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  • ulternotoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldHow do you actually read?
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    10 hours ago
    • “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov is one of the only 3 novels I have read, that are were not part of my school course.
    • Another one was some romance novel that I got as a prize for some competition I can’t remember and I managed to force myself to read it until the end. Needless to say, I didn’t like it. The setting was probably Victorian Era.
    • The third is an English translation of the Light Novel “Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei”, which I am not sure when I intend on completing.

    I am a very sloow reader. Foundation was a pretty thin book and I took months. I tend to read a little, imagine it, dream on it and have fun that way and this one turned out to work really well for that. I thought of checking out the Prelude and other parts in the series, but never went ahead with it.

    I have seen myself getting intrigued by the thought the writer (may/may not have) put into the worldbuilding aspect and find myself exploring the same in my mind.

    My habits: I read what I feel like, when I feel like it. I remember having borrowed picture encyclopedias from school libraries as a child and just leisurely reading them. Those things were pretty fun too.





  • ulternotoLoading Artist comics@lemmy.worldTypical YouTube
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    15 hours ago

    Why don’t we just use one of the FOSS white noise applications, which also have options for brown, pink and other colourful noises?
    Or why don’t we just download an mp3 from soundcloud and use that? It’s not like YouTube is giving 1000Kb/s HD audio.

    Oh right, YouTube is right there.






  • Imagine if there was a hack so bad that it caused everyone to become unable to develop in C and C++.

    Well, there is one that will imply you can only develop using anything that you have bootstrapped yourself, using hardware that you have designed and manufactured yourself, using tools that you have designed and manufactured yourself, using tools that you have designed and manufactured yourself …

    … with your own bare hands.


  • ulternotoGodotProcedural roller coaster
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    1 day ago

    Nice. Now just if you could make it more physics’y. As in, make it go faster when it falls downwards and make it look like it is putting in extra effort, in cases it is going upwards, higher than what momentum would take it.

    If you feel like doing this, I’d suggest using parameters for:

    • gravity
    • momentum
    • friction, so just reduce momentum based on traveled distance
    • minimum speed, to make sure it keeps going and that will look like it is using its motors to keep running