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jamessb commented on Wild pigs' flesh turning neon blue in California   phys.org/news/2025-08-wil... · Posted by u/bikenaga
thaumasiotes · a month ago
As another commenter mentions, there is no blue food. (Though technically plants can be blue.)

Eyes can't be blue either.

jamessb · a month ago
> there is no blue food

Have you eveer seen a blueberry? Or a Concord grape? Or a damson plum?

jamessb commented on 3-JSON   rgbcu.be/blog/3-json/... · Posted by u/RGBCube
NoboruWataya · a month ago
I've never heard of stddata. What distro/environment provides it?
jamessb · a month ago
Nor have I; I think it is just what the developer of tree has chosen to call file descriptor 3, rather than being a wider convention or standard thing provided by the environment.

> As of version 2.0.0, in Linux, tree will attempt to automatically output a compact JSON tree on file descriptor 3 (what I call stddata,) if present

https://github.com/Old-Man-Programmer/tree/blob/d501b58ff9cb...

jamessb commented on Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org   blog.openstreetmap.org/20... · Posted by u/ikawe
stevage · a month ago
You don't need a database to serve mbtiles. If you're deploying PMTiles somewhere that doesn't support byte offset requests, then they don't really have much advantage over mbtiles.
jamessb · a month ago
That depends what you mean by needing a database. MBtiles files are SQLite database files, so you need a SQLite process running somewhere to extract the requested tiles.
jamessb commented on Visual History of the Latin Alphabet   uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete... · Posted by u/speckx
bryanrasmussen · 2 months ago
anyone have any knowledge of what libraries, visualization tools were used for this?

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jamessb commented on Material 3 Expressive   design.google/library/exp... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
mchusma · 4 months ago
my thoughts on the email design: - Comparison is strange. One email has an image, the other text. Not the same email. - Hiding the previous parts of the thread seem good by default, but how do you easily get them back? - Where is "from" in new design? - Where is "to" in new design? - I do like expanding attachment a bit so you don't have to click twice to attach a photo (for example), but I'm not sure how often some of those options are used, may be too much. I could see a photo icon and general attach icon both showing. - Back arrow looks broken in new design.
jamessb · 4 months ago
> Not the same email.

I'm not even sure they're both emails. The first looks like a fairly conventional mobile email app; the second looks like a messaging app.

Not only does it not have a 'from' and 'to' field, it also doesn't have a 'subject' field.

jamessb commented on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch   byran.ee/posts/creation/... · Posted by u/Hello9999901
iooi · 7 months ago
Which high school is teaching quantum mechanics for juniors? Is this like a crazy private school?
jamessb · 7 months ago
> Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school

>...

> Exeter is one of the nation's wealthiest boarding schools, with a financial endowment of $1.6 billion as of June 2024, and houses the world's largest high school library.

>...

>Its list of notable alumni includes U.S. President Franklin Pierce, U.S. Senator Daniel Webster, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and three winners of the Nobel Prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy

jamessb commented on How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear   sfgate.com/tech/article/s... · Posted by u/Stratoscope
nailer · 7 months ago
There’s a place in London Bridge called something like ‘London office furniture’ that regularly sells Aeron chairs for about 100 quid
jamessb · 7 months ago
Apaprently there's an "Office Furniture in London" that might be it: https://www.officefurnitureinlondon.co.uk/product-category/s...

Their online listings for Aeron chairs are for more like £400, but that's still less than a third of the price when new.

jamessb commented on Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need   arxiv.org/abs/2501.06425... · Posted by u/eunos
verdverm · 7 months ago
I chuckled when I read, in S-3.1

> Specifically, for each token t, with a small abuse of notation, we define:

jamessb · 7 months ago
"Abuse of notation" is a commonly used term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_notation
jamessb commented on The XOR Texture (2004)   lodev.org/cgtutor/xortext... · Posted by u/doener
2shortplanks · 8 months ago
A lot of this article seems to be conflating two things:

1. The ability for the code to process the error and recover from it 2. The ability to sensibly log, trace, and later for a human to understand the error after the fact

The later of these is best handled by using a tracing library systematically throughout your code to spit out open telemetr and “logging” the error within your local span. You can then debug the problem with a tool like honeycomb which’ll give you a much clearer idea of what’s going on. Having tracing in place will also help you debug in cases where you don’t have errors but your system is running slowly, doing something unexpected, etc.

This greatly reduces the problem domain you have to solve in actual error handling to just having the computer recover when something is recoverable. And in these situations it turns out that most recoverable errors are best expressed as “non-errors” once they migrate any distance from the origin of the error (e.g. the record not found turns into a standard “user not known” status return value - it’s no longer an error, but an expected behavior of the system!) So for these “short lived” errors that are either handled locally or bubbled up all the way to the top and never handled, I’ve found that Go’s native basic error framework is fine.

jamessb · 8 months ago
I think you probably meant to post this on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447762

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