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by beasthacker 3mo ago
You may like a game my younger brother developed. Same genre as slay the spire. He and one other guy coded this together for a few years. Really good reviews on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3057670/Plu
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by beasthacker 4mo ago
This is a great episode.
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by beasthacker 5mo ago
I worry that increasingly sophisticated dynamic pricing could one day make it nearly impossible for anyone to get ahead.
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by beasthacker 5mo ago
This GOAL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
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by beasthacker 5mo ago
Many people fail to appreciate the thermos. I think it is one of mankind's greatest achievements.
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by beasthacker 5mo ago
I wonder whether government testing actually makes a material difference in food/beverage safety. For example, when I worked for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, I was surprised to discover that the percentage of imported food/
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by beasthacker 6mo ago
This worked well for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_dFRnmdGs
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by beasthacker 7mo ago
Anki, but a pseudo-terminal that drills you on a programming language's syntax. Utilizes spaced repetition. Aims to cement fundamentals needed before leet code.
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by beasthacker 7mo ago
Loved this piece. Especially that it is written in a Gonzo journalism style, including the author as part of the narrative, like a Hunter S. Thompson essay.
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by beasthacker 7mo ago
I sanity-checked it with two headshots of the same third party and it swung ~2.5 points, so it seems to capture state (lighting/angle/expression) more than trait. Then I uploaded my own photo and got an unexpectedly high score, wh
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by beasthacker 8mo ago
This framing has been helpful for me: Your workday isn’t a monolith; it is a series of tiny tasks. Try deconstructing your job to identify intrinsic motivation. Which micro-tasks do you look forward to? Which raise questions you think about
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by beasthacker 8mo ago
Reminds me of my old Renaissance Learning Neo 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
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by beasthacker 8mo ago
I really like your photographs here: https://andyjohnson.uk/blog/2025/03/17/eigiau-walk/
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by beasthacker 8mo ago
What is your blog? Which do you recommend?
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by beasthacker 8mo ago
What is your blog?
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
Yes, this is exactly the distinction I was struggling to articulate. “Online” has collapsed into a single bucket that includes friends-only play, strangers, stores, chat, downloads, etc. What I want (and what you’re describing with running
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Parental controls aren't for parents(beasthacker.com)
451 points by beasthacker 9mo ago|456 comments
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TIL: I am an open-source contributor(beasthacker.com)
4 points by beasthacker 9mo ago|0 comments
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
The etymology I’ve heard isn’t even listed in the article. One theory traces “Kentucky” to early forms like Cantucky or Cane-tucky, referring to the region’s vast river-cane brakes, Kentucky River cane, North America’s only native bamboo, w
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
A weak judgment betrays itself in the indiscriminate use of fine punctuation; for when the em-dash is made universal, it ceases to be distinguished, and becomes merely another form of hyphen. Let the em-dash remain upon the height of style.
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
I wanted to share a quick piece of feedback from a potential reader's perspective: There are several small inconsistencies in the intro text (e.g., inconsistent capitalization of 'Rust' vs 'rust', grammar typos). In
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
The U.S. federal government is bad at redactions on purpose. The offices responsible for redactions are usually in-house legal shops (e.g., an Office of Chief Counsel inside an agency like CBP) and the agency’s FOIA office. They’re often do
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
Hypothetical for you: Learn more if you tried to figure it out yourself for 3 hours then used the LLM for the last hour to unblock/check your work? Or learn more by utilizing LLM for help the whole four hours? My own experience is what
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
I buy the productivity argument, but I’m not convinced “30 minutes reading/tweaking agent output” is equivalent for learning to building it yourself. If your goal is the feature, then yes: letting the agent do the heavy lifting and rev
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
This is too good.
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by beasthacker 9mo ago
>If your last serious attempt was more than six months ago, your opinion is (I’m sorry to say, but) outdated. I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini daily. My opinion hasn't evolved over the last 6 months: - Huge productivity leverag