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Re:Physics Simulations on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:32PM (#16066885)
Awesome stuff! A few months back I found a double pendulum simulation in less than 100 lines of JavaScript. It was a ton of fun to play around with the code.

Code and explanation: http://www.physicsandbox.com/projects/double-pendulum.html

Demo: http://www.physicsandbox.com/projects/double-pendulum-sim.ht...

Re:Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:31PM (#13189222)
The prospect of being part of the yahoo acquisition team at Verizon sounds dreadful. Yahoo has so many problems, so many things to figure out... it represents a close to impossible challenge to try to turn it around (in any way).
Not sure how I feel about this. He was certainly a character. I'm not sure why, but what's the deal with all of these guys basically wanting to be comic book villains? (Kim Dotcom, martin shkreli, etc)
Re:Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490) on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:27PM (#13189174)
I was trying to actually read the text and then I figured out Leonardo da Vinci wrote in mirror writing (writing in the direction that is the reverse of the natural way for a given language).

Apparently nobody is quite sure why he did this. weird.