Hunpeter

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by Hunpeter 7d ago
This is a bit off topic, but since you mentioned your guide: I hope this doesn't come off as hostile, but the guide you linked contains a number of inaccuracies and oversimplifications - it's kind of naive in an endearing way, bu
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by Hunpeter 17d ago
I don't think you are wrong, per se, but at the same time the skill level of late-game (or even mid-game) encounters has also been increasing. Plus, they usually aim to strike a balance between less intensive but also less efficient ac
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by Hunpeter 27d ago
Yup, the HN auto-filtering of titles often messes them up...
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by Hunpeter 1mo ago
> given a file of compressed text files, adding a new text to it expands it more or less depending on how different the new text is from the compressed. The 3b1b videos mention how this concept may be used to find similarities between di
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by Hunpeter 3mo ago
Afaik there wasn't a single widely accepted standard in the Baroque era, but rather different places had different tunings, with the "normal A" varying roughly between 400 and 500 Hz.
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by Hunpeter 4mo ago
But what if Tony the Pony comes?
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by Hunpeter 5mo ago
An important tenet of modern education is that true knowledge is that which the learner (re)constructs in their mind. Heuristic learning (i.e. "trying to figure things out") is often a great way to do this.
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by Hunpeter 5mo ago
>For classical students, theory doesn't really start until college. Well, unless, you are studying here in Hungary, for example, where it starts pretty much right away... (though it is a separate class).
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by Hunpeter 8mo ago
"Normie" and "happens to own one or two extra homes" seem a bit contradictory to me... And doesn't everyone who invests in something that makes them money exploit economic conditions?
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by Hunpeter 11mo ago
How does one become a "student of floating point math idiosyncracies"?
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by Hunpeter 11mo ago
Oooh, I really liked ToriBash! I didn't play for very long for whatever reason, but I did think it was a creative and fun game.
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by Hunpeter 11mo ago
Someone said in another comment, that it makes more sense together with the dereference operator, so int *var means: "dereferencing var gets you an int." I don't really know C, but personally prefer your version. However, I c
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by Hunpeter 1y ago
This is also well known here in Hungary, there was even movie about it. It's called "unokázás"; literally: "grandchilding".
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by Hunpeter 1y ago
A somewhat more depressing take: "There comes a time in everyone's life when you look into the mirror and realize that what you see is all that you'll ever be. And you accept that fact - or you kill yourself. Or you stop look
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by Hunpeter 1y ago
You have made an interesting point but I think your arguments would have more force if you exercised some restraint in categorically stating your opinions about what is wrong and in what way as facts, basically. Anyway, while I agree on the
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by Hunpeter 1y ago
As someone with little financial knowledge, I'm curious why that is the case and how those estimates are calculated. I've seen stores offering a discount on cash payments, citing card-related fees as the reason.
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by Hunpeter 1y ago
Hi, when you say you don't know which fingers to move do you mean within the context of a piece of music, or just the scales themselves? For the latter, I can give you some advice (though if you search something like "piano scale
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by Hunpeter 1y ago
I mean, Bartók is really not that random: polytonality, pentatonic and octatonic stuff, whole-tone scales etc. are all things you can practice and put into work in his music. (You can argue that Schönberg is even less random, cause serialis
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by Hunpeter 1y ago
"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And thus, our lives slip away moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."
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by Hunpeter 1y ago
> Why would you be on HN if you weren't a programmer? This isn't (exclusively) a forum for programmers (in fact, since it belongs to YC, maybe you'd expect businesspeople etc.) For example, I'm not a programmer, and I
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
Reminds me of the monks in the third season of Babylon 5. Who says you can't both be an IT person and a cleric?
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
Obviously, the worst song of all time is "The Most Unwanted Song" by Dave Soldier.
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
Yes, I'm Hungarian, and I'm not even mad (pun intended) about "mad" matching "madzag". I find that we ourselves sometimes conflate characters and letters, so many people's first thought would be that &quot
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
I've been binging Branch Education the last week or so, and I concur that the videos are exceptionally well made. Some commenters noticed one or two mistakes in some of them, but nothing major.
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
I've encountered an old safe which required two keys to open, one of them turning the "wrong way" - perhaps it's an attempt to slow down a possible burglar by making it "surprising"?
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
Maybe a billion-dollar company has more money to spend on lawsuits than artists do? Doesn't make them the good guys, but I'm not surprised that it's them doing it.
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
"Please place the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube on the Aperture Science Super-colliding Super-button".
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
Addendum: some orchestras tune to a slightly different A (442 Hz is common I think), and the oboe player often gives a B-flat as well for those instruments where that's more natural.
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
Nanomachines, son.
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by Hunpeter 2y ago
Tangentially, modern educational paradigms also characterize learning as a process of construction happening within the student's mind, rather than a transfer of knowledge.

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