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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.

Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:12AM (#43112678)
Musk is a pretty guy, though. Remember "pedo guy?"

Given that,your retort inadvertently supports the GP.

Re:Ask HN: Web scraping based on Computer Vision? on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:26PM (#32018234)
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.

Re:Show HN: (Test-)Automation with Computer Vision on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:49AM (#32014053)
Nice! Thanks for sharing.

Ask HN: Web scraping based on Computer Vision?

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...

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