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Death to px, long live ch

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Death to px, long live ch

Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares. In CSS, pixels are a double lie: Note that 1px doesn't necessarily equal one physical device pixel. On HD displays, it may span multiple physical pixels. Similarly, 1cm in CSS often doesn't correspond to one hundredth of SI…

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Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares. In CSS, pixels are a double lie: Note that 1px doesn't necessarily equal one physical...

Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests

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Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests

Coconut oil jet fuel matched kerosene's efficiency in engine tests and cut hydrocarbon emissions, a new study in the journal Fuel finds.

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Coconut oil jet fuel matched kerosene's efficiency in engine tests and cut hydrocarbon emissions, a new study in the journal Fuel finds. Source: studyfinds.com (153 points, 184 comments) Hacker News discussion

Fable and the end of the free lunch

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Fable and the end of the free lunch

There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over.

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There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over. Source: dbreunig.com (122 points...

Things I want in a modern relational query language

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Things I want in a modern relational query language

This was a very old draft I’ve had sitting around for years. The recent discussions of new query languages like Acadia spurred me to revisit, revise, and publish this. I think one of the biggest causes of NoSQL is that… Continue reading →

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This was a very old draft I’ve had sitting around for years. The recent discussions of new query languages like Acadia spurred me to revisit, revise, and publish this. I think one of the biggest causes of NoSQL is that… Continue reading → Source...

The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities

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The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities

The COVID-19 pandemic called into question the economic vitality of U.S. cities. The rise of remote work meant employees experienced zero-minute commutes and a greater ability to balance their work and home lives. Cities, however, confronted the possibility that fewer people would choose to live and work in urban areas. For cities, this economic risk has also posed a budget risk: Cities’ primary revenue sources—property taxes, sales taxes, and income taxes—are typically influenced by the value of office buildings and the wages and spending of office workers.

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The COVID-19 pandemic called into question the economic vitality of U.S. cities. The rise of remote work meant employees experienced zero-minute commutes and a greater ability to balance their work and home lives. Cities, however, confronted the possibility...

Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree

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Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree

Git worktree, run multiple branches in parallel directories to juggle features, hotfixes and testing without stashing or constant checkouts.

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Git worktree, run multiple branches in parallel directories to juggle features, hotfixes and testing without stashing or constant checkouts. Source: barrd.dev (24 points, 15 comments) Hacker News discussion