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suntubaon The Horrors of the Alpha Channel [video]

I find it intriguing that he's been doing the CD character for 15 years now.

suntubaon Recreating macOS’s Drift Screensaver with Rust and WASM

Hit "C" to bring up the control panel which, btw, is written in Elm!

suntubaon (Changes to grep) Time To Stop Using egrep and fgrep Commands, Per GNU grep 3.8

I think that's just the markup for a single @-sign.

suntubaon Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

Nice app - I like the workspace sharing feature.

It would be nice if "1 mm / inch" would be returned as a unitless number. I know that you can enter "1 mm in inch" but there are cases where it would help to have the calculator reduce the units for you.

suntubaon Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

Yes - there is a precedence problem. Try 2*2-3 (2 times 2 minus 3).

suntubaon Predict 3D position of flying bugs and pest to shoot down them with a laser

Supposedly the "Photonic Fence" underwent a big test in 2017:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/laser-shooting-mosqu...

"... The Photonic Fence will finally be tested later this summer in Florida, in a screened-in structure, against the Asian citrus psyllid, an invasive bug that is devastating the state’s orchards. So long as it manages to leave the bees alone — the last thing we need is more dead bees — it will then be tested in the open. ..."