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hessarton Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]

ahem

If you're in the US, you can buy human neurons online at sciencellonline.com/en/human-neurons/

hessarton Ruby website redesigned

Maybe it was vibe coded, considering that Claude is the #3 committer in the website's repo[1].

[1] https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/graphs/contributor...

hessarton Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

So nice! I remember playing it back in the day, and then forking your repo to make it 128 instead of 2048.

Turns out the fork is still up. It's been literally 10 years.

https://128.arthurhess.com

hessarton Beginner's guide to arguing constructively (2020)

Something I learned from one of my professors back in university is that two people can construct entirely logical arguments, but if they stem from different sets of axioms, they might still find themselves in disagreement.

In a discussion, if our axioms significantly diverge, it might not be worthwhile to engage in a debate.

hessarton Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong

Hi. I've had the same (good) experience on both. Could it be something in your FF?

hessarton My home lab setup for highly-available Internet

Maybe.

hessarton GitLab Web IDE

Seriously, how hard can it be? It's not like it's a completely new form of interaction. Vim and emacs are the ones that are exceptions in regard to UX.

hessarton CSCI E-23a: Introduction to Game Development

If offered as a mooc, it would probably be on EdX.

Meanwhile, the lectures are available on YouTube:

https://cs50.github.io/games/lectures

hessarton Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know

Well, you could use it while competing in the IOCCC:

https://www.ioccc.org/

hessarton Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices

I wonder how much damage to Amazon’s bottom line Google could do by simply suppressing it from its search results.

hessarton Words for “yes” in Romance languages

Technically, “isso” translates to “that”, whereas “isto” translates to “this”. Good point, anyway.

hessarton Body parts “fall asleep” in English. What about in other languages?

As a native Portuguese speaker from Brazil (Sao Paulo), the use of “formigamento” sounds too formal to me.

I have always used “dormiu”, which translates to “fell asleep” (past tense). However, using it in the present (either simple or continuous) would sound odd to my ears.

That being said, Brazil has over 200 million speakers distributed across 3.2 million square miles, and the city of São Paulo accounts for only 5% of our total population (roughly).