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thrway_blue123on Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain

Amazing piece of data visualization. I work with deck.gl at my day job, and it's really cool to see how far people can push it.

I have a random question - what layer are you using to draw the country borders on the base map? It really stands out, and helps tie the styling together.

thrway_blue123on Rust Learning Path from Novice to Mastery

Not to hijack the thread, but does anyone have links to similarly opinionated book lists for other languages? Like Python, C, or golang.

thrway_blue123on Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

I noticed several references to Russian pop culture in there, post-Soviet included. A fun project for sure.

1990s cartoon: https://i.imgur.com/wR4vISL.png

Several references to the same comedy show from the 90s: https://i.imgur.com/a0ACpoo.png https://i.imgur.com/tyE5l2d.png https://i.imgur.com/LLatEnI.png

The Caucasian bride (1960s comedy) https://i.imgur.com/RA3DBKX.png

Russian adaptation of Pinocchio: https://i.imgur.com/XJHwhhO.png

Tom & Jerry clone from the Soviet era (with a wolf and a rabbit): https://i.imgur.com/l9STeSD.png

There were a couple I wasn't aware of, but it was obvious from the imagery they were Russian. Like this one (lol):

https://i.imgur.com/VnLyLOq.png

This one also seems Russian, but not sure what it's for (maybe the "cyber Russia" shorts on Youtube): https://i.imgur.com/yRXrAj5.png

There is also one from Belarus (?) with Gordon Ramsay I never saw before, that one is really obscure: https://i.imgur.com/dvAVeuu.png

......and that's how you waste your first hour at work >_<