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Luc
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A French in Kuala Lumpur. Financial services software, retired.
  1. Luc parent
    This rule is one of the worst ones, often resulting in nonsense titles or grammatical problems.

    Another one on the homepage right now: "Samba Was Written". Ok, great.

  3. Luc parent
    It was very thin, sewed into a 'wife beater' undershirt. You wouldn't notice it even if you're looking at it. In fact I'm pretty sure it was sold for the purpose of cheating on exams.
  4. Luc parent
    Wow the kids with my new found gift of telepathy. Plugged it into an iPhone mini-jack.

    It was meant to be part of a roulette wheel prediction computer that never came to full fruition.

  5. Luc parent
    Not embedded, just dropped into your ear canal.

    I bought it maybe 15 years ago on eBay, so it's nothing new.

  6. Luc parent
    You can use a 9V battery powered amplifier with a loop around your neck to make a tiny permanent magnet placed in your ear canal vibrate against your ear drum.

    It doesn't generate hi-fi sound, but speech is remarkably clear. Great for magic tricks. Or cheating at exams I suppose.

  7. Luc parent
    Press CMD+. a couple of times to bring up a sidebar with more info and other demos.

    CMD+I will enable Immediate Mode, so that every edit you make is reflected in the output as you type.

  12. Luc parent
    > Magnetic North: Shortest surface line to the magnetic north pole (simply in the direction of the compass at your location).

    Magnetic North is the local horizontal direction of the magnetic field. But that doesn't generally coincide with the shortest surface line (geodesic) to the magnetic north pole (however you define that - there's several).

    If you followed your compass you could end up in a loop without reaching the magnetic north pole.

  13. Luc parent
    The author has done ~3 years of commercial work porting game engines, so that makes me add a lot of credence to the article.

    https://www.mobygames.com/person/1368928/antonin-carette/

  18. Luc parent
    A font is designed to have certain attributes (e.g. harmony between the letters). It is not clear that this harmony is preserved if you distort the font algorithmically. For this font the designer ensured that it is preserved.
  19. Luc parent
    Compiled to bytecode.
  25. Luc parent
    They have written some good books too.

    I especially like 'Quantum Mechanics and Experience' by David Z Albert (he's got a very peculiar style of writing that I enjoy), and 'Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity' by Tim Maudlin.

    Not easy reading, but manageable if you have a physics degree.

  26. Luc parent
    It helps to set the zoom to 200% in the menu bar.

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