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This reminds me of Frink https://frinklang.org/ which cleverly carries units through calculations. It borrows from many other languages and has some "clear text" commands like pare…

Also, just saw this mention of a new book from Vaclav Smil: Speed, which delves into some of these topics. https://vaclavsmil.com/book/speed-how-it-explains-the-world/

I'm a fan of Beaty's work from 1998. Nothing I've seen has been as easy to implement: leaving space in front of each car creates smooth motion. https://trafficwaves.org/trafexp.htm…

I wish this had a stepper so I could see how things change at each point in the cycle. But even without, quite cool to play with.

Did some digging: yeah, looks like they are keeping some things for themselves. https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions/298 That being said, it's hard to fault them for tr…

While default osm data is great, I've been very impressed with the partnership/collective of Overture Maps data. It's osm + esri/tomtom + corporate processing/funding. https://over…

Every time I read a piece from Nieman, it reminds me both of how much we've lost in journalism, but also that there's always hope to swing the pendulum back towards truth (well, mo…

Got a vote just for the wonderful title, which captured my feelings exactly and was SFW.

I just want the clocks. Mondaine tries, but they aren't the same. That 58.5 second rotation then pause is quite clever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock

Very handy. My math education would have gone much better if my notes weren't full of "lambda is the half stickman; sigma is upside down Q or broken E" and other really silly thing…

Can you explain the last one? What types of communications are you suggesting an arch would avoid? Otherwise, a very wise list!

Looking forward to seeing this one in action

I thought this was a repost but I was thinking of dolt which has similar capabilities but a different approach. As in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38109880

Interesting that it's not a direct "you should" but an omniscient 3rd person perspective "Claude should". Also full of "can" and "should" phrases: feels both passive and subjunctiv…

I actually found the examples to be both on theme and reflective of "If history doesn't repeat, it certainly echoes".

With some of the newest 3.x changes like copy-on-write, I find pandas getting quite verbose now as well. In a world where AI is writing the code, I guess I shouldn't complain, but …

Wasn't aware of this level of testing. $1300 for a Beagle is a big step up.

Much like X, it's what you choose to use it for. Papers are posted, approaches are debated, and loose groups form to align. It's easy to scroll past the pandering, but there is use…

Finally. I will now be able to run ~340 undecillion devices on my home network. I'll have the smartest "smart home" on the block.

I find this court response confusing, but an alt pov: Amazon wants to block _other people_ from using my ID (say, to watch prime video or access prime shipping or discounts). They …

I was surprised to see this: > If joins are necessary, we learned to consider breaking down the query and move complex join logic to the application layer instead. We often try to …

These are great books. I had them in paper, and they were great for understanding both how the 6502 worked, and metaphors for managing higher level constructs in ML.

This reminds me of EFF's Cover Your Tracks, the rebrand of Panopticlick: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ This helps you see how your browser tries to block or deflect fingerprint …