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by vunderba 7mo ago
Nice~ related but if you want to look at what is perhaps the quintessential physics puzzle game series, I highly recommend checking out The Incredible Machine for inspiration. It’s an older MS-DOS game, but its charm and personality still
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Former ESL teacher with a background in computer science, who bounced around a few countries and has also created ESL apps to help students with their English skills. It's a great feeling to be able to combine those two areas to help y
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by vunderba 8mo ago
yeah. One thing I've done in the past with experiments playing around with genetic algorithm derived music is that I would setup a recurrent tonic that would play every X beats to musically anchor to a signature and/or mode.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Could be. I think part of the problem is that the larger it is, the more obvious that it looks like clip art. It also calls "attention" to it - which could work if a large mountain represented a mechanical difference - more or ric
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Yeah I think there's a lot of room for experimentation in this area like locking the grid to musical modes (mixylodian, phyrgian), setting up intervals, etc.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
If there can be a professional Pillow Fighting Championship league that airs on bloody ESPN, then I am in full support of snowball fight winter sports.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice job. There was another one about 6 months ago as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211868 And AlgoMotion did a pretty popular demonstration of musical cellular automata which I highly recommend giving a watc
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice job - it reminds me a bit of Dwarf Fortress . Small feedback: Unless randomly sized identical tile sprites represent a functional difference (e.g. a bigger leaf means a more arable area, etc.), I would take them out as IMHO it's
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice write-up. Also see the whorfian hypothesis (aka linguistic relativity) since it goes into the theory of how one's language shapes external and cultural perception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_rela
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by vunderba 8mo ago
That's great. Well, just to let them know if they ever need something like that in the future, I'm available for hire as an overpriced consultant. I guarantee with 100% satisfaction that my O(n^n) code will allow visitors sufficie
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice job. Some Feedback: I’d recommend adding a small animation of an X if you click on a space where you can’t move. I clicked on a few spots where I expected something to happen and there was no response. I like the formation visualizatio
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Pixelmator - 1000%. Native MacOS - quick to load and very intuitive layer-based paint interface. It's a one-time purchase for $50 but they used to run sales. They were bought by Apple recently but still sell it. I moved to it when I mi
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Yeah I'm a big fan of mermaid as well. Extended ASCII works a bit better for me because depending on the text editor because I don't need a custom visualization tool.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
hahaha - I've done something similar. I had an automated vitest harness running and at one point it ended up leaving a bunch of zombie procs/threads just vampirically leeching the crap out of my resources. I naturally assumed that
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by vunderba 8mo ago
PSA for those who aren’t aware: Chromium/Firefox-based browsers have a Network tab in the developer tools where you can dial down your bandwidth to simulate a slower 3G or 4G connection. Combined with CPU throttling, it's a dece
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice - all actions performed on a layer should retain a hidden "raw original" so we get non-destructive transforms.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice job. Related, but text adventure games have also long been a good source for learning a foreign language. You can search Interactive Fiction Database by localized language: https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=language%3Az
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by vunderba 8mo ago
I'd echo at least seeing a therapist even to get a single diagnosis just to make sure there's nothing more serious going on. My personal recommendation is to look into the short exercise book "Treat Your Own Neck" by t
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice job. There was a pretty popular Show HN around this concept called Wildex about a month ago though its not limited to birds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040390 Seek by iNaturalist has also been around for mu
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice job. I can’t give you feedback unfortunately as I don’t have an iPhone but can at least give some advice w/ regard to the landing page. I would put the Terms and Privacy links at the bottom, not in the top navigation bar. Rethink
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice article but small note: >You might be thinking "If spaced repetition is so effective, why isn't it more popular?" I might have thought that 30 years ago - but I can't remember the last time I used a flashcard a
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Which coincidentally also hit the front page on HN a few years back! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023 I like that this one adds a classic blue cable guide though.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
I was just going to say this. Windows 7 with security packs + WSL would have been about as good as it gets on Microsoft's side.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
It’s interesting you mentioned that. One of the things I’ve started doing recently is throwing a large LLM such as codex-5.3 (highest level of reasoning) at some of the more complex systems we have to produce nicely formatted ASCII diagrams
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by vunderba 8mo ago
A similar thing happened when Google started really pushing generating flowcharts as a use-case with Nano Banana. A slick presentation can distract people from the only thing that really matters - the accuracy of the underlying data.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice article - I hadn't heard of Sugoroku before. A favorite with my younger students back when I taught ESL in Asia was the “Hammer Game.” It involved dividing the whiteboard into categories (for example, Fruit on the left, Vegetables
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by vunderba 8mo ago
It feels like a bit of both - the faster you're able to perceive the differing square, the faster you're able to navigate to it.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
Nice job. Kind of reminds me of this one which increases the number of squares with the odd-one out becoming more subtle as you progress further in the game, but I prefer your sliding mechanic better for this kind of game. https:/&#
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by vunderba 8mo ago
This has been my experience too. AI is like handing someone a motorcycle. Sure they're going to move faster but those without a map won’t necessarily be heading in the right direction.
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by vunderba 8mo ago
That's true - state serialization can definitely help. > AI has been getting pretty decent at analyzing images (screenshots/renders). I've found AI to be hit or miss on this - especially if the image is busy with lots of

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