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BretonForearm

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    Comment #49145784

    There is no "user case", it's called use case.

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    Comment #49106937

    It hasn't ever been "A.I.". N.Y.Times looks sooo ancient.

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    Comment #48917659

    Who uses an em dash in "self-censor"?

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    Comment #48813097

    Spaghetti length is made visible (quickly comparable), but it's still not sorted.

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    Comment #48796625

    Bad website. No photo, only a video, and that wants to start with an ad.

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    Comment #48790090

    spatiotemporal data

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    Comment #48790053

    Going from "SVG/Canvas is wasteful" to a tile based approach is a giant leap. Wouldn't AI suggest delta encoding of polyline coordinates and discretization of deltas as small, mayb…

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    Comment #48768907

    If I was Notch I'd send a meagre 10 million or so Zach's way out of gratitude. Karma is a thing.

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    Comment #48612256

    Cool project! > The coastlines and borders come from free geo data files Please consider another data source, or fixing this one. Crimea is part of Ukraine. Only Belarus, North Kor…

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    Comment #48612140

    There should be no line between Crimea and the rest of Ukraine. Crimea is an internationally recognized part of Ukraine, not some other country.

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    Comment #48605723

    > DuckDB effectively appeared on the scene two years ago I don't think so.

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    Comment #48601825

    So Claude Code was used to generate software that ran simulations? I don't think LLMs in and of themselves can execute simulations, esp. a specific, non-single digit count like 100…

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    Comment #48579555

    It's the only correct take, since the title atop literally says "parasitoids on bread bag tags".

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    Comment #48430184

    > "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature [...] I bet the first viewers of VHS were busier with marveling at…

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    Comment #48192169

    Out of curiosity, why wouldn't it work?

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    Comment #48092059

    That horrible website overrides web page scrolling and disables pinch zoom. Bad!

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    Comment #48086366

    Yes, I meant internal docs, in line with the topic at hand.

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    Comment #48072061

    Many of us had CC routinely generate HTML ever since it became available. Surprised that it's presented as some kind of novelty.

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    Comment #47728899

    You may find Jenő Bory's castle interesting too: https://bory-var.hu/en

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    Comment #47319503

    Besides what others said. The "The Numbers" section is a dead giveaway. LLM likes to generate random summary stats in a metrics grid without any prompting.