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by famahar 2y ago
I've dropped reddit and started moving towards small communities that also do in-person events. I can't engage with anonymous communities anymore. Everyone is potentially a bot. The irony being that I still use hackernews.
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by famahar 2y ago
>But imagine trying to start HN today... Reddit is a good example of what a monetized version could look like. It's a shell of its former self. NFT avatar customization, engagement achievements, ads in feed and comments, layers of f
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by famahar 2y ago
I'm one of those weirdos that enjoys going to the theatre and paying that much. For me, going to a movie theatre is a way to be in a space that captures my full attention. It means going to watch a movie with intention, focus, and zero
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by famahar 2y ago
That's me. It's brutal trying to do Unity game dev on this. Constantly run out of memory and can't do much multitasking.
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by famahar 2y ago
I get that. Honestly I never thought I was skilled enough to teach until I tried it. There are a lot of jobs out there that are easy to learn and adapt to. Before teaching I did a cleaning job which was satisfying. Headphones in and end my
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by famahar 2y ago
Have you considered switching careers rather than quiting. I took a two year break from tech and did English teaching. The pay was low but it sustained me with my savings and I had tons of mental energy to work on my side projects. Any job
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by famahar 2y ago
This is a simple and great idea. I do something similar with my website. My newsletter is just a list of emails I have in a .txt file. I email to everyone when I write a blog post and we chat through email exchanges about it. The interactio
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by famahar 2y ago
Working on letting users upload their own transparent fashion images to a web app that let's you use your camera to apply the world to characters clothing. I made it for an exhibition in Kyoto and it was a lot of fun. Hoping to expand
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by famahar 2y ago
I just started getting into blogging. It was really easy to setup my own site with a blog section using Astro. I've been tempted to add analytics to the website but I find that these kind of stats just cause me mental stress. So it&#x2
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by famahar 2y ago
While not as diverse as the US, Singapore is a melting pot of cultures and religions and is arguably safer and cleaner than Japan. Singling it out to diversity simplifies the issue. It's a million other choices and policies that made t
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by famahar 2y ago
Great website. I discovered a lot of incredible artists and since they have generous creative commons licences, I was able to use them in some games I made. Finding music that ties the experience together is really satisfying.
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by famahar 2y ago
Starting is half the battle. I find they give me the confidence and initial guidance to make a new project less daunting.
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by famahar 2y ago
I'm not sure if they have fixed it but Windsurf downgraded significantly over the last month. Check out the Codeium subreddit. Many people have given up on it and are switching to cursor. Kind of a shame because Windsurf really did fee
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by famahar 2y ago
I also have a really hard time relating to the the whole financial independence / retire early crowd. I think I'd rather take the chance on growing as much as I can now so that I can be the wise person I want to be when I'm m
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by famahar 2y ago
Maybe it's the wrong way of looking at things but I have such minimal plans for retirement and that choice has led me to being extremely happy now rather than waiting for it later. The memories and adventures I've had by spending
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by famahar 2y ago
The main factor was the extremely low pay. Weird schedule too. (I worked in a conversational school, so not really even a teacher). Unless you work in international schools, you won't be making much more than minimum wage. It's a
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by famahar 2y ago
This is really spot on. I realized how soul sucking it was after I got a teaching job. It was low pay English teaching in Japan but I felt a kind of joy, playfulness, humanity and a stress-free life I never experienced in working in tech. I
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by famahar 2y ago
The depth comes from the players own creativity. Not everything needs goals and gameplay loops. Nothing about this is lazy. It's sophisticated piece of software that does exactly what it sought out to do.
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by famahar 2y ago
All it takes is speaking the language fluently. Hard but this mystery behind integration isn't complex. So much of the culture is expressed through language. Sound native and you will be treated as native (for better and worse)
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by famahar 2y ago
This strong need to be accepted by a whole country is something I see mentioned a lot by a particular group of people that have never really been "othered" in their life. Coming to Japan is quite a shock for them because they expe
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by famahar 2y ago
This may just be one small point, but I recall reading that visual clutter signifies a good bargain while lots of white space gives the impression of luxary. Most consumers want a good deal.
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by famahar 2y ago
It would be nice to make the term more neutral again. Many people feel like they have no control over the rules of an algorithm they interact with. I like how Bluesky gives complete control back to the user. First step in changing how peopl
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by famahar 2y ago
Apartments are way cheaper compared to other major US cities. They're probably smaller though but the convenience makes up for it. You can also find something as low as $300 in Tokyo if you are fine with a very long commute to the stat
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by famahar 2y ago
Oof yeah that's expensive. Only app I know that will use the API is Speak, which seems to be the most high quality of the AI language learning apps. Seems like they even have a deal with OpenAI. They don't have many languages curr
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by famahar 2y ago
I'd jump ship if it weren't for the real time voice chat. It's extremely powerful for beginner conversation language learning. Hoping that a company will make use of the real time api for a dedicated language learning app soo
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by famahar 2y ago
I rarely go back to screenshot but whenever I do I find inspiration and have even started projects suddenly. I think what I need is an archive that also randomly surfaces one of them once a day.
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by famahar 2y ago
Looks impressive. I'm guessing the demo isn't representative of the full possibilities of this? Tried to have a basic conversation in Japanese and it kept on sticking with English. When it did eventually speak Japanese the pronunc
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by famahar 2y ago
The best book I've read on attention and living in the present is 'The art of noticing' by Rob Walker. I like his approach because it's basically tons of small mindfulness activities baked into everyday life. You start i
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by famahar 2y ago
2 hours is a good amount. I feel like after the hour mark it begins to to feel like a special journey.
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by famahar 2y ago
Solitude is a big mind reset for me. So many of my most creative ideas come from my extremely long walks across Tokyo. I try to do these 10 - 20 hour walks a few times a year. My next one is next week. From west Tokyo to Chiba. It's be

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