thejefflarson

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by thejefflarson 1y ago
Every Blender tutorial starts with "hit a, hit x to delete the default objects." I don't think this is a valid point.
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by thejefflarson 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by thejefflarson 2y ago
Michiko Kakutani didn't work for the Book Review. She was the chief book critic of the arts section. The Book Review is a separate organization within the NYT, with an entirely separate editing staff. Sure sometimes critics like Kakuta
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by thejefflarson 2y ago
See page two of the document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36... Seems pretty clear that they could decrypt the traffic they were interested in, they also talk about 5 years of retention of
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by thejefflarson 3y ago
And that turned out really well. I’m unclear what your point is.
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by thejefflarson 4y ago
Sure my point here was it quickly? Or routine?
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by thejefflarson 4y ago
I live right by where these birds takeoff, we heard them, and I can tell you this is a normal day of the week. Not sure "scrambled" is correct here.
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by thejefflarson 6y ago
So as a married man, I use partner: it fits with my understanding of marriage, we’re partners, we both have a hand in managing a household. It feels good to say.
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by thejefflarson 6y ago
I’m almost finished with a RISCV core in verilog targeting FPGAs: https://github.com/thejefflarson/little-cpu I’m four instructions away from implementing the compressed extensions, and probably next week I’ll tackle t
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by thejefflarson 8y ago
I wrote a small program do exactly this on OSX and Linux (Gnome): https://github.com/thejefflarson/getpasswd It accesses the OS keychain to get the right password. I don't use offlineimap -- I use mbsync instead w
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by thejefflarson 10y ago
Thanks for posting this. I encourage this crowd to to take a look at the methodology too: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...
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by thejefflarson 11y ago
Information sharing greatly increased post 9/11. See my reply to the sibling comment.
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by thejefflarson 11y ago
I don't think it is in anyway limited: https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/facilitating-an-enhanced-... As to the point about selectors, if a selector has an even remotely domestic terrorism related component,
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by thejefflarson 11y ago
The FBI most definitely has access to intelligence databases and information: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/us/25stellarwi... A key part of the FBI's mission is "to protect
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by thejefflarson 13y ago
That depends. At ProPublica we've done a bunch of visualizations with canvas and SVG in the past, and they are powerful tools. However, as part of our investigation into Hurricane Sandy flooding we knew we wanted to make a 3D visualiza
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by thejefflarson 13y ago
I'd love to chat with you. jeff.larson@propublica.org, PGP Key: https://s3.amazonaws.com/thejefflarson/pubkey.asc
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Daybreak: A Simple Key Value Store for Ruby(github.com)
1 points by thejefflarson 14y ago|0 comments
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Daybreak: A Simple Key Value Store for Ruby(propublica.github.com)
3 points by thejefflarson 14y ago|0 comments
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by thejefflarson 14y ago
The Chicago Tribune has a good series about how Big Tobacco and chemical companies have pushed for more flame retardants in everything despite health concerns: http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html
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by thejefflarson 14y ago
You can download the data behind the interface here: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/ My point being that the census data is independent of factfinder.
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by thejefflarson 15y ago
Are you serious? "Generate some copy?" Copy doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Someone wrote that, and meant to write that, you're kidding yourself if you think they didn't.
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Simpler Tiles, a new ruby-based mapping library(propublica.github.com)
4 points by thejefflarson 15y ago|0 comments
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by thejefflarson 15y ago
I went to UCSB as an undergrad for 2 years. I can guarantee if you ask -- and really listen! -- to women at UCSB, every single one would find this unwelcoming. Sexism isn't a 'culture' it is disgusting. Way to go 'bro'.
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by thejefflarson 15y ago
Not really, though I'd say it's smaller than Mapnik. TileMill (backed by Mapnik) is an amazing GUI for styling maps, and TileStache is an awesome caching server. But, really at it's heart all SimpleTiles does is convert spatial data into an
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by thejefflarson 15y ago
Code is here: https://github.com/propublica/simple-tiles Documentation here: http://propublica.github.com/simple-tiles/
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by thejefflarson 15y ago
I've seen terrible assembly but I've seen much worse C. Most programmers have relatively no sense of organization, and when unleashed with C create things far more nasty than their assembly counterparts. nasty: https://github.com/mirrors/g
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by thejefflarson 16y ago
I think we have 2 posts in the hopper about it, keep an eye on the nerd blog: http://www.propublica.org/nerds
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by thejefflarson 16y ago
Yeah, non-profit, mostly foundation grants.
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by thejefflarson 16y ago
I didn't grab the flash content, but if I remember correctly, it was a flash movie that wrapped a PDF that Dan then OCRed and cleaned up with Refine. The coolest part was that the pdf was in grid form, so Dan wrote an ImageMagick script tha
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by thejefflarson 16y ago
You can grab data from a web api, for example, geocoding: http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/wiki/Geocoding

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