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New comment by helboi4 in "Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates"

helboi4 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:02:37 +0000

lol I should've noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out.

New comment by helboi4 in "Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates"

helboi4 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:01:37 +0000

Does anyone have any resources for learning how to do very beautiful clean technical drawings like this? I have some art skill but not the kind that translates to such clean technical drawings with this nice personality. Would love to be able to make some for my own projects.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

helboi4 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:11:02 +0000

No these are not things people told me about. I know that. I mean from 3 onwards there is a steady stream of them that I remember clearly in exactly the same way I remember other things. My memories from 2 are very few and far between but they're still not things anyone told me about. They're not things that are significant enough for people to relay to me. I remember things like, my dad pointing out a crane to me out the car window, being confused about someone's name. Someone telling me the word "plumber" has a b in it, which I just found totally wild. Waiting for the toilet at nursery. One time they brought cardboard boxes to nursery and getting to crawl around in them like a cat but being really pissed off with this girl who was terrorising me. Hiding in the attic conversion with my cousin because I was terrified of the hoover. Some kid bullying me for having a temporary tattoo in nursery. My mum took me to the turn of the millenium celebrations when I was 2 and wants me to remember that. She's tried to remind me a lot, I don't remember shit about it. I don't remember anything notable that people would talk about like my first day at school. I remember my 3rds birthday I guess that counts.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

helboi4 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:54:15 +0000

I have memories from my whole life but only smatterings of them. When I say I have memories from being as toddler it's like a few here and there.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

helboi4 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:51:13 +0000

You are way over confident. I definitely have memories from 2 onwards and I know I remember them because I remember relaying them to people at age 4 onwards, by which point my memory was very well formed.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

helboi4 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:46:15 +0000

Yeah I'm always shocked that there's a general assumption that people don't remember things before the age of 5. I remember some things from 2 years old and everything is pretty clear from 3 onwards. I do assume this is a sign of advanced development.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

helboi4 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:43:32 +0000

Yeah I always think being a baby or toddler must be endlessly frustrating. Imagine having absolutely no words to communicate your need and no idea how to do anything. I've said this before to parents of babies when I was a curious teenager and they thought I'm being silly but I'm sure it actually is stressful. At the end of the day we all go through it and nobody remembers it though, so it's not worth worrying about, it's just interesting to think about.

New comment by helboi4 in "Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations"

helboi4 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:37:02 +0000

This looks really really cool but I do hate everything being subscriptions. Everyone trying to be a digital landlord out here. Just sell me something.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

helboi4 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:45 +0000

I dunno how what you're saying negates my point. I was actually gonna add that the same thing can be said of Asia, which even more so needs to be split into quadrants to find clear similarities in culture.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

helboi4 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:59:45 +0000

bro, that's not what I mean. What I mean is this guy really thinks his culture did not effect him. Trust me, if you went to Japan and acted exactly as your American upbringing tells you to, you will fuck up the entire social contract there and people will think you're wierd af. Your culture is not a blank canvas. Your culture is something that affects how you are and this guy seems to think otherwise because he is blind to the strong characteristics of his culture, viewing it as default.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

helboi4 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:41:24 +0000

Honestly, yes this guy's comment screams white guy growing up in a white culture. Like... do you really think your culture is a default and you would've been like you are without your outside influence? Your culture is very specific and no more default than any other.

New comment by helboi4 in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

helboi4 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:37:46 +0000

They're really not. Europe is diverse enough that you need to split it into quadrants to decide what countries are relatively similar. Like is Finland similar to Germany from an outside perspective? Yes. Is Finland similar to southern Italy? Absolutely not, you'd be better off comparing southern Italy and latin America, and Finland with Japan. Like seriously, those will have more in common with each other than Finland and southern Italy. People have told me Naples feels like Brazil... which is nothing like Finland, which has the orderliness and cultural restraint of Japan. North European,East European and South European countries are similar to other countries in those same segments of Europe. They are not similar across segments.

New comment by helboi4 in "Show HN: Play with real quantum physics in your browser"

helboi4 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:53:48 +0000

I feel like when I flip a physical coin it pretty much always lands on exactly the same side unless I flip it real wierd.

New comment by helboi4 in "Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction"

helboi4 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:14:13 +0000

True, more interesting things happen when you close your eyes.

New comment by helboi4 in "Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction"

helboi4 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:41:40 +0000

This is 100% not what psychedelics look like. It's generally just mildly more saturated colours and the feeling that everything is possibly breathing or swaying in a more natural way. I dunno what happens if you take insane amounts tbf. I always thought that psychedelic art was a bit more about the sort of thing that is super appealing to look at while tripping.

New comment by helboi4 in "Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?"

helboi4 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:35:07 +0000

Lmao I just looked up Altria: "Altria Group, Inc. is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes, and medical products in the treatment of illnesses caused by tobacco." Absolutely hilariously ghoulish.

New comment by helboi4 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

helboi4 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:33:27 +0000

Yeah I mean I wasn't doing things like this. I was constantly frustrated because I didn't have any resources to achieve the things I wanted. Didn't even have a half decent computer. I had some janky celeron thing that barely functioned and I couldn't even buy books about subjects I wanted to learn. To think the things I could have done if I was a well off kid.

New comment by helboi4 in "TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid"

helboi4 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:58:10 +0000

That's why the pouches are good. They reduce your craving, therefore making the act of smoking seem less necessary. Of course, the act itself is still appealing, but then you can work on reducing that habit independently and perhaps saving it for special occasions. I find cigars quite good for this. Too expensive and fancy to smoke every day but you can really treat yourself on your birthday or on holiday with something like a cigar.

New comment by helboi4 in "TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid"

helboi4 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:56:17 +0000

Nicotine pouches are okay, I would advise against vape though. Vape is honestly more addictive than cigarettes and I find, in large volumes, the vapour still affects my lung function. Nicotine pouches or gum are the way to go to get the benefits with minimal side effects.

New comment by helboi4 in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

helboi4 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:44:17 +0000

I dunno. I only succeeded as a kid academically because of literally my IQ not because I had grit learnt from my projects. I pathologically hated being told what to do so the determination to do my own projects did not translate into anything assigned to me.