joshmaker

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by joshmaker 3mo ago
Curve looks a lot like total Hacker News volume but with a bigger spike in the last year. Would be interesting to see this adjusted relative to average content volume
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by joshmaker 3mo ago
Fun project and well executed. It would be cool if it had the option to adjust for relative volume. For example, a search for “iPhone” dips around 2025, but did interest in it decline or were there just fewer comments on Hacker News that ye
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by joshmaker 2y ago
30 seconds of googling easily disproves your claim that only one billionaire backed Trump. https://www.businessinsider.com/which-billionaires-support-d...
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by joshmaker 2y ago
Tokyo to Kyoto is 280mi/445km and it's an extremely fast and comfortable train ride.
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by joshmaker 4y ago
Recent US Traffic fatalities: 2021: 42,915 2020: 38,824 2019: 36,355 2018: 36,835 2017: 37,473 According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_... the last time the US had fewer than 30,000 tra
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by joshmaker 4y ago
In 25 years you’ve never once created a list with more than one type of object in it?
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by joshmaker 4y ago
The new error messages are much better. Take a look at this example: Traceback (most recent call last): File "calculation.py", line 54, in <module> result = (x / y / z) * (a / b / c)
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by joshmaker 4y ago
It's probably directionally accurate
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by joshmaker 5y ago
Oh please. We have multiple vaccines that have all been demonstrated to be safe and highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death from COVID in multiple studies. Ivermectin has had decidedly mixed results in very limited early tr
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by joshmaker 5y ago
These jobs almost certainly also want someone who is clean and reliable. If you are homeless, you might not have access to a shower or laundry facilities. You might have to rely on public transit (which is unreliable in many American cities
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by joshmaker 6y ago
From the article: > “We’re of course thankful for the gift and we’re thankful for any gift to our most important institutions during this time,” said Matt Haney, another supervisor backing it. “But that doesn’t mean that we should for fo
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by joshmaker 6y ago
Perfume: The Story of Murder is a terrific historical fantasy novel (the movies version is great as well), but I wouldn't take anything it says as fact.
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by joshmaker 6y ago
> In 1995, the Pew Research Center did just that, finding 14% of U.S. adults with internet access.4 Most were using slow, dial-up modem connections—just 2% of internet users were comparatively screaming along with an expensive 28.8 modem
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by joshmaker 6y ago
> rapacious unions Worth noting that Paris has famously powerful unions and yet still manages to build transit projects for much less than New York City.
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by joshmaker 6y ago
But there are other tests, the US just didn't use them. South Korea has had tremendous success with testing. > On Feb. 4, two weeks after South Korea reported its first coronavirus case, the government gave “emergency approval” for
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by joshmaker 7y ago
I don't think that SF is better than NYC for the homeless. A big difference between SF and NYC is that NYC provides shelter for people that can't afford housing and SF does not. Only 5% of homeless people in NYC are unsheltered co
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by joshmaker 7y ago
> There are other search engines than Google. Consumers can ignore Google and use another search engine, but a publisher that ignores Google won't be in business very long.
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by joshmaker 7y ago
> It tried this with plastic bins That sounded interesting to me so I tried searching for an article about it, but I couldn’t find anything that talked about Amazon using plastic shipping containers. Do you remember where you read about
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by joshmaker 7y ago
I think a lot of people would think the fact that a nuclear power plant core had exploded was evidence enough that an evacuation was needed.
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by joshmaker 8y ago
It's a case study of the unusual effects of a stroke on the human brain published to the health section of a news website. Seems like a reasonable topic for a health story to me.
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by joshmaker 8y ago
The Atlantic | NYC or Washington DC | Onsite | https://www.theatlantic.com/ The Atlantic is a digital-first media company with over 160 years of history and 36 million readers a month. Founded in 1857 and today one of the f
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by joshmaker 8y ago
Call me cynical, but I couldn't help but notice Musk seemed to be going about his effort with the maximum amount of tweeting and publicity possible.
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by joshmaker 9y ago
Two features I miss from pip-tools: 1. `pip-sync`, An easy way to ensure my local environment actually matches my defined requirements. I guess the pipenv version of this would be `pipenv uninstall --all && pipenv install` which isn
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by joshmaker 9y ago
If we accept your argument that Google can't measure the speed of a webpage then wouldn't it also follow that Google can't know if the AMP version of a page is actually faster than the non-AMP version?
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by joshmaker 9y ago
Yeah, I guess I normally don't deal with enough properties like that for it to be a big deal in my workflow. When it's come up I've generally done something like: class Foo: bar = 42 def __init__(self,
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by joshmaker 9y ago
I know the lack of multiline lambdas is a common criticism of Python, but I've never really understood it. Typing someFunc( _ => { // this is // a function // with multiple
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by joshmaker 9y ago
The Montreal Protocol was a successful international treaty to protect the Ozone Layer, so there is some precedence for countries coming together to protect our environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protoc
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by joshmaker 9y ago
From the article: > (The economists used 34-year windows to stay consistent with their original chart, which covered 1980 through 2014.)
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How The Atlantic rebuilt the front end of CityLab.com for speed(medium.com)
2 points by joshmaker 9y ago|0 comments
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by joshmaker 9y ago
Actually, we've started maintaining Nunjucks at The Atlantic (it's in the references of jasonthevillain article).

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