rjh29

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by rjh29 10mo ago
Really impressive work. He covers it at the end, but being able to create tunnels into terrain, walk through them and then make the terrain disappear. Or make holes in the ground and move them around to suck items in. Or dynamically erase o
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by rjh29 10mo ago
That's like saying Christmas lights are dumb. Each to his or her own though!
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Get better friends! Not everybody does this.
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Corsair iCUE. 1.1GB to control your RAM lights...
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by rjh29 10mo ago
My mum has a DVR so she tends to watch things later and skip the ads. For this reason our TV provider is pushing a new box which has no DVR capability and can only access things from streaming... they bill this as an advantage since you don
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Ken Jennings doesn't! I am speculating though so I'll defer to your knowledge here. I was trying to say, for some people it comes naturally. I doubt the majority of quizzers are doing 300k reviews a year. Reminds me of that guy wh
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Well, it stands to reason that people who don't need to do flashcards have a competitive advantage and are more likely to become professional quizzers. They might use flashcards in addition, but I get the sense most of them just absorb
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by rjh29 10mo ago
More precisely, enjoys memorizing things but isn't good at it. Professonal quizzers can absorb huge amounts of information but typically don't use flashcards. OP is grinding thousands of cards a day to get to the same level - wort
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Memorization focuses on the set of things you want to recall, but don't use often enough to naturally remember. This is most peritent for language learning because you need to 'bootstrap' a large set of words and grammar, and
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by rjh29 10mo ago
The intro and first level is one hell of a ride. Had no idea it was delisted but that explains why nobody's talking about it...
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by rjh29 10mo ago
UK has airline-style pricing that goes up extortionately as seats run out, making it prohibitively expensive to use. It's also frequently late and/or trains randomly cancelled, although you can plan around it, you end up 1hr+ late
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by rjh29 10mo ago
I agree, although I was referring to asterisks like de*d and k*ll (or censoring with black bars, or using emojis) - euphemisms of course have always been part of language evolution.
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by rjh29 10mo ago
The trend of self-censoring words like 'dead' and 'kill' appears to be relatively new, motivated by TikTok and YouTube algorithms, but spilling over into the general internet.
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by rjh29 10mo ago
You should use AI to point out errors or suggest better phrasing. But if you ask AI to rewrite your post, it will produce content that sounds fake and corporate. ESL speakers may not notice it but everyone else does.
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by rjh29 10mo ago
I feel like the entire productivity thing is broscience. There's no study for it (the 'three items' idea), it just feels like the right thing to do. Quite often the people making these tools are not particularly productive th
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by rjh29 10mo ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Floor796&type=story&dateRange=...
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by rjh29 10mo ago
The OP-Z makes sequencing the main focus (rather than OP-1's tape mechanism) and is really fun, and still cheap because it didn't go viral. Then there's the OP-XY which is even more powerful but unfortunately costs like 4-5x
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Some people like to over-optimise everything. Window manager, vim config, unix tool choice, split keyboard, DVORAK layout, mechanical keyboards, coffee brewing, Obsidian note-taking/Zettelkasten, mice (the rabbit hole for mice goes as
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by rjh29 10mo ago
FYI United Kingdom is the right term and the one UK users are more likely to look for!
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Even if GenAI is helpful it's okay to morally reject using it. There are plenty of things that give you an advantage in your career but are morally wrong. Complaints include putting people out of jobs, causing a financial bubble, filli
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by rjh29 10mo ago
1% of all internet users is an absolutely gigantic user base.
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by rjh29 11mo ago
Well, most sites are going to block VPS IP spaces (which are published online) as it's ~100% bot activity.
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by rjh29 11mo ago
For now...?
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by rjh29 11mo ago
Yes it works for certain people, but the whole premise of the OP is that it isn't working that well for the majority of people. I wonder if you are a manager already or aspire to be one. Because the workflow you describe, I've tri
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by rjh29 11mo ago
It's best used as a glorified autocomplete or for refactoring. Autocomplete is useful but coding time is like 10% of development, upfront design / debugging / discussions / testing is a bigger issue. Refactoring needs to
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by rjh29 11mo ago
HN is frequently fodder for satire on other forums. Nobody thinks HN users have "refined tastes", or even that they are "smart" for that matter.
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by rjh29 11mo ago
People who make and enjoy AI art obviously engage with art in a completely different way. To me and many others, it's so instantly offputting and repulsive.
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by rjh29 11mo ago
I am reading this with very little maths knowledge (since university 15 years ago) and I found this confusing: "The multiplicative group of integers modulo n that we saw above gets more interesting when you consider a composite number
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by rjh29 11mo ago
I picked up a pretty cheap second-hand GPU after the mining boom ended!
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by rjh29 11mo ago
That is true for English games, but the vast majority of Japanese games use the same 3 or 4 fonts. Often they give the user the ability to change it. Or they just write menu systems in English if they want to stylise it.

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