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New comment by obl1que in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

obl1que — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:18:34 +0000

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of a similar story from a friend. He, too, broke his leg and healed it quickly enough to surprise his orthopedist by riding a stationary bike. He said that initially the broken one was kinda just all by for the ride, but he thinks the circulation helped.

He too was an elite athlete (baseball).

Another friend was a bodybuilder. He said that bodybuilders do so many experiments that they sometimes know better than their own physicians. They are biohackers.

"Power users" of a product sometimes end up schooling the customer support team.

New comment by obl1que in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

obl1que — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:12:57 +0000

Musk is petty, though. Remember "pedo guy?"

Given that, your retort inadvertently supports the GP.

New comment by obl1que in "Ask HN: Web scraping based on Computer Vision?"

obl1que — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:26:52 +0000

I think this may be what I was looking for:

https://www.askui.com/askui-vs-selenium/

Looks like it has been posted on HN several times, each with very little discussion.

New comment by obl1que in "Show HN: (Test-)Automation with Computer Vision"

obl1que — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:49:25 +0000

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

Ask HN: Web scraping based on Computer Vision?

obl1que — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:06:29 +0000

Who's developing an approach to web scraping based on computer vision (CV)? I've looked for this but so far not found much beyond [0] -- although the motivations for this are also touched upon by [1].

Scraping is an arms race, of course. A simple but often successful way to fight scraping is, for instance, changing the names of classes routinely. This affects scrapers more than users, because a user doesn't see those class names, while a scraper relies on them.

Is anyone scraping using only (or mostly) computer vision on the rendered browser screen, and simulating mouse clicks and key presses?

It seems like anti-scraping measures to defeat an CV-based approach would be more intrusive to the user and thus they would be used less often.

[0] https://github.com/jimbobewenhall/OpenCV-website-scraper [1] https://incolumitas.com/2021/05/20/avoid-puppeteer-and-playwright-for-scraping/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31982964

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