Yeah. When you talk about wanting your posts to be good enough: good enough for what? Have you had a specific bad experience you’re trying to avoid? Are you maybe just setting standards that are too high and reduce your posting a lot (and therefore limit your practice, progress, and ability to write better posts)?
@LMD maybe relevant for you too
Hmm. Probably. I can write quite easily even when my energy is low. However, when my energy is low it’s getting certain other aspects outside of just straight writing that I end up not wanting to do.
For example, when I played Baba is You for a while there would be certain levels I could post about, but I avoided doing it because I was too tired to do extra things. Those extra things being like: take a screenshot of the level, take a screenshot of the thing I want to explain, find information on a property I’m confused on, etc.
No on necessarily asked me to go get these things for them, but depending on what I’m posting about I think some of this stuff is necessary. Since I think it’s necessary but I’m too tired to go pull up this information I don’t bother.
I think that covers a good amount of not posting. Writing this whole thing was easy right now, sure, because I’m well rested but I’m confident I could write this when I’m tired. But if I had something like this in my post Baba Is You :
Baba Is You is a puzzle game
that I felt like was necessary I probably wouldn’t post it. I think part of this comes from not enjoying copying and pasting, formatting posts correctly, stuff like that.
Like how sometimes a link can show up as Baba Is You or as https://hempuli.com/baba/: the link itself (though the second case happened because of an extra colon at the end). I feel obligated(?) to fix that link and do a hyper link on some text to make the text more neat. I guess I don’t have to, but yeah. Stuff like this is not easy for me and usually unenjoyable that I end up not posting if I feel like my post requires stuff like this.
Straight up writing is fine with me. I guess I should put more of my focus into just sharing straight up writing? and if need be do stuff like share links and edit posts on a need by basis?
This sounds potentially like making excuses because I think those extra things are easier than writing. Taking and posting screenshots here is quite easy even with a slower process (google what the hotkey is, save screenshot to a file, then upload). I have ctrl-s bound to screenshot a screen region to my clipboard which I can just paste into a forum post without dealing with any files. Opening a video game is also easy though doing actual testing about how one of the in-game words works could definitely be harder.
If you think the writing part is easy, write a lot more! How about you try to write 5 posts per day for a month? If it works, great. Otherwise you can maybe get information about what’s blocking you.
One thing you might potentially get stuck on (idk) is being really afraid of missing one day or giving up if you do (related to perfectionism). In general, it’s fine to treat every day as meaning 5+ days per week, so there’s some flexibility in case you miss days. Don’t skip days just because you’re allowed to though. You can skip because you want a break (though you said you can write fine when tired, so if you need a break that’d be relevant information), or you forgot, or you were busy, or you really wanted to do something else, but don’t just be like “I already wrote 5 posts this week so I’ll skip the next 2 days now b/c i don’t need more posts”. Or, worse, don’t skip the first 2 days of the week since you don’t have to start yet, which would remove your margin for error at the beginning instead of wasting it at the end, so then you wouldn’t have spare days if stuff came up and you were busy.
That stuff is objectively not very hard. The second link is just broken because the colon is being included in the link. I recommend just having a space or newline before and after links or doing them in markdown format (which you can type or get by writing the words, highlighting them, then pasting the link, or use cmd-k or click the link button).
Maybe you just need to practice link (and quote?) formatting for a bit and learn about it better so it becomes easier and you gain more confidence about how it works. It’s something you can master pretty quickly.
FYI in general links don’t need to be pretty, like if it shows up as a URL instead of a page title that’s ok.
I’m on my iPad right now and I don’t want to bother copying and pasting a definition but something i’ve been curious about in general: what is an excuse to you?
Hmm. That sounds more targeted than intended. What I mean is that to me the definition of excuse, if I were asked to define it off the top of my head, is “reason for not doing something”. This is something thats bothered me with how people use the word. Some excuses are taken as reasonable. I’m not bothered by your saying excuses so I’ll use a different example:
1.) Student didn’t do his homework but says his dog ate it. This excuse wouldn’t fly (though I’m sure some of that has to do with oddity of having your dog eating your homework, idk though never had a dog).
2.) Student didn’t do his homework because his dog died. A good number of teachers would accept that excuse.
Their both excuses. Depending on the circumstance, in either scenario people would use the word “excuse” in other circumstances I’ve seen the first one be called an excuse and the second “a good reason”.
Idk, Just odd how people use the word excuse. Could be I’m in the wrong here.
Responding to what I think you mean though:
I’d disagree for me personally. I understand how those things can be seen as easier than writing. Idk though I think. part of me writes by just putting thoughts into words. I think I’m pretty honest that I don’t think my writing is necessarily great or perfectly grammatical or whatever. Oooh neat here’s something that came up that just annoyed me mid typing this: as I was writing on my iPad idk if something I did messed up something or if it was just the app, but I got moved off the text writing area. Getting back into the area I kept clicking the end of the sentence and it kept highlighting the last word which I didn’t want to do because it would erase it. This is annoying, I got it stop to doing it within a bunch of clicks so maybe I just misclicked? idk.
uhh two things:
1.) screenshots on pc/mac are pretty easy. i played baba on switch though and my example was more so thinking about getting that screenshot from switch to mac to discourse.
2.) So I think there’s some confusion I don’t think those things are difficult. I think a lot stuff outside of writing is tedious. Another example comes to mind. because I just noticed it in here: misspellings that are underlined in red. In my personal notes their are a bunch of those, because, to me, its annoying going slowly with my mouse right clicking them and fixing the spelling. Luckily most of my spelling on this has been fine, but that’s just another example where hypothetically if I saw enough of those on a day I would be like “Imma leave this post in the draft and fix it up tomorrow”.
Sure!
I don’t really ever get afraid of missing a day (I use streak based habit tools for tracking but I rarely ever care about breaking the streak). I do, however, give up on a goal if it isn’t perfect yeah. Like if I say I was going to do x for 30 days but I messed up on day 6. I would drop it yeah.
Only question I have is do you want me to try adhere to a length requirement on posts? Would those couple sentences comments I’ve done in the past count enough towards a post?
yeah not hard. just tedious for me.
yeah the second link i broke on purpose to show what i meant. there are other times though where i’m sure the link isn’t broken and it would show up as just a link. that’s what i was more so talking about and then i feel like i need to make it a hyperlink
maybe?
some other stuff that I think makes this stuff hard for me: vision issues
i have really really bad vision even with contacts. i don’t really look at the screen in a good amount of cases where i type. when writing it turns out ok. going to do extra stuff and i have to look more closely and carefully at the screen.
other issues come to mind: i hate working with the mac touchpad in a good number of instances. i think its the best touchpad i’ve worked with. i just don’t like copying and pasting stuff with it sometimes. though sometimes i’ve had some really crappy mouses that make it annoying. idk just sharing some more thoughts.
I think an excuse is different than a reason or justification. It’s something designed to lessen blame or avoid a conclusion.
Like if you say you got a math problem wrong because you didn’t care, that would be an excuse if the real reason was that you didn’t know how to do it.
This can be called an excuse. It depends how negatively the person thinks of the word “excuse”. It has elements of an excuse because it’s lessening blame for not doing the homework, rather than arguing that not doing the homework was actually a good thing (like because the homework was designed so poorly that doing it would make you worse at the topic).
yeah i’ve had similar issues before. technology is often imperfect and can require some troubleshooting. you just gotta have some patience and resilience, and expect a certain amount of headaches from computers. they are not perfect but they’re still very useful overall. and with more skill and different workflows and more experience with how to get things to go smoothly, you can reduce the annoyances some.
Sorry about that.
Do you maybe need a different type of glasses or contacts? Do you just have a vision issue that can’t be corrected with glasses or contacts? Does increasing your font size or everything on screen help (like setting a lower resolution)? Have you tried using screen readers, text-to-speech technologies and other stuff meant to assist blind people? Even though you’re not blind those features could still help you.
If you want to, you can share what type of vision issue you have and what you’ve done to try to address it. But if you don’t want to share that that’s OK too. It’s up to you.
Does reading on paper and handwriting work better for you compared to a computer? Do different types of screens like e-ink help?
I don’t like touchpads much but a lot of stuff with selecting and copying text can be done with hotkeys and sometimes I just use a mouse even with a laptop.
Overall it sounds like you need some sort of solution to be more comfortable using a computer or it’ll get in the way of doing philosophical activities.
No.
Please don’t drop it if you miss a day! You don’t need to do it perfectly.
oh i don’t know how switch screenshots work.
I use a different style of contact than normal yes.
My vision issues can’t be corrected with glasses. They are partially addressed by contacts. Though that is for one part of my vision issues. I have two separate issues: one affecting how well I see and the other more or less leaving my right eye, kinda, useless.
Font size kinda helps but not really. I also may have kinda exaggerated how bad my vision is with contacts. I forgot about my last exam but my last score was roughly 80/20 with contacts in. Without contacts font size doesn’t matter much because I need to squint regardless and at that point I’d rather just have it look nicer on smaller fonts.
Never tried screen readers. I’ve used TTS in other contexts, yes.
Sure I’ll share about it tomorrow, Interestingly enough I intended to share about my condition previously and never got around to it because the treatment for my eye condition involved B-vitamins. Made me think of the Lonsdale stuff shared before.
Nah I prefer computer. I need my screen bright to read fine and I need dark mode. Odd combo I feel, but yeah. I don’t know why most people use dark mode but for me its usability issue. Regular light mode stuff glares too much for me.
Never tried e-ink like screens. I’ve glanced at Kindles in store when walking by. I’ll give them a closer look at some point.
Yea I agree.
I finished the rest of Giraffe Academy’s Ruby videos. Here are the rest of my notes:
I then started on Ruby | The Odin Project. I read “How This Course Will Work” and skimmed the beginning of the Introduction to Ruby book it recommends going through. I’m going to start working on that book next it seems.
I reviewed where I was last on my assignment and I’m going to be working on “find_all_pairs” part of the code soon.
Ok went back and looked at advice given before. So far I’ve come up with this:
a = ["W","Q","R","R","W"]
a = a.shuffle
p = Array.new()
0.upto(3) do |x|
if a[0] == a[x+1]
p << a.slice!(x+1)
p << a.slice!(0)
end
end
Ok so far I got this and it seems to work for the first value in the array. I used slice because I think I should remove them from the array but still keep the values? but yeah this seems to work with comparing other values. Hmm. Also I think by slicing the values out as it goes along it avoids the issue I’ve had before where values would get re-used.
So I misread yesterday. I was supposed to only read the Introduction of the book. Makes more sense. I did think it was odd to do a whole introduction to ruby book and then do an entirely different introduction to ruby course. Ok. Done. Here’s some notes from the stuff I was told to read from the “How This Course Will Work” section.
I didn’t do it yet but the next step in Odin is for me to install/update ruby to the latest version. I assume it matters for their course. Will it affect anything we’re doing here?
I have two different medical conditions affecting my vision. I’ll start off with the less important(?) one.
My right eye is affected by Coats Disease. It’s a retina disease. From what I understand they caught it relatively late and its the reason why my vision is poor in my right eye.
My vision in my right eye is weirdly poor though. My right eye sees things much more clearly, but it affectively works as an extended peripheral for my left eye. The best way I can describe my vision loss is that its kinda like looking through blinds that are constantly moving.
I’ve never been fully satisfied with the explanation I was given just because I remember from a young age noticing how my right eye was off. My doctor ignored that and said that wouldn’t be possible because the time frame of the disease would mean I would be blind in that eye by now. Also because my doctor would talk to me about how the treatments I did would help get my vision back. Maybe it’s possible the clarity I have in my right eye is because of the treatments? but it definitely did nothing for the blind-like limited view.
Both my eyes are affected by Keratoconus which is a disease affecting the cornea. My corneas are weak and are very cone shaped (which is bad). My left eye is more affected than my right eye. The process for treating this was very annoying and it got delayed a bunch during COVID because it wasn’t seen as necessary.
The treatment done aimed to prevent my cornea’s from getting worse. The procedure is called Corneal Cross-Linking. Two things that interested me about this procedure (much later, at the time I just kinda let things happen to me): corneal health involves collagen and the procedure involves Riboflavin/Vitamin B2. Now these could be different from the dietary stuff, especially the collagen, but I thought it was interesting that the procedure involved:
- Vitamin B (riboflavin) eye drop medicine is applied to the cornea for about 30 minutes.
I wonder if condition can be cause by lack of Vitamin B in a diet.
Anyways. After the cross-linking, the vision correction I got was contact lenses. Their a special type of lens called Scleral Lenses, They’re used for a variety of eye conditions.
Overall I’m happier with the quality of life after getting them (the first day I wore them I was in shock from how dirty our house actually was), I still have issues with glare even when things look ok. Glare goes away with sunglasses and stuff. I’ve experimented with other kinds of lens to help with glare such as pink lenses that are used for individuals with light sensitivity. Those sometimes help with light glare.
The other issue I run into with my contacts is fit and irritation. The two kind of go hand in hand because if the fit is really good (which is usually early on with a new prescription) then irritation affects my vision less, but if the fit is bad I’m really wary of irritating my eyes.
The man issue that comes about from my eyes getting irritated is my contacts getting blurry. They will usually got a white protein build up in them affectively blinding me.
FYI, Gemini (AI) says a cause of Keratoconus is rubbing your eyes and says living in a moldy home could result in rubbing your eyes more.
~yeah. idk if i just missed it at the time but i think rubbing your eyes playing a role in the condition is a relatively new thing. it makes sense tbh, but when i first got diagnosed i’m pretty sure i was told “we don’t why this happens”.
but yeah i did rub my eyes a lot. mold probably affected it and dust too. unfortunately i never really stopped until about the past three or so months (i still end up doing it once a week)? the frequency, in general, has gone down a lot because of me wearing contacts but whenever i took them off i would rub my eyes a lot. i stopped after learning that they can make my condition worse. out of fairness to my eye doctors while i’m pretty sure they never told me rubbing eyes was a cause of the condition they did tell me its bad for my eyes in general. however, at the time it kinda came off in the manner of how a doctor says eat healthy, exercise. sleep well. it came off as an unrelated healthy thing for my eyes.
in terms of causes of my eye diseases I was given cause unknown for both of them. though i recently learned that my father and mother are cousins. the way it was shared to me was pretty nonchalant. i haven’t brought it up with my mom but if it’s accurate i wonder how much of that has caused these “unknown cause” diseases. like my brother has quite a few health complications that are in the we don’t know why this happens category.
I believe there are different methods of rubbing your eyes and some are safer than others. Maybe you should look into that.
In my understanding, in America, mild vitamin and mineral deficiencies are common due to diet, but doctors claim they are rare because the doctors look for symptoms of severe deficiencies. Also the FDA guidelines for how much you need for each vitamin and mineral are old and were designed around avoiding severe symptoms, and a lot of supplementation (e.g. adding some B vitamins to flour) is based on having people meet the FDA guidelines, which is unfortunately compatible with mild deficiencies.
Gemini says that living in a moldy home can deplete your B vitamins because your body can use extra B vitamins when dealing with mold.
yeah basically
terminal apps are different interfaces to the built-in part of the OS. you can also use different shell software within a terminal app, which is again a different interface to the underlying OS stuff.
also lol:
Your output should be true or false.
You can use a.length to find out how long an array is. That can make your code more flexible so it can work with arrays of different sizes. Also in general it’s better to code with explanatory concepts than raw numbers.
Didn’t work on coding today but, from the assignment:
returns an empty array for no pairs, otherwise an array with the ranks of the pairs found. cards can’t be reused in multiple pairs, so 3 jacks form one pair and 4 jacks form 2 pairs.
this is the part that i’m working on. why should i have true or false outputs? ;o
this actually made me chuckle a bit. i don’t think i’ve received that message yet. maybe its new?
on a serious note, i wonder what problem that addresses? hmm. maybe some people talk to one person too much cluttering up a thread, so the idea is to have them go to private messages instead
you’re quoting a different part now than what you quoted in Eternity Async Tutoring - #929 by Eternity
hmm. so this is what i quoted:
Here’s my original post that you were responding to: Eternity Async Tutoring - #839 by Eternity
That original post has that “find_all_pairs” code I quoted. You were helping me break that find_all_pairs code into smaller parts and the first thing you said to do was to know whether the first in the hand pairs with any other card in the hand.
Hmm. I think my code does that, but it also does extra things not asked. I guess it should just give true or false based on whether the first card matches other cards in the hand for now?
that was the smaller part, yes. when you keep thinking about other parts and trying to do something more complicated, you’re resisting breaking it down into smaller parts. you’re trying to keep the parts bigger.
