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robseed··on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
Unedited AI generated code should have a different blame line than regular code, something like author_ai vs author.
robseed··on Zip Code Map of the United States
And census tools like Geocorr can translate between zip/zcta and other geographies, weighted by population or land area, without doing any spatial calculations.

https://mcdc.missouri.edu/applications/geocorr2022.html

robseed··on A very Chicago gamble
It is getting some skeptical coverage

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/24/ballys-chicago-wants...

but not enough, seems downright exploitative to me.

robseed··on Show HN: ServerlessMaps – Host your own maps in the cloud
https://protomaps.com/ is even simpler. Http range requests on a single static file.
robseed··on The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
45, certain "trap music" is a typo
robseed··on Is this the most value-dense information on Earth?
Chaitin's constant gets my vote for most valuable number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant
robseed··on Show HN: A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors
Don't most search engines use an inverted index to find the similarity between the query vector and the document vectors? (instead of doing the dot product with every document)

Maybe something like this could help: http://radimrehurek.com/gensim/similarities/docsim.html

Cool stuff, thanks.

robseed··on A beginner's cheat sheet for web development
Such a relief to see xml described as "An alternative to json".