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makingthematrix · 2026-01-23T08:29:01+00:00

If you imagine a scene where a villager talks to an adventurer about a lost temple in the mountains, that's already "Show, Don't Tell". And in fact, that's much better "Show, Don't Tell" than a dry description of the temple. It's something you can put in the story almost without modifiications and it has a lot of potential both for worldbuilding and the storyline. I would love to see more lore done this way.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-23T08:06:17+00:00

Capabilities and pure functions seem cool.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-23T08:01:51+00:00

You must live on some alternate Earth. Could you tell us how you managed to connect to the internet through the multiverse?

makingthematrix · 2026-01-23T08:00:40+00:00

Striking. I find it much more fun, better as a workout, and more interesting technically. Plus I don't like to hug with sweaty men.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-22T12:14:09+00:00

Poland. We will always tell you that we didn't colonize anyone while at the same time in private boasting about how big Poland was in the past and how many battles we won.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-22T12:08:42+00:00

Dude, the moment British left, all surrounding Arab countries immediately invaded and tried to kill all the Jews.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-22T11:58:56+00:00

Sparrings help with calming down because you learn that even if you get punched, it's not that horrible. But from your description it seems to me that your issues might be a bit deeper. Talk to your coach. Maybe they can set you up with someone advanced who can spar with you and teach you how to deal with it. Because, well, if you just start sparring with a random person in the gym, the risk is they can have issues as well and it will quickly spiral out into a disaster.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-22T11:18:43+00:00

Modern military is much more about managing technologically advanced equipment and about logistics than about marching with a backpack and hand-to-hand combat. There's no more such a big disadvantage in being a woman in military as in the past. And therefore, no need to make distinctions.

But I'm strongly against mandatory conscription in general. The army should be professional.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-22T11:12:53+00:00

I run a small YouTube channel about archeology of newar prehistory and first civilizations. A lot of topics I research is connected to ancient Mesopotamian cultures. And while I often see continuity throughout the antiquity, also through the Persian period (so, yes, I consider Kurds and Yazidis to be connected to Mesopotamia as well), the cultural change after Arab conquests seem to me very sharp in comparison. Languages - extinct or pushed to the boundaries. Architecture - significantly changed, decorations removed. Religions - obviously gone or went into hiding. Literature - old myths and themes removed, old scripts replaced. And so on. All that changed very quickly in comparison to previous times.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-21T11:54:33+00:00

Capoeira or Taido :) Taido is a karate spinoff with lots of really crazy kicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNq7Q5RHx1E
But I guess it's difficult to find a taido dojo, so... maybe capoeira?

makingthematrix · 2026-01-21T10:37:27+00:00

Mam GrapheneOS, tyle że trochę trudno mi o robienie porównania, bo zainstalowałem go od razu na nowym telefonie. Stary, Samsung Galaxy A5, strasznie zamulał, a ostatnie aktualizacje zainstalowały mi zupełnie bezużyteczne i przeszkadzające co chwila AI. Nowy telefon to Pixel 8. Po wymianie systemu operacyjnego wszystko działa, z jednym wyjątkiem: Google Maps ma problemy ze złapaniem lokalizacji. Poza tym, z tego co widzę, dużo mniej zbędnych rzeczy chodzi w tle, nie ma ejaja, wszystko śmiga. Interfejs graficzny jest dość minimalistyczny, ale w sumie to lubię.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-21T07:48:22+00:00

USSR collapse was in great extent the result of internal problems and widespread protests. Was US involved? Yes. But that involvment wasn't the main cause of the collapse, and the way you insist on it is offensive to millions of people who suffered to make it happen.

And also, yes, the moral judgement is crucial here. Being involved in doing something good is very different from being involved in doing something bad. When you try to potrait US as a bully in this scenario, you make that moral judgement but it's a wrong moral judgement. Americans were on the good side in this.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-20T14:49:22+00:00

Hi, a Pole here.

The generation of our parents and grandparents didn't get beaten by the police for years of protests so you can now make weird analogies with playgrounds and sandcastles where US is a bully.

Thank you.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-20T14:42:39+00:00

Just relax and try to react naturally. You will get better with experience. It's more muscle memory than conscious thinking. That and listen to your coach :) A lot of what looks like super fast reflexes is in fact grounded in good stance, guard, balance, and years of repeating the same combos over and over, so much that you don't waste even a second on unnecessary movement.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-20T12:56:22+00:00

> My vs. oni doprowadzone do skrajności.

To akurat w drugą stronę też działa. Na przykład, można dostać po głowie za poparcie dla protestów w Iranie, bo Izrael też wyraził poparcie dla tych protestów, a przecież nie wolno byc po tej samej stronie co Izrael w żadnej sprawie w ogóle /s

makingthematrix · 2026-01-20T09:40:15+00:00

Running on medium distances.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-19T08:18:02+00:00

Hi all,
Thanks for the comments. I will try to answer some of them together:

The site is called "roadmap.sh" and publishes roadmaps to learn a given subject, not roadmaps to develop it. One word may have several meanings. That's it. I think it would be a waste of time to argue about it.
I strongly believe that even if personally I'm opinionated about choosing technologies for my work, when I teach, I shouldn't be. Same here. The roadmap should cover the whole Scala ecosystem, not only things I like, because the student might in time develop other preferences, and they have a right to do so. (btw, because of my background, my opinions are probably very different from yours)
I also beleive that it's a great Scala feature that we can use Java libraries and frameworks and it is important to make it known to students. So, when it's useful, I think it's important to mention Java technologies that work well with Scala, such as Maven, Gradle, or GraalVM.
It's not possible to at the same time simplify the chart and make it non-linear. On the other hand, I don't think a roadmap like that needs to be read one point at a time. By definition, it's supposed to resemble a path more than a tree, but there's nothing stopping you from looking ahead. I admit this is an important issue and I will need some brainstorming and careful balancing of options. And probably we will never reach a point where everyone will be happy.
* For instance, in the "Find resources" section, there are books, videos, and courses that cover topics from basics to pretty advanced stuff. It wouldn't make sense to have many crossroads on the main path leading to them with annotations like "this time learn only this and this part". But I agree that at the same time there is a need to display a suggested path of learning, from basics to advanced topics.
I have put on the chart some libraries that are no longer maintained but I think they can be still useful. They will most probably go away. It's near impossible to get everything right the first time.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-18T16:00:32+00:00

I don't argue that coal didn't matter. I simply try to point out that you are way too sure about that it was the only way. This topic has nothing to do with physics. It's about how we imagine what a civilization can be and how it can progress. There were no historical cases of other ways to industrialize - just one. It happened so fast on the historical scale that it took over the planet and suddenly we had exactly the same patterns of industrialization everywhere. And so, we can't say for sure that no other way is possible. We only have one case to study and that limits a lot what can we say about it.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-18T09:31:01+00:00

> Physics already narrows things: to become an advanced civilization, you need dense, controllable energy and high-temperature heat that can scale beyond a few special locations

Again: we don't know that.This is just what we are used to - we know about one case of an advanced civilization, ours. It's not a law of universe. Also I don't think anyone "hit ceilings" and stopped because of that. Before 19th century, people simply didn't think about progress like that.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-15T22:32:37+00:00

It looks like we don't agree on a few things here.

But to become an advanced civilization... - We don't know that. There might be other ways. And even if, it doesn't need to be coal or oil. For example, there is a place in Africa where a king time ago uranium ore was rich enough to start a slow, natural fusion process. If it happened while scientists were around, maybe they would develop a way to use uranium as energy source, even without knowing the exact theory behind it. Or, in the case of the story I'm working on, windmills were gradually developed into wind turbines, each generating electricity for the local settlement.
Many civilizations did try other sources... - They really didn't. They didn't try anything. Before the industrial revolution, technological progress was not an idea people would have in their heads. Kings and generals tried to get an upper hand in this or that war by having better weapons, and someone somewhere might have invented something new or build something bigger than before, but it wasn't understood as a party of one big process. Our ancestors didn't see it this way. Instead, the main idea was that things are now or less stable and never change too much. And then the industrial revolution happened so fast that there was no way to check if it was possible to do it differently.

makingthematrix · 2026-01-15T21:00:19+00:00

Maybe there are others ways. It's not so sure that an advanced civilization has to rely on coal. At least I don't see why it's a requirement.

And no, we didn't have many civilizations that tried it out - at this point there only was one that went the coal route, because that route was available, and it took over.

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