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minism··on Mission Protocol
Really glad you said this. At this point this is my natural gut reaction to this type of discourse.
minism··on Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
Basically unplayable if you're used to CS at all, however this is a really cool and impressive project :)
minism··on Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms
I think they are referring to the uptick seen after May 29 here: https://imgur.com/a/Z9y7cek
minism··on Programming Steve Reich’s Piano Phase in SuperCollider
Absolutely agreed. Reich is featured quite a bit in mixes on musicforprogramming.net[1], which is a frequent go-to of mine. Definitely recommend it!

[1] http://musicforprogramming.net/

minism··on Picardy Third
Two of my closest friends (who are much better musicians than me) and I get together occasionally to jam. It's become a running inside joke at this point that invariably someone will end the jam with a Picardy third. It's so saccharine and absurd sounding. I love it.
minism··on Learn to write your first OS kernel (2018)
As others have stated there are much better guides than this.

I did this recently for fun, including the bootloader (I considered GRUB cheating!) The best tutorial IMO was https://samypesse.gitbook.io/how-to-create-an-operating-syst...

Some other useful resources I found:

  - http://3zanders.co.uk/2017/10/13/writing-a-bootloader/
  - http://mikeos.sourceforge.net/write-your-own-os.html
  - https://www.nasm.us/doc/
  - http://faydoc.tripod.com/cpu/
  - https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorialjos
minism··on Working for someone vs. doing your own thing
This is somewhat of an aside, but it's been interesting watching the constant debate about the direction of causality between financial and emotional stability in a family.

I think when I was younger I tended to see financial success and stability as a downstream effect of other factors, but I can't help but now see that viewpoint as naive. Economic pressure alone is sufficient to create severe emotional stress and instability (which probably creates a feedback loop that makes it even harder to recover from).

minism··on What Happens to the Body on No Sleep
This has been my experience as well, but I'm starting to worry that its an unhealthy habit.
minism··on Why is modern web development so complicated?
You're just describing MVC which is essentially what most frameworks contain at their core on some level.
minism··on Tone.js – A framework for making interactive music in the browser
This is a really awesome framework. Working on a generative chord progression project right now using it (Also my first foray into typescript -- looks like the type definitions for Tone.js are a bit out of date).
minism··on Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
Such a well curated list. I listen to it all the time at work.

I was already intimately familiar with many of the artists featured (Aphex twin, oneohtrix point never, tim hecker) but have definitely discovered some new ones through it too.

minism··on Fuchsia OS Introduction
Oh wow, I remember watching that, it's crazy to revisit that talk after so many years.

Redux and Flow are somehow branded as alternatives to MVC, when they are precisely MVC (store=model, dispatcher/reducer=controller, etc). It seems that Facebook (and many others) implemented MVC very poorly and pretended to abandon it instead of admitting they just did it better on the next attempt.

If anything, the success of redux simply reinforces the fact that MVC is a very useful pattern for UI applications. But, it bothers me that newer developers might be persuaded by the anti-MVC branding.

minism··on Whole-body cryotherapy as adjunct treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders
It sounds interesting, but I'm not quite sure how to feel about the conclusion that the effects here may be short-term. Anxiety and depression are generally big picture/long term issues for people rather than acute instances.
minism··on Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
Deleted in 2008. I was quite addicted to it which was my main motivation for deleting it, though I'm glad to not be on the platform for different reasons now.
minism··on The Cube Rule of Food Identification (2017)
One I enjoyed was a discussion on a gaming podcast about whether fireballs in street fighter were a form of magic or not, eventually leading to the question "is Guile a wizard?"
minism··on I'm Wil Wheaton. I Live with Chronic Depression and Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed
What the fuck?
minism··on More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
Yeah, different strains is the most common explanation i've heard. But in my own self experimentation I notice relatively little difference between Sativa and Indica.
minism··on More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
I'll never stop being fascinated by how radically different the experiences of cannabis users are. The idea of weed reducing anxiety and making you feel "fine doing nothing" are the polar opposites of how it makes me feel.

Overall it sounds like your experiences were much more positive than mine, though.

minism··on Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
thank you so much for reminding me of zombocom. huge smile on my face when I opened the html5 link
minism··on Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
The old man voice was spoken in my mind as Deckard Cain.
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