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cushpush··on Ask HN: How do you learn and research every day?
Keep a notebook with you at all times, make time to study and reflect on your notebook pages. Also use a computer if you want grad-level dialogue with the ai, very helpful as well. But strongly recommend sticking to physical notebook because can flip pages and can commit pages to memory as landscapes more readily.
cushpush··on Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
This should not be perceived as an insult, many people underestimate the technical knowledge and mastery required to be decent at coding.
cushpush··on Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
Let's not forget chacha
cushpush··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
Planning on doing a show HN soon for our project Shomp: [https://shomp.co/timeline.html] we are a US nonprofit with the goal of covering transaction fees so musicians selling their music online will keep 100% of the proceeds.
cushpush··on UI = f(statesⁿ)
People who say the universe is a simulation never consider the graphical overhead required. It'd be so annoying to make, I don't believe even an alien species would have the patience for it.
cushpush··on Jon Stewart Returns to an Older, Smaller Audience
"drama du jour," your talents do not go unnoticed
cushpush··on Sam Altman Wants $7T
Subtlety and nuance are superpowers of deduction, available only at ultrafine resolutions.
cushpush··on Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro technique?
Productivity is an overloaded operator.

One of the best methods I have in my personal inventory requires pen and sketchbook ("notebook without ruled lines") and revolves around keeping detailed, artful checklists and sequences that can easily be turned into checklists, present and floating in the front of my mind. Easily accessible via briefcase/bag, always available for you in your idle moment.

I think your question in the original post is more about how to structure your time investiture into your projects. No easy answer -- you must explore what works for you -- in general keep an outcome-oriented approach and focus on being extra productive in the Intensive Innovation Bursts that come with technological work. Productivity is not a jam that is spread evenly over the toast of work, it is more like a giant fruit that suddenly ripens and falls off a tree you spent many months cultivating.

cushpush··on Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro technique?
Snacklessness is masochism tho
cushpush··on Chinese mini PC gets caught shipping with factory-installed spyware
Can we put someone with an IQ in office? Please?
cushpush··on Chinese mini PC gets caught shipping with factory-installed spyware
What other incentives are there to manufacture cheaply other than free surveillance?
cushpush··on Nearly Half (45%) of All Men Plan to Use AI to Compose Valentine's Day Missives
Do half of men have internet access?
cushpush··on Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin
"simple"
cushpush··on Grand-Master Level Chess Without Search: Modeling Choices and Their Implications
I find it fascinating, how some comments find this insightful and others are almost offended by this contribution.
cushpush··on Scientists find optimal space-time balance for hash tables
What is the ratio. Tell me.
cushpush··on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
nice term this, exposure therapy"
cushpush··on Western diets can accelerate cell aging
Very generous way to apply the term "diet"
cushpush··on Infinite Craft
Great point.
cushpush··on Infinite Craft
the tree of water is the global river system." very hydrological
cushpush··on Infinite Craft
low-key genius or high-key misunderstood
cushpush··on Infinite Craft
Obsidian + Cook ... [thinking] took a few seconds and out popped: sushi! Love it
cushpush··on Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders (2020)
One of the greatest, I love that he would have his e-mails printed out to read on physical parchment. I believe he said that CS is as much about actual computers as Astronomy is about telescopes. Very cool.
cushpush··on Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
"I'm not dead yet!" - Monthy Python and Holy Grail
cushpush··on Retired teacher's pension stopped as provider refuses to believe she is not dead
>repeatedly and unashamedly asking old people whether they are dead.

Mortifying

cushpush··on Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud
Feel for this man
cushpush··on Ask HN: Are many user interfaces deliberately bad?
this sort of parasitical behavior might be by design (dark patterns) but often it might not be extractive as much as "manually refunding stuff works well enough for now"
cushpush··on Helio: Libre Music Composition Software
amazing
cushpush··on Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 Fan Projects Shut Down by Valve Takedowns
Valve, can you please let them at least make it please
cushpush··on IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system
If they drag their feet on this I will create the nonprofit to do this, so hurry up.
cushpush··on Everything2
what is the squad's main medium for contact today?
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