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zhirzhon Could a giant parasol in outer space help solve the climate crisis?

There's also the possibility of occasional space debris or solar flares striking the parasol

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zhirzhon Vuejs rejects close to 75% of outside contributions

not sure if there's a point to checking this stat this is interesting, though checkout vim. it has 0% acceptance: https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=vim/vim

zhirzhon TypeScript 3.7 Beta

I'd say it is a design smell and not necessarily code smell. Any API or data interface should try to keep "optional keys" at a minimum.

Depending on the language, `a.b && ...` could be checking either or both of the following:

- does `a` have key 'b'? - is `a.b` truthy?

zhirzhon Dynamic Periodic Table (2017)

I was awestruck by the tool web "app" and not the stuff that it covered. I am just as impressed today as I was years ago by looking at the different interactions.

zhirzhon Dynamic Periodic Table (2017)

I saw this first back in school in 2013 and was instantly blown away. It was like the perodic table came to life. Perhaps this is one of the influences that eventually led me to become a software dev

zhirzhon Show HN: A “hacky” multiplayer version of the AI experiment “Quick, Draw ”

source: https://github.com/zhirzh/quickdraw-withfriends

zhirzhon Bootstrap 4

I respect the fact that the migration guide[1] is detailed and fine-grained

[1]: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/migration/

zhirzhon JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition

It bugs me that the use of the word "inheritance" overshadows "delegation". It paints a false image of the language.

zhirzhon Competitive Programming Curriculum

> shipping technical solutions on a schedule I strongly disagree. Competitive programming (CP) simply requires you to solve, more often than not, mathematical problems and puzzles. The main focus is on getting the solution as quickly as possible with no regard for the code quality or maintenance.

zhirzhon Show HN: Dood – Google Doodles Explorer

Hi, no need to worry. It's just to notify the user that the serviceworker is registered and the the whole thing can now work offline - the pregressive webapp is installed.

perhaps it'd be better if I changed the message to something like "??? ready to go offline"?

zhirzhon Show HN: Dood – Google Doodles Explorer

This is a PWA for, well, exploring Google doodles.

It's kindof a "beta" app so I was hoping to get some feedback/criticism on how to make it better.

All help is appreciated. Hope you like the app.

zhirzhon Ask HN: Is it OK to equate “experience” to “machine learning”?

i'd argue that the "if, then" logic is present in "insight" too.

Like, if you play any card game, you can't really calculate the probabilities of cards turning up, but there are certain patterns that give an estimate of what might happen. Like in texas poker, if the cards on the table are 8H 7H 5H, and a player has 6H 10D, there's a high probability that it is a winning hand, but we can't know for sure whether it will win since we don't know what cards other players have.

I believe a poker AI might reason the same way.

zhirzhon Show HN: Browser history functioning and loopback gotcha

thanks for pointing that out. made amends.

zhirzhon Show HN: Browser history functioning and loopback gotcha

Just want to say: If you [think you] know the organisation mentioned, don't it publicly, please.

Mail me via github instead. That's all. Cheers.

zhirzhon Spirograph Simulator (2014)

I once made a tool using this: https://github.com/zhirzh/spirograph-gen

zhirzhon Spirograph Simulator (2014)

This reminds me of a similar tool I wrote over a year ago. Uses d3 for SVG features.

It's a bit cryptic about the inputs - can't really recall why I made it in the first place.

demo: https://zhirzh.github.io/spirograph-gen

source: https://github.com/zhirzh/spirograph-gen

original source: https://gist.github.com/zhirzh/27172e92ae95b4167cc1