Hacker News Reader

dscloughon How to make quitting your addiction easier

I've wished for years that mobas and other competitive-ranked games simply let you completely hide your rank from yourself. I'm sure the psychological addiction aspect has something to do with why this is never an option, but playing unranked games isn't really a replacement because those players have a different mindset. Just let me play competitive modes and be blind to my ranking :(

dscloughon Freesound: Repository of more than 500k CC licensed sounds and effects samples

My freesound account is 12 years old! And the website is exactly the same as it was when I registered (or so I recall). Incredible resource for bedroom producers and programmers alike.

dscloughon Apple broke up with me

my man you can delete the files once youre done

dscloughon I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco

The "ima be dead by im 30" mentality is common. I've smoked my fair share of cigarettes but never found nicotine addictive. Lots of people just dont care about themselves.

dscloughon Are you playing to play, or playing to win?

The “pusher” is reminiscent of hungrybox’s jigglypuff in the melee scene and the widespread distaste in the playstyle among other players

dscloughon On YouTube’s recommendation system

I'd recommend anyone looking to take better control of their habits in this regard to install the DF Youtube extension. Turn it off when you want to tumble down rabbitholes and keep it on at all other times. Really makes a difference in how youtube usage works over time.

On a related note it would be interesting if someone has made some "rabbithole resolving" software - I've noticed that these things terminate in extremely similar ways for most people, and have had a number of conversations laughing with others about how we've gone down the exact same content route. Write some code to find the bottom for us and save all the headache (fun)!

dscloughon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

I don't know much about this situation but is Biden not describing exactly this situation here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jyT1rnW9fA

dscloughon What is the best dumb TV?

What projector?

dscloughon A song that was constructed to reduce anxiety

Surprised nobody's linked ventolin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFeUBOJgaLU

dscloughon Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible

Pomodoro timers are shaped like tomatoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

dscloughon People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (2017)

As a huge boc fan, I legitimately got goosebumps reading this comment.

dscloughon Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy

I'd also be interested in hearing a bit more about this.

dscloughon Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL

I'm working for a small hedge fund in basically the same role, do you have any resources you could recommend for learning how to do these things the "right" way?