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by Rendello 2y ago
It just had a big release in January even!
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by Rendello 2y ago
I haven't had an issue with that personally (played on and off for almost 10 years), though I imagine it could be an issue on some older hardware. Massed units will cause lag in big team games where there's 4 armies clashing, thou
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by Rendello 2y ago
Classic AoE-playing Hacker News-types might also enjoy 0 A.D. It's free and fun, but definitely humbling if you consider yourself a master strategist: https://play0ad.com/
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by Rendello 2y ago
I agree, it helps make HN feel like a special place.
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by Rendello 2y ago
Many edge-cases can be found with regards to casing! Like title-case characters. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/cha...
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by Rendello 2y ago
Perhaps you could loop it back and make a quine, too.
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by Rendello 2y ago
I only did Execute Program for a little bit and don't remember much, but the developer's Destroy All Software screencasts are what taught me how to write parsers. I must have rewatched that video 30 times while I was writing my fi
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by Rendello 2y ago
Just a few days ago I started using Keybr to learn to touch type. It frustrates me less than any other program I've used before, so far. I'm touch-typing this comment... slowly ;) I can type quickly through my own means but very i
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by Rendello 2y ago
I don't think I had a solid idea of a timeline, but I figured with a couple hours a day I could get through Fundamentals I-III in a month or two. How naive I was! 125 days in. Almost through Fundamentals II.
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by Rendello 2y ago
I'd been building a Unicode visualization tool that I think could be awesome if I pull it off right. I got stuck and paused working on it. So, currently I'm working on myself, studying Math Academy every day.
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by Rendello 2y ago
I moved to a new city with nothing but a backpack a few years ago. It was tough, and I had a lot of painful experiences, but very cool.
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by Rendello 2y ago
SQLite error messages are similarly spartan. I wrote a SQLite extension recently and didn't find it difficult to have detailed/dynamic error messages, so it may have just been a preference of the author.
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by Rendello 2y ago
A Canadian supersonic interceptor you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow
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by Rendello 2y ago
I agree, that's how I feel exactly about both forums. My cleverness-on-HN remark was auto-referring to my cheeky vow-of-silence comment, which I felt proud of while writing and then a little stupid about while posting ;)
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by Rendello 2y ago
Now that I'm thinking of it, I have a lot of small habits that were once large habits. I can get up and go for a run any given day, and I might do it every day for months if I have time, or I may not. Doing 10 pushups a day is no probl
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by Rendello 2y ago
I was on Twitter briefly despite knowing better. It was great to connect with fellow programmers doing creative things, and having blocked the sidebar and all political hashtags, it was a net positive for a while. Ultimately though, it ince
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by Rendello 2y ago
It's certainly both. The genetic component is clearest to me when I see kids grow up in the same household and have differing levels of patience and impulse control from a young age. Then, people tend to become less impulsive as they a
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by Rendello 2y ago
I don't find I effectively build small habits. I tried doing 10 pushups a day and failed, but then I started going to the gym and that full-on, hours of effort keeps me motivated and wanting to go. I'm not great at half-assing two
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by Rendello 2y ago
Somewhat related, I've seen a similar equation for motivation: E*V M = --- I*D Motivation = (Expectancy * Value) / (Impulsiveness * Delay) Which comes from "The Procrastination Equation" by Piers
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by Rendello 2y ago
PICO-8 [1] might be a good choice. I always consider that kids want their friends to try their games, and so being able to easily distribute to the web is awesome. They can link their game from the site [2], or with some parental help they
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by Rendello 2y ago
Scratch is not conducive to complex (traditional) projects, which I think is sort of the appeal for seasoned programmers. For my part, I woke up one weekend knowing I had to make a recursive bisection demo in it [1]. The effort I knew it wo
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by Rendello 2y ago
Have you used it much? I'd like one, but I can imagine it sitting on my desk for years unused. I have "Secrets of Mental Math" by Arthur Benjamin and have wanted to practice some of those mental math skills, and I wonder if l
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by Rendello 2y ago
Has everyone lost their inner joy? Sites like this have existed forever, and have always been fun to hack together. Think of Zalgo text.
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by Rendello 2y ago
In UTF-8, your standard latin characters are encoded just as they are in ASCII (1-byte each), and all UTF-8 characters are 1-4 bytes. The rendering of the characters requires having a font that covers those characters (for example Comic San
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by Rendello 2y ago
For years my HN profile has had the Meditations quote: A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, "And why were such things made in the world?" Perhaps so
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by Rendello 2y ago
I can't say from personal experience, but I did find this review by Dunkey hilarious and likely representative of the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7SVY9CyBBc
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by Rendello 2y ago
PICO-8 is fun. I spent a good few months writing Tweetcarts, little PICO-8 Lua demo programs that fit in tweets. You had to record the GIF manually, so I made a bot to take your tweets and run the code, replying with the GIF. After months o
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by Rendello 2y ago
I've been doing a math course and occasionally think of picking up these analogue tools. Someone on Hacker News had me interested in the Soroban, the Japanese abacus [1], which is still used to train insane mental math speeds to this d
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by Rendello 2y ago
It was High Performance SQLite: https://highperformancesqlite.com/ The course content could all be learned from the excellent SQLite docs, and in greater detail. However, I think paying the $200 was worth it for me, since t
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by Rendello 2y ago
Math Academy and a SQLite course pulled me out of despair as well. I grew up thinking I was relatively smart and being able to learn on my own, but only randomly and sporadically. After not learning much the past few years and feeling very

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