I’m a little confused on how to do this. I didn’t have much time today but thought of something so I went ahead and shared.
By output do you mean return value? I’m not sure. I thought of this:
a = ["W","Q","R","R","W"]
a = a.shuffle
0.upto(3) do |x|
a[0] == a[x+1]
end
the return value i get is just where upto starts from: 0. I can probably figure out how to get an output of true or false if we’re not talking about return value. Though the return value of a[0] == a[1] (for example) is true or false. So maybe it is outputting true or false each time it goes through the loop? idk how to see that though.
what would length do for me here?
wdym be explanatory concepts? like using meaningful terms rather than stuff like “a”?
You can write a function and use a return statement, or you can just write like:
result = jklsdjfsl
as the last line of your code and that’d be clear enough. (replace jklsdjfsl with something that works)
3 is not meaningful. a.length is meaningful. if you use 3, your code won’t work if a has a different length. if your math is relative to a.length then it’ll still work for other array lengths.
I was thinking of some home organization stuff and the thought that this stuff may have to do with breakpoints/bottlenecks and stuff should apply here.
As I am writing this and planning to do other stuff my mind is constantly thinking about stuff I could do around the house. Not just general cleanliness but doing other stuff. Organizing my closet better, organizing a cupboard better, making my living room nicer, etc. Two thoughts came to mind: when will I be satisfied and isn’t where I am at fine?
Like I don’t know when I’ll be fine with how well organized stuff is. Along with that I don’t really know what the issue is with my current organization outside of it doesn’t look super nice. Like I recently bought some Pokemon booster packs on a recent trip after seeing a lot of YouTube shorts opening Pokemon packs. Now I have Pokemon cards that I kinda like with nowhere to put them. Their just sitting on a table I don’t use. This kinda bothers me and I went to put time into organizing it, but now that I think about it. Isn’t it ok over there? The reason it’s bothering me is because it’s not in a super organized “spot”, but ehh. Who cares. Its fine over there.
Idk just something that came to mind. I do think there are certain things I need to actually do around the house (put my cats on a diet, keep my bathroom clean from mold) but other stuff I think is just me wasting time and energy. Like organizing the cabinet I keep some cooking stuff I bought. I don’t cook right now (though I want to get into it soon to save money and it seems like it’d be fun) so I think theres no point in dealing with it now.
There are concrete downsides to leaving pokemon cards loose on a table. They block using the table for other things. If put in a box on a shelf, they will take up less space and be more protected from being damaged or scattered around. A table is an inefficient storage place for the cards.
I kinda agree. I think those are good points. To clarify the cards are in a case. The cards are taking up space with a playing card mat I got on a table. The table is an old folding table I used to use for my PC. Now I get a better table and I don’t know what to do with that folding table so it just sits in my room. Sure I could get better access to the table, but the point I was trying to make was: I have no real need in trying to figure out a “good spot” for the pokemon cards. I should’ve mentioned they were in a case before, but yeah. I think the case is sufficient enough, yet I still feel/felt a need to find a nice spot where I will start organizing my pokemon card collection from. I have no need to organize that spot right now. Things are ok as is.
There have been a lot of forum posts lately. I think I’m caught up but if I missed something that you specifically wanted a reply to, let me know. In general, especially if you post a lot, I’m not going to reply to everything, but you can bring up a specific thing you think is important that I may have missed or that you want more help with.
Was philosophy easy for you to do because of your like of it? I think part of the reason I can play games and TV over philosophy is because of the ease of doing it. They’re also just less mentally taxing to me.
I guess what I’m more so asking is if philosophy is more difficult for me because of interest issues or is that just part of the reason. I’m not really expecting an answer tailored to me per se if its not just interest issues.
I’m unsure what is meant here in response to what I was asking.
just quickly searching it: return is a method? should i use that.
oh i just checked my notes. no wonder it seemed familiar. ok i saw it in a giraffe academy video. so lets see. return is to say what you want returned in a function you wrote. ok. i’m a bit confused on how to use this here, but i’ll try it tomorrow.
I didn’t try to force myself to do philosophy using willpower or self-discipline. It wasn’t hard for me in that way. I also didn’t try to talk myself into being interested in it or liking it.
It can be hard in other ways, e.g. sometimes I make mistakes and sometimes they last for years. Some are ongoing. Sometimes I try many times before I’m happy with something. It’s hard to come up with a big innovative breakthrough idea in philosophy and almost every day I fail to do that.
I like hard things (hard in some senses). I grew up playing chess which is hard to play well. I learned a lot about chess. When I play video games, I try to learn things too, and I often seek out challenging games where I’ll fail and retry things multiple times. If games are too easy I get bored. Unlike many of the other kids, I wasn’t pressured into playing chess; I wanted to.
Hmm. I don’t feel like I need much willpower or discipline for a lot of the stuff we’ve doing, I don’t think I had to talk myself into being interested into philosophy or liking it. I always liked it (I think because I wanted to be a smart kid) and I really really liked Rands stuff.
I guess where I may be a little confused.is sometimes the work I may be doing is difficult and in those instances other things are more enjoyable. Did you ever have that? Or were you able to handle going through difficult stuff completely fine?
Hmm. Growing up I think I liked easy games. Something I realized in the last few years or so is that I never took learning games seriously. I put 2k hours into CS:GO and sucked at the end of it. I think part of the reason is because I never took learning the game seriously. I kind of figured if I play a lot I’ll eventually end up good. I thought that was what the pro’s did. I just saw them playing a lot so I figured thats how I get good at games.
Nowadays I enjoy learning games. I don’t know if I get bored of easy games. Depends I think on the type of game.
That’s not what I expected you to say because I thought you wanted to go at a faster pace.
Difficult in what way? What do you dislike about that type of difficulty?
I think most people try to use gaming to destress. They play casually not to get great at it. The rest of their life is challenging enough. Maybe you’re doing that?
? Like I’m not satisfied with how I’m going? I’m not. I do think I’ll need to use a fair amount of willpower or discipline to do much more than what I’m currently doing. What I’m currently doing, however, doesn’t feel like I need to will myself or use discipline to do it (not saying its 0, buts it not noticeable either).
Hmm. I think difficult in an overreaching sense. I think a good amount of difficulty I may have with stuff is from overreaching. Here’s kinda an example (its just not one from personal experience). I want to get into physics, I end up trying to read high level physics books and not liking it. While I’ve never done something like that I do think some stuff that seemed more beginner friendly to me was definitely a bit to high level for me.
I do think another part of it is that I’d say its been a relatively recent thing where I consciously try to learn around(?) difficult stuff. Growing up I had a mentality of I need to “get it”. I didn’t try to figure things out (at least by myself). I just kinda expected to just “know”. If a lesson didn’t “click” I didn’t make it click. So that made me hate stuff that was reasonably challenging for me growing up because I didn’t try and learn. I just expected to “get it”.
Nope. A game I did do that with is Payday 2 (one of my all time favorite games). Put 1.2k hours. Got decent. Never great. Never cared. Really love that game.
CS:GO I wanted to go pro in. Kinda seriouosly kinda not. Just a thought in my freshman year of high school. During that time I did do aim practice and my aim got really good (never amazing) but the rest of the game I neglected to learn. I refused to listen for footsteps, learn grenade throwing patterns, etc. I had a mentality that if you’re good at aiming you can save any situation. So I never paid attention to how pros actually play. I just thought if I get good aim I can jump into a crowd of 5 people and just win because I’m good at the game.
One thing I will be nicer to myself about: I also did suck because I was extremely tired all the time in high school. The times I played best in CS:GO were either after a power nap or on weekends after sleeping in.
Hmm. Tuesdays are usually when I do chores. I realized one disadvantage to the whole point I was making about Pokemon cards and other stuff is that when things are disorganized I feel disorganized. I think the kitchen being a little disorganized is different but me seeing a messy table in my room (even if its off to the side and not used) bothers me.
Also while I don’t cook really, I’m pretty sure a part of me would avoid it/is avoiding it because the kitchen (this is less in my control, my moms a mess) and the cupboard where I put stuff is disorganized. Even if I’m not using them having them stay organized would help.
What exactly is prime mover levels of greatness? It came up in Your Top Five Goals: A Productivity Method - #6 by LMD and it’s something that’s just kinda been in my head. I’m not looking for a super detailed answer but I was wondering how do people differentiate the different tiers of greatness of some accomplishments.
Is Ayn Rand someone at prime-mover level of greatness? Popper? I think Miss Rand may be, I think Popper is a step below, but idk. I’m just going off of Miss Rand having a whole philosophical system developed versus afaik Poppers biggest (though very important) contribution was primarily epistemological.
I guess I was more so wondering who are the prime-movers in history or, even more so, what level of accomplishment is considered prime-mover like?
I’ve been more or less more energetic the past one to two years. The only real consistent change I’ve done in my life that affects my health and energy is taking B-Vitamins/Vitamins in general. Just thought that was interesting.
Is the competitive nature of some sports a good thing?
I got reminded of my thoughts on this because of the sports stuff mentioned in Chess Time Loop.
I’ve read stories, fiction and non-fiction, about people who get second place and feel like their career wasn’t worth it. I think this is common in a lot of media involving sports and stuff. A lot of teams want to for the win. To be the best in the world. The issue I have is with how people, sometimes, seem to interpret coming in any place besides first. They seem to forget their own accomplishments and how good they might actually be at something because they aren’t the best.
Hmm. Like with Usain Bolt. I know he doesn’t compete anymore. But when he did I wonder how many runners got frustrated(?)/depressed over not getting first and, from what I know of how good he was, feeling like they would never get first.
Idk it feels like sometimes with stuff like this you can get caught up in winning and never appreciating how good you actually are. Though I guess this can vary with people.
Recently my store has been having issues with our store manager. She started off well. She was a bit strict but nothing unreasonable. Over time she got more and more strict and angrier. I’d say it started escalating half-way into her time at our store (she’s been here around 7 months).
Idk what the exact reasons are. Maybe higher up stress. Maybe she is someone who is overly strict and just starts off less strict. Idk. But she did share one reason with us that’s kind of hard to work with. Her pregnancy this time has really affected her anger (she’s been pregnant ~5 other times). This came about because many people complained to her about her mood shift. She said even her husband has noticed her mood being way worse.
The issues aren’t just an angry manager. It’s an angry manager who is going around firing people, writing people up, yelling at people, and badmouthing people. It got to the point where firings and write-ups have to now go through the district manager to make sure she’s being reasonable and not just her getting mad at someone and finding something to stick.
I bring it up because it feels hard to judge her and how it should be dealt with. On one hand she is apparently like this because of her pregnancy. On the other hand it shouldn’t be my problem to deal with her mood swings. Oh yeah that was it. Usually the conversation would kinda be along the lines of control your emotions and stuff better. However, that is apparently quite difficult under the hormone changes in pregnancy. I would say that’s fair to her if she wasn’t my boss. I think its kinda wack to have to deal with that.
Recently met up with a friend that I’ve known for a while. He’s older than me and I always thought he was pretty smart. Apparently he’s not and he struggles with learning and has confidence(?) issues when it comes to learning. He believes he’s to do dumb to do anything and has made some alarming comments. Me and a close friend (who is also this guys cousin) have talked to him over this stuff with minor success.
One comment he shared during a recent visit to my house just interested(?) me. I let him borrow my steam deck while he was over and he played a game called Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Steam. He’s someone who uses a lot of walkthroughs to be able to play a game. For some achievement in the game he looked at a walkthrough and then said, “I can’t believe no one ever thought to do this.” I had initially thought he had figured something out in the game and I asked him about it (oh yeah I just have the game on my steam library, never played it). He then proceeded to say oh yeah he just looked at a walkthrough.
Just an odd comment that stuck with me because he’s commenting on how he thinks "no one else thought to ever do this " (referring to actions to get a rare achievement in a game), while using a walkthrough to “figure it out”. Odd.