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by j_4 8y ago
This is not a new concept in video games, usually known as "hardcore" or "ironman" mode. I think a core issue for games is that loss is fundamentally at odds with player agency. In pre-written stories it ends up feeling
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by j_4 8y ago
I absolutely love Jupyter as a computer science student who uses it a lot to fiddle with new concepts, create visualizations, or write markdown reports with annotated code. I do agree with some points, though. The problems with state felt s
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Show HN: Self-organizing map learning visualization in WebGL(j4nw.github.io)
15 points by j_4 8y ago|1 comments
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Shadertoy: Procedural Earth Simulation(shadertoy.com)
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by j_4 8y ago
Markdown isn't perfect, but I find it really weird that you complain about the headers in particular. I never use the underline style, but I don't think you can get more straightforward than the # notation.
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by j_4 8y ago
I usually have strong auras and medium pain, and it can take between weeks and months between attacks, though recently I had an attack two days in a row and I felt like I had aura-like issues with my vision for weeks. Not a fun time. Most o
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by j_4 8y ago
I couldn't find the article I was thinking of, but it had a number of gamedevs admitting to manipulating hit ratios like this. In a similar vein, it's generally a good idea to make gambler's fallacy true under the hood. Goes
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Ask HN: Experiences with Flutter in production?
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by j_4 9y ago
3. is automatically added and easy to adjust when using the Markdown PDF extension for VS Code.[1] [1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzane.ma...
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by j_4 9y ago
That sounds incredibly anachronistic, like much of what Robert Martin thinks is reasonable. Computers are layers upon layers upon layers of magic, and while it's obviously beneficial to understand as much as possible, it takes a lifeti
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by j_4 9y ago
I honestly love the package as it is for this very reason - the browsing experience is top notch, and the ephemeral nature of cookies, open sites etc. keeps me off the phone, and social media in particular.
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by j_4 9y ago
I always found "catch and release" fishing to be a very misguided and hypocritical activity. I don't see eating meat as particularly immoral (this will likely change in the coming decades, as substitutes get better), but fact