high performance gamedev with cpp17, physx, wickedengine, clion, and linux.
it feels amazing to be able to spend time inside the program as it develops.
Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?
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The first 6 months are incredibly difficult, as there's nothing to do but cry and feed. It will never be perfect, but it gets better.
> but it gets better Parents say this, but looking at their lives and talking to them, it doesn't. I think you just get used to it, or develop a sort of stockholm syndrome. Maybe you sleep a little better so it's easier to mentally cope with it
No, it does get better. The first year is just constant lack of sleep and disruption. As they get older they get more entertaining and need less constant attention.
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#93Not an achievement at all considering we are on HN, but earlier this year I made my first website. It’s just a little personal site that’s hosted on GitHub pages. It’s a skill I’ll definitely utilize again in the future so I’m quite happy about it :).
Comparison is the thief of joy.
You absolutely hit an achievement. Congratulations!
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you manage to create this sort of time?
The honest answer is chance. I happen to be studying somewhere that gives me an extra-ordinary amount of freedom, and I'll be using it soon to visit Morocco (to do research and write). I also happen to be surrounded by a friend group that are deeply tied to the music industry, and because I'm an illustrator/designer/artist, I can help musicians in that field with album art, music video animations, printing and so on.…
Thanks for the answer. Enjoy Morocco! The Atlas mountains are my favorite part.
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> when I was younger I always said I don't regret anything I do A better angle is: Don't act in such a way that you'll regret it. That advice doesn't tackle dealing with things you regret. But neither does "I regret nothing!" -- it is not instructive as to what is good, or how to process events, it just gives a free pass to any behavior. Only young people and Edith Piaf say this.
> it just gives a free pass to any behavior. Totally disagree. I am not free from the consequences of my actions. I'm simply saying it's a waste of mental energy to drag yourself down based on events that happened in the past. You can learn from things you've done and if something was a mistake in hindsight, you can avoid those mistakes in the future. But I try not regret making any mistakes I've made because there's…
> it's a waste of mental energy to drag yourself down based on events that happened in the past
I completely agree.
But I'm trying to make the distinction between "don't obtain debt" and "don't pay debt".
> if something was a mistake in hindsight, you can avoid those mistakes in the future
There's a word for the process of concluding that something was a mistake: regret.
I think the difference in understanding comes from what we put into the word.
Regret is a word loaded with emotion.
If the purpose is to say "don't beat yourself up endlessly", I 100% agree.
But beat yourself up a little and let go. :-)
Preventing mistakes requires regretting them.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?
#96Learned how far I can push myself physically and mentally in my first Ultra Cycling event (2400km). Not sure I'll do another one, but it was a good experience and at at an age where performance will start decreasing from here. I need to do a write-up.
> at an age where performance will start decreasing from here
Challenge that idea
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?
#97OK, my "most exciting thing" is pretty boring, which says something about me ;-) But I discovered how easy it is to make oven fries: [0] Easy, customizable, and healthier than regular French fries. I love them! [0]: https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/oven-fries/
On that same theme, I've learned the basics of bread making recently, and it's been exciting to me to realize how easily I can make bread that's far better than anything at the grocery store. When I realized that I could 'win' by just using flour, water, and salt, it felt like I had unlocked one of life's cheat codes.
This year I learned of Nigel Slater's Lazy Loaf recipe which is basically an Irish soda bread. It's bread, but without the faff of yeast, rising, punching down, proving.
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#98Mechanical keypad locks dont require you to input the code in a certain order. If the code is 0451 you can unlock it with 1054 or any other combination of those numbers. It's not exciting exciting, but it's oddly novel to show off.
Wow! That’s means a four-digit mechanical lock would only have 210 possible combinations. Seems pretty easy to brute-force.
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#99I'm a new parent this year and I was not mentally prepared for it (lol is anyone?) For a few months, I regretted my decision to have kids almost constantly. It gnawed on me. Then I stumbled upon the regretfulparents subreddit. Seeing the posts was pitiful. I saw how destructive it is to our psyches to carry around regret and let it wear us down. I cringed seeing the posts, mostly because I felt the same way they did,…
Around the 6 months mark is when the baby starts reacting to you. Smiling, copying you, trying to eat food. To me it was a big motivator because in the previous months it's hard to see any meaning in all the effort that I pour out, because the baby was completely useless. From then on it's less and less useless over time, and they do things like playing and learning to walk. Many of these things don't make it easier…
My son is just about to turn 3 and my daughter is mearly 1. Please be aware that the second child isn't the same amount of work. It more than double - quadruple? It's as hard to explain how much harder a second child is as it is to explain how tough the first would be to someone with none.
People tell you that having a kid will take all your free time but it's not really true because one parent can relax while the other foes something with one. When you have a second, the wife be fully occupied with the second and you will become primary care for the first. You're both suddenly single parents. The internal fortitude required to single handedly entertain a toddler exceeds anything I've ever had to do before.
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I had the opposite experience. I thought I would easily survive a layoff, but now it looks not so likely.
Numbers game, go submit 100 applications, get 25 interviews, get 3 offers. Go.
lol, yes it's a numbers game but your rates are off by an order of magnitude IMHO and experience.