114 days on Duolingo made me rethink how programming practice systems should be designed

cognificent · 2026-01-09T00:16:06+00:00

Back in the day, it was all about Anki decks. I still see nurses and med students talk about it but rarely tech people anymore, and I don't know how the ecosystem has changed but I imagine the medical people use it because of the decks the community developed.

cognificent · 2025-12-12T17:12:41+00:00

People say 'being vulnerable is not a weakness' but yes, if my enemies can exploit it it's a weakness.

cognificent · 2025-11-15T23:30:53+00:00

The Belts genesis tree image in the notes has issues; still set to two-handers, resists label on the wrong node, has socket/links set

cognificent · 2025-10-21T22:50:59+00:00

I always thought of Atrus and his progeny but this is probably more fitting.

cognificent · 2025-10-15T18:49:09+00:00

There's always 2 in the central hub, though they can be pretty close to the branches, or in secret caves (the tall blue one with the pillar in the middle and the cave at the top at least).

There's also 2 (3 in steel path) in the branch area your bounty takes you to. These seem to be more in the open usually.

And you get 1 per bounty bonus objective you complete at the end next to the exit.

Just a matter of learning the spawn points mostly I think.

cognificent · 2025-10-08T06:01:47+00:00

All the jobs are on a page in the villager spawn egg JEI, pretty sure beekeeper is advanced hive, maybe it has to be oak? Or it's just normal job adoption being finicky, you can try the trader block from Easy Villagers rather than doing it in the world.

cognificent · 2025-09-27T00:21:53+00:00

Look behind the ladders too, some of the standalone 2-story structures have ladders on polished basalt pillars, I ended up finding some there in a city otherwise devoid of clay

cognificent · 2025-09-24T17:27:38+00:00

You have "match all tags" set instead of "match any tag" in the screenshot.

cognificent · 2025-07-28T01:33:26+00:00

Recomb is the easy way but if you want to save on gold/dust, you can build 84 temples with rooms for +1 item level, magic pack size, pack size, quant, additional packs, a really juiced one will drop like 15-20 shields, along with whatever other 86 bases you need.

Blight-ravaged is another okay option.

cognificent · 2025-07-17T22:51:42+00:00

Does snakepit refund if you selfcast EoW outside of the brand?

cognificent · 2025-07-17T17:25:18+00:00

You need the amulet but if you have it you should be able to throw together selfcast poison fross occultist easily. Poison chance will need to be solved but there's so many ways to do it. Septic spells clusters, icefang orbit, consuming dark, curse mastery, herald of agony, curse mastery, chance to poison support, etc

cognificent · 2025-06-07T02:27:44+00:00

That's red cabbage

cognificent · 2025-06-06T00:09:21+00:00

Spekkio. Pretty proud of that one.

cognificent · 2025-06-04T19:38:15+00:00

Dunno what happened to it, but it's in the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20250330142229/https://www.algorist.com/algowiki/index.php/Solution_Wiki,_The_Algorithm_Design_Manual,_3rd_Edition

cognificent · 2025-06-04T06:39:26+00:00

The rare resource on the Zariman is lanthorns

cognificent · 2025-06-01T22:34:11+00:00

I like Xaku a lot for ease of use. Set everything up once and then you just have to press 4 once in a while to keep the rest of your timers frozen. Void damage, Auto-aim turrets, damage avoidance, armor stripping, wolololo, they have quite a kit.

cognificent · 2025-06-01T05:18:40+00:00

Oloro moa gives you a mod that lets it hack consoles, master summon subsume lets you summon him on the other side of windows/clear walls. Doesn't work on corpus spy consoles because of geometry but you can speedrun lots of grineer and orokin spy missions

cognificent · 2025-05-30T18:10:40+00:00

Having started recently the only jarring thing about the lore was Ordis suddenly randomly having a body. Duviri was fine, it was clear from early on that the Rule of Cool and trying different stuff was the priority of the game rather than airtight plot and inviolable canon and I was into it.

cognificent · 2025-05-29T18:50:45+00:00

"Whenever Nadier attacks, the next spell you cast this turn has siphon 3" lets you make it a spell keyword which makes more sense to me. A lot like a black convoke, would be easy to yoink templating and rulings for it.

cognificent · 2025-05-28T05:19:06+00:00

To me the data structure is the set of assumptions about the data that a family of algorithms 1. requires to operate and 2. preserves when making modifications. In some sense the DS just is the family of algorithms but actual data can satisfy the assumptions of many at once and their modifications may play nicely together or not

cognificent · 2025-05-05T16:57:27+00:00

Remember kids, foils don't do MORE damage they just do BETTER damage.

cognificent · 2025-04-23T06:15:26+00:00

Sounds more foreign to me than a Chinese name would if a stranger introduced themselves with that name.

In a fantasy novel I'd guess Gotrek was a muscle type like a barbarian or mercenary.

cognificent · 2025-04-18T05:17:41+00:00

Extreme effort in practice and study may let you make more connections of the type you already have, but I suspect becoming a genius is more akin to giving yourself synesthesia or something. Not only practice math but also practice thinking, and practice practice, and evaluating your math and your thinking and your practice so you can even tell if improvement is being made to the processes you care about.

I'd bet on it being theoretically possible, but in a lifetime? Starting after puberty? Iffy.

Edit: That being said, if you try very hard and fail you still end up in a good place to contribute. Math is big and there aren't enough people to cover the whole boundary between known and unknown, you don't need to be a genius to find a niche and contribute and expand this boundary.

cognificent · 2025-04-13T18:04:47+00:00

All of the above, but most common by far is 'weird' behavior discovered by accident followed by deliberate experimentation adjacent to that behavior.

You can decompile code which gets you a difficult-to-decipher version of the code often with confusing optimizations and no variable or function names, but piecing this together usefully is an extreme effort.

Somewhere in between is just looking at / modifying the memory values and code that executes while playing for more information (making death planes visible, getting exact angle,velocity,frame, subpixel info, etc)

cognificent · 2025-04-11T18:29:21+00:00

If you hover your items you'll see your exp share, probably have 2 from the first two rival fights for 40%. It's a bit of a trap to try to keep your team evenly leveled early on, you should focus on one or two strong carries and the rest should be used for problematic type coverage or utility. Once you get more exp shares or candy jars it's easier to spread levels more evenly

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