Hacker News: gen_greyface

New comment by gen_greyface in "Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp"

gen_greyface — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:50:04 +0000

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.

New comment by gen_greyface in "Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair"

gen_greyface — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:30:25 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "Dedekind's Subtle Knife"

gen_greyface — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:58:06 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "US Gov Org Chart"

gen_greyface — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:18:42 +0000

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-...

New comment by gen_greyface in "Janet for Mortals (2023)"

gen_greyface — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 07:47:30 +0000

> ... 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`

New comment by gen_greyface in "Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan"

gen_greyface — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:54:42 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan"

gen_greyface — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:05:47 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan"

gen_greyface — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:24:32 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana"

gen_greyface — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 06:10:17 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "Start in the Middle (2010)"

gen_greyface — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:32:01 +0000

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.

New comment by gen_greyface in "A guide to technical report writing [pdf]"

gen_greyface — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 14:35:03 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "EXPI by p01"

gen_greyface — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 15:17:28 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "ToneMatrix"

gen_greyface — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:00:48 +0000

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

love it

New comment by gen_greyface in "macOS command-line tools you might not know about"

gen_greyface — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:48:11 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "How to do the thing you've been avoiding"

gen_greyface — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 08:11:07 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "Intel’s new font for low-vision developers is causing design drama for coders"

gen_greyface — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:37:22 +0000

you can disable autoplay for all websites in browser settings

New comment by gen_greyface in "Graphic design items from Internet Archive"

gen_greyface — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 17:58:04 +0000

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

gen_greyface — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:37:48 +0000

related: Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

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

New comment by gen_greyface in "State-controlled media gain Twitter followers after quiet platform policy change"

gen_greyface — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:34:29 +0000

its not smooth, but interesting nonetheless

New comment by gen_greyface in "Payments 101 for a Developer"

gen_greyface — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:59:43 +0000

that the commenter is associated with the project.