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I can see it being useful for exactly that sort of thing. I've approximated hexagonal grids in spreadsheets by making each cell a square and then merging adjacent squares, alternating by row:
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Previous discussion (Nov 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719983
Hah, I did something similar at https://ari.blumenthal.dev/!/-2/-1/three-body after reading the book last year.
Source at https://github.com/zkhr/blog/blob/main/static/js/three.js
IANAL, but wouldn't websites like bash.org be prior art for a “click a button to vote up a story” functionality? I'd be interested to see the exact wording, if anyone can find a link to the patent in question.
It could be an interesting problem to write a piece of code that performs one task when run as a Lisp program and another when run as Parenthetic. Or the same task even.
This bugged me also. The title text doesn't match what the links actually are.