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What is SJZilla

Looks good but you can't scroll the tables on mobile

I don't know how useful it is, but this depiction of a lexical scanner in Bob Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters always stuck with me.

https://craftinginterpreters.com/image/scanning/lexigator.pn...

Great read, congratulations on giving someone another chance at life. Donating stem cells is one of the most unambiguously selfless things a person can do.

About 2 years ago my dad was diagnosed with ALS, a particularly aggressive form of Leukemia. About 30-40% of patients die within a year (at least based on the research my dad did) if they don't get a stem cell transplant. Thankfully my Dad had two brothers that were perfect matches. The one who ended up coming down was extremely trypanophobic, it wasn't a pleasant experience for him either, but two years later and my Dad's still kicking.

Hopefully whoever gets your cells has just as much luck. Either way they're lucky to have you!

Are you playing on a phone or using a high DPI monitor? By default HTMLcanvas (which most game engines use to handle text) does not take into account high DPI scaling (I would guess due to performance).

This isn't inherit to JS game engines, but I will say text quality is not usually something that game devs focus on unless text is important to their particular game.

Here's an example of a workaround to render more crisp text https://github.com/danman113/gfx-utils/blob/main/src/canvas/...

I find it hard to fault a newspaper for pushing an opinion a large majority of it's readers share [1].

Also 9/11 was literally in their backyard. If someone flew a plane into your neighbors house you'd behave pretty irrationally as well

[1]https://news.gallup.com/poll/6964/top-ten-findings-about-pub...

Can you elaborate? Did I miss Nate Cohn shooting up a mosque?

Great comic, I'm gonna go mainline some Hacker News before I crash

I don't understand, what's wrong with fdroid? Have you ever used Cydia?

I know very little about the embedded world. Does anyone familiar with that space know how this compares to SQLite?

That's very interesting because my boss is Indian and he hired only one other Indian person out of like ten new hires over the years. Then again, my company does have a lot of diversity and inclusion folks looking over the hiring process, so either D&I in my company is unusually effective or your anecdote is just an anecdote.

Maybe we shouldn't be painting millions of people with the same brush because of some patterns our brains happened to notice

I actually saw this on my trip to London last month. Definitely one of the more interesting exhibits there, part art, part historical exhibit, part philanthropy. Definitely worth a visit in person.

I agree, but that doesn't extend to top level stuff like gating content behind logins. That's kinda what I was trying to say.

Is A11y a nice to have? Doesn't the ADA mandate a certain level of accessibility on companies of a certain size.

Accessibility mostly means that the intended experience is preserved if you need to use tools like screen readers. Accessibility != User Friendly

Yeah that's just incorrect, taxes only account for [1] $1.40

[1] https://www.cbs8.com/article/traffic/gas-prices/gap-between-...

I actually met this guy before, he's been making these custom eyes for as long as I can remember. He said it took him a while to get comfortable making something water-tight enough to stick it in his eye. Last I talked to him he was talking about scaling up, hope the popularity leads to good places.

> I see the hypocrisy in HN when it comes to how it treats Meta vs how it treats Twitter

Man HN is the most Twitter hating group I've ever interacted with. I don't think I've ever seen a thread mentioning Twitter where people _don't_ complain about Twitter's moderation

Oh I agree, it doesn't apply to this particular case but it is the textbook definition of a reasonable limit on free speech. The poster I was replying to seemed to be under the impression that the first amendment protected all forms of speech. As you said, the courts have carved out many exceptions to the first amendment.

First amendment has limitations. Saying fire in a movie theater, for example. Multiple courts in a number of separate jurisdictions have ruled that the first amendment does not protect Jones in these cases

This might be the case if the US government hadn't already paid starlink for the service

Just to add to your edit: didn't Russia blow up a month or so ago? https://youtu.be/dxpMbC1QaZE

An interesting tidbit that I found in the source code is that it only accepts integers from 1 to 20. Perfectly sufficient for its use case, although not quite extendable as I would hope

Is that true? Didn't the ACLU defend the speech of Neo Nazis?

Please watch this educational video. It's a video introduction to power dynamics https://youtu.be/-yUafzOXHPE

Great write up! I still don't really see the point in pre-rendered backgrounds for PC/console games anymore though. GPUs nowadays are powerful enough and storage space is limited enough that you can just render everything realtime and it will look great.

The technique does seem like it would be a great fit for mobile, where users have limited control and efficiency is really important.

> The obsession with sex seems like an example of horseshoe theory to me. The political left is supposed to be very sex-positive, but...

I think China in general is a good example of why the 1D, and even 2D political spectrum is a bullshit abstraction.

> authoritarian communist regimes were/are so far left that they kind of wrapped around and became conservative

Placing autocratic "communist" states on the same axis as modern feminist professors makes about as much sense as placing someone like Peter Theil on the same axis as Hitler, in both cases one would have literally killed the other.

One doesn't go from tolerating gay people to persecuting gay people the more "left" they are.

> Stalin was very prudish about sex, so maybe they just don't fit into the same political spectrum

Or maybe tolerance of gay people and "leftness" are actually completely separate variables that we only lump together because we're trying to project our modern ideologies onto historical figures

Although I agree solving the housing problem will help fertility (personally I'm waiting to have kids until I get more permanent housing) it's definitely not the only thing stopping people from having kids. Rich people famously have low fertility and they don't have any trouble getting housing.

Fertility, like homelessness, is a multivariable function that requires a multitude of policies and approaches. It's not a simple dial that one can move back and fourth.

> Unless a politician actually makes the unpopular move to... massively increase fertility

There is no magic political move to increase fertility. If there was Japan would have done it decades ago.

Yup, as an American this is a pretty accurate assessment for the most part. It's also worth noting that several states actually have different systems to close the gap for people who don't fit into the medicare-medicaid-chips safety nets. In California we have medical, which adds an extra tax, but does help a lot of people who would be uninsured get health insurance. Different states will have massively different levels of care and expertise available.

For what it's worth if you have the money you can get some pretty world class care here. My dad had cancer and due to my mom's really good (publicly provided mind you, she worked for the school system) insurance got my dad great care and he's still out an about to this day