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Coronavirus Was in U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says(npr.org)
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by sxp 6y ago
For those unfamiliar with the power of APL, see this demo of someone livecoding the Game of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 Its modern descendent are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(p
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by sxp 6y ago
Avoiding allocations is the key part: "...we avoid all the garbage". I found the same is true when trying to write high performance Java UI code for Android. If you have to do something complex each frame, make sure to pre allocat
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This is one of the reasons why I switched to alternative HN viewers like http://hckrnews.com/ which are less affected by flagging of controversial posts.
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The G2 is around 22 pixels per degree. But you lose a large chunk of resolution due to bilinear resampling. So a 22 degree virtual screen would be around 1320px wide, but have a lower usable resolution. Since people did develop with multipl
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by sxp 6y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-city-building... is one example. You build tiny homes or other self-contained high density housing and give it away for free to the homeless. Ideally, there is a spectrum of ho
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I completely agree. For those who haven't experienced Connections-style history, four episodes are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XetplHcM7aQ My favorite is this one about proto-computers that came about d
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by sxp 6y ago
Lenovo Duet: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/student-chromebo... This became my primary tablet after my Nexus 7 died. It's $300 1080p 10.1" tablet/convertible ChromeOS device.
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91-DIVOC has useful charts: http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countri... Sweden's daily mortality rate is .2 vs the US at .3 and EU at .6. All of them have a daily case rate of around 40.
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My recommendation is the Lenovo Duet: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/student-chromebo... It's a Chromebook/Android Tablet hybrid for $300. It's now my primary ereader and &quo
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The other interesting loophole is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning which gives you levitating superconductors and (impractical) hovercars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA
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I find 91-divoc.com the best site for stats and graphs. It currently shows Sweden's 7-day mortality rate as .118 and rising while the US is at .34 and rising. Both are above the global average of .108. Both countries are below the thre
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Archive link: https://archive.is/ny63x Directly submitting archive.is links appears to be shadowbanned.
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What Can Silicon Valley Expect from Joe Biden?(ft.com)
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My favorite Pico-8 game is a Factorio demake that can be played in an hour https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30631 Pico-8 also has a basic music synthesizer so you find many pico-8 songs online if you're into 8-
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> In 2013, the National Council of Examiners of Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES), which all 50 states use for licensure examination, began offering testing for software engineers. The exams were produced in collaboration with the IEEE, wh
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This post is missing some numbers to put the size of Quibi's failure in context. "Quibi spent over $1 billion on commissioning original content in its first year, totalling 8,500 short-form episodes and including over 175 shows.&q
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by sxp 6y ago
For quick 3D visualization, I've used three.js and a minimal HTML page. It has loaders for many common 3D file formats so you start with one of the samples at https://threejs.org/examples/ and hack around until it
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> It is nice to know where your p人ople came fr元m. That's an interesting way to learn kanji. I wonder if the brain can make the association with 人==people if it sees it enough times. Creating a Browser extension to automatically subs
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Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (2019)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
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On phones, I've installed node & python in it and used those systems as a powerful handheld calculator. On my tablet, I used it as an ssh client. On my VR headset, I used it to create a self-contained development environment: http
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Wow. You can even load a Winamp skin from https://skins.webamp.org/ into the player and adjust the EQ. Though, I'm not sure if I trust that OS since I see a tooltip telling me that I don't have AV installed :)
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+1 to using cheerio.js. When I need to write a web scraper, I've used Node's `request` library to get the HTML text and cheerio to extract links and resources for the next stage. I've also used cheerio when I want to save a f
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nothings' guide on how to write single-file libraries is informative if you want to write your own: https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/docs/stb_howto.t...
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> Even though we’re telling Git to do a shallow clone, to not fetch any tags, and to fetch the last 50 commits ... What is the reason for cloning 50 commits? Whenever I clone a repo off GitHub for a quick build and don't care about
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You should play https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/ to learn the mathematics of orbital dynamics required to launch something into the sun. It's really hard which is why many of our solar system probes need to bounce o
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The tutorial PDF is available for free https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5470f0aae4b08efc8c773... It provides a good intro on how to deal with 3D vectors in a 2D boardgame
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The Expanse gives the illusion of real physics, but the actual physics are pretty fake. None of the orbits of the planets or the space ships follow realistic path. One of the authors mentioned that they didn't calculate the positions o
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If you want to try this out in video game form, I recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/476530/Children_of_a_Dead... It's a more realistic space game than Kerbal Space Program and focuses on orbital co
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My favorite story about him from https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/the-unbelievable... : > When he was still a young man appearing in Toronto nightclubs and pretending to predict the future,

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