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I'm currently reading Nation by Terry Pratchett. I have previously read all of the Discworld novels and thoroughly enjoyed them. Then last year I read the Terry Pratchett biography (also worth a read, IMO!), where it is mentioned that Terry himself thought Nation was probably his best book. Had to give it a read after that! So far it's pretty good, but I do miss the characters from the Discworld universe to be honest.
I was part of developing the Lumin-i variant of this (working for Smart Eye)! Working with the Smartbox team was a pleasure :).
The solution actually works pretty well, especially when calibrated to a single individual.
I think they do kind of answer that under the "Why not use (possibly restricted) Python syntax?".
I understand their reasoning to be that it would require other tools to know how to parse python. Which is much more difficult than parsing toml
During the first part of the pandemic I watched the lectures for the Introductory Biology course [1] from MIT OpenCourseWare. I cannot recommend those highly enough!
Almost every lecture brought up and highlighted something really cool and fascinating. Like how RNA sequencing over the last couple of years has gone from expensive to almost free, and what its uses are. Or time-lapse of bacteria adapting to antibiotics. Or just the first lecture showing a video of someone sticking a syringe into a cell. There were even some labs that could be done via a normal web browser.
For me this was so much more engaging than the biology I was thought in high school, where we mostly learned things from outdated books.
[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-016-introductory-biology-fall-...
I agree! The graphics is what made me read the rest of the article.
This article has "interactive" in the URL. Note sure, but I think this is some special articles they do with a focus on just that? I believe there have been some other examples posted here previously, like this one: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/03/upshot/a-quic...
There was a talk at gophercon that I belive goes into more detail about how this works and the cryptography behind it (I only skimmed it so far) https://youtu.be/KqTySYYhPUE
That ci infrastructure of theirs always seems super cool. Not sure if this is common when working on graphics related projects but must be extremely helpful to get a picture diff of the output.
I belive this is the result for the commit that fixed the simspon game (for some reason they never provide the link in the post): https://fifoci.dolphin-emu.org/version/58e12395c242a839ce561...
As far as I know, yes they do. The mobile version (https://m.xkcd.com) makes the alt text readable on mobile via click instead of hover btw!