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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:50PM (#48164109)
Not enough bytes?
Re:The suck is why we're here on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:52AM (#46485349)
Loose vs lose. Ask the llm
Re:The Company Man on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:10PM (#45445729)
Im enjoying reading this but struggling with the fact that the average number of words per sentence nears 150. I exaggerate, of course. But please, use periods.
Because people don’t use their phones at home?
Re:NYC Subwaysheds on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:41PM (#36262203)
From the About

"Isochrones are manually calculated using turf.js assuming 1.2m/s walking speed after the subway trip. These are simple buffers around each station/prior isochrone and do not take the street network into account."

Re:One Does Not Simply 'pip install' on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:08PM (#34859480)
Is there a canonical example of how python projects should manage dependencies and sandboxing such that other developers can just clone, install, and get to work?
Re:Why adults still dream about school on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:41PM (#32947758)
Not everything is great. But you do get to hang out with friends all day.
So the naming strategy is to call it R2, because it comes before S3? I like it
FWIW, Harlem is a neighborhood in Manhattan, and depending on where you start from elsewhere in Manhattan it's ~5-20 minutes.
Re:Vercel Serverless Functions vs. Cloudflare Workers on Thursday March 25, 2021 @05:42PM (#26585784)
One use case is validating auth tokens at the edge so you can edge cache API responses that require auth.
Or smaller
Re:Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:17PM (#23725228)
tippecanoe (also from mapbox) is fantastic software for vector tile generation. https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
Re:NASA Artemis on Friday January 03, 2020 @05:53PM (#21951178)
There's a nicely illustrated children's book written about this called The Skydiving Beavers: https://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11751

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