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New comment by Zedseayou in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

Zedseayou — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:03:18 +0000

I believe this wasn't added in the initial implementation of the base pipe so some didn't realize it got included later, and still does not let you use constructs like e.g. combining multiple transformations of the input on the rhs. But for most purposes it's certainly sufficient

New comment by Zedseayou in "ARC-AGI-3"

Zedseayou — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:44:03 +0000

I was a human tester (I think) for this set of games. I did 25 games in the 90 minutes allotted. IIRC the instructions did mention to minimize action count but the incentives/setup ($5 per game solved) pushed for solve speed over action count. I do recall trying to not just randomly move around while thinking but that was not the primary goal, so I would expect that the baseline for the human solutions have more actions than might otherwise be needed.

New comment by Zedseayou in "Left to Right Programming"

Zedseayou — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:36:00 +0000

Can you help me understand this situation? Almost always what I want to select is downstream of what I am selecting from, I can't write anything in SELECT until i understand the structure/columns available in FROM.

New comment by Zedseayou in "What's happening to reading?"

Zedseayou — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:30:31 +0000

Unfortunately, from the study, most of the subjects had no idea there was anything to do with a court or lawyers by the end of the passages at all.

New comment by Zedseayou in "What's happening to reading?"

Zedseayou — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:27:20 +0000

One example student in the study does not look it up and misinterprets "Michaelmas Term" as a person, presumably because it has "Michael" in it. Knowing it is even a time is half the battle.

New comment by Zedseayou in "Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure"

Zedseayou — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:56:31 +0000

I'm not sure what the behaviour is now but certainly the default a while back was that anytime someone in your contacts joined Signal you would get a message. Imo this was a crazy behaviour that immediately told you something about certain people in your contacts in a very visible way (that they were on Signal). I couldn't tell from the settings whether this was now off by default.

New comment by Zedseayou in "The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss"

Zedseayou — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 23:32:18 +0000

It was published on the 19th, this submission is just late

New comment by Zedseayou in "USCIS announces strengthened integrity measures for H-1B program"

Zedseayou — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:44:48 +0000

It used to be much more expensive to make an H1B petition so this strategy was not viable. Then they made it way cheaper, leading to the mass applications.

New comment by Zedseayou in "The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths"

Zedseayou — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 06:58:30 +0000

In the summer you have both effects - you have more direct sunlight (more vertical angle/less atmosphere attenuation) as well as the longer days. The higher apex of the sun in summer is a sign of the former as well as the latter.

New comment by Zedseayou in "Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years"

Zedseayou — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:43:13 +0000

Do you actually think sock puppets will be too expensive? The value of the bot only has to be more than $2 to justify paying it for the bot operator, and if there is monetary incentive to get upvotes/attention seems like it could pencil out (if N bots can generate some multiplier of attention)

New comment by Zedseayou in "Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)"

Zedseayou — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 01:17:40 +0000

Can you give some sense of what your wiki looks like? Like what kinds of categories do you have in there

New comment by Zedseayou in "We can do better than “same, but electric”"

Zedseayou — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 05:51:56 +0000

I don't know who you're reading that you say "no one ever thinks about economic costs of trying to do so". I feel like people think about these costs all the time - it is the comparison to costs of continuing GHG trends and climate change impacts that is really staggering.

New comment by Zedseayou in "You can change your number"

Zedseayou — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:58:36 +0000

At least personally, the privacy violation is most clear if you are not part of a community that uses encrypted messaging by default (nearly everyone I know who uses SMS/FB messenger). The fact that someone I know has downloaded Signal then reveals that they now care about using encryption, which usually has the very obvious inference that they are involved in activism/have journalistic sources/other more nefarious activity that they care about encrypting. You can usually figure out which it is if you know anything else about that person. I would not know this if Signal didn't push the information to me, since I am not going to constantly search my entire contact list to find this info.

New comment by Zedseayou in "The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)"

Zedseayou — Sat, 01 May 2021 02:49:24 +0000

Would you mind linking an image of the woodcut? I'd love to see it.