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This reminds me of microStudio <https://microstudio.dev/>. I used it for a game design class this past semester. All the editors made it easy for my students to jump in and create. It has really great debugging tools now, too.

As a native English speaker, your writing seems beautiful and perfect to me. I would never have guessed you aren't a native speaker. The feeling of foreignness can be pernicious. You'll always wonder if a miscommunication is because of foreignness or the countless other reasons even two native speakers misunderstand each other.

Public School

This should have (2017) in the title. Source: The date heading on the projects list https://ncase.me/projects/

This is essentially Mr. Money Mustache's formula: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from...

‪Paul de Casteljau described Bézier curves before Pierre Bézier, and in the modern form (a cage of control points). Bézier defined them later, as a point and offset vectors. de Casteljau's algorithm is still used. Bézier is dead. de Casteljau lives. He was recently granted a Bézier Award.‬

‪Sources:‬

http://mae.engr.ucdavis.edu/~farouki/bernstein.pdf ‪Wikipedia‬

Can't traceability be implemented with digital signatures? WhatsApp could sign my messages with my encryption key and always forward messages with their original signatures as metadata. Wouldn't that implement traceability? I guess that's the "fingerprint" this article alludes to. I don't see the technical limitation, just a policy one. WhatsApp wouldn't need a centralized store of all messages.

Are there any plans to support modifying the grammar on the fly or without recompiling?

Is there a New Year's Day on Mars?

texliveonfly can do this, too.

The site is full of great interactive explanations. Nice work!

For every story like this, I believe there are many more in which the student simply writes their own implementation due to not invented here syndrome or engineering as a form of procrastination.

There are only so many people, so the growth rate can't stay exponential forever. Eventually it must look like an S-curve.

What does PaaS stand for? The website doesn't say. Platform? Product?

My favorite visual debugger for Python and many other languages is CodeRunner, because it's so lightweight. (Mac-only, not free.)

https://coderunnerapp.com/

According to this Reddit post, Amazon Prime Now plays the same shenanigans with the tip:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/9ji1af/p...

"Amazon will never disclose any information about specific deliveries beyond what you see in the app before and after the delivery. They will not tell you who tipped or how much. The only ways to tell if a customer tipped are cash tips and blocks with only one order completed, including instant offers, for which the earnings exceed the initial offer."

"If an offer shows a pay range, the base rate is never more than the low end of that range. For example, if you accept an offer for a 2 hour block with pay of $36-50, anything you earn for that block beyond $36 is from tips."

"Amazon does not technically steal tips, but the end result is the same as if they did. They call it variable base pay. They state in the contract that 100% of tips are passed on to the driver. This is true. However, they often lower the base rate enough so the net earnings is the minimum stated in the block offer. Think of it like a piece of string. The entire length of the string is your earnings. The right side of the string is tips and the left side is base pay. They promise never to cut the right side of the string. They cut the left side instead. It still results in a shorter piece of string."

"If the base pay plus tips ends up being more than the offered pay for the block, you will get paid the full amount. So if you accept a 2 hour block for $36-50 and get $55 in tips, you will be paid at least $55. They don't lower the base rate on every block and they don't always lower it the same amount. They say it's based on demand. For a 2 hour block, after tips, you might be paid $36 or you might be paid $80. It just depends."

"I'm not sure how Amazon determines the suggested tip for orders that include tips. I just played around in the Prime Now app and it seems like the suggested tip is a percentage of the total item cost, before shipping and tax, but is a minimum of $5. Customers can, of course, change it to whatever they want."

2016 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381791

2014 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149006

Previous discussion (2018-10): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307747

This developer is also a journalist who has written many scoops on Apple's upcoming hardware and software:

https://9to5mac.com/author/guirambobr/

This may be why Apple is upset. Is it justified?

Any idea why it appears black and white? The links say it was taken with the "Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC)", whose description suggests it can capture in visible spectra. Is Pluto really made of grey?

This strikes me as a misattributed quote. Source?

I thought you were going to say that you only butcher vegetables.

Can you please post a link to the paper?

This reminds me of the problem of designing digestive tracts for m-dimensional creatures in an n-dimensional ambient space. For example, if Pac-Man had had an anus, he would have split in two (without additional biology keeping him together).

This is similar to Vector Graphics Complexes: https://www.vgc.io/

Ego Depletion, which is related, failed to replicate in a pre-registered, 23-lab, 2141-participant replication study. [1]

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691616652873

The title should be changed to reflect that this is a branch of the government of Netherlands and not the Association of Computing Professionals.

Zarf is also responsible for reskinning the social game Mafia as Werewolves. I find it fascinating that we know who invented both Mafia and Werewolves. It's like knowing who invented Red Rover.

See Other Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Plotkin

Apple (arguably) initiated the WebGPU API development effort. Surprisingly, Apple is pushing for a shader language based on Microsoft's HLSL. Some of the others are pushing for a lower-level, non-human-readable shader binary format instead (which is what Vulkan takes in).

https://webkit.org/blog/8482/web-high-level-shading-language...

Her name is Concetta Antico. This is her website: https://concettaantico.com