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ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict

Creating this Japanese overlay of rules for English writing is disingenuous. The students might be in for a minor shellshock outside of her class.

I respect the conventions they have for writing in Japanese, it's perfectly tailored to using a brush. The teacher should respect English conventions, the free-form, the cursive, either one.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict

They're surprisingly silly. English developed completely separately from Japanese/Asia, so this teacher is pulling line-directions and rules out of her ass. There are no such conventions for the alphabet. Her poor students and their hand cramps, out there writing in courier.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: A Novel Way to Think About Literary Categories

I would enjoy this different type of classifying genre, and smaller libraries or passionate stores could use both, scifi-identity, or adventure-isolation, mystery-family.

An interesting appliation would be Orson Scott Card's Ender series, which take a turn! Ender's Game? Perhaps scifi-responsibility, as that is the main issue Ender grapples with and has to decide. Speaker for the Dead? Scifi-empathy, and Andrew resolves inter-species traditions, and language, I think.

Children of the Mind might be about belonging, but the point is that this harder-to-create classification benefits readers 100x more. I might be contending with responsibility or empathy, and easily pick a book that will move me.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: I won’t buy ebooks anymore

It's a good deal if you want to own the ability to read digitally for the agreed upon time period. Read = 1, Property = null.

It's a terrible deal if you want to own the e-book for a second read, because you haven't bought that.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

The two party system does not affect this discussion. Facebook's algos will show you more and more $x content if you've liked $x or subscribed to it, and never show you $y content since you'd probably not like and engage with $y. Doesn't matter how many parties/topics/underlyingIssues there are.

If FB were neutral they would show you every FB post, millions per second whizzing past your screen, but they can't do this, they have to curate a wall for you to slowly scroll through and for most revenue, like, share, or comment on.

Therefore, to show you the most content that you will like, share, or comment on, they repeat the type ($x) you've already liked, creating the echo.

So no, it is not mostly a problem of the underlying issue of the two parties, this is entirely about how FB curates your wall and simply doesn't show you "the other party"/$y or anything deviant/$y of your likes.

Edit: changed political parties to variables to illustrate point.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Trump is taking Hydroxychloroquine since last one and a half week

His conversation was not fulfilling to watch; no concrete numbers, names, or sources. "Lots of frontline workers are taking hydroxychloroquine..." Is there a study? Anything?

This is what all of these news sources my parents watch have in common that I wish would change - this loose relationship with evidence and sources. Ok he said it, but why, who, when, what? I don't want to complain about lack of critical thinking, but these statements aren't facts, they're opinions coming from trump.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: California affordable housing is more expensive than luxury housing

You mean well but I don't think this solution is robust.

-many of your pods will become filthy without the gov also agreeing to cleaning services.

-people will find ways to own multiple so that gov will have to continuously moderate ownership.

-the residents won't pay i presume, so this cost will never recoup itself for the gov.

-requirements for applicants will want to prove homelessness and what else? citizenship? they may quickly become to stringent, unable to qualify most of the homeless population.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

Exactly. Simple tech literacy was missing in the 1% of students that failed this test through their HEIC submissions. Even though I acknowledge the panic of a weird circumstance during an important test, editing the extension in file explorer is just too far from logical.

Apps are becoming so streamlined and gesture intuitive that children and young adults might actually be regressing in their tech competence while increasing their reliance on it. This is akin to cars packed with electronics, easing use while decreasing DIY repairs and understanding. This decreases our right to repair as a consequence of ease.

Many children will not navigate the antiquated forums and php sites that taught me problem-solving and a degree of independence. I'm not sure what will replace this lost experience for them.

I guess I joined the tech admin / helpdesk fields as a way of putting my money where my mouth is, like buying calls on these services' growing necessity.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Impostor Syndrome in Programming

Some information such as the making of a sandwich, is not conductive to be conveyed through text. So the correct answer for me would be, "I would use a different medium to convey the info, like video."

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018)

Fair point. I do keep my clunker on a cooling stand, so I didn't notice. OpenEMU running a nds did drain crazy battery though.

My best experience was a gba emulator on android. I played through 2 castlevania games throughout my commutes last year.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (2018)

a nintendo handheld can be cracked by following a guide, to then play any game released for it. this will require a $100-200 console.

for older consoles like the nintendo ds, you can emulate, like dolphin emulator for pc. i can even emulate a ps2 on my beefed up gaming pc. nevermind that though, any modern laptop or pc should be able to handle nintendo ds games on an emulator. i think that'd be a good start for you. in fact, even android phones can emulate it.

ver_ture | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life

I'm glad that I can recognize it for the corny and giddy book it is, because a few years ago I worshiped it. Many of its lessons regard selflessness, and fanning others' egos. It's like the fast food of social advice, 'let them eat cake.'
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