benrbray

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by benrbray 6y ago
Ok, I guess I'll bite. To me, BotW feels more like a game engine and less like a game. My biggest issues: > Content sparsity. Like many open world games, most of Hyrule just feels dead to me. Towns aren't as populated and l
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As a Tokyo resident I have to disagree with you on both points. Rent is cheap (just don't live right next to Shibuya crossing) and people are incredibly welcoming. Sure, they'll politely ignore you on the train, but that's
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by benrbray 6y ago
> Actually I started living pretty much like this after my startup sold four years ago. I saw a dramatic increase in my happiness and life satisfaction. Wow, all that's holding back my life satisfaction is a major windfall! Thanks
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by benrbray 6y ago
Mujin / Daiso can have questionable quality so I avoid them for items I know will get a lot of use. I'm talking about places like Shimachu or the kitchen stores in Kappabashi. Tons of "made in Japan" products for about
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by benrbray 6y ago
Big downgrade in quality too, in most cases. When I moved here and had to furnish a house / stock a kitchen, I was amazed at the diversity and quality of basic cheap home goods here.
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by benrbray 6y ago
It's not every server, but I've been told before to go read the chat logs because someone asked the same question as me a couple months ago (but no one bothered to help me dig it up). Some communities can be clique-y and unwelcom
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It's a shame people put so much effort into communicating this advice over Discord etc but it's basically lost to the void. I have trouble catching up with a single day's messages let alone years of in-depth conversation. C
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For me, the ability to consume infinite information electronically is both a blessing and a curse. I tend to have decision paralysis when searching for information online -- is this method for learning X the best one? what else do I need
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It would be neat to do this with news footage from other countries. Like a British pub in Austin TX playing BBC footage from 8 years ago (or whatever the appropriate cycle length would be.)
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I generally just know that any trig formula can be converted to quite a few different other ones visa trig identities. Whether a certain expression is more or less complex than another is a matter of perspective and context. If I'm st
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Let me teach you a secret: You don't need to memorize any trig identities, you just need to know Euler's formula and one or two more facts: exp(ix) = cos(x) + i*sin(x) [cos(x)]^2 + [sin(x)]^2 = 1 i*i = -1 That is
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by benrbray 6y ago
Related is David Graeber's article [1] / book [2] / talks [3] about "Bullshit Jobs". [1] https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_J
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by benrbray 6y ago
Check out Game Programming Patterns ( https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ ) and the Architecture of Open Source Applications ( http://aosabook.org/en/index.html ).
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by benrbray 6y ago
> What's a "hot take"? It's slang for "unsubstantiated opinion likely to incite controversy". Weird how this word started appearing everywhere suddenly in the last few months.
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by benrbray 6y ago
> Consumer inflation is based on a basket of consumer goods. According to that definition we don't have inflation. Do you mean something like the Consumer Price Index? If I'm reading this graph [1] correctly, CPI has been incr
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by benrbray 6y ago
You're right to some extent, and many people have similar stories about living in Japan. However, I do think the younger generation is quite a bit more open than past generations may have been, so I expect things to change slowly over
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Geometric Algebra is certainly not the only theory to make this distinction. Most treatments of tensor algebra will cover Hodge duality and emphasize the importance of ensuring all quantities have well-behaved "types". Category
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fwiw I didn't interpret it that way
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I wish I had actual statistics, but I can say from experience working and living in Tokyo, $70k USD will get you quite far. Average full-time salary in Tokyo is about $45k USD. Rent and food are generally cheaper than cities in the United
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> Deflation is also a very very bad thing economically Why? I'd be interested in reading more if you have sources. Genuinely asking, I know almost nothing about deflation other than what I just read on Wikipedia [1]. My generatio
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by benrbray 6y ago
Sorry, I just don't buy that you can summarize the life satisfaction & economic output of 140 million people with a single number, not to mention that GDP is a pretty bad measurement as far as single numbers go [1]. It's much
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by benrbray 6y ago
You can go quite a bit farther out than Yamanote without increasing your commute by much. I once lived in Ota ward with a daily commute to Nihombashi. Door-to-door commute time was 25 minutes. Not too much worse than a 10-15 minute comm
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by benrbray 6y ago
Interesting read! After moving to Japan from the United States, I've started to realize just how biased Western articles about Japan really are. Stories about Japan by Western news outlets often limit themselves to a few common "
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To be fair, the person you're responding to only brought up this viewpoint in response to another poster who seems to hold the view that the founding fathers were just as progressive as we are today.
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Sure, some professors manage to do well at both research and teaching! It's great that some professors like her care about education and are experimenting with new classroom formats! My point was that traditional lectures are not alw
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Look, I think there's room for nuance. I agree with most of the specific examples you pointed out, and generally agree that big blockbuster films / network television shows are trash, for more reasons than just the recent diversi
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> It only seems to be rich white people in the US seem to care about it I do think there is a kernel of truth to what you're saying, but I don't think it's right to dismiss entirely the fact that representation IS importan
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I think we are mostly on the same page then :) > Guess what, when teaching only staff is asked to teach 6 courses in an year, they teach the same as a research prof who spends half their time in research and half their time teaching 3 co
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Have you experienced student life at a large public research university recently? The well-documented trends of administrative bloat, publish-or-perish, exploitation of adjuncts and TAs for cheap labor, obsession with luxury campus amenit
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Oh yeah, I'm with you there. Teaching quality at both my undergrad math program and my graduate compsci program was abysmal, with the exception of a handful of dedicated teachers. Both at well-ranked research institutions, which is th

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