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gen_greyface··on Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp
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··on Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair
+1

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

gen_greyface··on Dedekind's Subtle Knife
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··on US Gov Org Chart
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··on Janet for Mortals (2023)
> ... 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··on Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
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··on Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
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··on Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
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··on Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
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··on Start in the Middle (2010)
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··on A guide to technical report writing [pdf]
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··on EXPI by p01
i had to force quit firefox to stop playing it, even closing the tab didnt help.
gen_greyface··on ToneMatrix
https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=BAAgAAAAAAAg...

love it

gen_greyface··on macOS command-line tools you might not know about
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··on How to do the thing you've been avoiding
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··on Intel’s new font for low-vision developers is causing design drama for coders
you can disable autoplay for all websites in browser settings
gen_greyface··on Graphic design items from Internet Archive
a similar website which i love is https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/
gen_greyface··on Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
related: Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

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

gen_greyface··on State-controlled media gain Twitter followers after quiet platform policy change
its not smooth, but interesting nonetheless
gen_greyface··on Payments 101 for a Developer
that the commenter is associated with the project.
gen_greyface··on Payments 101 for a Developer
missed a disclaimer?
gen_greyface··on MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad
caused by stress?
gen_greyface··on Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web
seems to be a bug in firefox developer version, works fine in chrome.
gen_greyface··on Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web
any idea why there is a minor shift in line-height if we remove the text-orientation property.
gen_greyface··on Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web
with the writing-mode property

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/writing-mod...

gen_greyface··on Switch hacker Gary Bowser will pay Nintendo ~30% income for the rest of his life
The President of Nintendo in America is Doug Bowser
gen_greyface··on My Emacs eye candy
https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-pictures

i like these, though i failed reproducing this in my doomemacs setup. i'm still a rookie

gen_greyface··on Visual programming with Elixir: Learning to write binary parsers (2019)
i have a bookmarklet for this. love that it formats the github embeds quite nicely too.

  javascript:(()=>window.location.href="https://scribe.rip"+location.pathname)()
gen_greyface··on Show HN: Cadseer. a parametric solid modeling CAD desktop application
i'm now gonna binge watch CAD screencast videos. very interesting.
gen_greyface··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
not a todo app, but a minimalist time tracker that i use.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hourly-time-and-task-manager/i...

its around 18mb for my phone, i was comparing both in my head, so was curious about what was used to build it.

but it seems its smaller because of device specific packaging.

P.S. i do like the OP's app.

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