It's really hard to play on the phone. At first I kept tapping on the links below the game when I focused more on the game and less on my finger position. After I got used to tapping a bit higher and not letting my finger slip down I got another problem: when the paddle was really low, my thumb would block the view so I couldn't see the paddle or the ball.

Static html site for a professional portfolio/resume recruiter facing site. For a simple blog that needs to work, probably just jekyll. All my hacker showoff fun websites can be bloated and broken and run on any weird software i chose to play around with.

The internet raised me and I've learned everything from it.

I agree with you on the first point. If you wish to actually learn, you take your time. As for everything else... maybe you should keep out of the """psychology""" section of the library for a while.

Weird how the reaction on HN is so much different from the reaction on reddit where everyone is angry at riot for this decision. I am very much sad to see /all chat go, and I see no reason to remove it since it was already opt in. Most toxicity is in team chat, not all chat. The only "toxicity" in all chat that happens regularly is your own team saying "rep [insert lane]" and a "gg ez" at the end of the game which shouldn't bother anyone sane at this point. Sucks that now will be no way to communicate with the other team except emotes and dances. Stop taking the fun out of the internet, god damn it.

The opt-in part is clearly being missed and is a huge piece of the equation.

All chat isn't a problem if you didn't explicitly go into the menu to turn it on in the first place... this also means there is a convenient way to turn it back off.

For me, this all amounts to virtue signaling by Riot towards the broader community regarding their ongoing war against toxicity.

True, but I feel like a lot of people make things in web assembly so that when it's finished, it can be put up as a website to show off in their portfolio in an accessible way. And I also feel like that makes is less pure in the hacker way. A lot of toy projects today are being built with showing off to employers in mind.

Good point but half a decade seems a bit to long for it to be just a ploy to show off to employers.

Writing something like that with an intent to put it in your resume will take you on a very different path compared to just making it for your own eyes only. This is a fun project, make sure you have fun before all else.

I still read but mostly fiction. I strongly dislike most non fiction books, YouTube videos, podcasts, and the very idea of an audio book. If I want to learn something , I read a textbook.

Isn't a textbook a non fiction book?

I said most. There's a huge difference in quality of information between something you study and something you can read on your commute.

It's not. And we can,

Nothing in the history or current path of AI would suggest that human communication can be represented by an algorithm. Every attempt to program human communication results in stilted, unnatural prose that must be carefully curated and edited. Even those tools only work in limited contexts with huge training sets of data.

There is nothing about a brute-force machine learning algorithm that describes human language. It's like saying that a monkey could build a brick building because he was able to accidentally stack two bricks on each other by flinging bricks around. That does not show any understanding of the process of building anymore than ML algorithms show any understanding of the meaning of speech.

Did you really assume you'd see actual laws when you clicked on a link saying "31 laws of fun"?

Maybe they also expected something other than a guide on how to write "eutopian" stories, perhaps an essay on inner workings of humor or entertainment. I certainly did.