gen_greyface

last yeardiscuss

slightly related, i've been following this game called replicube (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/)

this is livecoding 3d voxel to solve puzzles. the demo was fun. looks like it'll be released soon.

gen_greyface

last yeardiscuss

+1

I wish there was PPP for the subscription, i tried for a few months but stopped the subscription recently.

gen_greyface

last yeardiscuss

would be nice to hear more about your self-directed learning, i'm in a similar boat right now.

how did you review fundamentals? how did you pick what topics to pursue? etc

gen_greyface

last yeardiscuss

some fun links

https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=7cd300eb-cf3f-47f5-90f1-9e6...

https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=1&ref=404media.co

https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-...

gen_greyface

2 years agodiscuss

> ... has a built-in repl. At any point you can press escape and pull it up, and it’s docked to the bottom of the page...

probably not a good decision to use `Esc` since browsers have default bindings for it. firefox exits fullscreen on `Esc`

gen_greyface

2 years agodiscuss

The cited book has no information on how the surveys themselves were conducted. The book is an overall romanticization of pre-colonial india, and frequently indulges in nostalgia.

The following books have a good overview of education&caste in india.

A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India

Gail Omvedt, Understanding Caste

gen_greyface

2 years agodiscuss

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gen_greyface

2 years agodiscuss

I fail to see why this is being pointed out?

> People from a higher caste tend to have higher IQ,

>> People from a higher caste tend to have better access to resources,

also a >Mankind Quarterly, a known fringe Far-right Racist publication.

for fellow readers see [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_Quarterly

gen_greyface

2 years agodiscuss

caste system in india is an evil that persists even today, and is a complex topic. majority of the indian-origin users on hackernews or people in the IT community are very likely upper castes. see [1] If you are interested to learn more about the caste system in india it is recommended to get your facts from multiple sources. start from [2]

[1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674987883 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India

gen_greyface

2 years agodiscuss

How did you achieve this? tweaked by hand? i'm in the middle of building a pc and would love to know more.

gen_greyface

2 years agodiscuss

this supports my flow-y experiences as well, i find it hard but if i can pace myself to the flow of my thoughts i end up being very productive.

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

its the updated version according to the file metadata . creation date for the second link you shared is `30/01/2020, 15:05:47`

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

i had to force quit firefox to stop playing it, even closing the tab didnt help.

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=BAAgAAAAAAAg...

love it

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

try it out with different voices, for starters try

  say "process failure" -v trinoids

you can find all the available voices with

  say -v '?'

or from Accessibility>Spoken-Content>System-voice>Manage-voices

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to try out the perfectionism workbooks. Also nice that the pdfs have forms to fill stuff in.

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

you can disable autoplay for all websites in browser settings

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

a similar website which i love is https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

related: Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882043

gen_greyface

3 years agodiscuss

its not smooth, but interesting nonetheless

gen_greyface

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