stevenpetryk

I’ve always wanted to try making a smart chess board (with no moving parts; merely detecting moves rather than making them).

I’ve thought of:

- RFID. Have 64 antennas and multiplex them to detect which piece is on which square (idk much about RF so this felt tough)

- Vision with a fiduciary mark under each piece, and an acrylic board

- Hall effect sensors, where instead of knowing which piece is which, it instead assumes the normal starting position and pays attention to which square was picked up from and which square was placed onto to infer which piece moved.

I think with any of these approaches it’d be fun to make a tiny, single-PCB board.

I'm quite certain the typeface is Computer Modern (the primary font being CMU Serif, to be precise). It can be found by Googling it. I also distribute the fonts as an NPM library, since they are OFL. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/stevenpetryk/computer-modern

That would be ironic given how Drake famously performed alongside an AI recreation of Pac.

My happy millennial take is that browsers have made strides in performance and flexibility, and people are utilizing that to build more complex and dynamic websites.

Simplicity and stillness can be beautiful, and so can animations. Enjoying smooth animations and colorful content isn’t brain rot imo.

Apple’s like “oops, sorry we made 4 billion lightning cables that don’t work with new phones now!”

I suspect most don’t believe it, and in general it’s wise to remain suspicious. But I’ll continue to reassure nonetheless.

Yeah. When I’m interviewing folks at my current company, and the Q&A portion begins, I tell them they can ask whatever they want or just reclaim the time; my notes are sealed. More interviewers should operate like that.

That can be nice, but do keep in mind that shipping more files leads to a larger tarball downloaded from npm.

I believe the intention behind isolatedModules is to make compilation faster by forcing you to define types that require no inference from other files (thus, being isolated).

Not… whatever this is.

Subresource integrity wouldn't work with Polyfill.io scripts, since they dynamically changed based on user agent.

There is something kind of similar as a VS Code extension:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tonybalo...

Canvas is a blank slate to screen readers though.

probably fun

Feels truly irreversible, save moving to a new earth.

I think it would lead to China surpassing the US in terms of AI tech pretty quickly. The US is actively trying to prevent that outcome already using sanctions on chip manufacturing equipment and IP.

Apparently it could actually be beneficial to cool Yellowstone and prevent it from becoming active again.

that makes sense

I would recommend spending 5 seconds or more researching Type I diabetes.

"ex nihilo" means "outta nowhere" for the normies like me.

I'm sure they do get sued. There are credit attorneys.

Oh come on. Guy is sometimes gender neutral, but is overwhelmingly often not.

It's not really surprising that evidence points to ancient humans eating more plants. It'd be ridiculously energy-intensive to have to hunt down every meal.

What's interesting is that road wear is proportional to the FOURTH POWER (!!) of axle weight[1]. If it were taxed accordingly the taxes would be extremely different for personal cars versus 18-wheelers.

1: https://pavementinteractive.org/reference-desk/design/design...

ticks are arachnids, not insects :)

Gifting is a subset of giving.

Or the company could at least leave it easy to hack :)

Insurance is pretty cheap though. My ~$2.5k e-bike's insurance for no-questions-asked replacement in the case of theft is $12/month. Probably higher in high-crime areas but still, nothing compared to auto insurance.

Yeah, you found some jank.

No, Mafs prioritizes interactivity, not sequenced animations.

I would expect explainers using Mafs would be something like this page[1] where there are many interactive visualizations at various levels of abstraction as concepts are elucidated.

[1]: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

It might work better in terms of bandwidth/performance, but developer experience was a priority (for myself) for me in this case.