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by mbo 3y ago
Echoes of Haskell's `accursedUnutterablePerformIO` https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.10.8.1/docs... : This \"function\" has a superficial similarity to 'unsafePerformIO'
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by mbo 3y ago
I did something similar for fragrances a little while ago: https://observablehq.com/@55th/every-fragrance-at-once
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by mbo 3y ago
My employer uses a combination of Protocol Buffers (for the config schema definition) and Bazel/Starlark (for concrete instantiations). Configs are validated at build time and runtime using CEL ( https://github.com/googl
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by mbo 3y ago
"w/" is an abbreviation for "with". "w/ mice" should be read as "with mice".
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by mbo 3y ago
Okay, clearly the feminist angle has fallen flat here as I, an anonymous user, am now being accused of virtue signaling. I'll try a more lowbrow angle: This paper is what I'd characterize as "horny on main" ( https:&#x2F
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by mbo 3y ago
I would be okay with it because men are not as systematically objectified in our society and do not face the same barriers to entry to computer science as women.
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by mbo 3y ago
The choice of test images here feels super inappropriate. Surely there's a more diverse and standardized dataset for benchmarking this task than what was chosen here. I quote similar criticism from Dianne P. O'Leary: > Suggesti
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by mbo 3y ago
Somewhat off-topic: how were the diagrams in this article made? I find the handdrawn animated wobble quite pleasing.
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by mbo 3y ago
Here's a color model built on Oklch, but instead of lightness uses APCA’s (WCAG 3) contrast ratio: https://github.com/antiflasher/apcach
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by mbo 3y ago
Doesn't `sealed trait ... permits ...` and `record` satisfy that these days for Java? That's what our proto2 `oneof`s generate into.
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by mbo 3y ago
I work on a company-internal compiler. We collect analytics on what kinds of syntax and type errors engineers have been encountering, compile times, and crash reports. They've been invaluable - we've squashed some gnarly performan
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by mbo 3y ago
Check out Tiny Combat Arena - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1347550/Tiny_Combat_Arena...
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by mbo 3y ago
I don't think it's unfair to consider the opportunity cost of pursuing these things versus providing social services. Eisenhower points to a similar tradeoff in his Chance for Peace speech: > Every gun that is made, every wars
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by mbo 3y ago
The upcoming sequel has a much more robust simulation of parking requirements too: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/cities-skylines-ii/...
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by mbo 3y ago
> But it's been years since I tried notion so perhaps this has changed. It has changed dramatically.
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by mbo 3y ago
I believe https://sonemic.com/ is heading down that path. For context, I am an _extremely_ happy user (and paying subscriber) of Rate Your Music . I find the genre classifications, album descriptors, user reviews and rating
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by mbo 3y ago
I have also built an alternative as a stacked bar chart https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/bank-failures-as-a-stacked-ba...
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by mbo 3y ago
your wish is my command: https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/bank-failures-as-a-stacked-ba...
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by mbo 3y ago
For me the most useful features of Plot over other libraries are the declarative transforms: bin, stack, map, filter, etc. This means that a lot of the data munging that you would normally do before passing things off to the plotting librar
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by mbo 4y ago
Side note: OpenNEM has some of the most beautiful data presentation I've seen in a very long time. Particularly great typography and mobile performance / responsiveness as well. Open source too https://github.com/o
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by mbo 4y ago
> For a great example of this, see OCaml 5 support for effect handlers. It's basically a generalisation of exceptions, very lightweight and elegant. A similar approach is being explored for Scala 3: - https://dotty.epfl.c
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by mbo 4y ago
> There’s no separate subscription for Apple Music Classical. It’s included at no extra cost with all Apple Music subscriptions except the Apple Music Voice Plan. Bit of a missed opportunity here to provide a cheaper subscription just fo
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by mbo 4y ago
Absurd comparison - channeling is a known physical phenomenon that occurs when you fail to declump the grounds. It causes the high pressure water to find the path of least resistance through the basket and leaves the majority of the grounds
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by mbo 4y ago
The Australian public broadcaster open sources all its infrastructure for their interactive features: https://github.com/abcnews It's all very bespoke.
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by mbo 4y ago
Layoffs in Amazon Brisbane.
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by mbo 4y ago
@martinkl (Martin Kleppmann, primary author of the Automerge CRDT _and_ Designing Data-Intensive Applications) suspiciously absent from the Folks to Follow section.
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by mbo 4y ago
Was this old job Canva by any chance?
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by mbo 4y ago
Congratulations on the launch! I noticed however that all the image responses from the API appear to navigate to 404ing URLs :( Otherwise love the project!
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Pseudo-Blue Noise(observablehq.com)
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by mbo 4y ago
Additionally, SQLite in WebAssembly with a HTTP-Range-request based virtual file system greatly simplifies interactive visualisation of large datasets https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/sqljs-httpvfs (my own demo)

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