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dimensional_danon Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

D&D has too many rules. I invented a really light weight set of rules so that we can engage in more "role play" as opposed to RTS. It's more fun for the casual game and you don't waste so much time between turns.

dimensional_danon I wasted years of my life in crypto

Turns out nobody is actually interested in transacting with crypto otherwise Nano would have been a winner. I also love Banano, a Nano fork where you mine by folding proteins. Work that has actual value.

dimensional_danon Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

Maybe it can finally get the new lines correct for a given application? ;-)

dimensional_danon The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies

The other option would be to rebase the currency such that a single penny was a meaningful unit of money again. One potential such way would be to issue new paper notes which represent the old note with a decimal place move such that $10 becomes $100. This has been done before but might not be a great idea for the USA.

dimensional_danon The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

Has a Mil ever been minted?

dimensional_danon Aerocart cargo gliders

I have done it. It's actually quite thrilling, feeling that initial burst of acceleration.

dimensional_danon Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

> all purpose flour

Use that one. It's flour, but like for all purposes. You can make cake with it fine.

dimensional_danon Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

Oh man one more negative thing to worry about.

dimensional_danon Face it: you're a crazy person

When you break down anything into its subtasks there's basically nothing that anyone wants to do. Sometimes the ends help justify the means too.

dimensional_danon Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

Can we remove the down side but keep the joy?

dimensional_danon AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive

It's probably going to be even worse than that - HR (and everyone else) will probably then have to implement process and procedure and storage mechanisms to prove that emails have not been changed. This might mean storing emails in a document control system. Email is bad enough but now we're all going to have to keep a mirror in SharePoint or something like that.

dimensional_danon Using Gorilla glass for home building

It is once you've maxed out what you can borrow and are now barely able to pay the mortgage and food.

dimensional_danon Colour in the Middle Ages

Sometimes we find it hard to see the things that are closer to home, and presume that these phenomena are do do with other peoples and cultures.

But consider in English we currently do this blue and light blue. Where say Spanish calls them different colours - blue and celeste, and they are linguistically seen as different named colours.

Interestingly we don't do this with red, there's no red and light red, but red and pink.

dimensional_danon How the biggest plane would supersize wind energy

Maybe make them seaplanes if making airports is too expensive? I just want to bring seaplanes back any way we can really ;)

dimensional_danon It’s a Unix system I know this

I also used it, a relative had one for their startup. There were dozens of us at least!

dimensional_danon The case for bad coffee (2015)

That was one of the most romantic things I have ever read. And like most romantic things it was fundamentally flawed. Excellent prose though.

dimensional_danon Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

The comparison is not between hjkl, arrows and mouse movements. Vim motions are far richer than that.

dimensional_danon Forget the hype, “thinking machines” can’t replace humans

Yes, this is true, but machine learning is but one aspect of artificial intelligence. There's also neural networks, and I reckon we might see some interesting stuff come out of Quantum Computing too...

dimensional_danon Forget the hype, “thinking machines” can’t replace humans

It would be hard to argue that DNA coding directly effects behaviour. DNA only determines how genes are expressed and proteins are built, where behaviour is an emergent phenomena - behaviour is genes and DNA but it is also the large scale interaction of all of those processes and external input which makes it much more than the sum of the DNA parts.

dimensional_danon Forget the hype, “thinking machines” can’t replace humans

The sad truth is that most jobs can be replaced by "unthinking machines". This is what is actually happening.

dimensional_danon Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

You're just assuming that one set of optimisations are the most important for everyone in UI design. Good UI design doesn't state that it is always the case that people should be able to use it intuitively. Sometimes enhanced performance, speed, and focus over the long term are optimised over intuitiveness. This is the case for Vim. There is room in the world for both sets of optimisations.

dimensional_danon Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

> I really want to like vim

> Also, why do I have to have a special mode to insert things?

First and foremost Vim is a modal text editor. If you don't like that Vim is probably not for you. Your comment is kind of like saying I'm really trying to like chocolate, but I don't like the flavour.

There's a Vim way of doing things, if you really take the time to learn it then the questions you are asking will all be resolved.