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Performance review, as per the linked post of theirs: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/02/19/perf/

> But when developers put AI in consumer products, people expect it to behave like software, which means that it needs to work deterministically. If your AI travel agent books vaca…

I hand-write a work journal. Just an A5 notebook and a few pens of different colors. Definitely an essential piece of my dev toolkit. I've especially come to love the free-form nat…

I also took the class that uses this OS at MIT. Absolutely fantastic. I was just browsing the class website today actually, and you can totally kinda take the class yourself. The s…

Logical properties have been amazing to work with. They're meant to make CSS rules generalize across languages with different text directions, but thinking in terms of block, inlin…

The site actually has some tutorials for creating these sorts of animations with a specific focus on perfectly looping gifs [1]. Looks like it's all done with Processing [2]. [0]: …

It's probably easier to express this sort of scale as a linear function y = mx + b, where y is the font size and x is the screen size. If you have: minFont = 12 maxFont = 18 minScr…

I'd also recommend this. There's even more information on a newer version of this course's site, 6.S081 [^1]. [^1]: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.S081/2020/schedule.html

What kind of glitches would you experience in this context without rotation minimizing frames? If the missiles are a non-symmetrical shape, I would guess that you could see some "s…