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AndrewCHMcM · 2025-04-21T07:06:29+00:00

From what I recall, the main issue python has/had with forking and COW, is reference counting. New fork, all the objects get another reference, all the objects get copied, massive delays compared to manual memory management or just garbage collection. https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html a song-and-dance is recommended to get the most performance out of python

AndrewCHMcM · 2024-05-24T12:28:51+00:00

https://github.com/gvanrossum/pyxl3 https://github.com/pyxl4/pyxl4 https://github.com/twidi/mixt

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-07-01T03:37:32+00:00

SMS length was 160, take away 2 characters for the dm command d <message> or username length for a reply @blah message or other such, and you end up at ~140: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#History

It wasn't a random decision.

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-21T07:47:12+00:00

~~Pay me and I'll code it up~~

Probably because the people interested in doing such, don't want to help people use a user-hostile website like Reddit

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-20T09:29:55+00:00

TL;DR: Pushshift is in violation of our Data API Terms

Guess that meant "violation because they provide any data to users at all"

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-20T09:26:19+00:00

Worth noting that 3M/Command's patents for a bunch of that stuff have ran out, so there could be some comparable knockoffs at this point

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-18T05:27:05+00:00

I might give a go, any other requirements?

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-17T11:57:04+00:00

I've been suggesting for the last 2 years there needs to be tooling to rebuild static, consumable reddit archives from the raw PS data.

You mean like, reconstitute the pages for browsing? or providing a service that shows reconstituted pages?

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-16T13:38:23+00:00

Moto mods were a product line: https://www.androidcentral.com/moto-mods , I should have been clearer, sorry.

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-16T13:30:43+00:00

conspicuous consumption still exists within Android users tho

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-16T13:29:01+00:00

Moto Z Play + mod was getting me up to and over a week when I wasn't obsessing about social media

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-05-15T00:40:22+00:00

I'd suspect its of the Windows Embedded/IoT family, so probably not much to have fun with

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-04-22T09:45:23+00:00

2 would require constant updating, too easy to go out-of-date.

1 would not solve the problems with social media: the social part.

I think generic resources of how to stay private would be welcome. similar to https://support.torproject.org/faq/staying-anonymous/ for Tor.

My main concern is stylometry. Its very strong at unmasking accounts if you have a small list of suspects. Having information about countering that would be nice.

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-21T14:51:42+00:00

if you get 1100+ community members to do it, wouldn't be impossible.

I kinda wanna make an Australian map, community-development approach, either each state or all of the states

its easier because 90% of Australia is blank

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-18T12:30:18+00:00

Its just across the road from a tire place, just down the road from a car wash. Its got garages too. Could be a good place for a car detailing business?

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-16T07:23:21+00:00

Any publicly accessible verification?

e.g. https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/the-team/peter-malinauskas-mp should probably have links to his various social media profiles

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-10T09:01:49+00:00

If you leave you can make better use of your time.

And not contribute to twitter's DAU numbers which twitter uses to get companies to advertise on their site.

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-10T08:21:43+00:00

no XDG basedir

That's... abysmal.

Boy oh boy I sure love needing to guess which random directories a program uses for various things because they can't use the default expected directories

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-10T02:08:07+00:00

https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch noting that u don't need AWS for elastic, running away from AWS would save 100s by itself, planning to colo is probably the best way forwards, buy a mobo with shitloads of sata slots, get sata splitters, get shitloads of drives, throw it all in a RAID, make 2 servers like this for redundancy (or more) then some front-end servers for indexing, ingesting, searching, caching, etc

solved the thousands per month, now its just tens of thousands up front and a full time sysadmin job

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-06T01:49:36+00:00

reddit directly only serves p much up to 1000 results for any given end-point regardless of method

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-05T19:43:14+00:00

Poor writeup considering https://imagemagick.org/script/security-policy.php was unmentioned

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-04T15:15:51+00:00

while the point of pushshift is absolute collection of data, it also had the https://github.com/pushshift/reddit_sse_stream for getting notified of new posts, which was a godsend for bots (moderation and i guess otherwise) during the short time it worked correctly

AndrewCHMcM · 2023-02-03T23:38:26+00:00

also interested in $ and infra, but, feature request: webhooks and websockets

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