jsharpe

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by jsharpe 3mo ago
Of course it's incomplete. Any explanation of nutrition that doesn't include mention of at least calories, macronutrients and micronutrients isn't useful for understanding what's actually going on or being able to make a
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by jsharpe 4mo ago
We don't even know if Homer was real. XD
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by jsharpe 5mo ago
I can see why people would be irritated by 1 and 2 and they happen to me too, but I have just reframed how I think about them. If someone jumps on something I'm struggling with, I take it as an opportunity to really pay attention to wh
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by jsharpe 5mo ago
I love when I'm climbing alone and working on something really hard for me and some random people just start cheering as I get near the top. :)
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by jsharpe 5mo ago
Measuring tech skill by how many tabs you have open is like measuring carpentry skill by how disorganized your workshop is.
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by jsharpe 6mo ago
I think the real answer is that Sora-style AI slop videos just aren't as addictive as we thought they'd be. I let my kids have access to the app in the hope they would be inoculated against being obsessed with AI video and it actu
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by jsharpe 6mo ago
If you're interested in making and finishing a game, there is no good argument to be made for writing your own engine unless you have some very very specific rendering requirements (e.g. you want your game to be in hyperbolic space or
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by jsharpe 1y ago
> Contrariwise, it's possible (but harder) to have no sense of taste and merely copy what most would regard as "good taste" and be perceived as having "good taste." Not only possible, but exactly what AI does. :)
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by jsharpe 1y ago
Exactly. This idea comes up time and time again, but the cost/benefit just doesn't make sense at all. You're adding an unbelievable amount of complex tooling just to avoid running a simple formatter. The goal of having every
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by jsharpe 1y ago
What a strange position this is (from the link): "the future of work is being more than one deviation from the statistical norm" This by definition can apply to only 16% of people who are at least one deviation above the mean. W
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by jsharpe 1y ago
I feel this may be an appropriate place to link this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDJueqppHo
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by jsharpe 2y ago
I feel the exact same way. I see a lot of benefits to writing by hand, but it is just so unbelievably, painfully SLOW, compared to my typing.
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Working Fast and Slow(seangoedecke.com)
3 points by jsharpe 2y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 2y ago
Exactly my thoughts! Thanks for putting it so clearly.
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by jsharpe 2y ago
Yup, that's a really good point. I kind of wish I had marked ambiguous words on a first pass, and then taken a bit of a different approach for a second pass of just the difficult ones.
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by jsharpe 2y ago
I don't, unfortunately. I'm trying to avoid having a dedicated backend for this so there are Google Analytics but they don't allow that granular of a metric. That definitely could be something interesting, but I'd probab
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by jsharpe 2y ago
I did consider this but the effort of doing a full dictionary pass is a lot to ask for marginal improvement and I don't know anyone quite as obsessed as me who would do it. Paying someone would be possible, but finding the right combin
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I read the dictionary to make a better game (2023)(taugames.ca)
14 points by jsharpe 2y ago|10 comments
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by jsharpe 2y ago
Those are rookie numbers. I have often set my alarm for 40+ minutes before I "need" to be awake because I know that I will snooze the alarm several times before being conscious enough to force myself out of bed.
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by jsharpe 2y ago
This is called an equation but I don't see an equals sign anywhere. Is it implicit somehow? Or am I missing it?
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by jsharpe 3y ago
Another example is open world games. They have to keep world coordinates centered on the player because for large worlds, the floating point inaccuracy in the far reaches of the world starts to really matter. An example of a game that does
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by jsharpe 3y ago
"Standard monthly rate" above that section of the fee table.
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by jsharpe 3y ago
They want 20% of that, PER MONTH.
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by jsharpe 3y ago
Charging a monthly fee on game installs is absolutely wild, considering that most games on Steam are one-time purchases. The personal fee (for first world countries) is $0.20 / month. If you charged $10 for the game, you'd be losi
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by jsharpe 3y ago
College students don't have to, since they don't meet this criteria to be charged the monthly fee: "Those that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime game installs." That
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Show HN: My word search game with curated dictionary and progressive hints(taugames.ca)
2 points by jsharpe 3y ago|0 comments
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by jsharpe 4y ago
Those relatives/friends/neighbors may very well have a healthier relationship with the news than you do. For a certain set of people (me included), news is addictive and destructive to my life, but for others, it's something
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by jsharpe 5y ago
To be fair, Eric Hansen's win was probably because of a Magnus Carlsen mouse slip. He made a totally nonsensical move and then immediately resigned.
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by jsharpe 5y ago
Regulation will take time to catch up. We manage to create and approve a flu vaccine every year, and that's likely because the general process has been approved, and so each iteration is fast tracked. I don't think that's the
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by jsharpe 5y ago
I'm curious what improvement, if any, is seen from using the fan on the range hood while using the gas stove/oven. Since I heard about this issue, I've been using it every time I use the stove or oven, and it does make a diff

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