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by jacobajit 2mo ago
This is a big underutilized dataset for mapping features, eg. parking restrictions on a given street or building entrances. With something like Gemini Flash, it's cheap to systematically extract map features from that imagery. Surprise
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by jacobajit 4mo ago
Interestingly enough, there were a lot of cumulus clouds in the Bay Area this week as part of a rare late-season storm system. https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2060155061796299251
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by jacobajit 4mo ago
You really need both. Channels are a great first level, and iOS absolutely needs to implement an Android-tier version of this. But channels continue to be abused, even on Android. When all deterministic controls fail... Secondly, channels a
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by jacobajit 4mo ago
iOS really needs LLM-based notification filtering. This would take care of promotional notification spam overnight. It would even enable fine-grained user filtering like "notify when - someone is messaging me about plans for today.&quo
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by jacobajit 5mo ago
Not to be confused with Vancouver Island, British Columbia (which does not contain Vancouver, British Columbia).
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by jacobajit 7mo ago
The distinctions drawn here are particularly interesting in China. Somewhere like Shanghai, you'll see ~70% of traffic in "bike" lanes are what appear to be electric mopeds. But if you look closer, all of these mopeds technic
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by jacobajit 8mo ago
Cowork actually uses skills under the hood that give it various knowledge work abilities, so that abstraction seems to be working well: "in Cowork we’ve added an initial set of skills that improve Claude’s ability to create documents,
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by jacobajit 9mo ago
I wish there were a way to “archive” cards and passes in the Wallet app. I’d be much more likely to pass-ify my life if that were the case. The Wallet app is just too important and used frequently in time sensitive actions to clutter with c
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by jacobajit 1y ago
I feel like street-view data is surprisingly underused for geospatial intelligence. With current-gen multimodal LLMs, you could very easily query and plot things like "broken windows," "houses with front-yard fences," &q
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by jacobajit 4y ago
To be clear, wordplay seems to be all the author's doing. From the README: > When you simply open thisaidoesnotexist.com, the model names you'll see are hand curated and pre-generated by me.
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by jacobajit 5y ago
Moving to a subscription fee model is dangerous for a service that's reached saturation point. They can no longer project infinite growth in value extracted from eyeballs going into the future, and are stuck with whatever they choose t
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by jacobajit 5y ago
There is in fact significant doubt among climatologists as to the veracity of this record. While the 1913 hot spell was certainly significant, all recorded weather information at the time from surrounding locations, in combination with the
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by jacobajit 5y ago
This reminds me of the product-infrastructure spectrum of dev specialization. [1] [1] https://www.michellelim.org/writing/stop-using-frontend-back...
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by jacobajit 5y ago
The usual problem with this pedagogy is that kids get confused when presented with improper fractions (eg. 11/8), and so on. I guess this is probably still a good intuition to start with, but how did you tackle those extensions later o
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by jacobajit 5y ago
I'm a little concerned about the new Safari interface [0], which very smoothly integrates the tab/address bar with page content. For example, the background color of the page flows behind the open tabs such that it looks like one
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by jacobajit 5y ago
Naspers' market cap is 98B, yet they own 31% of Tencent which is worth 775B - am I missing something? I'm aware of conglomerate discounts but I suspect there's something else going on here.
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by jacobajit 5y ago
As others have mentioned, it does depend on what exactly you're defending against. Preemptively opening the link as the sender will send a request to TikTok, but they're not really gaining any useful data there since you just watc
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by jacobajit 5y ago
A particularly bad instance of link tracking I've found is in TikTok's link sharing feature. If you share a link from the TikTok app, it gives you a vm.tiktok.com/[xyz] link to send/post elsewhere. It gives you no indica
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by jacobajit 6y ago
I don't think we could come up with a standard x axis bounds for such a graph, since n=1000, or 1,000,000 may not be zoomed out enough to showcase the behavior approaching infinity.
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by jacobajit 6y ago
I mean, Python is the de facto beginner language and also used for professional software development (and of course intermediate data science work). Are you suggesting this is an unwise or unstable equilibrium?
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by jacobajit 6y ago
Hudson Yards in NYC is probably the most notorious example of this trend. Seems to be emblematic of a shift toward real estate as a luxury commodity investment, combined with massive developers having free rein to set up inorganic star mega
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by jacobajit 6y ago
Not all indoor fireplaces are ventilated in the US, actually. (Source: have one unventilated fireplace that is probably mostly for aesthetics and not to be used for extended perios of time)
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Leaky Abstractions and GME: Fintech’s Institutional Failure to Build(jacobajit.com)
1 points by jacobajit 6y ago|0 comments
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Leaky Abstractions and GME: Fintech’s Institutional Failure to Build(jacobajit.com)
4 points by jacobajit 6y ago|2 comments
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by jacobajit 6y ago
What is the reasoning for this rule?
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by jacobajit 6y ago
In these scenarios I usually make sure to pan over the map to see if the routing recommendation looks sane, and use satellite view to determine road conditions. I don't feel comfortable blindly following the turn by turn directions as
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Big Dijkstra Energy (CS pickup line webtoons)(webtoons.com)
3 points by jacobajit 6y ago|0 comments
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by jacobajit 6y ago
I've always wished for an external trackpad and keyboard combo in this layout, basically a Macbook without the screen to use with your monitor setup. Reaching to the side for the trackpad frequently seems much slower and less ergonomic
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by jacobajit 6y ago
They’re not hosting it, so that’s not a direct concern. It’s hosted on arcgis.org
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by jacobajit 6y ago
I think this rhetoric is a bit over the top. If anything this pandemic is going to buy China goodwill and stature based on their relatively strong posturing on the way out of crisis (vis a vis US) https://www.washingtonpost.com&#

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