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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 aske…

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 b…

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…

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…

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 JavaScrip…

Here's a GIF of the belt trick they're talking about in the paper: https://www.gregegan.net/images/DiracAnimation.gif

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 v…

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…

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…

That looks like it's from 2016 -- is this still the case? (I'm not a Dropbox user, but would like to know)

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 …

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

Demo + discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329525

Hammerspoon can do this (and way more!) for free :) https://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#winresize

These are called "pangrams". Here's a fun one that's short and makes sense: Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!

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/Unit…

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 works…

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 co…

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) r…

And interestingly, not everyone sees the illusion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27847925

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_EvHC…

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 w…

tl;dr: "Not because chemical weapons are immoral. Because they are ineffective" :'(

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.

There's an issue open for this, so they'll probably have it pretty soon: https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser/issues/8