mega_dean

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by mega_dean 25d ago
I really liked "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera because of the style of writing and not because of the story. The author goes on a lot of thought-provoking philosophical tangents. Here's an example from th
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by mega_dean 25d ago
This isn't a real counterexample, but an interesting case is Bobby McFerrin, who wrote "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He avoided listening to singers for 1-2 years in order to develop his own voice/sound: "First was
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by mega_dean 2mo ago
> I remember a story about people who stutter not stuttering while singing. “Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters But doesn't ever stutter when he sings But what you don't know, I'm gonna tell you right n
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by mega_dean 3mo ago
If it was really an “HN themed puzzle”, all the letters would be A or I and the minimum word length would be 2. I’m kidding of course - great game!
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by mega_dean 3mo ago
> bring gaming back to the couch in a way that the Steam Link didn't succeed at. Also in the way that the Ouya didn’t succeed at - their kickstarter tagline was “Cracking open the last closed platform: the TV”. I actually had comple
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by mega_dean 3mo ago
Lazygit for a standalone program, or magit for an emacs package (some people use a different editor and just treat emacs+magit as a dedicated git frontend).
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by mega_dean 3mo ago
There is a setting (at Settings > Playback > Autoplay) that you can disable those songs after your playlist ends.
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by mega_dean 3mo ago
I used to go hiking in New Mexico and I actually liked when I came across little signs that someone was there: a small stack of rocks, sticks arranged in a crop-circley pattern, a makeshift bridge over a small stream, etc. But the worst par
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by mega_dean 3mo ago
I was in a similar place ~6 years ago, so not AI-based but still depressed. I tried therapy for 2-3 years and personally didn’t find it helpful. My problem is overthinking and dwelling on things, so I think it was counterproductive to spend
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by mega_dean 3mo ago
That was my reaction at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly. Some of the other bizarre syntax bothered me for much longer, like using semicolons for list separators, eg [1;2;3] instead of [1,2,3]. I briefly tried to use Reason since
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by mega_dean 4mo ago
I don’t know if it satisfies “already convenient to use”, but IMO ocaml fits “adds great features reliably and safely”. They merged their multicore compiler ~4 years ago, which was a pretty huge change that added parallelism through domains
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by mega_dean 4mo ago
> I read some AI generated tests and while it looks visually impressive, ultimately it wasn’t doing anything valuable I just saw this comment yesterday about one of the tests from Bun’s rust rewrite: https://news.ycombinator.c
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by mega_dean 4mo ago
I’ve never really had good luck with the artist radio, but I’ve found a lot of music I like by starting at a band I like and going through the Related Artists. It’s a little strange because I’m sure the artist radio includes a lot of songs
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by mega_dean 4mo ago
Reminds me of this page with an example for understanding how many permutations there are for a shuffled deck of cards: https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html > So, just how large is it? Let's try to wrap our pun
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by mega_dean 5mo ago
I had a very similar experience releasing a video game. Barely anybody downloaded it because I didn’t put any effort into marketing/promoting, but “I couldn’t be happier with my journey in making it”. I have replayed it a few times and
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by mega_dean 1y ago
> Who are we to believe - the repliers, or our own lying eyes? Believe the repliers: I created an account in May 2024 and I have not added a phone number. Here's a screenshot from my settings: https://imgur.com/a&#x2
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by mega_dean 1y ago
The youtube channel Summoning Salt made a great video that covers the history of Tetris world records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJlg8g8_yw
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by mega_dean 1y ago
> I'm curious how this can be applied with the inevitable combinatorial exhaustion that will happen with musical aspects such as melody, chord progression, and rhythm. https://www.vice.com/en/article/musici
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by mega_dean 2y ago
> still being as faithful to the original as it could be Wow, you weren't kidding - it's basically a note-for-note cover of the whole album. Thanks for sharing the link!
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by mega_dean 2y ago
> Although it has been on my mind for a long time, I haven’t been able to read a comprehensive book based on these studies Deep Work by Cal Newport focuses on these ideas pretty heavily, and he cites plenty of studies to back up his argu
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by mega_dean 2y ago
I released a game using OCaml bindings to the Raylib library. I had never written OCaml before and I didn't spend very much time refactoring, so the code is pretty messy and maybe isn't the best example of the language. But some o
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by mega_dean 2y ago
In 2008/2009, I bought a DVD of this movie called "The Fall": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(2006_film) . I'm a sucker for visually-appealing films so I loved it, but I eventually lost the
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by mega_dean 2y ago
> Does anybody smarter have a good point of re-assurance? I'm not very smart, but I don't think you need to worry about drones using the linked flamethrower attachment: in order to buy from the website, the terrorist needs to c
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by mega_dean 2y ago
Thorsten Ball streams development of Zed on Twitch sometimes, and it's pretty entertaining to watch: https://www.twitch.tv/thorstenball (EDIT: if his name sounds vaguely familiar, it might be because he is the author o
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by mega_dean 2y ago
In the 49x49x49 video, he goes over previous world records of "Highest Order nxnxn Twisty Puzzle", and I thought it was weird he didn't mention the 34x34x34. But in the youtube description, he links to this forum post where h
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by mega_dean 2y ago
I've noticed that I get very distracted by motion in my peripheral vision, but not by static images. So I can use a second monitor for things like documentation, but not something like Slack that shows new messages, animated gifs/
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by mega_dean 2y ago
Oh, it's not obvious at all from the UI, but the left-most column is a link to the video of the run: https://www.speedrun.com/2048/runs/zxwdol8m
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by mega_dean 2y ago
Interesting to see the times for speedruns of this game: https://www.speedrun.com/2048 2048: 24s 4096: 1m 37s 8192: 4m 53s 16384: 13m 34s 32768: 55m 24s
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by mega_dean 2y ago
After that step, they say "The resulting code is shorter and has no nested logic." The resulting code has the same logic as before, it's just not visually represented as being nested. I've seen the same argument ("n
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by mega_dean 2y ago
It's also a joke in the TV show "Community": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP1Atb8nAGY

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