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> Sanjay (who just joined Twitter) Clarification: this comment is saying Sanjay Ghemawat joined Twitter as a user recently (new account @Sanjay_Ghemawat as of July 2026), as oppose…

It's probably not that different from rangefinder style cameras[1]. I don't think the problem with this one is with its transparent viewfinder, it's more that its output quality ju…

I am glad they also cloned the snake game. https://github.com/8bitbubsy/ft2-clone/blob/master/src/ft2_n...

I also liked how the "Be" in "to Be continued" resembles BeOS.

It sounds like you are looking for Happy Vertical People Transporters with Genuine People Personalities.

> Destination Dispatch [...] are in general worse I wonder if this is an artifact of how the author used random destinations. I worked in a building that used Destination Dispatch,…

I thought this article was going to be about graphical imagery as opposed to textual elements. I was specifically thinking about certain levels in Pragmata where they had this some…

The contest ended a few days ago, some teams have already published their writeups. Usage of LLM-based tools appear to have mixed results. For example, I think #23 place claimed to…

In that sense, this game is similar to Mosaic[1] where the clues are all initially visible, except in Mosaic the count includes all 9 cells since black squares can be placed on the…

I think the number actually runs out at 69999: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/gp-data-formats.ph... In the linked bluesky thread, they have been estimating when they wil…

If you have control over the HTTP server, a different technique is to set "refresh" in the response header[1], which makes the client fetch new animation frames periodically. This …

Related, a collection of tiny chess programs by Oscar Toledo: https://nanochess.org/chess.html

This is an interesting tool and maybe it works for the songs you need, but for classical guitar songs where printed scores are generally available, I would rather just buy those fr…

I hope this eventually ends up in https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ so I can see how unique my math functions are relative to a larger population.

Not sure about , but I sampled a few random sites from their gallery[1] and all of them have . is deprecated[2] and no longer scrolls in Firefox, but still works in Chrome. [1] htt…

Looks like they illustrate the dual nature of how line intersections in the grid map to equilateral polygons in the tiles. It wasn't obvious to me until I read the "how it works" s…

I don't think most browsers enable transliteration out of the box. Lynx does[1], but it does that using iconv, which I think doesn't use UTS #35 transliteration rules. [1] https://…

I like how retirement progress is tracked in a "freedom bar". I have heard that amount of money being described with a different f-word.

I can't find any restriction on the submission language, maybe that should be explicitly spelled out. 1000 words in German would carry a different amount of information from 1000 w…

A related concept in Chinese is 對號入座: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E... An example might be some person A saying "only an idiot with this set of very …

Also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwq-xr2fDBU