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Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by techiferous »

q-base wrote: post #82

I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…

> Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me.

Good for you! Everybody has their own "twist" on Stoicism, and that's fine. You have to find your own twist on it; you have to make it your own.

In my own experience, what is most rewarding and promotes my progress the most, is when I put philosophy into action. Then I get authentic feedback from life about what actually works. It helps me separate mere opinions and good sounding ideas from true insight.

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Post by fifticon »

currently learning 3d "solid" design with blender for 3dprinter. I am aware blender is not the fit a cad app would be (), but it 'works' if you are careful what you do (I am not). This morning I had to clean the poor 3dprinter of a spaghetti-gone-wrong accident, because my hubris-3d-design submitted last night was not as clever as I naively thought. () the advantage of using blender is that, as a byproduct I will eventually have learned blender..

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by alance »

A talk about creating from Ethan Hawke called "Give yourself permission to be creative"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q

But my takeaway was more like "Give yourself permission to be bad"

Felt good to be reminded that if you want to make interesting things, it's ok to flail around. It'll feel foolish and that's completely ok, perhaps necessary.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by wrongtrousers »

q-base wrote: post #82

I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…

Thanks for the writing and for posting about it here! Found some nice photographs and other content that I'll dig more into later. Liking what I've found so far :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by magnetometer »

The company I work for is rather slow in adopting AI-based tooling. Recently, I discovered that our Databricks instance exposes an API endpoint that provides access to a wide range of LLMs. So I built a small local Streamlit-based chat app that lets me switch models within a conversation, add or remove files from the context, and clean up dead ends. It actually works much better than the Microsoft Copilot app we’re officially supposed to use.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by ojr »

I found out that Claude Code and OpenCode doesn't do vector search and embeddings but relies on grep to power their agents. Most people are satisfied with this even though I think vector search approach is way better and saves on tokens.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by schnitzelstoat »

CTDOCodebases wrote: post #159
schnitzelstoat wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Turns out that the logic in consoles of the time was tied to the speed of the beam, which in turn used alternating current’s frequency as a clock. This means that since European current changes 50 times per second rather than 60, our games played in slowmo (about 0.8x). American sonic was so much faster! And the music was so much more upbeat! Wasn't this the reason behind different versions of the game for PAL and…

> Wasn't this the reason behind different versions of the game for PAL and NTSC etc.? So I imagine the games would play quite similarly, just with a lower refresh rate in Europe? Yes and no. Some games play at a similar speed but some (most if I recall correctly) weren't modified for the PAL market so they play slow and the image is squashed down. Street Fighter II on the SNES (PAL) is a classic example of this.

Damn, Street Fighter 2 on the SNES is literally the first game I remember ever playing. I never knew I was playing an inferior version!
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