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Relevant Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

You are going in the right direction, but boy will this thing need work. The index is lacking, that's for sure.

Try scawanging for bookmarks of HN users for a jumpstart.

I searched for hackernews, and the first result was OpenSUSE.

Github awesome lists are in my opinion on the lower side of quality.

Sherlock

I love spotting those patterns were when something goes popular somewhere, instantly suspiciously related topics start pooping up on HN.

I admit to being rude and to being a very bad builder myself.

But the article is bad. Just about every piece of evidence has some sort of issue. Correlation-causation, or not enough data, or just assumptions. The wolf stuff (seems to be) based on only 2 observations. The author cites big tech in CA, but then describes a single clothing company that has a high random metric that is supposedly an accurate indicator of all of the above.

And the connections between arguments are not even that good. Skimming over it, I wasn't sure what the article's point was.

As for the conclusion, the vague words on what could be done are the kind of stuff everyone is trying anyway for other reasons, and it isn't (?) working.

Author: Applying behavior of wolves in captivity to humans was a mistake.

Also Auther: Applies behavior of wolves in free environment to a very specific and complex part of human society.

And of course, zero link or citations on anything.

There is a story about Concorde chasing a solar eclipse for an hour.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Concorde_eclipse_flight

Pro (Newbie) tip: use a GUI for git (like lazygit or VS Code Source Control). Git is one of the few complicated CLI tools that actually works well as a GUI, so take full advantage of it.

I use navi cheatsheets for that. You can store commands with descriptions and easily execute them. This is where I put all the "will need only once a year" commands.

What I do google is ffmpeg, but not before every online editor/converter on the internet completely betrays my expectations and makes me reconsider my life choices.

[0] https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

Looks cool.

I suspect the software is doing a lot of the heavy lifting, because the mechanism is (looks) quite simple.

Here are some flaws/potentially misleading features I noticed:

By design, the robot has only 2 I/O functions (3 in 3D), which are the motors on the strings. Thus it can't be any more capable than any other machine with 2 I/O.

In fact, the design is simply a function that maps limited 2d movement and grabbing onto 2 motors.

Pulling the strings affects it's tip first, so getting it into a specific position is a pain. Making an "S" shape, would require first rolling it all the way one way, and then unrolling it the other way.

In the video, they have the robot already setup in a specific position, and they don't show how hard it is to actually get it there. All the complicated moves (around rocks+drop off) are very specifically set up, and might be non-reversible.

The "contact detection" requires one of the strings to be fully contracted. And all of it relies on the manufacturing and environment to be consistent with minimal friction.

This robot is a bit like brain*uck. You can do stuff, but you need to do it in a bit of a roundabout way. Not to say that there isn't a sense of elegance to it.

I just scrolled through my gallery, and the number of meaningful photos I had was zero.

Snapped a photo of my room first thing.

e. Raycast doesn't know what the e constant (2.71828) is.

Their entire calculator is crappy. It took them forever just to get scientific notation and inverse trig functions working.

Meanwhile, it was all proprietary (so I couldn't do anything myself) and they were busy developing AI. I know they have all the fancy add-ons and scripts, but at that point it is easier to just cmd+tab to the browser for Wolfram Alpha or commandline for numbat calculator.

I just realized Albert (sort of) work on MacOS, but it is in German for some reason, so I will have figure out configs.

Fortunately, computer science and every single other discipline, topic, and community doesn't chronically suffer from the exact same issue.

If you know anybody or anything that knows/has solved this gatekeeping problem with any level of consistency, please share.

Cool.

Does anybody have the same tool but better?

Like, surely someone already made a sandbox that is not a fullblown VM. Docker probably.

Wouldn't that need to be the sheep with the closest distance to all the other sheeps in London?

1. Don't. Get better at googling instead

2. CSSTricks

3. Learn to read MDN docs.

4. Flexbox froggy and grid garden

5. Hyperplexed (older videos)

I warn you, that "studying" CSS is a pointless endeavor. Your knowledge should be "tools that exist" without knowing the exact syntax.

Also, "No JS". Make your stuff without JavaScript. It forces you to use every quirck in HTML and CSS to make stuff work.

There is "SingleFile"[0][1] and a tool called "Monolith"[2]. Of course Ctrl+S works quite well too.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/

[2] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith

They all have ShowHNs with (probably) many more alternatives in the comments.

Why does this feel more like an advertisement for Webrecorder[0] than an actual guide?

Why add that privacy and big tech section at the end?

Thanks for the list of features and buzzwords, but I couldn't figure out what all this tooling exactly does. Also, none of the links work. And Webrecorder doesn't have a Firefox extension, so don't even bother listing any of the "privacy" stuff.

[0] https://github.com/webrecorder/

2. Maybe assign a different deletion key for robot. 3. https://awik.io/detect-tab-closed-show-confirmation-dialog-j...

Damn, that was fast.

More feedback:

1. Make L texture look better by by shifting the arrow origin up and left. Like the turn traffic sign.

2. I am deleting my robots now, when I am trying to remove an arrow from underneath them.

3. If itch and Unity's APIs allow, make full screen, "ask before exiting", and auto-save. itch has popups/buttons on the top right, which obscures the speed controls.

1. Getting the robots to take a complex path is a pain. (eg. "L"-shape)

2. Setting up robots is annoying, maybe add manual controls.

3. Constructions can't be removed or canceled.

4. Those will always be "robots" for me, but keep your nomenclature if you like.

Unfortunately, I only have negative feedback.

The only thing you remade was the UI (and it isn't good), while sending requests to https://infiniteback.org/ for API.

Moreover, your API requests are is failing, with the first argument always being "undefined." https://infiniteback.org/pair?first=undefined&second=plant

The hard part here (and the one we need to improve/open source) is the AI model running the game.

The example.{com,org,net} domain was created for this purpose, of a valid but not real domain.

No it wasn't. IANA is hosting example.com and paying for the traffic.

example.com is a writing convention to provide safe examples in documentation. The reason example.com exists, is to make sure documentation writers can use a domain, make it obvious it is an example, and make sure nothing bad comes up with a user happens to click it.

The fact that example.com is a domain with a DNS record is irrelevant to its intended use. IANA is doing the internet a favor by preventing confusion, and it is rude to send them a bunch of traffic.

See https://www.iana.org/help/example-domains

While incidental traffic for incorrectly configured applications is expected, please do not design applications that require the example domains to have operating HTTP service.

According to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

for documentation purposes

Great tip indeed.

However, please don't use anybody else's email. (No @example.com) Preferably use the domain of the website itself, or of a SEO spam website.

Very true effect actually.

I start speaking and writing in the style of the book I am currently reading.

A tool called typelit.io [0] shares great similarity to the one you provided. Upon completion of a piece by H. P. Lovecraft with its assistance, I can confirm the validity of the statement you provided. (Or not, judge for yourself.)

[0] https://www.typelit.io/

That demo gif is horrible.

You are not showcasing anything, but looping low resolution screenshots with special effects.

I use a version of these scripts all the time.

though all-in-one spell-checkers like vale.sh are more convenient.

Ranking minerals by "most rare" is stupid. They simply don't have enough data.

you might mistaken it for amber or topaz

I suspect that there are dozens of other extremely rare minerals out there that have not yet been found or mistaken for different ones. Correctly estimating their relative abundance is impossible and pointless as the rarest will be single cases. In fact, the rarest mineral ever has likely not been discovered yet. I bet there is some famous math/statistics problem about this kind of situation.

And I wonder if any rare minerals have been classified by governments (or individuals) for whatever reasons. (Probably yes)

Relevant discussions (critique of the method):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2887129

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33480192

The best way to learn is to play and come up with stuff yourself. But playing doesn't get you anywhere specific. People who play around a lot, clearly know much more and in depth than everyone else, but when you hand them a random checklist, chances are they won't know a few.

Standardized tests are screwing everything up. People who learn on their own might stumble upon the entire alphabet except for the letter "B," but standardized tests want only the first 5 letters. Hence the incredible efficiency of knowing the entire alphabet is thrown under the bus in favor of making sure none of the 5 are missing.

You can't teach someone to play, and there is no way to play systematically, at scale, and with guaranteed results. All the incredible people I know have some hole in "basic" knowledge, and if it is revealed nobody cares about them being miles ahead elsewhere. "Their basics seem lacking, in the name of stability and norm, throw them back to square one."

Following standards never produces something new, but the world is so afraid of failure and lack of definitions in "messing around" that they are willing to trade their souls for it.

Take any hacker here on HN, and ask how much they learned in CS class vs. how much they learned messing around with Perl on a weekend.

Great, but I wish they invested their nomenclature resources into design and ease of access.

https://bloxd.io/ is currently reaping kids who can't afford official Minecraft. (Browser based, free, ad driven)

But then again, MineTest is a bunch of volunteers playing around with a tool, so you can't exactly force anybody to do anything.