octobus2021

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by octobus2021 2mo ago
My 14 year old son went further in the Turing Complete, where the game shows you how to "invent" Assembly language, and he completed couple challenges after that (like writing Assembly program to make a robot controlled by the com
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by octobus2021 2mo ago
I have no comment about this particular product, its features or its author, you can read other comments if you want. I advise the readers to check out not only Nand2Tetris but also Turing Complete game on Steam (and hopefully back on GOG a
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by octobus2021 2y ago
I would replace "perceived" with "significant" but yeah, pretty much.
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by octobus2021 2y ago
I absolutely love this and will try as many as possible very soon. I think "intelligent search" (asking LLM questions to search on the Web by communicating, preferably by voice) is one of the few solid use cases for LLM. I hate th
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by octobus2021 2y ago
Be careful with venturing into the world of Chinese watches, it's addictive. They're like between $50 and $200, depending on the brand (they have more and less expensive brands now, they've been at it for years and years), wi
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by octobus2021 2y ago
Just an FYI this type of watch design is usually referred to as "field watch". It originated in watches that were designed and made specifically for soldiers during WW2 in UK and US. Hamilton is known for making modern versions of
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by octobus2021 2y ago
I had no idea Mensa did this, I will give this a try. I'm not sure he's up to all of these, but we'll try and see.
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by octobus2021 2y ago
If I just let him do what he wants he just plays on iPads or computers in the library (iPads have bunch of games installed, computers do not have games but you can obviously play Web-based stuff etc). He doesn't care much about books u
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by octobus2021 2y ago
This might work if your kid is a self-starter and really driven to improve himself/herself. Otherwise I highly recommend an extracurricular math program; there are many different ones depending on which area you are in. I know of Kumon
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by octobus2021 2y ago
My 8yo partially dislikes Geronimo Stilton books because they're "too old" (they started in 2000s and are now mostly done publishing the new ones). The books you mentioned were from mid-20th century :)
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by octobus2021 2y ago
I disagree with "much slower" but I do agree that it's different. It's not about having tired eyes (what do you use to watch videos?), it's about shortening attention span (you get bored and want to switch to someth
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by octobus2021 2y ago
(I'm going to assume you meant "interesting to a boy as opposed to a girl". If I'm incorrect my apologies). I only have boys so do not have personal experience but I read/heard that girls do and will continue to rea
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by octobus2021 2y ago
Just as I said, Galaxy Zack series (he must have been 7 at the time though), Time Jumpers (fairly recently, there's only 4 of them and I don't know if the author will write more), Desmond Cole (about ghosts). But that's prett
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by octobus2021 2y ago
Don't know why this is on HN but anyways. My youngest will be 9 soon. Finding books for him is pain. I started trying more in the last few weeks, grabbing more or less random things from my local library (beginning chapter books, chapt
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by octobus2021 2y ago
I guess I'm in the minority but all these "music for programming" mixes make me apathetic and sleepy. Which is great for relaxation, but not so great for working. I need something with the beat, even if it's chill. Dark
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by octobus2021 2y ago
...until one day it hallucinates or has existential crisis and does something funny with "dd" or "fdisk/sfdisk"... :)
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by octobus2021 2y ago
> Everything is soldered in these days. [...insert sound of old timers laughing at newbies who declared T480/T490 overhyped for no reason because "no one care about upgradability anymore"...] :)
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by octobus2021 2y ago
Great to know! The game is very well made, and as far as I know they delivered everything they promised to their backers (it was on Kickstarter). I bought the game (on PC AND on XBox) and left positive review on Steam. Hopefully they'r
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by octobus2021 2y ago
Adding my vote for Overload. I'm not sure if it is the same team that built Descent(s) but some of them were involved in level design of the originals. I believe music composers were the same. I really enjoyed the story too, that was p
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by octobus2021 3y ago
It is state dependent, yes, but in all the states I looked at 16 you get restricted driver's license. You can drive without an adult but you cannot have more than one passenger, cannot drive at night, cannot use your phone, etc etc. In
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Most of what they need to know includes knowing road signs and road markings, right of way, going through intersections, following traffic lights, speed limits, keeping safe distance, and even recognizing aggressive and impaired drivers to
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by octobus2021 3y ago
The actual drivers license (the one you can get at 18yo) does require road test in most states. The learner's permit that one can get at 14yo does not require road test, but when you apply for full driver's license at 18yo you wil
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by octobus2021 3y ago
Been taking certifications exams (Microsoft, then AWS) since early 2000s. Certification centers (eg Prometric) have cameras everywhere, and personnel watches you while you're taking the test, they make you put all your belongings into
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I don't know why you need an article to explain that. Sh@tton of people in IT were let go in the last 1.5-2 years, so every job posting gets a huge number of responses, including from people who are not a good match and in some cases w
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by octobus2021 3y ago
How is this not more wasteful than running a native app? You have to run a Web server IN ADDITION to the app. And your client-side is rendered in the browser which, again, is IN ADDITION to the app. Where the native app is just... the app.
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by octobus2021 3y ago
So Qt on C++ _is_ an option for desktop apps then :)
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by octobus2021 3y ago
In the same boat. I did use GnuCash for business as well, in my opinion that's its primary use case. I just found Eqnomize and will give it a spin, however it's not open source (?). Other than that... Seriously considering dusting
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by octobus2021 3y ago
I just find the idea of building a local application using Web tools very... counterintuitive. Just such a waste of resources. Isn't Electron one of the heavier frameworks? Think of all the resources used on your local machine just for
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by octobus2021 3y ago
If it's installed on a local Web server it's designed to be able to serve multiple users. If there's only one user how is it not a waste of resources?
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by octobus2021 3y ago
HTML and CSS are most definitely NOT better for the UI comparing to the native desktop apps. HTML was designed for cross-reference documents and people spent decades enriching it with CSS/JS/whatever to get some resemblance of acc

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