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vova_hn commented on Take something you don’t like and try to like it   dynomight.net/liking/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
arp242 · 3 months ago
"Taste" is such a funny concept:

- A few weeks ago I looked up some music from my youth: Korn, Deftones, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Slayer, Testament, Iced Earth. I played much of this to death back in the day. And ... I found I don't really care for much for most of it now. I also no longer care much for the "Trash metal classics" I liked at the time such as Testament, Slayer, and Iced Earth.

- I did like Papa Roach's Infest album though. I have no idea why I like that one now and not the other nu-metal type stuff that I liked back then.

- There are many things I "should" like because they're adjacent to things I do like, but that I nonetheless don't like. Sometimes I can find reasons for this. Often I can't. Deep Purple's Made in Japan is one of the best albums ever created and I will punch anyone who says any different into paralysis. Yet I don't care much for most other Deep Purple albums. This makes no sense to me.

- For a while I was really into prog rock. There are still tons of prog rock stuff I like, but also ... tons that I liked ~15 years ago but care much for any more.

- For years I didn't like wine (red or white). I really wanted like wine and I tried many times, but I just didn't like it. Then I didn't try for a few years and a friend brought some wine over for dinner and tried out of politeness, and ... I liked it! I've had tons of (red) wine since, and never had a bottle I strongly disliked.

- When I stayed at a hotel in England years ago I got a few of those little plastic jam containers for toast, which included Marmite. I didn't really know what this "Marmite" thing was. Instant regret ensued, much to the amusement of my girlfriend. Being Dutch I do like salty liquorice, which is similar in a way I suppose. Yet I dislike Marmite (without being aware that it's controversial).

I don't really have a deeper point; just some observations I guess. Cultural and psychological factors absolutely play a role, but I also think it's just a matter of different people being different, and people just changing over the years.x

I also think it's okay to dislike things as long as you're not a dick about it.

vova_hn · 3 months ago
> I played much of this to death back in the day.

Maybe that's the reason? I found that any song or piece of music gets less and less exciting the more you listen to it.

In fact, when I find something really cool I often force myself not to listen to it too much so that it would last longer.

vova_hn commented on Take something you don’t like and try to like it   dynomight.net/liking/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
vova_hn · 3 months ago
> On planes, the captain will often invite you to, “sit back and enjoy the ride”. This is confusing. Enjoy the ride? Enjoy being trapped in a pressurized tube and jostled by all the passengers lining up to relieve themselves because your company decided to cram in a few more seats instead of having an adequate number of toilets? Aren’t flights supposed to be endured?

Wait, is liking to fly actually that unusual?

vova_hn commented on Making Minecraft Spherical   bowerbyte.com/posts/block... · Posted by u/iamwil
boriskourt · 4 months ago
I wonder if this is also how Eskil Steenberg's 'Love' worked. [0]

It had a spherical 'block' world as well.

[0]: https://www.quelsolaar.com/love/

vova_hn · 3 months ago
What a strange webpage, it almost feels like the author deliberately avoids describing the game in any way and talks literally about anything else.

In case anyone else is curious, here is the description (one click away from the main page):

> LOVE is a cooperative online first person adventiure game. You play as a scavanger on a small planet who together with other scvangers will build a settlement by placeing a Monolith some where in the world. This Monolith makes the ground lose so that you can shape the environment around it in to what ever you want. Build walls, catacoms, houses and shape your settlement any way you want.

vova_hn commented on Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?   tonybaloney.github.io/pos... · Posted by u/willm
pclmulqdq · 3 months ago
Without the "async" keyword, you can still write async code. It looks totally different because you have to control the state machine of task scheduling. Green threads are a step further than the async keyword because they have none of the function coloring stuff.

You may think of use of an async keyword as explicit async code but that is very much not the case.

If you want to see async code without the keyword, most of the code of Linux is asynchronous.

vova_hn · 3 months ago
> Green threads are a step further than the async keyword because they have none of the function coloring stuff.

I would say that green threads still have "function coloring stuff", we just decided that every function will be async-colored.

Now, what happens if you try to cross an FFI-border and try to call a function that knows nothing about your green-thread runtime is an entirely different story...

vova_hn commented on Bear is now source-available   herman.bearblog.dev/licen... · Posted by u/neoromantique
zitterbewegung · 4 months ago
Why use the MIT license when the AGPL is the better choice? I don’t understand why developers choose MIT and or Apache license and then figure out that they now have a competitor cloning their product .
vova_hn · 3 months ago
A lot of people are scared of GPL and other copyleft licenses, mostly because of how most big corporations treat GPL.

Also, MIT license in particular is much shorter and easier to understand for a non-lawyer, than most other software licenses.

vova_hn commented on Making Minecraft Spherical   bowerbyte.com/posts/block... · Posted by u/iamwil
vova_hn · 4 months ago
I wonder if it is possible to avoid "digging deep" problem by first building a cube out of voxels and then applying the type of distortion that turns the cube into quad sphere not just to the surface of the cube but also to the insides of the cube.

I don't know how to explain it better, perhaps I should try to write some code, lol

vova_hn commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
ChocolateGod · 4 months ago
I have a S24 (flagship of 2024) and Anubis often takes 10-20 seconds to complete, that time is going to add up if more and more sites adopt it, leaning to a worse browsing experience and wasted battery life.

Meanwhile AI farms will just run their own nuclear reactors eventually and be unaffected.

I really don't understand why someone thought this was a good idea, even if well intentioned.

vova_hn · 4 months ago
I have Pixel 7 (released in 2022) and it usually takes less than a second...
vova_hn commented on 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)   mashable.com/archive/sovi... · Posted by u/us-merul
thaumasiotes · 4 months ago
The cover shows that the book is authored by D-zh. R. R. Tolkin.

I'm interested in the J being represented by two characters. When a Russian name starts with a consonant cluster (as "John" does), is it conventional to use the entire cluster as an initial?

vova_hn · 4 months ago
This is a very interesting observation. I've only seen using several letters as an initial for foreign names.

I think that they sort of translated the English initial "J." rather than first translating the name and then forming an initial from it.

vova_hn commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
delfinom · 4 months ago
Wait until you see

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/

They are very upset by the gpt5 model

vova_hn · 4 months ago
I refuse to believe that this whole subreddit is not satire or an elaborate prank.
vova_hn commented on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills   hadid.dev/posts/living-co... · Posted by u/mustaphah
vova_hn · 5 months ago
It seems that most people in the comments dislike live coding interviews as candidates, so I feel that I should offer an alternative point of view.

I actually like live coding much more than any other type of interview. There are a few reasons for this.

First, I don’t really know what to say to many of the standard interview questions.

“Give an example of a challenging task you had to do in your previous job.”

Eh, I don’t remember? I probably will remember and draw on my experience if a similar task comes up. But right off the bat? No idea.

“A question about some obscure feature of X,” where X can be a programming language, library, framework, etc.

What’s the point of this question? If I need to use that feature, I’ll check the docs. I’m very good at quickly skimming through the docs and finding what I need.

“Do you have experience with <the exact software stack that we use>?”

Maybe not, but I understand the underlying concepts and I’m good at reading the docs.

Second reason is, of course, that I tend to perform much better in live coding interviews than in any other type. I get better offers, more positive feedback, and interviewers clearly feel much more confident in my abilities.

u/vova_hn

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