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Is this resident population or ambient? I've been building a UK-wide 24-hour population dataset lately, and it's really opened my eyes to how much population data is best-guess-est…

Interesting. How do they tell the difference between legitimate and forged ip owner records?

> The anubis author has stated they recognize it's an arms race, but PoW scales. The scraper wars are largely between script kiddies and people with both deep intimate networking a…

Can any LLM give you the rough pixel coordinates of an item it identifies in an image? I found that while Claude, GPT etc could describe an image, there was no way to link the desc…

In your first comment, replace “until today” with “since then” and you’re good! “Until today” is one of those English phrases that is particularly unfair on non-native speakers. Yo…

If you haven’t investigated storing in parquet format - and it doesn’t break other consumers that need your jsonl formatted files - it could be worth trialling for your use case. Y…

It’s great compression: Y sometimes a vowel, sometimes a consonant. And while not encoded on a keyboard, it still blows my mind that English has a crazy number of past tenses - and…

Speaking from the scraper’s perspective, I like proof of work; a ten year old 96-core server will cost a couple of quid to run for a few hours and will grab an absurd number of pag…

Exactly. I’m constantly amazed at how little you actually need to bypass CF, Amazon, Azure WAFs and so on (Incapsula springs to mind too). When you look at the code you’ve come up …

I suspect that introducing the calibration concept might be a case of too much too soon for some people. As far as I understand it, the various probability matrices boil down to: w…

The irony for me being that when I was first learning Polish and looking for any and all mnemonics - “ah, that word is the number nine, and that one is ten because it has an s in t…

I think I may have fallen victim to a GP midflight edit - I agree with you fwiw, it’s a stone cold fact.

> Germans are Nemci in Russian as well I wanted to check; are you implying that Russian is not a Slavic language?

Recommend looking up the pronunciation of that there afon :)

Makes sense given Welsh’s evolution from Britannic. Much to my shame, I only started visiting Wales in later life, and there’s really something in the language that grabs me quite …

It’s lovely isn’t it? There’re a good few of these things around: notably Torpenhow Hill (which killjoys dispute); and ones like Pendle Hill (which they don’t).

If you can find a way to combine this with local population to end up at pence per litre per thousand population, I bet you’d uncover some fun trends. Bet it’d also get interesting…

> what is Avon? Welsh for river.

> With Maplibre or any modern map SDK this this is standard… In practise, this doesn’t work out as visually pleasing as you’d like; labels repeat, or render partially or not at all…

> Do you know game theory? Never heard of it. The food there good? > The other devs with less moral can then outperform you. I long for the days where it’s only my moral compass ho…

Thanks for your thanks! Let me know how you get on, I’d love to know if this is a secret knowledge thing that turns out to work for other people too.

For what it’s worth, I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription, and every time I try debugging a Linux system issue, I feel sad that Claude is sooooooo confidently bad at it. Claude is n…

Completely by accident, I have a setup that sends a pdf invoice to customers a couple of days after the sale. I’m pretty sure it’s a stripe option I must’ve misclicked. Anyway- tur…

Huh, that’s interesting, I’ve been having very similar thoughts lately about what the near-ish term of this tech looks like. My biggest worry is that the private jet class of peopl…