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Also, it's often the case that you can't collect all the relevant information from your starting point.

Sometimes once you start moving in one direction, any direction at all, you gain more perspective on what the right decision is.

So it's important to maintain flexibility and be able to update your decisions.

cecilpl2on The journey to Nintendo Switch

I've used this technique in the past on various shipped Switch games. It's an API that puts the Switch into "CPU Boost Mode".

It overclocks the CPU at the expense of GPU. It's suitable only for loading screens or other areas of the game where you don't need to render at more than single-digit FPS, but can produce a 20-50% improvement in loading time.

cecilpl2on Handwritten thank you notes increase sales

I had an original piece of art framed by a local art gallery a few years ago.

This year, they sent me a $50 off coupon in the mail, along with a card and a hand-written and personalized note referencing the specific piece of art I had had them frame.

Instant customer for life.

cecilpl2on What Should You Work On?

Everyone generalizes from a sample size of one.

Well, at least I do.

cecilpl2on Don’t teach kids to fear the world

To add another datapoint: I'm not even that old (born in the mid-80s).

When I was 9 I walked a mile to school with my 6-year old sister, unsupervised (and stayed at home alone for an hour after school until my parents got home).

At 12 I commuted to school on a city bus for an hour (with a transfer downtown).

At 14.. jeez, I'm pretty sure at 14 my parents left me alone in the house for a long weekend.

cecilpl2on List of Creepypastas

https://elan.school/tag/comic/

Be warned it's NSFL.

cecilpl2on List of Creepypastas

Elan?

cecilpl2on What would a “good” WebMD look like?

> And the users doing the curated need to be vetted.

It comes back to the age-old question: Who vets the vetters?

cecilpl2on Auditory brainstem response distinguishes occasional and constant tinnitus

Many people are able to voluntarily control the tensor tympani muscle, which causes a low-pitched rumbling sound in the ears. https://old.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/

Maybe she has twitches or involuntary tension there?

cecilpl2on Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese

I think definiteness doesn't need to be a shared context.

"I went to the the train station to pick up a map on my way here". "Great, thanks!"

It was a specific train station that I chose intentionally or visit regularly, but it's not relevant to the conversation which one.

If I were to use "a train station" then it implies I didn't care which train station it was.

cecilpl2on Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese

I feel like this has something to do with whether the identity of the thing is central to the story or incidental.

"On my last vacation I went to the beach to work on my tan." vs "on my last vacation I went to a beach to work on my tan". "The beach" feels like I went to a specific beach on purpose (or that there was only one), while "a beach" feels like I just picked one at random.

"On my way here I stopped at the store to get an apple" vs "On my way here I stopped at a store to get an apple". Similarly, "the store" implies intentionality/singularity, while "a store" implies I happened upon it.

cecilpl2on Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese

Can I call it a green whittling rectangular little silver French old lovely knife? This makes no sense.

Clearly it's the lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. Any minor reordering of these adjectives just sounds innately wrong.

cecilpl2on Creativity requires solitude

> Humans are fundamentally solitary. That is our nature

Everyone generalizes from a sample size of one.

cecilpl2on Are You a ‘Digital Nomad’? European Locales Want Remote Workers

My company has a program where I can work for up to one consecutive month from anywhere in the world where I'm "legally allowed to work".

I've had difficulty finding out which countries have visa programs that would allow me to work for a foreign company while there for a short stay.

A tourist visa generally doesn't allow this, but working visas are generally tailored to working for local companies, and longer stays.

Does anyone know what the search terms are for this? Or better yet is there a curated list somewhere?

cecilpl2on How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)

"Literally" has meant "figuratively" for hundreds of years now. How old does usage have to be before it's no longer eye-roll-worthy?

cecilpl2on A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers

The last interview loop I went through, I met with 10 different people along the way. I asked every single one of them "What are the qualities that make for a successful engineer at XYZ"?

I got 10 different answers but with several common themes and threads running through them. Each individual is biased by their own experiences and perspective, but the commonalities are what speak to the culture.

No one person's answer was sufficient to give me a clear picture of the truth.

cecilpl2on Project Possible: Ascending 14 peaks in 7 months

It's an incredible accomplishment, and the movie is well worth watching.

cecilpl2on Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive

For better or worse, when you publish something on the internet it no longer belongs entirely to you.

cecilpl2on FedNow FAQ

Yes. None of those are a thing here in Canada in my experience. We have Interac E-Transfers which is allow you to send money to anyone just by knowing their email address or phone number.

Either the person gets an email/text with instruction to deposit the money, or they can register their email in a central database which allows for automatic deposit and nearly instant transfer.

cecilpl2on You can't afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected

> That is, the art itself has no inherit value. The actual value of a piece of art is whatever you can convince someone to pay for it.

This goes for any good or service. Usually when people talk about the "value of something" they mean "the price that people are willing to pay for it".

cecilpl2on A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 (2020)

It's a bit bizarre that you are claiming this relationship might exist, when you could simply read the TOS and see if such a clause exists.

cecilpl2on The Big Bang didn't happen: What do the James Webb images show?

But you didn't learn about the millions of cranks that turned out to be wrong.

cecilpl2on Why thinking hard makes us feel tired

> Hacker News always has crazy takes when it comes to anything diet related. It's always strange.

HN has crazy takes on everything not within the very narrow sphere of tech expertise that is common to everyone on this board.

You notice it for diet-related things since you are a (relative) expert on that topic.

But it's also the case for anything economic, political, scientific, or sports or hobby related, and so on.

cecilpl2on “Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”

Well, that's interesting. My ex-wife also never once admitted she was wrong or genuinely apologized to me for anything. Her brother was diagnosed Asperger's and I strongly suspected both her parents were as well.

Sadly I don't have much to share in the way of insight.

cecilpl2on Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?

The problem is that junior devs increase in value very rapidly in their first 2-3 years, much faster than any company is willing to increase their salary.

cecilpl2on An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

> In January 2022, we received a report through our bug bounty program

> This bug resulted from an update to our code in June 2021

Does this mean the problem existed for 7 months and nobody at Twitter noticed until they received a bug report?

cecilpl2on Spiders seem to have REM-like sleep and may even dream

I don't think there's any argument that we, along with animals, are genetically programmed to be altruistic towards our kin.

In humans, that genetic programming manifests via feelings of love that make us act accordingly.

Why would it be different for animals?