lupin_sansei
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Comment · 4 years ago
The beauty of this idea is that it solves the usual to-do list problem of adding a task and then ignoring it forever.
Comment · 4 years ago
3! You could make grey using the checkboard box character thing.
Comment · 4 years ago
I was super impressed how they got high resolution graphics out of the ZX81 which only has characters not a user programmable bitmapped display
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6134/how-...
Comment · 4 years ago
Found a short video of the hardware Mark 1 Perceptron machine in action classifying photos. Fascinating
Comment · 4 years ago
I can highly recommend Task Ratchet https://taskratchet.com/ by the makers of Beeminder.
You add a task and a due date and how much they will fine if you if you don’t do it in time.
Loss aversion kicks in and I actually do the task to avoid being fined.
Comment · 4 years ago
It used to be spelled Tokio in English speaking countries before the 1950s
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/207014/why-was-t...
Comment · 5 years ago
How about a small portable radio tuned between stations? It might have to be an old analogue tuning one to actually not mute when there’s no signal.
Comment · 5 years ago
This isn’t correct. I’ve lived in UK, Australia, and Japan and all those places use 12 hour time.
Comment · 5 years ago
They’ve tried a couple of social networks around iTunes but they failed.
Comment · 5 years ago
A nice little walkthrough/tutorial of Remind: http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/24/guest-mike-harris-looks-...
for example...
Semi-Complex Tip: Date-Based Math
You can do date-based math with Remind. Going on a family vacation, and you want to remind yourself every day of how many weeks you’ve got left, and how much money you can save before then? I hadn't originally realized that Remind could do this, but David Skoll at Roaring Penguin helped me work out how Remind could work in weeks, instead of days. From there, it's a quick math problem to apply it to pounds to lose, dollars to save, and so on. These lines, for example, are in my Remind file:
fset _weeks() coerce("STRING", (trigdate()-today())/7) + plural((trigdate()-today())/7, " week") fset _dollars() coerce("STRING", (5(trigdate()-today())/7)) + plural(5((trigdate()-today())/7), " more dollar")
Then, you can simply say:
REM August 5 2005 +253 MSG You have [_weeks()] until your summer vacation.% REM August 5 2005 +253 MSG GOAL: Save [_dollars()] for summer vacation.%
Schweet, huh?
Comment · 5 years ago
I love Beeminder too (the sister app to GTBee). I’ve been trying to reorganise my habits into ones that aren’t “proxy’s” for what I want to really achieve (Eg “invoiced dollars”, rather than “did some client work”)
Comment · 5 years ago
The calendar blocking is a really important point I’ve found too, so you make time to do the items in the list.
Comment · 5 years ago
Interestingly I’ve found I haven’t done that. I try to make the tasks small enough that when it’s time to do them it’s not overwhelming and the potential fine is enough just sting to make me check the app regularly
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah. Not wanting to pay them motivates me to not fail.