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blev··on Ask HN: What useful skills can be learned through rote memorization?
The algorithm I mentioned in the OP is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

I practiced the algorithm by replacing my doomscrolling time on a trainer app (https://whattheday.com/) over the last 3 weeks. I went from taking 2-20 minutes to usually get the wrong result to about 95% accuracy in 10 seconds.

This training app to teach you to play piano by ear and to sight read also got posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210

blev··on Ask HN: Did your iPhone alarm ring today?
Mine did not! I distinctly remember setting it last night but it only shows tomorrow's morning alarm. I set my alarm through the "sleep" feature where it gives you a schedule and automatically sets an alarm that you can modify day-to-day.
blev··on Interface Upgrades in Go (2014)
The author’s mistake was assuming that interfaces are unique to Go. I think it’s still a helpful article as someone who works frequently with interfaces because, while I “discovered” the interface upgrade idea on my own, I had never considered the proxy problem.
blev··on Goto Is Not a Horror
Lots of words to say "goto can be good" with nary an example of a good use of goto. Hard to judge the point without a concrete example.
blev··on Gemini AI
It's probably hallucinating that versioning. You can't trust LLMs to provide info about themselves.
blev··on Htmx Webring
While clicking around on the htmx website, I noticed that these two examples are broken:

https://htmx.org/examples/sortable/ https://htmx.org/examples/modal-bootstrap/

Neither worked for me in Chrome or Safari

blev··on Getting +1000 Matches on Tinder in 24 Hours by Building a Tinderbot [video]
I stumbled on this video around a year ago after being on Tinder for a little while. I was frustrated by the number of spammers on the app and at the same time, got really tired of constantly swiping without much results. This video blew my mind- this guy who supposedly didn't know how to program was able to get over 30,000 matches on Tinder just by creating a simple Selenium bot.

It begs a few questions:

1. Seeing how easy it is to make a Tinder bot, how many people are actually doing something similar? How many spammers?

2. This must be generating many obvious signals of bot-like behavior, and yet Tinder isn't banning his account. Why?

Returning to my experience with Tinder for a moment— after being an unpaid user for around three years, this video convinced me that I was hopelessly outmatched if I didn't at least start paying for any kind of Tinder subscription. I paid for the highest tier subscription for one month and suddenly was getting more matches than I could possibly handle. The pay-for-play is real.

blev··on The “Majority Illusion” in Social Networks (2016)
Did you consider that perhaps you may be perceiving the majority illusion in regards to the prevalence of rioting as opposed to the prevalence of peaceful protests?