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I think you misunderstood this. This is not an illusion of objects from different angles, but an unintuitive transformation of geometry.

Better URL:

https://journalofillusion.net/index.php/joi/article/view/983...

Galaxies, like people, are made of ordinary matter, and we can use the laws of physics to predict how they should move.

Pictures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_o...

It's still a useful generic exercise for beginners. Although I recommend starting with a simpler syntax like sexpr, you can get more practice with less code.

For a deeper exercise, I recommend compiling to machine code instead of stopping at bytecode [1]; you can learn assembly along the way, which is more satisfying than compiling to C.

[1] https://github.com/byo-books/pretty_laughable_lang/

Fun fact: The demo image is an example of the hand-in-waistcoat gesture[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-in-waistcoat

What does the device in the lower right corner do? Age reversal?

Interesting! I wonder how big their read base is. Other commenters mentioned sales numbers around 2000, you must have made a far larger sale to compensate for the lower loyalty.

How hard can it be to turn a book into a course instead? I guess it's also hard because courses and books are consumed by different audiences.

While writing a book is not particularly profitable, the author could probably earn more by self-publishing rather than working with a publisher, since the author has done most of the marketing anyway.

Compiling to machine code is not that hard once you get to the IR or bytecode phase, check out this toy compiler:

https://github.com/byo-books/pretty_laughable_lang/

1. No line spacing. 2. No text width limit.

Top 2 reasons why CSS-less pages are less readable.

Remap `CapsLock + key` to symbols, arrows, and delete/backspace keys.

I didn't realize how awkwardly the buttons are positioned until I started adding a "layer" to my keymap.

Here is the layer I use:

https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230310_coding_kbd/

Wasting time doing nothing is not necessarily a bad idea; one can often waste more time doing _something_.

This is very easy before the Internet became a commodity. It's still easy for me today.

Are join algorithms like this really the alternative to compound indexes? I understand that they reduce the memory required for joins, but the amount of data involved in a join is the same.

The web pages are the full version. It's a condensed book.

The author's homepage[1] links to a few interesting topics too.

[1] https://www.agner.org/

I think you need to learn basics like the event loop first before jumping into io_uring.

You might be interested in my book[1] which teaches network programming.

[1] https://build-your-own.org/redis/

Cool! How fast is it? I used openSCAD before and it was slow to render.

I'm writing a book[1] with a variety of coding projects.

Programming is not always about building the app foo with the language bar. You can have fun by recreating and understanding how existing stuff works.

[1] https://build-your-own.org/b2a/

I'm intrigued by the Immelmann turn, can anyone ELI25 why it is needed?

Maybe you should read less HN if you are constantly seeking interesting stuff - there is never an end to internet surfing.

Also, you might like a curated version of HN: https://hn.build-your-own.org/

Added a cropped PDF with a larger font size. Hope that will work.

I have updated the EPUB on Gumroad. Would you mind checking it again? I might add a PDF version with bigger a font size if it's not working.

Sorry to hear that. I don't have a Kobo so I can not troubleshoot this. Would a small-sized PDF be readable on your device?

Hi. Thanks for your feedback, I'll tweak the font later.

This is my first book and I'm considering doing another book if everything goes well. You can subscribe to get notified on future books.

For those who don't like the new skin. I have created a user CSS to make it more compact:

https://gist.github.com/kool-user/457cbf0100e075cc83977c1fe8...

This is probably because the HN page doesn't contain the document date metadata. So google just picked a random date from that page.

Actually, google's paid search API can order by date, ascending or descending.

Checkout this example:

https://quackquackgo.net/?q=hacker+news&lr=&qqg-date=&qqg-ra...