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by vunderba 7mo ago
The wikipedia page on this game is wild too - from the developer themselves: "It violated most, if not all, of the design guidelines for good interactive fiction in that you could get killed much too easily, the puzzles were way too o
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by vunderba 7mo ago
The ones I have are pretty old, and I got them from a local store that doesn’t exist anymore. They’re kind of slightly weighted, for lack of a better term almost like a foxtail toy. You could probably just use standard juggling scarves and
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by vunderba 7mo ago
I actually learned contact juggling with a lacrosse ball, since its uniform color and texture make it hard to see the rotation of the ball. That way, you get the similar visual effect to a more expensive acrylic, but without the risk of chi
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Lol. I’ve juggled non-buoyant, air filled balloons but because of their elasticity they don’t exactly settle into your hand when they land. In my juggling routine, one of the things I do is transition to lying on my back face up while con
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by vunderba 7mo ago
I personally use Raycast, which has a Switch Windows global hotkey (Opt + W) that brings up a list of all active windows and apps. From there, you can start typing part of the window title and hit Enter to bring the corresponding window to
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by vunderba 7mo ago
This made me laugh. The number of times I’ve Admiral Ackbar fat-fingered the flag button when I just wanted to hide a post on HN is almost too many to count at this point.
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by vunderba 7mo ago
That's a neat approach! It's not really the same, but it kind of reminds me of an interview they did with Michael Moschen (the guy who performed the contact juggling scene in Jim Henson’s movie Labyrinth ). He talked about how di
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by vunderba 7mo ago
This. Something like a hacky sack also works very well. They don’t roll away from you, and they won’t drive your neighbors nuts especially if someone lives below you when they hit the ground.
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Yeah I could see that. I think that because dance is so heavily reliant on proprioceptive abilities, it makes sense that there would be some overlap with juggling.
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Agreed. The idea of having to pay for non-cloud based software in perpetuity forever, and having it stop working the very second I discontinue paying is a hard no for me. OP, go with the JetBrains model. You can still offer a monthly subs
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Nice job. I wrote an article back in 2024 around my own personal set of factors (knowledge, meaning, people, compensation) when weighing prospective jobs called the "Conjoined Triangles of Work" you might find interesting. For m
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Longtime juggler here. Outside of more complicated tricks like the claw and other specialized patterns, the most common juggling patterns (such as the cascade [1]) don’t rely as much on pure handeye coordination as they do on maintaining a
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Personally I spent the vast majority of my software engineering career without access to AI and feel relatively confident that I could pick up right where I left off. Humans are pretty adaptable. For example like many others, I became prett
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Nice job. Feedback: - Add an option to invert the y-axis. Right now it feels a bit like I'm controlling a flight simulator. - If I tell it to stop spinning, it should stay stopped and not resume spinning automatically after a few secon
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by vunderba 7mo ago
A game of chess is one of perfect, deterministic information so by definition, it's not really a good substitute for conversation, which is more akin to a game of imperfect information. This leads to the second issue: chess (outside of
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Nice job. I like the Atari 2600 retro aesthetic. As someone who has practically made his entire arm go numb spamming the fire button in games like Galaga and Space Invaders, I also appreciate the auto-fire. I might suggest reducing the &quo
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Thanks for this. As engineers, I think it’s natural for us to look at things like executive orders and pardons, tools that seemingly have no real restrictions or caps, and immediately see them as open to exploitation by bad actors. The pard
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Agreed. I often compare the way the current administration is wielding the pardon system to the old Catholic practice of papal indulgences.
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Nice job. It kind of reminds me a bit of Scrabble stems, where there are certain high‑probability ones to bingo using additional letters, e.g. RETAIN you can add an S → RETINAS, add a D → TRAINED, etc.
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Yeah, I think it came out a couple of years ago, which in the world of generative tech is basically the Stone Age. So it definitely has that sort of weird almost early Pixar/Wallace and Gromit look.
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Feedback - the landing page demo file which links to https://lingle.ai/demo.mp4 doesn't seem to play, instead it results in a 307 redirect to the sign-in page. Also I've personally never tried it, but there was a
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Sure! If you’re just drawing things directly polygons, lines, and other primitive shapes, then you can usually get away with just turning off anti-aliasing, and that will fix most visual artifacts and get you closer to that classic Apple II
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Nice job. Some feedback: 1. Make sure you’re using nearest-neighbor for scaling otherwise you end up with blurry aliased fringing on assets that are supposed to represent pixel art. 2. The character is moving left to right - why are the oxe
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Haha yeah - same I only run three extensions (uBlock Origin, Stylus, and Tampermonkey) but I'll be swapping over to violentmonkey [1]. Thanks for the recommendation - didn't realize there was a FOSS equivalent. https://
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Cheers! I feel like the vast majority of extensions could be rewritten as either TamperMonkey or Stylus scripts. I’m always leery of installing new extensions (nothing against Orange Juice) because of all the high-profile cases where they g
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Thanks perilunar - I see from your profile you're a clock enthusiast as well! I'm starting to think we should start an HN web ring for clocks. A bit of feedback for your sun clock: since it asks for my location, by the time I clic
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by vunderba 7mo ago
That's a good idea! It would make that sixty seconds a little bit more engaging instead of just hanging around on one time and having to wait before it zooms out to find the next HH:MM combination. I had initially set it up to go for e
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Nice job. Consider allowing the use of a key (Z, spacebar, etc) in addition to the mouse. Related but I played a similar orbital minigame a while back on Itch.io which has a bit of a 2D Mario Galaxy feel to it as well. https://da
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by vunderba 7mo ago
Stylus is great for this kind of thing - it's basically Tampermonkey but for site-level CSS overrides. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
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by vunderba 7mo ago
At least once a week, I take a few minutes out of my day to look through `/shownew` to comment on and upvote posts that: - seem interesting but aren’t getting much traction - are from users who actively participate in the community

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