hadrian

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[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Note that it might take a while though, so if anyone wants to get this done before the 30th (so you can use API-based tools to wipe comments), request it ASAP.

I requested...maybe two weeks or so ago? And it only came through today. So get to it y'all

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah it's the lack of vote counting, more than the lack of downvotes, that I really appreciate. (Not to say I really miss downvotes or anything, I just really don't care either way.)

I'm also on Tildes and they also lack downvotes, but once you've been on there a week you get the ability to label things (noise, jokes, malice), which sort of functions as a more nuanced downvote button. But they share the lack of overall karma score, which keeps that same nice non-performative vibe.

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Two accounts I believe. It's like having a gmail and hotmail account with the same name before the @

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

God StumbleUpon was so good. Are there any similar websites nowadays?

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Even more than that, you have the idea that 'similar users to yourself buy a lot of alcohol, so you probably will too'. Of course alcoholics, whether attempting recovery or not, are likely to buy alcohol. So if you're a recovering alcoholic, 'similar users to yourself' are gonna be buying more alcohol than usual, and so you'll see ads for it. Totally heartless and just for-profit.

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I see what you mean to an extent, and I also just moved over, but it's worth remembering that Digg -> Reddit was the same afaik. Like Reddit had been around and established for a decent amount of time before the fall of Digg. (This is second-hand info because I wasn't around at the time)

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Not even current data. I was having a look at its capabilities in propositional logic, which has been around for literal centuries. Still very (I can't stress just how very) basic mistakes made. And I mean in its explanations, not in any actual doing of logic.

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'd be interested to know from someone more tech-savvy whether googling advice, and then clicking on the cached version, still counts as viewing reddit. Because I'd ideally still like to append reddit to my google searches without giving them ad views.

AKA if someone monetises advice given for free, we should be able to freely access it.

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

There's also Beehaw's new writing community which just opened, !writing@beehaw.org

Not specific to writing prompts, but there's at least one prompt that's been posted, and there's discussion about creating a regular writing prompts thread as well.

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I like story heavy games so I personally don't mind unskippable cut scenes... the first time around. What reeeaaaaally annoys me is when it's a game with multiple endings and I can't skip the same cut scenes on future playthroughs.

Same when it's a reading-heavy multiple ending game, but it won't let me skip text that I've seen already.

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FED-uh-verse

[–] hadrian@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

One exercise that I know people who've had success with is to be focusing on simpler scales, which will all have slightly different fingerings for both hands. Just the regular primarily white-key scales.

E.g. C major goes 12312345 for the right hand, and 54321321 for the left hand.

Then once that's doable at some speed, moving onto the tricker simple scales. And then going into contrary motion (where the right hand goes up and the left hand down). I've found that helps people get more used to their hands working independently. Especially because it provides more structure, and just one thing (different fingering) to focus on, rather than adding in differences in tempo etc.

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