In general for analytic functions like e^x or x^n the behaviour of the function on any open interval is enough to determine its behaviour elsewhere. By extension in mathematics examining values around the fundamental additive and multiplicative units \{ 0, 1 \} is fruitful in illustrating of the quintessential behaviour of the function.
I had been thinking of messing around with a DOM-based ‘console’ in Tauri that could handle a lot more font manipulation for a pseudo-TUI application similar to this. It's definitely possible! It would be even simpler to do in TS.
In the appendix, he talks about reducing the lookup space by quantising the sampled points to just 8 possible values. That allowed him to make a look up table about 2MB in size which were apparently incredibly fast.
I've been working on something similar (didn't get to this stage yet) and was planning to do something very similar to the circle-sampling method but the staggering of circles is a really clever idea I had never considered. I was planning on sampling character pixels' alignment along orthogonal and diagonal axes. You could probably combine these approaches. But yeah, such an approach seemed particularly powerful for the reason you could encode it all in a table.
It’s incredibly grating to get into my mom’s car and see a FYP on her dashboard with podcast recs. It makes me feel like I woke up on the moon. It just makes no sense and it’s clearly harder (for her, and in general) to use than an old-school car radio.
It doesn’t help (but still besides the point) that they typically give the impression of being a stripped back Moto G4 a couple years out of updates.
Watching BBC news earlier, two interviewees were acolytes of Venuzuelan politician and exile Maria Corina Machado, who recently received the Nobel Peace Prize, and Juan Guaidó, the former American-backed coup (or whatever you want to call it) leader. They were adamantly pro-Maduro getting helicoptered away, but somewhat neutral on bombings on their own capital city. I think the consent factory is still making porkie pies.
Machado seems to be the opposite of an exile until she escaped to accept the Nobel Peace Prize last month.
Machado was prohibited from leaving Venezuela by a decade-old
government-imposed travel ban and, by late 2025, had spent months in hiding
amid the risk of arrest.
Yeah, my read is that the teenage hacker confronted with this ridiculous payslip sees two ways forward: accept the pay cut for the CV benefit of working with bug bounties, or get a bit better at hiding your ass and make them really pay.
If I were 16, I’d be thinking I just made an obscene amount of money ($4,000!) messing with computers for fun, and got to meet people at a famous company.
That’s a free car. Free computer. Uber eats for months.
And my status with my peers as a hacker would be cemented.
I get that bounty amounts are low vs SE salary, but that’s not at all how my 16yo self would see it.
I hope I'm not assuming too much but I'm really hope the up and coming hacker is smart enough to know that his work was worth more than $4,000. That's 1-2% of an annual SE salary for someone with similar skillset.
I mean, as a hiring manager, a fresh grad with multiple bug bounties tells me a lot about their drive and skill, so I'd agree. It's a great differentiator.
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