I had a similar idea inspired by xkcd:
https://suvakov.github.io/vibes/SlidingPuzzleChess/index.htm...
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#132If you just let the simulation fall apart under its inherent instability, the thanklessly maintained project is often one of the last things to fall. That seems poetically correct.
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#133Ooooh, that's fun to make topple. I kind of want to launch an Angry Bird at it.
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#134I would suggest adding the /r/ProgrammerHumor version too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/ac... The AI crank always cracks me up.
There's a recent update: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2028289544676630739?s=20
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is so many xkcd things, I didn't know which it would be.
It's 2,347. There's also 927. And 538, and who can forget 386. 936 is also a classic. 1205 is a favorite, although AI changes the scales these days. As does 303. 1838 is another good one for when CC is "thinking". 1425. Edit oh and Extrapolating out; 605.
And it's all a meta commentary on 915.
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#136Is this website intended to break HN on Android? I've never had a website lock up the HN app like this. I couldn't back out, and I was stuck in a loop when the app restarted on the same page.
App?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...
I've been using it so long, I forgot that it is not official.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
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The whole "Disabling JavaScript and then pretending to not know why websites don't work and then acting holier-than-thou about it" shtick gets old. You know sites will break. Could you just cut the bullshit with pretending to not understand broken websites?
Truly baffling, you're voluntarily disabling a critical piece of how websites expect to function and then act shocked when web sites don't cater to the >>0.0001% of users who decline to allow their site to work.
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#138It's adorable. One small criticism: instead of being stored as initial conditions with no internal forces, if the tooling allows for it it should be stored as the "relaxed" state with internal forces. As it stands, the first interaction with it causes the whole model to 'bump' because everything is actually just kinda hovering in space with no physics simulation happening and only the first interaction causes physics calculations to start.
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#139This is wonderful.
The gravitational constant is maybe a little low for my taste, but I like that I can fling a block vertically up off the top of the frame and it reappears even 5+ seconds later. Things don't get ignored out of existence. Neat.
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#140Here's a little more context about the author's motivation: https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/116162797629337132
> In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. When did things get specialized this much?
Looking through the website of the course, it's not really a general computer science course - it "explores the use of graphics in art, design and visualization contexts" and is part of the digital art program. Quite a reasonable tech stack, for that purpose I think.