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Lead grades vary across the manufacturers. A Faber-Castell or Staedtler 4B is closer to a Japanese 2B. The four Blackwings are closer to Japanese 4B, 2B, B, HB.

The Blackwing Matte is close to a FC 9000 6B.

Wooden pencils are available in softer cores that have a very different feel from mechanical pencil leads. A 0.7mm 2B or 4B lead will break easily, so they're polymer-infused, and …

I use pencil/paper extensively for notes/planning while I'm in front of the computer. I prefer softer grades because of speed and low effort. I avoided buying the Blackwing for a l…

it depends on the codebase. if there's adequate test coverage, and the tests emit informative failures, coding agents can be used as constraint-solvers to iterate and make changes,…

Agreed. Vrioon is my favorite -an exceptional album. The frequency range on those compositions is insane. Needs subs to truly appreciate it.

Nitro has no events or callbacks. To display a page, you call a function, and the return value of the function is a tuple of inputs entered by the user. You then deal with those in…

Looks similar to Nitro https://nitro.h2o.ai/ and Wave https://wave.h2o.ai/ - both open source. Nitro already works with WebAssembly via Pyodide. (Author here)

Phonetic number systems like this are commonly used by memory athletes, like the Major System[1] The usable range can be expanded further using color, smell, taste, and so on. http…

I love this! I've achieved something very similar, but for Python[1]. I believe this approach will become the dominant paradigm in the future, precisely because of what of what you…

I understand that, but it's not much of an abstraction: const pyodide = await loadPyodide(), input = document.getElementById('#input').textContent, output = await pyodide.runPython…

Does PyScript offer anything of significance over and above what Pyodide already offers, other than several py-* tags? In my experience, it's trivial accomplish this with Pyodide. …

Related, I work on Nitro[1], which already offers a polished set of widgets, and a very simple way to author web apps using Python. I'll be releasing Pyodide support this week. I a…

One of the problems with Slack/Discord desktop clients is that the message area (center column) tends to be far too wide on HD monitors (1200px+), making it difficult to read[1] an…

Related: Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper[1] > Limit each paragraph to a single message. A single sentence can be a paragraph. [...] > Keep sentences sh…

I miss RAD tools too. Visual Basic was hugely popular two decades ago. The ease of building GUIs was unparalleled. That experience carried over to some extent with Windows Forms, W…

I was assuming you were referring to a declarative approach in your previous message. The Ag Grid approach makes sense if data and vis need to be wired together programmatically.

Here's a ~4K line implementation of a useful GoG subset that you might find useful: https://github.com/h2oai/lightning/blob/master/src/lightning... It's used in H2O: https://github…

Yes. Tableau would have to separate rendering from data select/filter/aggregation, especially because integrating with customer databases live is a key use case. Hence the built-in…

This is definitely possible, and gives you a high degree of control over the visual design of visualizations. I built an experimental system to do just that - design the layout and…

This has nothing to do with the GoG. This applies to any charting library that forces you to provide both spec and unaggregated data to memory/cpu constrained clients (e.g. Javascr…

His masterpiece Semiology of Graphics is a treasure trove of novel visualizations.

> With complex marks it is ambiguous what is a data point and what is a series. I sort of agree with you. I've implemented the Grammar of Graphics from the ground up four times pro…

The overview links to the book. See: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/ > ggplot2 is a system for declaratively creating graphics, based on The Grammar of Graphics.

Even more detailed is the original book by Leland Wilkinson, on which ggplot2 is based: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/0-387-28695-0 . The original implementations go back …