jcalx

6 ms·

31.
by jcalx 7mo ago
Reminds me of Jasper Flick's Unity tutorial on hex terrain [0] which is similarly wonderfully detailed. Interesting contrast: this project uses premade tiles and constraint solving to match tile boundaries, while that one dynamically g
32.
by jcalx 8mo ago
You can see an archived list of industrial security clearance decisions here [0] which is interesting, and occasionally entertaining, reading. "Drug involvement security concerns" usually involve either actively using drugs or, wo
33.
by jcalx 10mo ago
Also see A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry's series of fortifications [0] regarding castles and their strategic importance, especially on how they were essential to local control of the area as opposed to "just" FOBs for m
34.
by jcalx 10mo ago
> Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place
35.
Judas Goats: Agriculture's Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit(agweb.com)
5 points by jcalx 1y ago|0 comments
36.
Sport Compact Car Technical Assistance Program(nerocam.com)
1 points by jcalx 1y ago|1 comments
37.
by jcalx 1y ago
For reference: the base model 2025 Toyota Camry does 0-60 in 7.0s and the quarter mile in 15.4s [0]. [0] https://www.zeroto60times.com/vehicle-make/toyota-0-60-mph-t...
38.
by jcalx 1y ago
Not exactly the same aesthetic, but the Factorio blog has examples of early concept art in a minimal line-art style (like [0]) and I actually like it! [0] https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/blog-sync/fff-420-line-art.
39.
by jcalx 1y ago
Can't wait for someone to buy boolean.exposed and teach me about some esoteric representation of booleans in memory that I'd never considered (either that or it's a very simple page).
40.
by jcalx 1y ago
Feels like something similar to the NFPA 704 safety square [0] — maybe they could copy that to mimic a relatively accepted "danger measurement" format. Also of interest: hypercanes [1], my hurricane-adjacent Interesting Wikipedia
41.
by jcalx 1y ago
This article and its associated HN comment section continue in the long tradition of Big O Notation explainers [0] and getting into a comment kerfuffle over the finer, technical points of such notation versus its practical usage [1]. The wh
42.
by jcalx 1y ago
You'll probably like this short series on fy_iceworld if you haven't seen it already: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-legacy-of-fy_iceworld-c... But yes, I was never really a 1.6 player but I felt the same wa
43.
by jcalx 1y ago
Reminds me of the classic Tyranny of Structurelessness [0] and how power accumulates out of necessity, convenience, informal networks, and so on. [0] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
44.
by jcalx 1y ago
Alternatively stated: > The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resour
45.
by jcalx 1y ago
From the linked Hackaday article: > If you don’t want to kill flies, wasps, bees, or other useful pollinators while eradicating the tiny little bloodsuckers that are the drone’s target, you need to be able to not only locate bugs, but di
46.
by jcalx 1y ago
Spot The Drowning Child [0] if we're thinking of the same one — lifeguarding is a hard job! [0] http://spotthedrowningchild.com/
47.
by jcalx 1y ago
Related PSA that drowning doesn't look like drowning [0] — people don't yell, splash, and wave like you might expect and is "almost always a deceptively quiet event". [0] https://slate.com/technology&#x2F
48.
by jcalx 1y ago
As supplemental reading see "bulk positive randomness" as discussed here [0]. It is tempting, but fallacious, to imagine "luck" as a zero-sum, EV=0 (or worse) process across every domain of life, where all upside or alph
49.
The soft body physics of JellyCar(gamedeveloper.com)
3 points by jcalx 1y ago|0 comments
50.
by jcalx 1y ago
Apple's easing function (like others) is parameterized by physical characteristics (e.g. spring force, damping) that are easier to model from first principles, but there are other parameters (overshoot distance, anticipation size, anim
51.
by jcalx 1y ago
Context, for the above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 It worked out the first time!
52.
by jcalx 1y ago
I have thought of this as knowing _about_ things, as opposed to knowing things, and not having the self-awareness to be able to differentiate between the two. I've seen this most notably in a former coworker who enjoyed watching YouTub
53.
by jcalx 1y ago
Not specifically about kings but — I recommend The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, for a very thorough look at daily life in this era. More specifically about kings, ACoUP has a great writeup [0] on royal leg
54.
by jcalx 1y ago
I generally agree with these points but I sometimes find "do X, not Y" suggestions too prescriptive to be helpful. Compelling phrasing should be context-aware and mindful of how users actually use the product, what their pain poin
55.
by jcalx 1y ago
From the title I was expecting some hardware faults that were transmissible (as opposed to merely widespread), like the classic "hardware virus" story from The Daily WTF: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-h
56.
by jcalx 1y ago
My main gripe with fingerprint sensors on the back is that it's easy to inadvertently smudge the camera lens when unlocking the phone. Some phones have/had fingerprint unlock on the side power button which is similarly convenient,
57.
by jcalx 1y ago
Reminds me of a semi-plausible mechanism for carnivorous flora from this [0] Worldbuilding Stack Exchange answer by ckersch: > Bonegrass is a white fungus which grows in wheat fields. Most of the time, the bonegrass fields are normal whe
58.
by jcalx 1y ago
The children yearn for ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ Frutiger Aero ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_Aero )
59.
by jcalx 1y ago
I enjoy his writing style, and particularly his willingness to indulge in paragraphs of dryly humorous details, usually of the technical and operational varieties. For all their flaws, he and a few others (e.g. Alistair MacLean) have a part
60.
by jcalx 1y ago
It definitely has trouble with similar species sometimes — I've noticed it recently with crows and warblers. But it does a great job generally and direct observation of the bird usually clears up the confusion.

More ›