kylepdm

His "Things I Won't Work With" series on Science (https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...) is fun to read. The link in the article itself now unfortunately just points to the science.org homepage so you have to do some clicking around to get to this blog series.

Very refreshing to finally see people on HN call out the ridiculousness of the "both sides" arguments when it comes to this topic.

FYI the underlying link in that previous discussion post seems to be defunct and kind of suspicious.

Nah, I think they just really "ship their org structure".

I feel like the difference isn't so much that you have AI recommendations or that of a human, but rather the entire environment is fundamentally different.

With Netflix or whatever Streaming Service you have you have an immense catalogue coupled with ease of access to get ratings/critiques/etc. There is so many things to choose from and it's so easy to just say "no" to a suggestion, and likely that thing you said "no" to will still be there tomorrow. Why not just keep browsing?

With the video store of old it's so much more purposeful. You pick up a movie, and you feel incentivized to watch it because you literally just paid for it. You paid for that one Movie, not access to the entire store (which you also need to physically go to, and then come all the way back home with a tape or dvd). Also the ubiquity of movie/tv reviews was not as present so you don't necessarily feel like you're making a bad choice.

Don't forget the keycaps: https://omnitype.com/products/gmk-dracula

That's quite literally not how 230 works, and completely ignores the historical reasons of why 230 was created.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

No love for the Alice and it's loving clones?

It's a shame that the RTS is a dying genre but those three issues he states are pretty spot on of why they aren't as popular anymore. Those three issues are also some of the most defining aspects of RTS games, especially competitive RTS games.

There was a time where I tried to get really good at AoE2, but it is a mentally exhausting "hobby". 1v1s in AoE2 feel like fencing whilst trying to do an obstacle course. There is so much to know and it's quite hard to execute everything you want while being harassed and prodded by your opponent.

I used to have consistent but relatively mild wrist pain from using a standard keyboard all day, but I was able to alleviate that once I switched to a split ergonomic keyboard which I made.

For anyone who also wants to get their feet wet in the world of custom keyboards it certainly isn't as daunting as you might think. You don't have to necessarily go ortholinear, and you certainly don't have to stray from QWERTY. In fact, just learning to properly touch type and making sure the "right" fingers are hitting the right keys goes a long way with a split keyboard.

I found a lot of my own wrist pain was from the unnatural position that your arms and wrists are in to support a non split keyboard + the unnecessary hand/wrist movement to hit keys with the "wrong" fingers. An ortholinear (or at least column linear) keyboard can go a long way in teaching you where your fingers are supposed to go as long as you are willing to spend a weekend or two learning how to type again.

If you are thinking of diving into making your own, I would recommend the following vendors for kits:

https://keyhive.xyz/shop https://keeb.io/ https://www.littlekeyboards.com/

Hand wiring a mechanical keyboard.

I can't do the close face action in his cupboard but I really do appreciate folks who don't edit out their mistakes. It really helps knowing that it's ok to mistakes when you're learning to cook, that there's a lot of leeway with cooking, and getting better is just a process of doing it again and again.

Yeah I don't fully get this whole anti-Markdown sentiment.

Have I ever ran into limitations with Markdown? Yes.

Has Markdown ever been the reason why things were poorly documented? No.

Whatever gets people to document stuff, and maintain and update that documentation.

Shoo-in for the Ig Nobel

A lot of this is absolutely great advice. I struggled a lot in my first couple years of university having to get adjusted to a much more difficult learning environment that expects much more of you than what HS required.

The biggest change for me was when I started to take notes by hand, and re-take them, as a form of studying. Also focusing on understanding the fundamentals of a class vs trying to ace practice material. I went from a mid 70s GPA to 90s.

But I think a lot of where students struggle is just the acquired discipline necessary to succeed. Studying isn't very fun or enjoyable - at most it can be nice to focus and have goals, but most people have tons of anxiety leading into it and procrastinate a bunch. At the end of the day, there aren't any study hacks or anything, it's just that you have to put the time into it, and you have to essentially "learn how to learn".

This was very apparent in my upper year CS classes where I saw a lot of students struggle to do well in exams for what wasn't terribly difficult material. I realized a lot of students just weren't willing to sit down and study the necessary amount of time. I thank my time in microbiology courses where I had to learn to study every night to memorize tons of different concepts and be able to apply them all to each other. I think students in life sciences tend to know how to study more simply because their courses have a lot more concepts and fundamentals than most CS courses.

If you are in college/university and reading this you have to realize you just have to put the time in. That amount of time differs from person to person. I did really well in my CS program, but I put tons of time into it.

How big is the Vancouver office?

I think you've completely over looked the benefits to the individual, and society, as a whole when you allow parents to spend more time with their new born kids.

It's really easy to say "hey you decided to have a kid, so that's on you". But you do need children to sustain society in the future. It does them a lot of good if their parents can spend more time with them during their infant stage.

Also that attitude is really detrimental to women. Are future mothers supposed to choose over one day raising a kid or their careers? Doesn't society lose out on a lot of potential if we just say "sorry, if you want a kid then you're going to find a new job" ?

In this case, would the user just not resolve any DNS queries at all then if their ISP is intercepting all of them? Or am I missing something?

Any particular reason none of the implementations just do a random pick of a pivot? This usually is good enough to prevent the O(n^2) solution that the diet implementation runs into.

That is super sweet. It looks sort of similar to how Dwarf Fortress generates its geographies.

You should look at how that game does it because it also involves creating a whole mythology and history to help generate civilizations and their fall/rise.

Really? One of the "worst" places?

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Like I completely agree with the sentiment that Vancouver is just too expensive to live in. But one of the "worst" places in the Western world is a pretty ridiculous hyperbole. Just as a reference point, where exactly else have you lived?