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akst

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    Comment #49241807

    RE: On agents taking up your time One thing I've begun to notice is that LLMs list of a bunch of interesting stuff and raise all these thing you consider but often sometimes you ju…

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    Comment #49133538

    Oh… I assumed it was a further expansion of the ideas that with into ggplot as they all look like ggplot charts and ideas were identical I wish I could edit my original comment to …

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    Comment #49133504

    I made this a while back never finished it, but it’s a slide show of the different styles of graphics the RBA used over time https://x.com/Angus_KST/status/2057757395196293262/vide…

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    Comment #49131734

    100% agree, and for most heavy users it really doesn't really enable them to do build any kind of app they weren't already able to do before. The web platform has been shit long en…

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    Comment #49131671

    Yeah that's how I got a copy, found it on my unis digital library.

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    Comment #49131661

    I don't know I've encountered this same issue, but I've seen cases where the same stylesheet would be fetched multiple times which is quite annoying. I had to go out of my way to s…

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    Comment #49131180

    Even in the Era AI, GGPlot's API is still the best charting API. The name "Grammar of Graphics" isn't just marketing, they literally sought to write a god damn grammar to was capab…

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    Comment #49130919

    I think also the lack of framework support for things like defining a shadow root probably feeds into this idea it needs to be mutually exclusive. Elements in shadow root elements …

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    Comment #49130338

    I think it's better to think of "Web components" as "Custom Elements" they really aren't components in the way you think of components in other frameworks (which on the web introdu…

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    Comment #48804154

    Sorry buddy this is hacker news, you probably meant to enter your prompt here --> claude.ai

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    Comment #48804066

    Wish them all the best, I really respected the efforts made to normify some of ideas with unapologetic mathematic names like monads and such But then you see stuff like this https:…

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    Comment #48728492

    Is anyone else where familiar with MathML[1] and tried using it place of LaTeX? Obviously not a replacement for all usecase of the above package (like rendering existing documents)…

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    Comment #48341705

    Not disagreeing and the inability to obtain economies of scale like other manufacturing processes is part of the reason why.

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    Comment #48319487

    Yeah these are definitely some of the more well known examples, these early communist countries tended to have a lot of state capacity so if there were such things like local plann…

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    Comment #48319426

    I think you're right, I wrote my comment after skimming for stuff on planning and before getting the mobile home part. I hadn't considered trailers > The comment from here onwards …

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    Comment #48319179

    This kind of capture the point tbh > For many sectors of construction, difficulty in achieving economies of scale could be attributed to the fact that only a small number of buildi…

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    Comment #48318315

    Cheers I missed that… Updated my comment Even with that still leaves planning controls, which dictates a lot constraint’s on development. In some jurisdictions you can effectively …

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    Comment #48318156

    A question about prefab construction came up at a talk this year in Sydney with Lucy Turnbull (Former Sydney Mayor) and Alain Bertaud (planner and author order without design), Luc…

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    Comment #48305018

    > I think I was simply not very good at expressing what I was trying to convey, sorry No its, and I appreciate you taking the time to read my reply and consider my perspective here…

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    Comment #48293542

    I think you're confused, I was talking to two different points, while I'm sure I could have communicated with more precision, either missed it, it was unclear or you don't understa…

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    Comment #48289952

    > The problem with function color exists when you can't abstract over it Hopefully it's safe read this as there's no common static type between function and async function meaning …

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    Comment #48231433

    I get what you're saying here but I do think an actual dreams are at least a bit more interesting then AI output. But I do think such a comparison (to emphasis how unhelpful sharin…

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    Comment #47824810

    Don't take this the wrong way but to anyone who has read the book "The High Price of Free Parking" this contribution to this thread reads like someone who came late to a meeting an…

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