rnoorda

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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   I find myself struggling with this sometimes. I know I shouldn't, but it's easier to justify time spent with some sort of idea that it will be "worth it" in some way in the future. This is mostly an issue with new intere
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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   > I see it all the time in other fields and I just shake my head. If you ever find yourself saying "Why don't they just..?" you almost certainly don't understand the problem. A political corollary to this that I enj
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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   One variant of this that I've seen lately is some sort of wrong or easily-disproved assertion or challenge. "Bet you can't name an American city with an E!" or "95% of people can't name three European countries
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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   I sometimes wonder what individual decisions are being made now that we'll look back on as important in a few decades. Petrov's role in the incident took 15 years to become publicly-known.
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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   I ran into this with Red Alert as well- I mostly played single-player, and I didn't play the "optimal" way. I would design a nice-looking base, and try to design a mix of units that seemed fun. The few times I played against
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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   I read Don Quixote in school, but it's been a long time. In my mind, the "canon" version is now Man of La Mancha which, as the article notes, "could not be more distant" from the original. I find the same has ha
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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   I spent hours playing Red Alert, and loved C&C as well. Something about the absolute craziness made it so much fun. Then RA2 amped it up even more, being able to train giant squid and teleporting infantry that erase units from the timel
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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   I loved the C&C/RA computer aesthetic. That's how I always imagined the future of UI. The modern digital experience is fine, but I sometimes wish we had more rotating graphics and phosphor green text.
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   by rnoorda 5y ago

   > Reflecting back on it now, I realize that no one ever asked me to work as hard as I did. No one ever explicitly told me that I wasn’t doing enough work. In fact, a few colleagues in the company actively reached out to me to tell me tha
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Love this! Your site sounded familiar, and I realized you're the guy with the After Dark screensavers. Thanks for doing interesting things.
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Fictional books are always fun for me, and one of the things I love about Cthulhu mythos stories- the Necronomicon is well-known, but also Unaussprechlichen Kulten and De Vermis Mysteriis . In a similar, but earlier vein is The King i
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I agree that travel planning is a common (and often bad) startup idea, but I disagree with the reasoning. Part of the enjoyment of many trips, for me, is the planning. I get to learn about the city, see which places/activities I am mos
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Just use normal Tinder, and ask every match to a date playing basketball! The problem solves itself.
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Lately I've been finding more and more that the exact techniques I use are less important than my motivation. When I begin learning something new, I try to start some sort of project right away. It can just be something simple for myse
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing, that's great! I watched the railway video and it's just what I mean- fascinating things that are too often ignored.
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I remember reading about Ed Stafford walking the entire length of the Amazon 10+ years ago. The Amazon is the perfect exotic place to imagine adventuring and exploring- but in his travels, he's running into people all the time. It&#x27
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    For anyone interested in this conceit, I recommend an episode of The Outer Limits called "Think Like a Dinosaur" dealing with this idea and what happens when it goes wrong.
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Thanks for finding these! I'm often impressed by how often jokes in other languages/cultures are funny, without much cultural or linguistic context needed.
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I recently set up a short campaign for a few people at work who had never played D&D but wanted a taste. I was surprised that several people were immediately worried for us because of the "darkness" it would bring into our liv
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I've come to separate travel and vacation in my plans. They are rarely the same for me- I travel when I want to see new things, visit people, explore, etc. Vacation is largely reading, working on relaxing hobbies, or spending unstr
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I've seen this quite a bit- very educated people who forget how to write characters, but can type them and read them easily. I remember reading years ago about how few college students could correctly write "打喷嚏" (to sneeze)
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    My alarm could be a significant failure point for my daily life- I have had few issues so far, but I always worry. This is one reason I generally prefer stand-alone alarm clocks over a phone.
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Great job! I absolutely love dumb, useless projects that make no sense, and this fits the bill perfectly.
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I love this, and the content generator is brilliant. "I lived in a decrepit neo-modernist mansion barely worth $3.2 million. We had to fight to survive — I once had to pickup my seamless order in person because of an issue with their a
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I can understand this. The last time I didn't get a promotion, I saw the coworker that got it and thought, "Yeah, that makes sense, she's great for that role and more experienced than I am." I didn't feel slighted t
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Off-topic, but I remember feeling disappointed that Ozymandias was a Greek name for Ramses, probably the most famous pharaoh. There are still valuable lessons from the poem, but there was something beautiful to me about the idea of such an
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I'm not sure if I can completely describe this, but I have many times felt some level of grief at the loss of a what-if, a potential future. I make a choice (or someone else makes a choice) and some small part of my future feels closed
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    I find myself feeling naked whenever I'm too far from a pen and paper. I take most of my structured notes on a computer, but paper is where I think through ideas. I can draw diagrams, do math, and organise thoughts visually more easily
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    It helps to plan something at a certain time, even just going to dinner or on walk. Even if I'm totally engrossed in whatever new project I'm doing, I need to leave. I can keep thinking about it and stay excited, while not burning
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    by rnoorda 5y ago

    Containing momentum is a common issue for me as well. When I start learning something, I tend to become obsessive, spend 30 hours over a weekend on it, and then burn out. Once my energy evens out I often need to work on continuing momentum,