It’s because there always were two types of engineers and the difference was never clear until this technology existed. Some love the craft, and some love the results.
It took me forever to realize this, but I'm pretty sure the "options" ("ghost", "melt", "evanesce", and so on) aren't anything at all, just terms that are all adjacent to "fade" which can be selected for some reason. A search for those terms in the repo doesn't come up with anything.
I was really hoping to see what the "melt" effect looked like :(
The way he animated points with an increasing z value made it click for me. Now, when I look at the formula it makes sense. The larger the value of z, the smaller your projected x and y will be. This checks out because things get smaller as they move farther away. Something that’s twice as far away will seem half as big.
Nonsense. Open the console on l any mediocre webpage and you’ll see a stream of JavaScript errors. But it’s still working. One script crashes? Doesn’t matter to any other script. Unhandled exception? Rest of the app is still working fine. Hell, that button may work if you just click it again.
And CSS syntax error causing only that single line of code to be ignored while every other line of code works fine is the very definition of fault tolerance.
Congratulations! Beautiful design, very simple and appealing. The onboarding flow filled me with optimism, which I appreciated.
That said, I bounced off at the pricing. The $30 lifetime price isn’t something I find inherently too expensive, but I need to see if the app works for me before committing to it. It was weird that if I went forward with the free trial it would automatically put me on the exorbitant $3/week price. That option was repellent and got me worried about forgetting to either cancel or make the purchase. Compounding the issue was uncertainty about whether I even _could_ make the lifetime purchase after accepting the free trial.
Then I lost momentum and started thinking about how I was about to drop $30 on an app that’s just some HN poster’s 4-month project, and I have no clue how crippled it will be if (when) you decide to shut down the API.
If you’re confident the app itself is habit-forming, I’d recommend just letting people use it for a couple weeks and then hitting them with the paywall. And when you’re asking for that kind of money and using the word “lifetime”, I’d describe how you’re going to guarantee that to the user, even if they’re the only person who ended up buying your app.
Edit: Now I’m stuck on the payment options screen with no way to delete my account. Not happy about that.
I made a simple web game using Rapier that takes advantage of the deterministic physics to prevent cheating by running physics and computing win/loss states on the server (though I stupidly haven’t implemented the high score board yet).
It’s an homage to the old Taito electric arcade game “Ice Cold Beer”
Nobody would pay to supply to the grid. If it came to that, panels would have an automatic shutoff, or some device that burns off excess electricity by doing pointless work.
No, you misunderstood the interface. While they certainly encourage you to use the weird biometric scanner it's in no way required. However you do have to have the Amazon app installed on your phone. When you open the app there's an option to reveal a QR code which you scan at the turnstiles.
Try using the thermal limiting feature in the right-hand battery menu. Any game I’m playing, I bring it down as far as I can without unacceptable impact to performance. Often I find that I can set it to 7-9 and the fan goes nearly silent without any major performance impact.
NvChad is excellent. I recently finished converting my older .vimrc-based configuration to an entirely lua-based one on top of the base NvChad setup and it‘s just perfect.
Just pinch the screen a bit and it’ll zoom out to fit the text. Clearly the site wasn’t designed with mobile in mind but there’s no need to make a big deal out of it and say it isn’t readable. I just read the whole thing on my five-year-old phone.
Since the video game developers of that era certainly had access to reference CRTs while building games, you’re experiencing something closer to how it was originally intended to be seen.
I work from home and all of my driving outside of road trips probably averages out to about 40 miles a week. Considering that I paid $15k for my ICE car, something like this would be super attractive.
Heck, it would be even more attractive if I was commuting ~5 miles a day, which is farther than I’ll ever be willing to commute.
I worked with a guy who used a DSLR as a webcam and his picture was totally remarkable over Google Meet and Zoom. The very first thing I did was send a screenshot of the meeting's tile view to a friend, asking if he noticed anything funny about one of the videos, and he easily spotted the one I was talking about.
Every time we had a new team member join the calls, they would immediately comment on this guy's ridiculously nice picture quality and ask him what kind of camera he had.