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How many QMS advertising panels in Sydney are near a Telstra public telephone?(observablehq.com)
94 points by mbo 4y ago|36 comments
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by mbo 4y ago
I empathize - I was a little worried about what would happen to my work if Observable shut down. But the lock-in is less severe these days. The parser, runtime and standard lib are all open-source, so you can run a full notebook in VSCode
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by mbo 4y ago
You've cited D3 but I notice that you haven't mentioned Observable's Plot[0], a Javascript GoG that wraps D3. They're both Mike Bostock libraries, so Plot is the pseudo-"blessed" D3 high-level abstraction layer
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by mbo 4y ago
This immediately reminded me of After The Flood's "London Squared" D3 module for creation of various types of cartogram visualisations of London: http://tools.aftertheflood.com/londonsquared/
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by mbo 4y ago
I decided to rebuild the OP post in Oklab just to see what would happen - https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/oklab-named-colors-wheel Turned out pretty well
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by mbo 4y ago
That was a parody tweet. In fact, the account name had "(Parody)" in it.
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by mbo 4y ago
Google Photos images have never been used for model training. It's also unlabelled UGC so I don't know this conspiracy theory has ever gained any traction. ~ ex-photos engineer
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by mbo 4y ago
> You can only download 500 photos in one go Uhh, no? https://takeout.google.com/ allows you to download your entire library at once. There's even a transfer wizard where you can export your photos to an external se
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Show HN: Genre map explorer for Spotify, a literate datavis tool(observablehq.com)
4 points by mbo 4y ago|0 comments
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by mbo 4y ago
This is frankly a disastrous impact to the usability of Observable notebooks for Free Individuals (the new free tier). From the FAQ ( https://talk.observablehq.com/t/faq-october-2022-platform-ch... ) Q: With live pub
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by mbo 4y ago
Then this is clearly a library UX problem. Him not understanding what he's doing is the point!
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by mbo 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're aware but the places where the rail lines (the coasts) are pretty much 80% of the Australian population. Australian rail is... not the greatest, but there is rail where people actually live.
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by mbo 4y ago
For those unaware, RYM -> https://rateyourmusic.com/
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by mbo 4y ago
[Shameless plug] I built a very minimal wrapper to get this working for the Observable web data visualisation environment https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/sqljs-httpvfs
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by mbo 4y ago
I like the idea but the UX of this is somewhat disappointing: 1. This is probably better implemented as a syntax highlighter, e.g. uncommon words get blocked out in red. 2. The reporting is waaay too slow because each word gets fired out in
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by mbo 4y ago
I don't understand how this isn't mitigated by a CODEOWNERS file[0]. Give the directories to the teams that should own them, and now they have absolute control over the PR review process accordingly (and responsibility of incoming
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by mbo 4y ago
Canva engineer here: we do compatibility checking of interservice contracts (Proto) to ensure that gradual deploys are always safe and can always be safely rolled back.
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by mbo 4y ago
I mean it is generated from Spotify's genre classification system by a Spotify engineer - can you fault them for that?
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by mbo 4y ago
> so they had to run all their tests for every commit Did they _have_ to? They could have run tests for affected transitive dependencies, cached build artefacts, randomly sampled integration tests on master. There's plenty they coul
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by mbo 4y ago
I work for a company with about 1000+ engineers that run a Bazel + Git + GitHub monorepo. As with all workflows it has its painpoints, but I am quite fond of it. It only needs a team of 8 to maintain all the integrations and performance op
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by mbo 5y ago
This doesn't quite appear to be the type of tool that fits the theme of the list (coreutil replacements).
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by mbo 5y ago
Rumour on the streets of Sydney is that the test instances and prod instances got mixed up in a database migration.
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by mbo 5y ago
If anyone would like to watch a comedy film about a similar topic, 1997's "The Castle" [0] is a beloved* and oft-quoted classic in Australia, that follows a family fighting the compulsory acquisition of their home for an airp
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by mbo 5y ago
You may be in luck! I think a "GitHub like community" of literate programmers could be found at Observable. See https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/a-taste-of-observable... as a quick overview. To plug my
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by mbo 5y ago
Observable's evaluation model confers a big advantage too - you're free to write the prose and define constants, variables and imports in any order you like. Multiple times have I been able to write some prose that reads well, but
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by mbo 5y ago
Hey man, this is super well done and tastefully built. Only thing I think it's missing is a link to a portfolio website or a LinkedIn. I think you've got a fantastic opportunity here to promote yourself and maybe secure an early p
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by mbo 5y ago
A more politically correct name suggested by Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute is "Corporate Memphis": https://cari.institute/aesthetics/corporate-memphis
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by mbo 5y ago
I thought exactly the same thing! For those unaware, Queensland (population 5.185 million) _still_ has yet to have a large scale outbreak since March 2020. It's common to have windows permanently open with fly screens here. And houses
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by mbo 5y ago
I will attempt to rationalise the "surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences". It is vastly preferable to the hotel quarantine system. I was the "victim" of the hotel quarantine system, when I re-entered
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by mbo 5y ago
Maybe it isn't ironic at all. This is the conclusion by Waleed Aly (quite a prominent journalist in Aus) that I read a while ago: > The British arrived with Governors, ready to assume the role of governing. [...] Then, these governm

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