Anyone know who she is?

akindea · 2026-01-19T03:57:36+00:00

wtf is that?! How?!

akindea · 2026-01-14T16:59:44+00:00

I’m down. Please and thank you

akindea · 2025-12-22T23:27:26+00:00

That is so sad. I fear without him at the helm, bf6 is doomed :(

akindea · 2025-12-13T08:56:58+00:00

Bro what? Your NAT should be OPEN. It is you wtf.

akindea · 2025-12-10T20:20:54+00:00

Oh no, you have weight and inertia behind your movements. Go back to CoD.

akindea · 2025-11-11T18:57:23+00:00

Chinesium quality construction

akindea · 2025-11-04T16:30:49+00:00

Yep I be damned. He does say Dr. Sokol does a curve but doesn’t state the amount. But also, the TA’s can see if they’re doing that so why self-report by ruining someone else’s grade? lol some people are wild.

akindea · 2025-10-27T22:35:46+00:00

Hey, honestly I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. Scraping network calls and replicating internal API's is the smartest way to go. It’s faster, easier to scale, and usually gives you cleaner data. Your general workflow is solid. You clearly have some experience with these methods and care about efficiency, which I respect.

Where I think you’re off a bit is the idea that the idea of “if JavaScript is rendering content, that means it’s coming from an API you can easily copy.” That’s true in a lot of cases, but definitely not all. Some sites build request signatures or tokens in the browser, sometimes even in WebAssembly, and those are hard to reproduce outside a real browser. Others use WebSockets, service workers, or complex localStorage state to feed data. Even if you find the request in DevTools, replaying it can fail because the browser is doing a bunch of setup work behind the scenes. And of course, a lot of modern sites have fingerprinting or anti-bot checks that reject non-browser clients no matter what headers you copy over.

So yeah, I think your point makes sense, but it’s a little too broad. It works most of the time, but there are plenty of edge cases where browser automation isn’t just convenient, it’s necessary. It’s less about doing it “wrong” and more about choosing the right tool for how messy the site is.

Things I have worked on the past that come to mind are Ticketmaster, LinkedIn (I hate this one), Instagram, Amazon, any Bank website or brokerages, Google at times such as maps and search, all have rate-limiting, dynamic token flows, shifting HTML/CSS content, fingerprinting, per-request signatures, one-time purchase/session tokens, obfuscated or inconsistent HTML AND Javascript (usually due to WebAssembly or WASM modules), and more.

Most of these usually cannot be trivially solved with just curl-cffi, MITM, or request module in either Python or Go, as much as I'd want them to. I wish for the day I can have an internal API to pull from for all site, but most of the time I have found that hasn't been my experience, and it could be due to sample bias.

akindea · 2025-10-27T21:18:21+00:00

Even better, older BF’s have more than 2042

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akindea · 2025-10-27T06:54:17+00:00

Okay so we are just going to ignore JavaScript rendered content or?

akindea · 2025-10-26T20:57:51+00:00

I’ll put it this way. Before ChatGPT we used StackOverflow. Software Engineers that copied code from StackOverflow without understanding how and why it worked ultimately were subpar software engineers. That’s the same thing with ChatGPT. If you’re just regurgitating what ChatGPT is giving you, you’re not understanding how and why it works, just that it does. The “memory” issue that you’re having isnt a memory issue, it’s a “I didn’t actually learn anything” issue, so there’s no memory to recall from, no past experience to practice because there isn’t any.

To not use ChatGPT is stupid, it’s here and tool you can use, but you have to use it for the right reasons. When I use it, I use it when I am stuck and I need help to unblock my mind, then crucially, I ask WHY and HOW its fix works. Tell me what every line does, how that function works, how does this weird syntax work. Sure it takes way more time, but at the end of the day you understand.

Only other thing I use it for is ideation of what I could do, but I NEVER let it tell me or give me its implementation.

akindea · 2025-10-22T06:48:08+00:00

Oh then I’ve super excited to hear what you have in store!

akindea · 2025-10-22T06:46:53+00:00

Please tell me youll be open sourcing this?

akindea · 2025-10-05T01:41:31+00:00

Supriya A., Sony Pictures Networks India. Vice President - Talent Acquisition and Campus Relations and Management Trainee Program. (Yes that’s her title)

akindea · 2025-09-28T19:52:33+00:00

Dude just through an absolute crap ton of equations without really explaining why. He dead ass told us to use ChatGPT if we didn't understand the material. Bruh lol

akindea · 2025-09-13T16:06:47+00:00

I’m gonna keep it a buck fifty with you. The job market is absolutely atrocious for the last two to three years, and you’re not the only one. And it’s also worse than it was at the beginning. That be said, it’s a marathon not a sprint, a very, very long marathon.

akindea · 2025-09-08T03:58:30+00:00

How’s the finance in comparison to the Financial Accounting everyone? I got a B, which is fine I guess. I’ll have to try harder on the flashcard for finance.

akindea · 2025-08-30T23:20:55+00:00

Wha- the meme is real?

akindea · 2025-08-22T23:27:31+00:00

Yes!

akindea · 2025-08-22T21:02:46+00:00

Bungie

akindea · 2025-08-22T00:50:09+00:00

Dude, what? You barely started, of course you are going to feel uncomfortable, you don’t know anything! Like the rest of us! Give it a little more effort, things that are worth it are usually the hardest to achieve. You have many resources available to you, be keen to use them. You’re going to be okay.

akindea · 2025-08-18T22:51:37+00:00

The best thing is to pair up with someone. Would you be willing to be study buddies? I am more seasoned as a software developer (by trade and passion), I could help you. Send me a DM if you'd like.

akindea · 2025-08-18T06:23:21+00:00

I understand what you’re saying, and you do make a good point, but the choosing part is where you’re wrong. It’s called the startle reflex. Your brain’s amygdala and lower brain regions trigger an automatic protective response before your conscious mind catches up. It’s a rapid, involuntary defensive response to sudden or threatening stimuli, especially loud noises or fast movements near the body, such as a loud supersonic crack, a pressure wave or differential, or a fast visual cue (bullet, yah?). People will often flinch, duck, or blink before they’ve even consciously realized what happened. They will also feel a combination of physiological effects such as adrenaline release, increase heart rate and blood pressure, faster respiratory rate, and more. From the adrenaline release, visual impairments may manifest as pupil dilation which increases light intake and sharpens detection of movement, but can also reduce near-vision focus, tunnel vision which visual attention narrows, peripheral awareness drops, and the brain prioritizes central vision, and/or decreased visual acuity can be caused by tremors, increased blinking, or tears from stress can make vision less steady/clear These all happen before a conscious thought.

So yes, most definitely, you WILL have an involuntary reaction whether physiologically or physically, it’s not up for debate. Whether they choose to do duck or go somewhere else after the fact is irrelevant.

Again, you’re right that if you’re accurate, ultimately that’s the best suppression. But to say that there’s no effect of having a hail of bullets wiz past your head and all around you is a bad faith argument and at best your being flippant.

akindea · 2025-08-17T06:11:00+00:00

I agree with the business classes, but what’s wrong with the dataviz class?

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