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You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy(borretti.me)
8 points by jake-low 1y ago|1 comments
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by jake-low 2y ago
For anyone interested in implementing Hobby's algorithm in their own projects, I recommend the paper "Typographers, programmers and mathematicians, or the case of an aesthetically pleasing interpolation" by Bogusław Jackowski
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by jake-low 2y ago
Hi Raph! I'm the author of the blog post. I actually read your PhD thesis when I was working on this project and trying to wrap my head around splines. It was a huge help to me in understanding the landscape of the field and how to thi
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by jake-low 3y ago
It depends on the definition of a “day” that you use, but due to Mercury’s elliptical orbit sunrises and sunsets are weird. [1] It takes 59 Earth days for the planet to revolve once around its axis, but from the surface it takes 176 Earth d
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by jake-low 4y ago
There are a number of rich text editors that model documents as a flat array of characters and a separate table of formatting modifiers (each with an offset and length). Medium's text editor is one of them. This post [1] on their engin
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by jake-low 5y ago
Very cool that the author had a custom keyboard made with their keymap printed on it. Personally I like being able to type math symbols on occasion but don't do so often enough to benefit from a custom keyboard layout that I'd the
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How to Be Uncertain with Dates(datafix.com.au)
1 points by jake-low 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Covid-19 outbreak in the U.S., by county(observablehq.com)
1 points by jake-low 6y ago|0 comments
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by jake-low 6y ago
I don't think it's generally possible. The FIPS code just identifies the county (the first two digits are the state, e.g. 06 for California) and the final three identify a county in that state. So technically that column is redund
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by jake-low 6y ago
This is phenomenal. I've been scraping the data from primary sources for just Washington state for the past week [0], in order to make this chart which I hacked together last weekend [1]. [0]: https://github.com/jake-lo
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by jake-low 6y ago
This is pretty neat. A week or so ago when "MathJax turns 3.0" was on the frontpage [0], I followed a link to this very thoughtful comment [1] from 2019 by svat about the landscape of math typesetting on the web. Since then I&#x27
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by jake-low 6y ago
This looks like a great new introduction to D3. It uses Observable as an interactive playground for D3 example code, which I think is an ideal environment for teaching concepts like these. I hope this will help more folks get started in vis
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by jake-low 6y ago
The markup for the callout buttons/links on the example page [0] is just <a href="#"><em>Button text</em></a> (for outlined) and <a href="#"><strong>Button text<&#x2F
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by jake-low 6y ago
Hi HN. I built this over the weekend to visualize the spread of COVID-19 infections in my home state of Washington. I was frustrated that the DOH data and SeattleTimes maps only showed the current point in time, which made it difficult to a
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Show HN: Interactive timeline of Covid-19 outbreak in WA(observablehq.com)
5 points by jake-low 6y ago|1 comments
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by jake-low 7y ago
This is a great paper! Thank you for sharing it. I'm not an expert by any means in color theory, but I found the paper both accessible (great diagrams!) and compelling.
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by jake-low 7y ago
Fascinating read. Nelson’s ideas of an open universal hypertext system is in many was incredibly prescient of our modern web. But one thing he (and others) got wrong(1) is the concept of backlinks: the ability of a user to see, for any page
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by jake-low 7y ago
Not GP, but I suspect they’re referring to this terminal emulator: https://st.suckless.org/
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by jake-low 7y ago
I think what this is saying is that the area of the focus indicator needs to be 300 pixels, not that the longest side needs to be 300 pixels. So for your button, using a 150px by 2px underline (e.g. with “border-bottom”) would be acceptable
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by jake-low 7y ago
Folks who enjoyed this article may also be interested in this one [0] from The Atlantic, published in 1982, which chronicles the rise of the diamond industry during the 20th century. [0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine
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by jake-low 7y ago
> I find that some lenses have a different look on-axis versus off-axis, either leading to ugly smearing, or pretty twirly bokeh. This is indeed pretty interesting. It seems like double-Gauss lens designs like the Zeiss Planar and Biotar
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California Bill AB 5 Threatens Consultants(insight.ieeeusa.org)
4 points by jake-low 7y ago|0 comments
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by jake-low 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20901264
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by jake-low 7y ago
In case anyone reading this in the future cares, I learned that Chrome 49 was the last release to support Windows XP and Windows Vista [0]. Google dropped support for these operating systems in April 2016 with the release of Chrome 50. [0]:
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Ask HN: Enduring popularity of Chrome 49, 61, and 63?
1 points by jake-low 7y ago|2 comments
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by jake-low 7y ago
Definitely agree about the loss of precision. It's also a problem for machine readability and SEO. The solution I like is using the HMTL5 <time> element for semantic markup of timestamps. If you do something like this: <
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by jake-low 7y ago
For what it's worth, I just subscribed to your newsletter. I read your last couple of posts and I think they're great. Native speakers don't have exclusive rights to give advice on how to communicate. I really hope you'l
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GNU Coreutils Gotchas(pixelbeat.org)
24 points by jake-low 7y ago|1 comments
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by jake-low 7y ago
The sentence only has a few translations on Tatoeba [0], if anyone would like to contribute. [0]: https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/6943964
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by jake-low 7y ago
Huh, thanks for that, I never thought of the --- as being part of the YAML (as a document divider); I always thought of it as being part of the Markdown (as a horizontal rule). I agree with you that it's cute to be able to parse YAML f

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