Before the pandemic I was working in an office with a 45 min / 1 hour commute one way with lots of traffic. My tiny little office shared a wall with my senior dev, I literally couldn't be closer to him, and we still only communicated over Teams. If it weren't for passing people on the way to get coffee I could go an entire day without speaking to anyone except via Teams. The owner loved the office but he showed up around 10am-ish or whenever he felt like it, and he could afford a place nearby. No wonder there's a dramatic disconnect between his experience and mine. Every day that I wasn't needed for some in person meeting (most days) I had an extremely bitter, traffic-filled drive home.
These things made me move away from Gnome. In gnome3 occasionally the login screen would require me to click the screen and drag upwards to get the login prompt. Customizing any if these things was always a hacky workaround. I'm very happy with Mint Cinnamon right now.
If IntelliJ was as fast as vim, as lightweight as vim, preinstalled on every machine that I use, fully accessible over ssh, as scriptable as vim (or had perfect vim emulation as a plugin), free, I could install all of my preferences with just some dotfiles, and I need an IDE for the project, then I suppose it would just make sense to use IntelliJ at that point. Sometimes you just need a text editor though.
I recently discovered VisiData and I'm on a huge TUI kick right now because of it. I know GUIs have their advantages and I use them, but opening a file in vim or VisiData at light speed feels so good compared to firing up IntelliJ or some spreadsheet program. Good keybindings make working in the program a joy. These tools are often made by hackers/for hackers, not some corporate structure trying to pad their resume with whatever new feature looks good but works like shit that nobody asked for. When people developing the tool are also using the tool you get a good tool; this isn't exclusive to TUIs but it's common and it's one of the reasons that when they work they work so well.
People write books about things, I don't think they're preying on anybody. It looks like all the material is free on the site anyways but you can pay for an ebook if you want.
The host Rollie Williams has a graduate degree in climate change, maybe his style isn't for everyone but he's clearly knowledge and passionate about the subject.
I'm not refuting you at all, but I had never heard of Wawa and I had to google it. Maybe if I grew up in a Wawa area I wouldn't get the infatuation with convenience stores in Asia.
I'm assuming the author is from the US. Convenience stores in Japan (and Taiwan) fill a niche that's desperately missing in the US: they're actually convenient. I can't get good tasting, cheap, fast, not-unhealthy food anywhere in the US. I'm not saying it's the greatest food of all time, it just sits in a nice spot on the taste/price/convenience/doesn't make you feel like shit when you eat it axis.
This is a weird tip I think I could only share with the hacker news crowd. Once I learned about gut bacteria I started thinking of my cravings as something external to me. Like instead of saying "I'm hungry and I'm in the mood for something sweet" I would realize "the hormone ghrelin is sending hunger signals to my brain and the gut bacteria in my body is asking for something that's not actually in my best interest." Being able to emotionally distance myself from my feelings let me make decisions that I knew were better for me.
Just remember that it gets easier, I think a lot of people struggling with addiction to unhealthy food try to resist temptation for a day and go through hell. They think "I can't live the rest of my life like this," but the thing they never make it far enough to learn is that it doesn't feel this hard all the time. Every night I go to bed resisting a sugar loaded soft drink I wake up stronger, and the sabotaging gut bacteria is one battle weaker than the healthy gut bacteria.
I'm not a fishing expert but I think officially owning those islands would affect their Exclusive Economic Zone. If the fishing there is good they could turn a profit even if administering the islands costs some yen.
It's a shame this was posted on the rpg stack exchange and not the world building stack exchange, I understand they're moderating it to keep it on topic but they're suppressing what could be some really great ideas and conversations.
I just got home from a Meetup event and opened up hn to see this post. I had a great time meeting new people with common interests. I've tried Meetup in different cities and mileage varies. I didn't have such great luck in the US midwest, but it's definitely still alive and well.
Mistborn is a great trilogy, if you read book 1 and decide it's not for you then it's a fine stopping point. Book 3 is another great stopping point, either way you're not getting into a massive commitment like the Wheel of Time series or something. It's easy to read fantasy, characters don't break the fantasy rules laid out in the universe, the story is cohesive and comes to a satisfying conclusion. I was only mildly interested when I picked up the first book but I burned through the trilogy at light speed during quarantine. Highly recommended fun and easy reads.
I read somewhere that the Mongolians believed flowing water was sacred and they had a taboo about defecating near it. For the wrong reasons they accidentally prevented cholera. If avoiding sleeping under trees prevents tree falls, lightning strikes, coconut comas, snakes from dropping on you, and whatever else then it doesn't really matter why the hunters don't sleep under them does it? Not having coconuts to worry about is just a happy bonus to the survival statistics.
I remember a TED-ed animated video that claimed that isolated cultures prospered because they had peace, one of the three examples was Japan. They had an animation of a cute little rabbit practicing the katana. I couldn't believe something so blatantly false could make it past the editors of TED-ed, they even had iconic weapons of Japan's warring states period in the video! I can't find the video now, so I'm hoping it was taken down. But it definitely had TEDx quality information, I have avoided TED-ed for years ever since that video.
This seems to be Apple's design philosophy. I can't change the direction of my touch pad scrolling without affecting my mouse scrolling, I had to download a third party app for that. Their defaults are so stubborn, if you don't like it the way they believe it should be it's either annoying or impossible to change it.
I memorized kanji in the order laid out by James Heisig in "Remembering the Kanji." It's a guide to creating mnemonics for kanji, it has a strict learning order. You can probably read the introduction on the preview on Amazon if you're curious about how it works.
As for vocab, for example I would go for a walk in the park and create memorable mnemonics for the vocab words I saw and the park itself would be a memory palace. Later when I wanted to say the word "vending machine" I would pull the Heisig mnemonics for the vending machine I saw in the park and recreate the word. Today when I'm speaking Japanese I don't have to think about about mnemonics unless I've forgotten a word, then I kind of "look it up" in my memory palace.
The thing about the memory palace method is that it's not really fast recall, it's more like keeping a notebook in your brain until it has been adjusted to your working memory.
I use a memory palace and a system of mnemonics all the time for things I want to commit to long term memory. I can speak Japanese and read 2,000 kanji thanks to memory palace techniques. Still, the cognitive load for scribbling down a grocery list is much smaller than trying to make a memorable grocery list in my memory palace. My memory palace also doesn't help me when I've mindlessly set my wallet down and can't find it 30 seconds later. I guess I'm saying that I agree, it doesn't replace note taking.
You're right, and after two seconds of reflection I realized I watch longer videos on YouTube as well. I tried summarizing the difference between YouTube and other streaming services but it's more nuanced. The part of me that strives to be productive feels much better on YouTube, although deep down I know it's probably a net loss on my productivity. YouTube is great for video essays, tutorials, music & music videos, vlogs & video podcasts.
A 40 minute video essay feels insightful, I know that I'm really there for the entertainment but I can justify it to myself like I'm learning something and that makes me feel good. The things that I categorize as "mindless entertainment" are short and low commitment; I don't feel bad watching a 3 minute comedy sketch. When YouTube was trying to push Cobra Kai on me I thought, "that is not how I want to spend the next 30 minutes," then I wasted the next 30 minutes anyways on mindless entertainment with a series of 3-4 minute videos.
I think the thing that pulls people in to YouTube is antithetical to YouTube Originals. If I'm going to spend 40 minutes on YouTube it's going to be a series of low commitment videos anywhere from 4 to 10 minutes long each. If I wanted something to watch that was the length of a TV episode I would be on Netflix.
It took me a second to realize what I was looking at, but this is a very cool toy to play with.
When I click the same bubble twice in a row it clears the entire field of bubbles. Is this intended behavior? Seems like I should be able to undo a click that I've made. Using Firefox on MacOS.
The whole thread was interesting but this comment had me cracking up:
>Same experience here. Linux folks not only are our most frequent bug reporters, but they're also the best at documenting their issues and sometimes just... give us code for UI improvements?
I'm a digital nomad right now and I check every single box on the "Who is the average nomad?" except Mexico City, but I had it in mind to go there in the new year. I'm leaving my current stay tomorrow, after 72 days. I feel so exposed right now.
Optimizing your time so that you can live your life the way you want to is a great idea. I daydream of having a personal chef so I can spend more time reading, studying, or any other activity that brings meaning to my life. But let's be honest, most of that time that people are freeing up with Uber Eats is spent scrolling through social media or watching Netflix.
I ran one then opened the wikipedia page to verify it, I couldn't find the links.
List of common misconceptions -> Denzel Washington
Allegedly these pages are only 2 degrees apart by way of Hal B. Wallis, Orson Welles, and Humphrey Bogart. I couldn't find Denzel Washington on any of those pages (but all three of them appear on the list of common misconceptions page).
Maybe the idea of PeerTube is a lot nice than the user experience? I can't say, I haven't tried PeerTube. I feel like this is pretty common when it comes to avoiding big tech though. When Github was bought out by Microsoft I went all in on Gitlab, but alas, the company I work for now uses Github. The sheer gravity of it pulled me back in.