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by jamessb 1y ago
Looking at the page source shows that it is vanilla JS [1] with a few libraries: * https://anseki.github.io/leader-line/ * https://barba.js.org/docs/getstarted/intro/ * https:/&#x2
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by jamessb 1y ago
> Not the same email. I'm not even sure they're both emails. The first looks like a fairly conventional mobile email app; the second looks like a messaging app. Not only does it not have a 'from' and 'to' fi
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by jamessb 2y ago
> Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school >... > Exeter is one of the nation's wealthiest boarding schools, with a financial endowment of $1.6 billion as of June 2024, and houses the world's
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by jamessb 2y ago
Apaprently there's an "Office Furniture in London" that might be it: https://www.officefurnitureinlondon.co.uk/product-category/s... Their online listings for Aeron chairs are for more like £400, but tha
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by jamessb 2y ago
"Abuse of notation" is a commonly used term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_notation
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by jamessb 2y ago
I think you probably meant to post this on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447762
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by jamessb 2y ago
> I wonder how this process worked in practice. Do you simply send your only one set of hard disks and hope for the best? No, you don't put your own disks in the Snowmobile/Snowball/Snowclone. It contains disks, so when it
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by jamessb 2y ago
The usual example used in teaching is Ansombe's Quartet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet It consists of 4 datasets with the same summary statistics, but when plotted look very different. It&#x27
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by jamessb 2y ago
It is a well-known proverb that is centuries old [1]: it's essentially a canonical way of refering to the concept of something small having big consequences. Proverbs are often contrived (e.g., "Those who live in glass houses shou
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by jamessb 2y ago
Interestingly, he prompts for "an app", and the agent proposes "using Flask and Vanilla JS". This is a somewhat strange implementation choice, as there's no need to create a `/resize` API endpoint - this could
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by jamessb 2y ago
Yes, this provides good intuition about why it is useful: the PDF of the sum of two random variables is the convolution of the original PDFs. A convolution is awkward to work with, but by the convolution theorem it is a multiplication in th
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by jamessb 2y ago
You're thinking of a "characteristic function" in the sense of "indicator function" of a subset ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_function ), which is different thing to the characteristi
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by jamessb 2y ago
Yes, this gives a misleading view of the relationship between citrus fruits. This diagram (on the Wikipedia article for Citrus) gives more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hybrid_origins_of_Citrus....
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by jamessb 2y ago
For what tasks is this better than the longstanding TheyWorkForYou [1]? > every publicly accessible document, audio recording or transcript we could get our hands on It doesn't seem like it. If I search for something e.g. "smal
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by jamessb 2y ago
> What happened is that some kid phoned up helpdesk and said they were x and they had lost their phone, can you please help me to reset my password and 2fa (because the phone was nicked, its standard operating procedure right?) Do you ha
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by jamessb 2y ago
The Software Engineering Daily podcast had an interview with Emil Ernerfeldt (co-founder and CTO of rerun) a couple of weeks ago: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2024/08/07/creating-gui...
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by jamessb 2y ago
Gov.Uk Notify does support sending letters (as well as email and SMs/text messages): https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/using-notify
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by jamessb 2y ago
I don't fully understand your requirements, but does mapnik [0] do what you need? It's cross platform (Linux, OS X, Windows, and BSD) [1] and written in C++. There are bindings for Python/Node/C++. There is also maplibre
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by jamessb 2y ago
The concepts you are looking for are the short-time Fourier transform and spectrogram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-time_Fourier_transform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram
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by jamessb 2y ago
> What makes it complex is that there are 3 layers of objects (Database, Schema, Tables) and also implicit grants given to DB object owners The main privileges systems includes Columns, as well as Databases/Schemas/Tables. You
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by jamessb 2y ago
> 2. I've no idea how to temporarily drop privileges for a single transaction. Connecting as the correct user on each incoming HTTP request is way too slow. `SET ROLE`[1] changes the "the current user identifier of the current
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by jamessb 3y ago
The page with the post-mortem for that outage now gives a 404 error, but was archived by the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20240121000935/https://status.ka... (It was discussed on HN at th
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by jamessb 3y ago
How does this compare to Felt [1]? It would be nice to have some plans with listed prices in between "Free" and "Enterprise" ("book a demo"). For comparison, Felt has $30/mo and $90/mo plans. Calling
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by jamessb 3y ago
> Some of your community maps deserve their own HN posts, such as the global submarine cable map: Other submarine cable maps have been posted to HN before [1]. The one on https://www.submarinecablemap.com is more interactive
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by jamessb 3y ago
You may be interested in this article in Communications of the ACM : Serverless Computing: What It Is, and What It Is Not? https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3587249 (pdf)
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by jamessb 3y ago
> a pill that makes your body heat up without fuss when it's cold, and lose weight along the way. A mitochondrial uncoupler like 2,4-Dinitrophenol will do this [1], but I don't think the risk of death is worth it. [1]: https:&
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by jamessb 3y ago
> Putting author names but no date at the top seems to be some sort of standard template or convention that every single paper author or institution everywhere uses since forever, since I never see dates at tops of papers. The year usual
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by jamessb 3y ago
Compare the first image in the README to the corresponding section of the "original grammar": if_stmt: | 'if' named_expression ':' block elif_stmt | 'if' named_expression ':&#x27
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by jamessb 3y ago
See Ravi Chugh's Sketch-n-Sketch work: http://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/ You might find it useful to look at the papers that cite the paper: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=22333
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by jamessb 3y ago
Was it the Person Spectrum from Microsoft's Inclusive Design Toolkit? (the axes are touch/see/hear/speak and permanent/temporary/situational) https://www.google.com/search?q=Microsoft%27s+Inclus

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