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cedric_h

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cedric_h··on Corgi Insurance (YC) is a unicorn (Forbes)
I've been working at Corgi as a Fullstack Software Engineer for just shy of a year, AMA.
cedric_h··on [dead]
I made this earclipping visualizer that visually demonstrates how the technique works and provides a minimal (~70 lines with comments) implementation.

The "stepping through the algorithm" is done by way of a generator; I simply "yield" after each interesting bit of progress.

cedric_h··on Git-of-theseus: Analyze how a Git repo grows over time
It's fascinating how Git and Linux have very similar graphs. Linus writes his code and moves on; these other projects are much more ... ephemeral.
cedric_h··on Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes
TFA claims the stem cells were administered into the abdominal muscles, which may reduce the "significant risk of stem cell transplant" compared to direct injection into the liver.
cedric_h··on Why wordfreq will not be updated
There is a startup whose product is better search. The killer feature is that you pay for it, so you aren't the produdct. https://kagi.com/welcome
cedric_h··on Why wordfreq will not be updated
Ad blocker. Even just putting https://12ft.io/ in front of your link gets you pretty far.
cedric_h··on K340A: The Brain Computer of Chernobyl Duga Radar [video]
I'm not going to make any assertions as to who is right, but some of the assertions in this reddit post conflict with the data from the other articles.

> there are no photos or eyewitness accounts.

The other resources provide satellite images of excavations and eyewitness accounts from Ukrainian hunters and biologists.

Anyway. Do your own research, come to your own conclusions.

cedric_h··on K340A: The Brain Computer of Chernobyl Duga Radar [video]
ah.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-soldiers-struck-radiation-s...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/red-forest-c...

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31734

cedric_h··on K340A: The Brain Computer of Chernobyl Duga Radar [video]
source?
cedric_h··on How Spore's Creature Creator was made, 2003-2008
Lack of good UI scaling really ruins it!
cedric_h··on How Spore's Creature Creator was made, 2003-2008
Maybe my perspective is warped, but the technology feels so ahead of its time.

I've been making a bunch of weird creative tools recently, so this resonated with me.

tinkerings: https://cedric-h.github.io/linear-webgl/scroll_thick.html https://cedric-h.github.io/linear-webgl/paint_terrain.html https://cedric-h.github.io/linear-webgl/cube_editor_tutorial...

I've also been looking toward Townscaper, Spore, and Inigo Quilez's work for inspiration.

cedric_h··on Using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine
I've gotten a series of deranged preprocessor hacks from friends since sharing that repo, the possibilities are ... terrifyingly limitless.
cedric_h··on Using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine
They're both pretty chill-inducing.
cedric_h··on Using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine
woah, that's a really fun tidbit.
cedric_h··on Using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine
nice!