JeliHacker
Re:Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
on Saturday September 06, 2025 @09:23PM (#45154474)
Love this! The nostalgia hit hard, I immediately felt the urge to play Raft Wars on Miniclip
Re:Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999)
on Monday September 01, 2025 @03:45PM (#45095967)
Mortimer Adler's How To Read A Book talks about "reading for understanding" a lot. By understanding, he means getting a holistic feel for the content. Grokking, if you will. An analogy is reading a newspaper article on what happened in Gaza yesterday versus reading a 500-page book on the history of Palestine and writing a report on it. In the first example you are reading for facts (knowledge), in the second you are reading for understanding