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by amitp 2y ago
I'm happy with Steam on Windows but hate its behavior on Mac. It's slow and keeps stealing focus while starting up. I haven't gotten the "choose user" thing though. Cmd-Q does quit Steam for me.
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by amitp 2y ago
I use a solid box in a terminal and for coding, and a vertical bar for writing in emacs org-mode. But I recently tried out a one-third box[1] in emacs and I am really loving it! It's partway between a box and an underline. Some softwar
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by amitp 2y ago
Thanks! I'll add a note about that.
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by amitp 2y ago
You're welcome! I try to keep the pages fast loading with minimal dependencies but have varying success depending on the needs of each page.
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by amitp 2y ago
That's great to hear! Thanks!
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by amitp 2y ago
Thanks! Yes, I've been making interactive diagrams for a long time. I wrote about my motivation in 2007 [1]. In the early 2000s it was Java applets, and then I switched to Flash applets, and then HTML5 in 2011. That was also around the
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by amitp 2y ago
Author here. A surprise seeing this on HN! The context: I'm writing my own blog software for various reasons [1], including my desire to post less to social media. As much as possible I'm trying to reuse the build system for the r
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by amitp 2y ago
This is called "moral hazard", and it is something to consider. Yes, moral hazard is a danger, but doing nothing is also a danger. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22146...
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by amitp 3y ago
There are lots of variants of A* that depend on what you can assume about your graph, whether you can preprocess, how often the graph changes, etc. Contraction hierarchies, subgoals, bidirectional A*, hierarchical search, all-pairs compress
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by amitp 3y ago
I tried googling "What is the fifth book in the wheel of time series" and got 1. Wikipedia - The Fires of Heaven 2. Amazon - The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, Book 5) 3. a bunch of videos which I skipped over 4. Wheel of Tim
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by amitp 3y ago
I'd start with learning the layout model and the selector rules to get the mental model right. A lot of things clicked into place once I had a good mental model. The main idea for layouts is that the CSS layout properties like width or
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by amitp 3y ago
I agree with naet that threejs might be the thing to look at if you want to make 3d animations. My own interactive diagrams are 2d, and I often use svg with reactive data filling in the parameters. [1] I've also tried hand crafting an
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by amitp 3y ago
He's not taking commissions, although maybe he'd make an exception for wikipedia.
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by amitp 3y ago
I went back and forth but tried it, and looked at the comments I got. I decided I really liked the comments I was getting. Some asked questions. Some offered additional information. Some pointed out mistakes. It's been great!
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by amitp 3y ago
Thanks! For more pages like this, look at https://explorabl.es/ — it's a collection of visual/interactive explanations of various topics
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by amitp 3y ago
Also take a look at https://explorabl.es/
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by amitp 3y ago
Another one of my favorites has disappeared recently :-( "the sierpinski triangle page to end most sierpinski triangle pages ™" — but it's still on wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/201903222011
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by amitp 3y ago
Spiral and other coordinate systems are on my list of things to add to the page. In addition to the Paul Bourke page, I have these bookmarked: - https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/71785/converting... - h
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by amitp 3y ago
I treat it as a "living document" and update it over time, especially to update links. The last few updates: * 2023-02: used the mouse event techniques I described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770329
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by amitp 3y ago
You can briefly see the red blob logo at 7m 37s into the video. :-)
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by amitp 3y ago
Tech note (or horror story): the implementation guide's code at the bottom, which is also the code used to implement the diagrams on the the main page, is generated . I start with hex algorithms written in Haxe. I use Haxe's macr
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by amitp 3y ago
Thank you!
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by amitp 3y ago
Two ways of thinking about pointy vs flat top: 1. Pointy and flat are 60° rotations away from each other. This is what I use for animations. But it's not as useful for the math. 2. Pointy and flat are the same with x/y flipped. Th
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by amitp 3y ago
Thanks! I celebrate weird hobby web sites. Here are some of my favorites: * 59828 different definitions of "triangle center" https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/encyclopedia/ETC.html * Amazing reference o
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by amitp 3y ago
Thank you for that package! I was using that at first but then switched to the emacs 29 code.
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by amitp 3y ago
Cool! I've tried a directive and tried a component (with slots) but I haven't tried a composable, mainly because I wasn't sure how to set up event handlers that way. (I don't have a lot of experience with composables)
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by amitp 3y ago
One of the map design goals in RotMG was that players could start playing solo on the coasts, and then as they moved up towards the mountains, the area would shrink so they would be more likely to meet each other. However, when we added tel
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by amitp 3y ago
Context: I had been planning to visit adanto6840 on a road trip planned for March 2020, but then … the pandemic hit and I had to cancel those plans. But one day I will take that road trip :-)
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by amitp 3y ago
Thanks! One of the big changes when I went from Java applets and Flash applets to HTML5 (around 2011–2012) was that I wasn't limited to only the diagrams being interactive, but I could make the rest of the page interactive too. I can
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by amitp 3y ago
The way this code works, the drag motion updates some state. I can apply constraints when setting the state. Then the state drives the redisplay. I wanted to separate the constraint system from the event handling system. Libraries like jque

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