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phn commented on A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up   captrice.io/... · Posted by u/adityaathalye
rwmj · 9 months ago
What worked for me was to pick up the guitar every day, and play it for 5 minutes (or more, obviously). No exceptions to the minimum 5 minutes every day rule. I'm pretty good at cowboy chords, barre chords and a bit of blues after around 10 months of this.
phn · 9 months ago
And a great way to pick up the guitar every day is to have it ready to go at all times. Keep it outside the bag/case and at arms reach.
phn commented on The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild   jgeekstudies.org/2024/10/... · Posted by u/zdw
interestica · a year ago
I’ve got 24 hours left here. Hiroshima now. Tokyo as fast as a speeding bullet. What’s your do-not-miss in Tokyo?
phn · a year ago
If you're visiting Shinjuku, nearby there's a narrow street called Omoide Yokocho. Just take in the vibe and choose a yakitori spot to grab a bite and drink your poison of choice (tea/beer/sake). I would recommend going at night/dinner time.

Speaking of Shinjuku and videogames, if you've ever played any yakuza/like a dragon game, you owe it to yourself to go to Kabukicho and its big red gate.

In any case, whatever you choose to visit in Tokyo, it will be really nice, and a lot of it will still be waiting when you eventually come back.

Cheers!

phn commented on FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot   github.com/2Retr0/GodotOc... · Posted by u/RafelMri
rbetts · a year ago
That would make today the worst day to plant a tree?
phn · a year ago
The worst so far, and the best when compared to all of your remaining days.
phn commented on The quest for a Wiki-less game   gamedev.stackexchange.com... · Posted by u/azeemba
Arisaka1 · a year ago
There's a category of games whose depth goes so hard that they assume engagement outside of the application, and then there's Mega Man games who were built under the assumption that the player will enjoy trial and error, and to attempt to push through making the wrong stage choice by learning how to dodge boss mechanics.

I firmly believe that the internet normalized metagaming as a side-effect (guides, talk to friends online, etc.) and that in turn affected the way games designed, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on.

The vast majority of games should never, ever be designed under the assumption that the player has access to Google, and by extend ease of access to stuff like "the most OP Gundam parts", "most OP weapon for Elden Ring", etc.

phn · a year ago
I think Elden Ring (and the souls genre in general) IS designed with the assumption players have access to the internet to search for stuff if they want.

The game will still provide quite a challenge even if you know where you need to go and get weapons/items/etc. The bosses won't defeat themselves even if you know the overall strategy to use.

I think of it as kind of a self-regulated difficulty system, if you want to go in blind you are still free to do so.

phn commented on AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules   blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/zerojames
moconnor · 2 years ago
Stepping back, the high-order bit here is an ML method is beating physically-based methods for accurately predicting the world.

What happens when the best methods for computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, nuclear physics are all uninterpretable ML models? Does this decouple progress from our current understanding of the scientific process - moving to better and better models of the world without human-interpretable theories and mathematical models / explanations? Is that even iteratively sustainable in the way that scientific progress has proven to be?

Interesting times ahead.

phn · 2 years ago
I'm not a scientist by any means, but I imagine even accurate opaque models can be useful in moving the knowledge forward. For example, they can allow you to accurately simulate reality, making experiments faster and cheaper to execute.
phn commented on Employees are feeding sensitive data to ChatGPT, raising security fears   darkreading.com/risk/empl... · Posted by u/taubek
phn · 3 years ago
Employees have been feeding sensitive data to online translators in the same way.

Not to say it isn't a problem, but it's not an AI/chatGPT specific one.

phn commented on Godot 4.0 Stable   github.com/godotengine/go... · Posted by u/Jowsey
ralusek · 3 years ago
Unpopular Opinion: Godot should make JavaScript/Typescript its scripting languages.
phn · 3 years ago
Can you elaborate on why you think that?

IMO, their scripting language is pretty accessible to anyone with a bit of experience with programming and has nice syntactic sugar to integrate with the engine.

phn commented on Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs   techemails.com/p/sergey-b... · Posted by u/cocacola1
Lammy · 3 years ago
There’s no guarantee an independent Firefox could have survived “Embrace, Enhance, ???” at all. Maybe this timeline isn’t so bad since Chrome being what it is means there are actual good reasons to choose Mozilla’s Firefox :)
phn · 3 years ago
For sure, I'm not saying it'd be better or worse. It's just hard to imagine a world without Chrome.
phn commented on Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs   techemails.com/p/sergey-b... · Posted by u/cocacola1
phn · 3 years ago
Imagine how different the world would be if Google really went with the "enhanced version" of Firefox instead if building Chrome.
phn commented on Soketi: Simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server   soketi.app/... · Posted by u/rakibtg
phn · 3 years ago
Does anyone know how this compares with centrifugo?

u/phn

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