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Tutorfile: Generate vimtutor-like interactive tutorials(github.com)
1 points by cdbyr 2y ago|1 comments
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by cdbyr 2y ago
I found myself looking for vimtutor-like text-based tutorials, and threw this together to make them easy to make, with or without the benefit of source material. I don’t think the prompt instructions are totally final yet - feel free to rea
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by cdbyr 2y ago
There is a whole hierarchy of right of way on the water, but a better rule of thumb is that the less maneuverable boat generally has priority. https://www.whoi.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Abbreviated-.
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by cdbyr 2y ago
I agree with you, the earlier post says people only do things out of self-interest, and I was surprised that nobody else had disagreed or mentioned it’s an unfortunate way to see the world.
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by cdbyr 2y ago
You don’t think people ever do the right thing just because it’s the right thing?
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by cdbyr 2y ago
One nice thing about designers is their tie-breaking ability for non-designers. Design, being something we all think we’re right about, is easy to lose lots of time going back and forth on with non-specialists, while it’s much faster to sen
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by cdbyr 3y ago
This seems like short-run thinking winning. I don’t want to have to think about if companies I interact with are going to slowly diminish the product. This sort of thing undermines that - it’s a rare good thing for companies to be trustable
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by cdbyr 3y ago
There are all sorts of games brands/retailers play with these. It also wouldn’t surprise me at all if Walmart avoided language that went as far as collusion, but did make clear they needed a certain margin and were willing to pay a hig
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by cdbyr 3y ago
It’s pretty common for there to be a ‘minimum advertised price’ (MAP) where a brand can cut retailers off if they advertise a price below it - this is why so many stores will have the exact same price on a given product and why you’ll somet
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by cdbyr 4y ago
It’s a fun/NP-hard problem, this take on it ended up being useful: https://github.com/stephaniemhutson/BoxPackingAPI/blob/maste... https://medium.com/the-chain/solving-the-box-select
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by cdbyr 4y ago
The article mentions that memories are maintained - I didn’t see a source, but here is an article about it: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13412-butterflies-rem...
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by cdbyr 4y ago
I’m not an expert, but it was about the size + hairiness that I associate with bees.
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by cdbyr 4y ago
A question for any bee experts: there have been a few times I’ve been eating a sandwich or sushi in a nearby park in NY, and a bee has flown over, found the meat in whatever I’m eating, spent some time cutting a piece off, and flown off wit
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by cdbyr 4y ago
There was a line from Jeff Bezos, ""One of the early examples of this is customer reviews. Someone wrote to me and said, 'You don't understand your business. You make money when you sell things. Why do you allow these ne
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by cdbyr 4y ago
It's an interesting question. If the fraud were evenly spread out, and if all advertisers had the same goal, the equilibrium bid just adjusts for less valuable clicks/interaction/etc (in line with what the earlier commenter m
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by cdbyr 4y ago
I hope not - for projects with any complexity, knowing I’ve got a checkpoint means I don’t need to think hard about doing risky things. I wonder if Microsoft keeps stats on how many Office users use auto save.
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by cdbyr 4y ago
Thanks for being so responsive - I'm on Safari version 15.3 (17612.4.9.1.8), on Mac OS 12.2.1 (21D62)
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by cdbyr 4y ago
Agreed with your comments on muscle memory and very cool project overall. An issue keeping me from wanting to use this: holding down the directional keys doesn't move the cursor multiple times - it's one keypress per movement. In
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by cdbyr 4y ago
Glad it was interesting! I’d realized the part referenced was a while in, so wasn’t sure if anyone would want to read that far to get to it.
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by cdbyr 4y ago
I think this is overall very accurate and owning one’s own onboarding is a productive framing. For the content of the introductory meetings, beyond a beginner’s mindset, I’ve found the idea of ‘generating pull’ useful. If you’re looking fo
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by cdbyr 4y ago
Sorry to break this, Roku is about as bad for ad data sharing / tracking: https://advertising.roku.com/advertiser-solutions/oneview - any time you hear things like ‘full funnel attribution’, there is a good amount
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by cdbyr 5y ago
Thank you, hope all goes well! My dad has had a easy enough time of it, I mainly hear about how it’s time-consuming to photograph everything.
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by cdbyr 5y ago
Squarespace is fairly good for this - I made a website for my parents' pottery that you can see here: https://thebyersstudio.com . It's nice in that it's made for non-technical users and integrates well with ShipSt
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by cdbyr 5y ago
You might find development class sailing interesting. For example, the Moth started off as a fairly normal dinghy and is now a really fast foiling boat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth_(dinghy) I’m not sure if the
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by cdbyr 6y ago
I found this course to be a nice intro: https://www.coursera.org/learn/logic-introduction Unlike a lot of Coursera courses, the course is a series of interactive (mostly text) pages and some multiple-choice questions.
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by cdbyr 6y ago
I can’t recommend How Finance Works by Mihir Desai enough. There are a few cool things about it: 1. You get the feeling that the author has developed a deep sense of how learning works, and is using the same teaching methods in the book tha
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by cdbyr 7y ago
I think this misses the point and lets legislators off too easy. Economics tends to be concerned with maximizing the size of the pie, not distribution of benefits. That’s generally seen as government’s domain, with the idea that (with prop
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by cdbyr 7y ago
While we’re talking about metaphors: this reminds me of the distinction between craft and art. Where one is the creation or something elegant and functional (craft, lisp), the other treats more important the ideas being put into practice (a
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by cdbyr 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this came of amazon lowballing because they want to get (more) into Fedex's game. The cost of shipping for Amazon isn't just the shipping cost - it's the opportunity cost of not scaling their o