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> https://yet-another-lucas.github.io/plumbing-adventure/

Nice, I made a version of that game myself following the tutorials of https://www.youtube.com/@uheartbeast

This was a while ago, he recently put out a ton of new tutorials for Godot 4, good stuff for quickly getting your hands dirty. You're beyond that point I'm sure, just throwing them out here for anyone else looking for nice intro content.

cven714 | 4 years ago | on: Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months

Have to include ChessNetwork https://www.youtube.com/ChessNetworkTV/videos

If people like Gotham/Nakamura/ChessBrahs aren't your style, ChessNetwork is calm and straight forward without all of the youtube/twitch "entertainer" personality I find grating.

cven714 | 4 years ago | on: The ultimate SaaS template

Very nice! Have to point out the spelling error, losing* not loosing.

cven714 | 4 years ago | on: The growing market of not cutting down trees

Reminds me of the man who became wealthy by not growing alfalfa.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/771699-his-specialty-was-al...

cven714 | 5 years ago | on: Open source chess developers warn about a commercial engine based on Stockfish

ChessBase is selling this Stockfish clone for €99.90. They have also disabled comments on all of their articles so far about Fat Fritz 2. Not a good look.

Related Article on Lichess (which is also open source) about Fat Fritz 2: https://lichess.org/blog/YCvy7xMAACIA8007/fat-fritz-2-is-a-r...

cven714 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?

I bought this inexpensive one from amazon and my life has never been the same. Once you go bidet there's no going back.

https://www.amazon.com/Astor-Non-Electric-Mechanical-Attachm...

cven714 | 7 years ago | on: Productivity Is About Attention Management

I have the exact same problem. When I know what needs to get done, even if it's tedious, it's not so bad to put my nose to the grindstone and work through it. But when I'm not sure how to approach a task, suddenly every distraction in the world is more appealing.

You often see the suggestion to break up big tasks into smaller, baby step chunks to avoid this analysis paralysis. Doesn't help when I'm not even sure what to do yet.

cven714 | 7 years ago | on: Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)

Same with "a napron" -> "an apron"

cven714 | 8 years ago | on: How to Create a MOOC in 28 Days

Weird UI effect (I'm using Chrome 59): When the blue loading bar at the top of the page completes, I get popped back to the top of the page, regardless of where I've scrolled to. Bar finishes loading after ~3-5 seconds.

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess

The study was done with rapid games, against computers, where they discarded human losses on time. Not very confident in those results. But hopefully the researcher gets the chance to try and reproduce and use classical time controls, and human vs. human opponents.

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)

Slightly off topic, but the beauty of Switzerland was such a stark contrast to where I grew up in New Jersey that it almost made me angry. All these people, going about their daily lives in Switzerland seemingly oblivious to the fairy-tale landscape around them!

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: Most used words in programming languages

Pretty cool! Some unexpected results, or at least not what I guessed. "summary" as the top for C#, "SELECT" all the way down at #43 for SQL, "err" as the top for Go (I'm sure that will spawn some pleasant discussion).

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: 25 Years After Junk Science Conviction, Texas Admits Sonia Cacy's Innocence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYqXlRQrBN4

Reminds me of this guy. Painful to watch, scary to imagine him in a courtroom.

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour

In case you haven't seen it, Mirrors Edge [1] is an excellent first-person parkour/action game.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N1TJP1cxmo

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: Tips for selling your side project

How has that worked out for you? I hadn't considered profitable side-project from the buyers side until right now, curious to hear your experience.

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you still play with VR actively?

HTC Vive owner. Mine is mostly on the shelf. I bring it out when new people visit and want to give it a try, but I haven't played otherwise.

It's still a good time and the novelty isn't completely worn off...games like Chamber 19 (Xortex from The Lab) or Fantastic Contraption are a lot fun once I get myself to turn it on. But I haven't played a really compelling game--I'm hoping Budget Cuts is as good as it looks.

The wow factor is huge the first few times. The VR immersion really works. I just haven't found a game yet that combines that Wow with game mechanics I want to keep playing for more than the novelty of it.

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: Boring but possibly interesting audio for going to sleep

I discovered a few years back that chess instructional videos knock me out immediately. I used to play competitively and am genuinely interested, but have never, not even once, survived an entire 20-30min video--usually Alex Yermolinsky and his fantastic accent in the "Every Russian Schoolboy Knows" series on the internet chess club.

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: ClickHouse – high-performance open-source distributed column-oriented DBMS

Interested in how this differs from kdb+, I see it isn't part of the performance comparison chart but seems to have some feature overlap.

cven714 | 9 years ago | on: Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip

Likely it was one of the racks used by AlphaGo

cven714 | 10 years ago | on: Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Olympics must not proceed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if6GLohPq8k

Not that incidents like this don't occur in other cities in the world, but it shows that avoiding dodgy areas at night might not be enough.