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by thedirt0115 3y ago
Consider owning an ETL system where users can create periodic jobs, like calculating a "daily active user" rollup table from a bunch of event source tables. Now consider being asked to switch the query execution engine from A to
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by thedirt0115 3y ago
This got me interested as well. I couldn't find the specific incident they were referring to with a brief search, but I did find this, which implies that toll data can be and has been used in child custody disputes, etc: https:/
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
There is a rule variation that disables confirmation of whether the person you're voting off was a crewmate or imposter --- this variation makes the "kill, self-report, blame other person" strategy viable. It's a simple
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
Here is a GIF demonstrating the tangent line as a point traverses a curve: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images/wp-content... The "pencil" (the short line representing the tangent) is green when
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! It would be great if the hover text for the tools also displayed the keyboard shortcuts that I found in the nice and easy-to-read JavaScript :)
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
Here's a GIF of the belt trick they're talking about in the paper: https://www.gregegan.net/images/DiracAnimation.gif
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
Don't be afraid to put unfinished code or code without tests up on GitHub -- just mention in your README that it's not production-ready yet or something. It still has educational value for the community. Maybe someone will even
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
I too miss Flash games, but there are still tons and tons of free indie games on the web. Have you checked out itch.io, for example? There are ~90k free HTML5 games [1]. [1]: https://itch.io/games/html5
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
There's a billiards simulator/game[1] that uses event prediction instead of step-based physics for realistic and reproducible results. It solves the equations of motion to find the next event, animates to that point, and continue
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
That looks like it's from 2016 -- is this still the case? (I'm not a Dropbox user, but would like to know)
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
The author was a mechanical engineering professor who loves pool. These slow motion videos are more physics demonstrations than instructional. Not many people know how to jump the cue ball legally, and even fewer know how to control the sp
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
Dr. Dave is awesome. If you like this, you might also like "Amateur Physics for the Amateur Pool Player" -- http://www.sfbilliards.com/Misc/Shepard_apapp.pdf
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
Demo + discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329525
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
Hammerspoon can do this (and way more!) for free :) https://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#winresize
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
These are called "pangrams". Here's a fun one that's short and makes sense: Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
This is correct, they released the source code a couple years ago under a reference license. https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/03/26/releasing-the-unity-c-s... https://github.com/Unity-Technologi
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
My Lua isn't strong, but I think this is what you're looking for: Data structure initialization: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/data/core/doc/init.l... How insertion wor
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
AutoHotkey can do this "caps lock as both escape and control" thing too. I use this, from http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Map_caps_lock_to_escape_in_Windows : ; Author: fwompner gmail com #InstallKeybdHook
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
I agree that it would be nice if the learner was given some instruction on how to experiment right away. I'd recommend https://regex101.com/ as a tool to complement this (or any) regex tutorial, as well as when you&#x
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
And interestingly, not everyone sees the illusion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27847925
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
One of the featured games is Kine, a cool looking 3D puzzle game. The creator, Gwen Frey, just did a great GDC talk, "The Kine Postmortem": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDG_EvHCIxQ
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by thedirt0115 6y ago
I'm not into 3D printing, so I'm unsure of what viable means in that context, but for photogrammetry in general, I've had success generating 3D models of little figurines/statues with just a bunch (~15-20) of photos from
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
tl;dr: "Not because chemical weapons are immoral. Because they are ineffective" :'(
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Another sports sim that is incredibly close to real life is Virtual Pool 4. It looks quite dated, but no other game has more realistic billiard physics that I know of.
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
There's an issue open for this, so they'll probably have it pretty soon: https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser/issues/8
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Hopefully you are in a better situation now. For anyone who is currently homeless, but wants to be counted, the census bureau has the following plans: March 30, 2020: Counting people who are in shelters. March 31, 2020: Counting people at
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I didn't say there wasn't pattern matching in video games, I said that pattern matching is only part of being an expert. To use your FPS example, knowing all of those things still doesn't matter if you miss every shot. Anot
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Being an expert is certainly not "just pattern matching" for physical sports, music, real-time video games, and many, many other things. Not only does one need to see the pattern, but they must be able to physically make their bo
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I'm pretty interested in the morals/law discussion we'll need to have soon when we have creation of embryos without needing exactly two parents, plus the ability for the embryo to develop to term in an artificial uterus (no h
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
They may not resize the browser window often, but when they do, it fires a lot of events with a lot of resolutions depending on how exactly they move the mouse to the desired position. Try opening your browser console, paste the code below

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