As someone who grew up roughly orthodox Jewish I am feeling super angry at your casual translation without context.
Care to offer more context? I am interested in understanding more
Readit Newsyaysyu commented on Can reading make you happier? (2015) newyorker.com/culture/cul... · Posted by u/kawera
That was a pretty good read. Makes me realize how lucky we are that some games existed before in app purchases. Could you imagine playing chess and paying for an upgraded queen?
During the whole NFT boom I did stumble across a chess game where you could buy and sell NFT representations of chess pieces which gave you advantages. Can’t find the name of it now but it was a laughably bad concept
Super happy Obsidian Sync user here. I migrated over from Notion, here are the areas where Obsidian blows Notion out of the water:
- Insanely low input lag especially on mobile. Obsidian is FAST. When i'm out and about checking my shopping list, I have a tolerance for maybe 250ms of lag. That's it. You need to show me my data FAST. Notion is a basically a webapp which simply doesn't compete, asks you to re-login constantly. YOU DO NOT ASK A MOBILE USER to RELOGIN.
- Read-only mode: accidental taps instead of scrolls on mobile are a HUGE issue on Notion, especially when you're out and you're in a stressful situation and you need your notes fast. You can not afford an accidental edit. And you simply don't have to focus to carefully touch your smartphone to distinguish swipes from touches. Notion developers just don't get this. With Obsidian, when i'm ouside, i'm most likely in Read-only mode. You can still check checkboxes when in read-only mode, and that's perfect for a shopping list workflow.
- Standard format (markdown). I had tried for some time to automate my Notion backups and it just wasn't possible. With Obsidian, I have no issue using proprietary software because the backing store is Markdown. It integrates nicely with my storage practices. My obsidian files are backed up hourly to my rsync.net account which has 48 hourly snapshots. If I accidentally overwrite something 16 hours ago, I can recover it.
As long as Obsidian meets those 3 checkboxes for me, I'm happy to pay $10/month, $20/month, $30/month, whatever.
Small nit, Notion has been rewritten into a native app on Android and iOS in the last year or so and the performance is significantly better.
Haven’t had the logging out issue either on iOS.
yaysyu commented on Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools vscode.dev/... · Posted by u/nateb2022
I use tunnels to access my entire dev environment within my Quest Pro.
How often and for how long do you code like this? What has your experience been like? I always find the idea of coding in VR intriguing but am unsure of what the actual experience would be like.
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yaysyu commented on Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future knowablemagazine.org/arti... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
It doesn't get that cold in most places in Australia does it?
Heat pumps need to be scaled for the maximum heating or cooling load, whichever is greater. The optimal situation is that the heating and cooling loads are similar, but in colder parts of the U.S. the heating load is much larger than the cooling load and the case for the heat pump is not so good as a place where the need for heating and cooling are more balanced.
Depends on your frame of reference but in Melbourne it can get to around 1 degree Celcius in winter (33~F). Sometimes subzero but very rarely
yaysyu commented on Photographer documents all items that she owns petapixel.com/2022/07/08/... · Posted by u/lysp
Reminds me of this video [1] by self proclaimed Minimalist Matt D’Avella who also counted all their possessions.
Fun stats:
- Between him and his wife, they had 1600~ items
- The average American has 300,000 items in their house [2]
[1] https://youtu.be/BB8o8-EdZY0 [2] https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2014-mar-21-la-he-keep...
I think this is great. I'm going to take this in the spirit of the post and assume this is all for funsies and to be silly. But I think there are a couple of things missing from making this Most Satisfying:
* The sounds is not satisfying enough! It's too..."wahhhhhh" and not enough "ker-chunk!" like the writeup described. I think I get what he's going for, but it's not quite there. I want the same feeling I get when I flip a nice heavy switch. Some heft, some weight, some judder as it slams into place. I'm thinking of the feeling in the game Fez when you turn a wheel.
* The pattern of "hold and release to activate" is hard to get right and I still haven't seen it done well. Your animation must be nonlinear, because people are going to just tap. That's so little time that it's not enough to see anything happen. That initial animation has to pop out really fast and then slow down, to indicate to the user that they needed to hold it for a little bit longer for it to activate.
Re your second point.
It's discoverable enough because the next thing after tapping that most people try is dragging. And any dragging across any part of the screen activates the animation for the length of the drag.
It's plenty discoverable because they've made the whole screen control the animation
yaysyu commented on Organice: An implementation of Org mode without the dependency of Emacs github.com/200ok-ch/organ... · Posted by u/Tomte
I'd love to be able to build a SMS to org-todo gateway, where my quick todos are just simple text messages... It may be easier with a discord/telegram bot but the simplicity of sms is ubiquitous and reliable (I am often in rural area with very limited networking)
I imagine you could whip something together using huginn which is an open source IFTTT/Zapier alternative
yaysyu commented on How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide jasont.co/ennui/... · Posted by u/ntide
I won’t spoil the article, but the advice is great. I’ll give number 4 a try. But the hobbies page of Wikipedia is too long and unorganized for my tastes.
Anyone have any cool hobbies?
Bouldering seems to be really popular amongst Software Engineers I know.
Taps into many things that Software Engineers typically like.
Walls often require problem solving as well as physical ability.
Walls are shorter than rock climbing walls (fast iteration cycles/“dev loop”)
Lots of different difficulties for a clear sense of progression.
Indoors (usually). Can be done solo.