For example, the following command:

	name: deploy
	on:
	push:
	branches:
	- master

	jobs:
	set_environment:
	outputs:
	env_name: ${{ steps.setenv.outputs.env_name }}

	#!/bin/bash

	if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
	appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
	Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

	Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

	`basename "$0"` my-script.sh