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Example YouTube videos that have "no title": - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K93zcgFsynk&ab_channel=Vsauc... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrHTI04i9yk&ab_channel=%E2%8... Thi…

The part about scurvy reminded me about the role scurvy played in Robert Falcon Scott's 1911 Antarctic expedition: https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGUox6vojOo

Tetris 99 is a neat example of how the design can result in unintuitive optimal strategies at high level play. Two mechanics that come to mind are (1) targeting bonus and (2) the f…

SRS makes it possible to build funky piece elevators: https://x.com/sukiyaki_060910/status/1876957439976726658 Also, Yakinery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ1UuE7kV_o

One example of the kind of mind games that can happen between top level Puyo Puyo players: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjeNJcCfHpo

I'm not that fast, but I often ran into the rate limit in situations where e.g. I know where the next handful of flags are, and I click in bursts.

Reminded of this xkcd :P https://xkcd.com/1168/

Fair, but it's still an impressive feat in its own right. Crash dodging comes with its own challenges, explained more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3f4T0WaDVM There are so…

Gravity at levels 19-28 is 2 frames per cell, and level 29+ is 1 frame per cell. Rolling is pretty much required to survive at level 29+ speeds. Lvl 19 (start): 140 lines Lvl 20-28…

Sometimes on quite short notice too. https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes

Spreadsheet documenting these: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zAQIo_mnkk0c9e4-hpeD...

Reminded of the Code Golf challenge to build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...

related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598284

In the two examples above, the Solar Oberth Maneuver would have it pass 1I with a relative speed of ~30 km/s. The Jupiter-only maneuver passes 1I with a relative speed of ~18 km/s.…

This looks like scenario B from this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04935.pdf Mission E-DSM-E-J-6SR-1I (15.3 km/s of delta v required): (2030-06-09) Launch from Earth (2031-11-0…

related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38539167

I used to think this way about recipe stories, but I've changed my mind about it. There are arguments about people doing this for SEO or ad revenue. But also personally I really do…

I've been considering the switch to FF, but there have been a couple of very specific annoyances that I haven't been able to find a workaround for, so I'm stuck on Chrome for the t…

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20872110 - Sep 2019 (41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37107346 - Aug 2023 (16 comments)