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Re:YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:46PM (#35683120)
I would love an option in the settings to disable youtube shorts. I don't want them.
Re:How does database sharding work? on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:18AM (#35478670)
Are you going to make the joke or...

Show HN: Learning ThreeJS and Custom Game Engines

https://theredlancer.github.io/breakout-game/

I got overwhelmed by the huge amount of features in UE5/Unity so I made my own little game engine and re-created Breakout using it. I had a ton of fun building this, learning how to do GitHub workflows, and actually publishing something I made. Checkout the source code here: https://github.com/TheRedLancer/breakout-game/tree/v1.1.0I hope you have a little fun playing my 2 minute game!

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Re:Transformers Catalog: 60 Transformers in 36 pages on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:06PM (#34825083)
Where's Cliffjumper and Ironside?
Re:You don't have to engage with people on the Internet on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:45AM (#34464689)
Commenting because I can
Personally, I've used an Envy x360 as my laptop through my CS degree and with 1 more semester left, I can definitively say that having a touchscreen to take notes is much better than cheap pen and paper.

The biggest bonus is having my notes in the cloud. I can reference my notes on my phone, laptop, personal desktop, and on other people's computers. I don't need my backpack and notebooks with me to check on a theorem, pseudocode algorithm from class, or how to format that SQL query.

The second feature I use is being able to copy/paste and move notes around. If I run out of space (I like to keep my column width normalized), I can select an area of notes and move/resize, or transfer to an entirely different notebook. I can also copy text from a professor's slides or from a paper I'm researching, and then annotate that text in my notes.

If I was just taking notes for an english or history class, similarly to @_aavaa_, I don't think it would be as useful. Since I'm taking Math and CS courses with equations, graphs, system diagrams, and code I want to annotate, it's been very worth it. However, for short daily notes or scratch work, I do keep a (paper) notebook in my backpack as there's no bootup time or login to scratch out some ideas.