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murkle··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
A tenth of 6 euros is 60 cents, not 6 :)
murkle··on Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician
Google have just released a numerical solution to that one!

https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-deepmind/alp...

murkle··on A simple way to generate random points on a sphere
Yes, that does work basically. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001593
murkle··on A simple way to generate random points on a sphere
Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001593
murkle··on A simple way to generate random points on a sphere
Nice! Quick demo https://www.geogebra.org/m/fxmk3t6q
murkle··on Generating (almost) equally-spaced points along a parabola
Works well for flat parabolas. For "tall" ones you can get a big jump just after the peak https://www.geogebra.org/m/eft5vqbd
murkle··on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
You need 100% infill to ensure it's working for the right reason.

I've got one mostly working with quite a lot of sanding

murkle··on 0.9999 ≊ 1
Exactly, add them up and divide by 2. What's the answer?
murkle··on Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest [pdf]
.STl files are available to download and print here:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RestingBodies/suppl...

murkle··on Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
Where do you see that? I see "No significant associations were found for milk chocolate intake" and "Intake of milk, but not dark, chocolate was positively associated with weight gain."
murkle··on Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question
Sorry, this one is really terrible (also I asked for no audio) https://math-gpt.org/?video_id=6f622c5b-ccf3-408f-9db1-56d63...
murkle··on Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
Oh, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272004 looks promising

"All Wasm GC features are implemented, and the feature can be enabled once typed funcrefs (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272003) are enabled"

murkle··on Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
When will Safari have WasmGC?
murkle··on QiYi Smartcube Protocol
All messages sent to/received from the cube are encrypted using AES128 in ECB mode with the fixed key 57b1f9abcd5ae8a79cb98ce7578c5108 ([87, 177, 249, 171, 205, 90, 232, 167, 156, 185, 140, 231, 87, 140, 81, 8])
murkle··on Libg203lightsync: Lib for interacting with the Logitech G203 LS mouse
Cool! Could it work with WebHID instead?
murkle··on Affordable Wheel Based Refreshable Braille Display
Did that come to anything?
murkle··on Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM
https://github.com/evanw/OES_texture_float_linear-polyfill
murkle··on Reasons to not use your own domain for email
... and if you die when your domain has one year left?
murkle··on Decimal to fraction
Here's a good algorithm: https://web.archive.org/web/20111027100847/http://homepage.s...

Algorithm To Convert A Decimal To A Fraction by John Kennedy Mathematics Department Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 http://homepage.smc.edu/kennedy_john/DEC2FRAC.PDF

murkle··on Does there exist a complete implementation of the Risch algorithm?
Why not try the WebAssembly version? https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/xcasen.html
murkle··on Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser
... and a quick example with a very cheap USB Dance Mat https://murkle.github.io/utils/webhid/dance_mat.html
murkle··on Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser
Magic, thanks! Which model mat do you have?

It might be worth trying with WebHID instead of the GamePad API. Quick example with a joystick :)

https://murkle.github.io/utils/webhid/logitech_attack3.html

murkle··on Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser
Cool! Does that use the Gamepad API or WebHID? I'd like to get one working in the browser for one of my projects
murkle··on Desmos uses Pratt Parsers (2018)
Not really, it was in (very bad) C++ and GeoGebra is in Java. A couple of good ideas made it across (and hopefully none of the mistakes :)

PS Hi!

murkle··on Handy list of CSS font stacks for Windows and macOS browsers
Haven't checked mobile, maybe someone knows a better list
murkle··on Ableton Push 3
Similar, but with chess pieces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWaOYCLx2-Y

(using https://openchessboard.com/ )

murkle··on Andromeda Invaders: A retro-style game written in HTML5, Canvas, and Web Audio
Plot to an image first then use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...
murkle··on Hate PDF Forms? Check Out My No Code Solution
Why not go one step further and add a "Save" button which creates (& downloads) a PDF in the browser?
murkle··on A tool to detect bugs in Java and C/C++/Objective-C code before it ships
Looks active (as of 8 days ago)

https://github.com/facebook/infer

murkle··on How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013)
document\u202Efdp.exe

->

(looks like) documentexe.pdf

With the \u202e character in, what does HN do with it?

documentfdp.exe

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