Despite 3 years of progress, AI is still worse than me at stuff I understand, but unfathomably brilliant outside my area of expertise. Wonder why this is
Padel is very unbalanced, what everyone is going for is to get ball to bounce off the opponent’s back wall and float over to your own.
Meanwhile pickleball is very balanced and apart from the 80s tennis-like net rushing, it’s just half-court tennis where you can smack the ball
Hamming's talk is so important that I reproduced it on my site. It's one of the only things on my site written by someone else.
https://t.co/kWvKdwIiOm
You don’t need permission, just a smartphone. I made this a couple years ago (source code on my GitHub) and it does the same thing:
https://t.co/ejz54VOLwe
Demos are going to be so good!
It first measures every word’s exact width once (perfectly matching the browser).
Then, for ANY box size, it instantly calculates how the text wraps using simple math. No DOM calls.
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
For my friends who are still using UV and might be a little weary about recent compromises to PyPi packages, stick this in your pyproject.toml.
You can let all of those pip users find and report the compromises...