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by jamessb 5d ago
It was probably one of the Turtle robots or a derivative of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot) One later variant is the Valiant Roamer https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/30545&
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by jamessb 6d ago
For context, this article has probably been posted as it is linked to by the "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?" blog post [1] currently being discussed [2]. [1]: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9&#
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by jamessb 1mo ago
Possibly grist https://www.getgrist.com/blog/grist-v-airtable/ ?
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by jamessb 2mo ago
I agree that the text is unpleasant to read. I also dislike the title ("What we learned when a user tried to load a massive GML file in a browser") - it's hard to imagine that someone who had tried to build a viewer for geosp
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by jamessb 3mo ago
This one's website (and a dead comment replying to you) suggests that processing the PDF in the browser, rather than uploading to a server, is a point of differentiation. However, there are older tools that do this, such as BentoPDF (w
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by jamessb 3mo ago
It makes API requests to api.soot.com (and the rendered page includes a div with id "soot-publication"). The soot site is a bit vague about their product: https://spiral.soot.com/ I've previously encountered
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by jamessb 3mo ago
I was about to link to the same "What's on the Menu" site, which I remembered being an impressive site for library digitization project years ago, but it was apparently retired in January 2025. Now [1] redirects to [2], essen
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by jamessb 3mo ago
I think this is a joke referencing Franz Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
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by jamessb 3mo ago
> a new python plotting library Whilst it's still not yet at 1.0.0, it's not that new: the first (0.1.0) release was in 2017: https://pypi.org/project/plotnine/#history
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by jamessb 3mo ago
Plotnine is heavily inspired by the ggplot2 library, which uses the + operator in the same way: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/#usage
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by jamessb 3mo ago
A photo/video editor may include the ability to upload images to a sharing service/social media. PDF viewers (like GoodReader) can download a PDF from a URL, or read it from a network drive. Obsidian has functions that need intern
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by jamessb 3mo ago
In such cases I generally prefer displaying counts of points in defined areas, rather than using clustering (e.g., when zoomed out, show counts per country, and when zoomed in more show counts for states or equivalent sub-national areas).
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by jamessb 3mo ago
Similarly, the kite article [1] states that: > The angle of attack, α, is the angle between the kite’s sail and the incoming wind. As α increases from zero, C_L increases approximately linearly until a critical angle (typically 12–18 deg
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by jamessb 3mo ago
> it reads like Claude output Yep. From the site's about page: > This site is produced with substantial help from large language models: they assist with the literature search, the drafting, and the arithmetic. https:/&#x2F
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by jamessb 4mo ago
Rather than forking PyTorch (which has issues like continually needing updates), could you create a set of linter rules instead?
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by jamessb 4mo ago
> Amplify (neé Desmos) It looks like "Amplify Education, Inc" and "Desmos Studio" (Public Benefit Corporation) are separate entities. The desmos website still shows that most of the Desmos "math tools" still
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by jamessb 4mo ago
Deep Blue? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/
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by jamessb 5mo ago
Yes, but I can currently only load the page about them via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20260430191621/https://ubuntu.co...
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by jamessb 7mo ago
Apparently the "API Layer" is "competitive", with TanStack Query and FastAPI as the leading options [1]. These are not at all alternatives to each other. [1]: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/d
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by jamessb 8mo ago
PMtiles is often used with MVT tiles, but it can encapsulate a variety of tile types: the current spec [1] has defined tile types for MVT, PNG, JPEG, WebP and AVIF (plus "Unknown/Other"). [1]: https://github.com&#x
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by jamessb 8mo ago
> I think this phrasing alone says a lot more about you than anything you typed. I'm not sure it says anything about them: "inferior court" is the term of art for any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court
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by jamessb 9mo ago
The blog post announcing the winners of the ISBN visualization bounty was posted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168838 And a blog post describing the creation of this visualization was posted too: https
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by jamessb 9mo ago
> - Skirts credit speculation and arbitrage > - Provides stable pricing in shorter term while accommodating price changes over longer term How? If you pre-pay $5, your account is credited by $5, and when you make an API request you ge
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by jamessb 10mo ago
> why when you're measuring really small things and want to be precise, you usually have a little glass/plastic cube around the entire thing too. These weighing instruments with draft shields are usually called analytical balan
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by jamessb 11mo ago
The comments I've seen from police are normally specific suggestions that designs be amended to follow the Secured by Design [1] guidelines, rather than blanket objections to building something. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by jamessb 1y ago
The Oxford Clarion has had several posts about the proposed Abingdon damn: https://oxfordclarion.uk/water-why-abingdons-mega-reservoir-... https://oxfordclarion.uk/abingdon-reservoir-is-there-an-alte... ht
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by jamessb 1y ago
I think they mean Octofriend ( https://github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend ) from Syntethci Lab ( https://synthetic.new/landing/home ).
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by jamessb 1y ago
> there is no blue food Have you eveer seen a blueberry? Or a Concord grape? Or a damson plum?
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by jamessb 1y ago
Nor have I; I think it is just what the developer of tree has chosen to call file descriptor 3, rather than being a wider convention or standard thing provided by the environment. > As of version 2.0.0, in Linux, tree will attempt to aut
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by jamessb 1y ago
That depends what you mean by needing a database. MBtiles files are SQLite database files, so you need a SQLite process running somewhere to extract the requested tiles.

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