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by insightcheck 4y ago
Casual is a nebulous term, but perhaps "widely accessible" is easier to evaluate. We can measure accessibility by games sold. By sales, the highest-selling games are [1] Minecraft (now AAA), Grand Theft Auto V (AAA), EA Tetris, PU
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Is this really true, though? It's maybe plausible that people can hold positions without doing much, but I was under the impression that UI/UX requires a lot of expertise. From a couple of days ago on HN [1], it's possible to
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by insightcheck 4y ago
That is a fascinating perspective, which makes sense. I would add that the concept of adultness is also related to seeing a person who is the "adult in the room" regardless of age. In specific, when a situation had a lot of risk a
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Yes, it's because of incentives. In dating, it's seen as a big negative to be a "manchild" or be dating a manchild; in less inflammatory terms, being seen as immature is seen as negative in the dating world. This is actu
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Why is this so surprising? Google search gives me better results than DuckDuckGo for my purposes (especially when using the "site:" search syntax). Some web apps and websites are buggy on non-Chrome browsers or a lot faster on Chr
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "I’m under the impression that trigonometry is not extensively taught in middle schools and high schools in the USA. While I’m slightly envious you might not have to suffer developing powers of cosine and sine but that would expla
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by insightcheck 4y ago
It's time-consuming, but there are great resources to learn high school math to a very high level (likely much more effectively in many cases, than actually taking a high school math course, due to thoughtful exercises and more control
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I personally found a corrupted file stored in online storage only, though it wasn't with Google, but with Microsoft's OneDrive. I tried to open a Word document that I hadn't viewed for several years, but got an error that the
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by insightcheck 4y ago
To clarify, I maintain that testimonials from people who give their full names (and thus can be contacted after) are perceived as solid evidence. A common real-life example of named testimonials seen as credible by recruiters are written Li
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Testimonials, despite carrying the baggage of being a marketing term, are a legitimate form of evidence, especially if the people giving testimony are named in full. It affects their reputation if either they or the company they are testify
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Yes, thanks for the catch. I made a mistake, and will edit the comment to correct.
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by insightcheck 4y ago
[EDIT: This comment is wrong, and can't be deleted; I misremembered James Clear as Scott Young, apologies.] On the one hand, most of Clear's writing is uncontroversial and easy-to-read (which is why Atomic Habits took off versus o
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Seconded. The approach is very readable and also happens to be from an academic perspective, as BJ Fogg is a Stanford professor of psychology. I also liked the list of suggested potentially useful habits at the back of the book.
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "What I'm trying to say is, while the medium doesn't change core mechanics of human behavior, it distorts and accentuates – there is, for instance, a difference between tiktok and a novel. And we do have power of mediums
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> You said "outside of business," and then gave three examples of _asking for money_. You could have said "in dating," or "in electoral politics, No, I didn't: the third item I listed was "it's imp
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "The issue is, I think, exactly that everyone must be at least partially a salesman to get ahead. Is this what we want?" Regardless of what we as a society want, and even if YouTube never existed, it's the reality that s
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The next iPadOS software update is confirmed to be in October (source: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/07/ipados-16-macos-ventura... ), so that month is a a reasonable guess for the next release date.
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The best way to really tell the difference, in my view, is to watch YouTube videos or see comparisons of photographs. I find that a lot of written articles or comments on forums really hype up the difference (along the lines of "get th
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Would travel health insurance be a possibility?
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Agreed. Dirhams is the unit, so it would be "16,000 dirhams," not $16,000 in dirhams.
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The clipart and other graphics may reduce the webpage's formality, but the text itself by Russell is a classic work.
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Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness (1930)(russell-j.com)
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "Phase three starts at 8 a.m. sharp, next Monday, and lasts for fourteen Pomodoro-timer cycles, concluding at 5:38 p.m." Unfortunately, this sounds dreadful and yet completely plausible. Pomodoros, or taking short breaks ever
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "I ended up graduating at 25 with a degree in computer science years behind everyone else. For a long time I regretted this because everyone I worked for was far younger than me (18-22). I then wasted several years in graduate sch
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by insightcheck 4y ago
It's very relatable for many to feel that one's time was wasted online, but wanting to change, especially for people who find forums like Hacker News. The interesting thing is that the solutions to changing one's situation ca
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by insightcheck 4y ago
To add with more examples, the vast majority of the actors in the recent acclaimed television series Better Call Saul were not too well known before the show. Most of them are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s [0]. For many of them, it's only
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I would add additional scales. You can learn a lot in 2 weeks, and so much in just 1 year, and an incredible amount in 5 years. The funny thing is that I personally tend to overestimate what I can do in one day, but after 2 weeks, you can a
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The nice thing about this, too, is that there's no real barrier (besides owning a personal computer) to reverse engineering an OS or learning computer science. There's no incredibly high fees, there's no licensure to practice
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "The second thing is, the past is dead and gone. You can't do anything about it. You can learn to let go of it or you can let it consume your present and deny you whatever future you're trying to make for yourself. There
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Exactly! You can learn a lot more from computer science undergraduate courses as someone motivated to be there, versus someone going through the motions because they just want a stable job (nothing wrong at all with doing so, but the upside

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