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by cdrini 5y ago
I think the big change, which the author hints to at the end, is one of scale. It's not that the cool kids joined the internet; it's that absolutely everyone did. The internet went from being a small town of people, to a city of p
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by cdrini 5y ago
I never got to use the internet before the mid-90s; what do you miss about it?
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by cdrini 6y ago
This is the part I'm personally most interested in. Research generally has pretty strict ethical regulations about consent. I'm wondering if this would qualify as a violation of any of their university's or the conference&#x2
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by cdrini 6y ago
Strongly agree with your sentiment; any premeditated/composed message is held to a higher standard (and rightfully so). I'm not arguing that one shouldn't analyze the wording, but that the analysis here is flawed (for the rea
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by cdrini 6y ago
This interpretation looks flawed. You discredit the entire message based on a single word--a very general word whose meaning you pinned to a definition which results in the most negative interpretation--and you also ignore the fact that the
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by cdrini 6y ago
Why don't you use the devtools debugger? I generally find people in webdev tend to use debuggers more than other fields because it's so readily available in devtools, or with `debugger` in JavaScript.
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by cdrini 6y ago
No it's not possible. The thing that makes Sars-Cov-2 unique is its binding site in the human body. Sars-Cov-2 binds to the ACE2 receptor, which is found in just about every organ in your body. Unlike many other viruses which target re
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by cdrini 6y ago
This seems unlikely to scale out of the lab. The experiment used a "replica of the lining of our airways, made out of the same types of cells, and infected it with Sars-CoV-2 and rhinovirus". Although rhinoviruses primarily target
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by cdrini 6y ago
> Nevertheless, this was a huge change, and we decided it was too risky to include many other changes we wanted to make at the same time – so 3.0.0 is almost entirely about this big format change. I just absolutely love this sentiment!
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by cdrini 6y ago
For me, docker is just a superpower that let's me build larger, more complex applications. That's why it's worth learning. It raises the ceiling of what I'm able to create. Creating a site with multiple services that int
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by cdrini 6y ago
I think recommendation algorithms provide a useful service, but I think the main issue is that for a lot of sites there's no way to explore the content _without_ that algorithm which is heavily biased in your favour. Things you dislike
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by cdrini 6y ago
I'm not getting that tone at all. For me it's coming off as "Here's a funny little viral moment we were a surprise part of. Also, it's kind of an interesting case study in misinformation spread online."
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by cdrini 6y ago
The main key is that you can look at any file as a string of bits! And apply Huffman coding at whatever granularity you like. For text files, you're essentially applying it at the byte level (since each character is a byte (in ASCII, a
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by cdrini 6y ago
Wonderful summary and very well explained! Those graphics could be in a CS textbook :) A bit more (or perhaps another article) on how the tree can be encoded would be useful, since the total size of your compressed example would need to inc
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by cdrini 6y ago
I would argue that using something like this would result in a less readable file overall. 85% of people editing SVGs by hand have 0 interest in modifying paths by hand. They likely want to move elements around, change groups, etc. If the d
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by cdrini 6y ago
Agreed; XML is best for document trees more than just generic tree data in general. I think the meaning between attributes/child nodes is pretty clear for like ~85% of use cases. Namely: attributes are for properties of the current nod
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by cdrini 6y ago
Just because XML isn't perfect for everything, doesn't mean it's a garbage fire. XML is great for trees -- specifically document trees. So XML is used to manage the document-like properties of an SVG (elements/position,
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by cdrini 6y ago
How is XML a garbage fire? In comparison to what? Also, representing paths succinctly as text is inherently complicated. You're trying to represent a very 2D thing in a linear 1D syntax. It's not a limitation of XML, it's a l
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by cdrini 6y ago
What is the correct translation? That a bilingual human might give?
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by cdrini 6y ago
I would personally be quite against that. That's a pretty large breaking change, with no clear benefit. It doesn't make the feature more discoverable, since you still need to know that using "{}" will cause interpolation
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by cdrini 6y ago
Thank you for trying the Library Explorer :) Very interesting talk! Personally, I don't think anything there is a testament for abandoning classification trees entirely; just "common pitfalls" to avoid when building new ones.
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by cdrini 6y ago
Yep! They do. But the book-universe has largely landed on similar definitions for what a "work" is. E.g. here's GoodReads work id (in the url): https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/69741-the-old-m
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by cdrini 6y ago
Open Library has a notion of "Works" which group together editions across languages: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL63073W (Note the work id is in the url: OL6307W) If you want to get the work id for a given
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by cdrini 6y ago
Hi! I work on Open Library. The project is entirely open source, with an active community, so anyone can contribute fixes/features on GitHub: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary And yeah, searching need
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by cdrini 6y ago
Hi! I work on Open Library; sorry about that! We had a Python 3 migration that stirred the pot a little. We deployed a fix, so it should be working now! https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/4259
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by cdrini 6y ago
Hello! I work on Open Library; sorry for the bug! We recently deployed a big Python 3 migration that stirred the pot a little. The import issue should now be fixed: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pu
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by cdrini 6y ago
Hi! I work on Open Library. Yep, Open Library has public APIs, and data dumps (updated monthly) of all our books/authors if anyone needs them. https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps The project is also open sour
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by cdrini 6y ago
Hi! I work on Open Library; sorry for the issue! We recently had a big python 3 migration. Chris/Aaron just fixed + tested it, and I just deployed it to production, so it should be working now! https://github.com/intern
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by cdrini 6y ago
I've heard this argument before a lot, but I imagine it doesn't actually apply. Although the likelihood of harming another is reduced by the fact that it's night and there are fewer people around, the likelihood is increased
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by cdrini 6y ago
Strong agree for git rebase. When I write docs/teach folks about git, I almost never even mention merging. It's just generally very rarely useful, and I find it kind of makes git as a whole more of a black box. "git rebase -i

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