aaron_seattle

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   by aaron_seattle 4y ago

   I had increasing tinnitus. Switching to bone conduction headphones really, really helped. Worth a try. Only downside is they're not great for music (bass notes get muddled)
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   by aaron_seattle 6y ago

   Here's a variant my 8 year-old niece invented, and it has some great playability: normal rules, except each side makes two turns in a row. Constraint: the second move cannot logically depend on the first move in any way. We've pl
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   by aaron_seattle 6y ago

   i.e. remember this when you find yourself deep into some "am I ever going to really need this" curriculum. Directly, probably not. Indirectly, you are rewiring your neurons for generalized problem solving to the nth degree. Also
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   by aaron_seattle 6y ago

   "Real life has no curriculum". ~80% of what I've learned vocationally, came after school, under the informal mentorship of seasoned practitioners. Arguably the #1 exportable skill you gain from college is metacognition - lear
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   by aaron_seattle 6y ago

   This is the most challenging edge case, for sure. But if I may proffer: > the more you try to ignore it or brush it off or search the fault within yourself It should never come to any of these things. "It's never personal&quo
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   by aaron_seattle 6y ago

   That sounds really rough man, I'm sorry to hear that. I too have struggled with being on the receiving end of other people's power trips. My curiosity on "what's really happening here, at the level of the brain" l
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   by aaron_seattle 6y ago

   https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-second-agreement-dont-take... , opening passage. Be warned, there's a "woo-woo shit" risk factor here, which my skepticism keeps at arm's length. I'm more of
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   by aaron_seattle 6y ago

   You'd be surprised how hard it is to internalize the first principle. The mind can become very attached to the feeling of being attacked / rejected / overlooked / snubbed / etc.
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   by aaron_seattle 6y ago

   "Nothing is ever personal." The way people treat you, has nothing to do with you. They are just living out their own stories. Related idea: "You train others how to treat you." Think reinforcement learning as applied t
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    by aaron_seattle 7y ago

    Hats off to you for tackling such a hard problem. Coding chess is a beast. I cut you this one issue, https://github.com/jaeheonshim/ChessBoard/issues/1 I think your castling logic is incomplete? Worth a dou