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by wenc 2y ago
I was able to find all 10 Whole Foods in the City of Chicago in 22.6s with DuckDB. It's amazing! (there are tons more Whole Foods in the metro area, but it found the exact 10 in the city) SELECT tags['addr:c
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by wenc 2y ago
So it's GeoFabrik is the same data, but regionalized. This sounds like what I need. I already use DuckDB, so this is great. I appreciate your taking the time to share this tidbit! It's a game changer in what I do (geospatial).
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by wenc 2y ago
Fascinating use of DuckDB! Can I ask where you get official OSM PBF data from? (I found these two links, but not sure what data these contain) https://planet.openstreetmap.org/pbf/ http://download.geofabrik.
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by wenc 2y ago
It's about having a curated community. In the early days, BBSes were frequented by cognoscenti because not everyone had modems. There was a natural curation mechanism which kept the quality high. There was also moderation -- BBS system
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by wenc 2y ago
I've just been using a Samser Bluetooth foldable keyboard/trackpad with my iPhone (or iPad). It's great. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C1VSRZ59/ You don't get the large display, but
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by wenc 2y ago
My circles, centrist politics just mean "complex" case-by-case politics. By this definition, most reasonable people are centrist. We are forced to pick a team to get the numbers but our positions can and do differ from the party l
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by wenc 2y ago
Being local was an advantage. As a 15 year old kid, I met so many people from BBSes in real life who were much older than me, but we had all the same reference points because we were all local. The older folks took care of the younger folks
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by wenc 2y ago
I default to the all filter. Never used any of the other filters. Maybe that’s why. All does everything I want.
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by wenc 2y ago
Claude doesn’t render LaTeX like ChatGPT though which is a huge miss for those of us who use LLMs for math stuff.
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by wenc 2y ago
Weird. It’s infinite scroll on mine. iPad and Mac.
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by wenc 2y ago
Not sure what you mean. It spans multiple days, it’s invite scroll.
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by wenc 2y ago
I browse HN from https://hckrnews.com/ It's chronological.
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by wenc 2y ago
> Credit cards, on the other hand, can easily run you 30% on a $5 transaction here in the US, due to the unjustifiable fixed + percentage structure. Maybe it’s a little better in Canada. Are you sure it's 30%? Credit card fees are u
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by wenc 2y ago
It's the Google Docs of LaTeX. It's not strictly necessary (a shared Dropbox folder works for collaboration too), but it's a nice quality of life improvement. Analogous to Dropbox vs Rsync. Sure you can use rsync, but Dropbox
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by wenc 2y ago
Salad chain? Possibly among the younger more Westernized crowd but not a natural part of the diet. There is no salad culture in most of east Asia — folks there don’t really go for raw vegetables (pickled/fermented/steamed/sti
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by wenc 2y ago
Apple Express Transit works with Octopus cards. https://support.apple.com/en-us/118625 You don't have to unlock your phone -- just tap. If you have an Apple watch, just put your wrist to the reader. I use this all
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by wenc 2y ago
That’s right. Giftedness typically entails faster development in some areas while others areas lag. Social skills for instance is another are where the growth is uneven. A gifted kid may be advanced in their reading levels but may not yet h
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by wenc 2y ago
Ah you know. Most people don’t know much about giftedness (it’s not just an academic thing but more of a developmental thing)
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by wenc 2y ago
Gifted and high performing are not synonymous though. Giftedness is more about being developmentally more advanced and having high ability and/or potential in some area. It makes them out of sync with their peers. There are many theori
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by wenc 2y ago
I think they were trying to keep the examples simple but you’re right. Parsing CSV is a mess — DuckDB does a decent job at it with its CSV sniffer but most CSV tooling have a ton of switches for corner cases.
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Using DuckDB as a Unix Tool(duckdb.org)
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by wenc 2y ago
This kind of non newsworthy article creates narrative based thinking (“EVs bad, people stuck in car when battery dies”) when it’s just PEBCAK (problem exists between user and keyboard)
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by wenc 2y ago
> The real tough skill for a parent is being able to distinguish between a kid who's giving up at the first sign of difficulties, and a kid that's genuinely overwhelmed and unable rather than unwilling to do what they're s
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by wenc 2y ago
Instead of being so hostile toward a word that you've just encountered, how would it be if we were more curious about the concept behind it? Satisficing is a form of constraint satisfaction under certainty, which although leads to loca
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by wenc 2y ago
> As long as your kids are enjoying the experience and you're ready to stop if it becomes too much for them, you're probably doing good. I’m sure you meant it in the kindest way - that respects your kid’s interests and abilitie
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by wenc 2y ago
My parents taught me to read at age 2 and the more I read the more I wanted to read. By the time I got to kindergarten, I had already read more than all the other kids. It inculcated the love of reading in me which paid dividends throughout
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by wenc 2y ago
> We've had voice calling for over a century, yet it feels like the majority of us prefer to text most of the time these days. It depends what culture you’re from. Many cultures around the world prefer voice. If you live in a fair l
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by wenc 2y ago
I've had these and they were fine (I also grew up eating spicy foods). These might be too much for the Danish palate though.
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by wenc 2y ago
That's a very biased point of view. I use it for mathematical formulations for optimization problems and it gives me very good answers most of the time. The literature is very strong but hard to search via keywords. ChatGPT manages to
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by wenc 2y ago
And this is the power of ChatGPT. Instead of reading a ton of literature, you can ask it for algorithms in literature that map to your problem. I work in a space where I simply don't have bandwidth to read every paper out there, but a

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