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hmmokidk··on Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
Have you see picocad? It is hands down one of my favorite pieces of software
hmmokidk··on Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
I see what you are saying but:

I think it’s really cool for Blender to be experimenting with UX given its incredible stature as an OSS project.

If Blender does this well it could change the landscape and culture of OSS.

Of course there are risks but fortune favors the bold.

hmmokidk··on A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)
Humans aren’t robots. If it’s interesting, fun and inspiration comes freely then it often makes sense to pursue. Even to only have something to talk about, to learn, to teach.
hmmokidk··on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
Creation of source data has been disincentivized
hmmokidk··on Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon
That or they’ll have to move to Shenzhen to find work
hmmokidk··on Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
This is a dumb take. They will make money every way they can.
hmmokidk··on Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming
Low key this is so interesting because in Elixir there was this specific example with a library that extended the lang to do this.

The concise syntax was tossed out, but I have a soft spot for it.

hmmokidk··on “Don’t mock what you don't own” in 5 minutes (2022)
I love Stripe for creating a CLI testing thing that even allows you to test webhooks.
hmmokidk··on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70
Can also just raise taxes on the super rich
hmmokidk··on Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)
Incredibly well written. You clearly put a lot of thought and effort into this. Thank you.

Also FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED is interesting.

hmmokidk··on Europe is trying to leave Starlink behind
Everything musk owns is being affected.
hmmokidk··on Ask HN: Struggling with Anxiety as a Developer – What Are My Options?
Yeah of course! If you need someone to talk to (anonymously, somehow), who has similar experiences I am open to that as well.

Take care

hmmokidk··on Ask HN: Struggling with Anxiety as a Developer – What Are My Options?
I have a lot of thoughts. Also senior with ~10yoe. I am going to try to be helpful because you seem like you are really struggling. I am going to arm chair psychologist very intensely right now, so take what I say with a gigantic grain of salt.

A lot of the times stuff like this can be from our environments. There could be some one currently affecting your self esteem, and maybe you have gotten used to it. This could be at work or in personal life. This person could also be you. It could have also been the environment when you were younger. Maybe you needed to present an image of perfection to be loved and accepted.

If it is from the current environment it will be extremely hard to heal from and perhaps impossible, ie: you are living or working with someone repeatedly irritating this wound, which is likely not the case but should be mentioned.

If that is the case you have to learn to let it go. You are worrying about something that can't actually hurt you. what others think at work, be cold and robotic about it. You don't need to care insofar as it doesn't affect your employment. Unfortunately many people won't be super rational when it comes to gauging another person, and the best people to work with truly do not care unless it is impacting them directly. Then ideally they will confront you directly about it. "Hey fix this". It's not personal. We all make mistakes. Pretending like we don't is truly delusional. Please accept that if you haven't. If you have, then accept that others need to change and accept that.

The journaling and self awareness is huge. I would keep asking myself why, if I were you. "Why do I care" because of x,y,z. "Why". "I care because I like when other people like me" ... well ... why? determine if you like people who care about the things you care about at the end of your sequence of "why".

Psychedelics (IME shrooms) or meds may help you address these issues.I hesitate to recommend shrooms because of their sheer power. Maybe eventually? It might be good to use anti anxiety meds as training wheels if you feel they will help you make progress at the beginning faster. Because processing this stuff, sometimes your body will throw too much emotion at you.

When corporations say they're fast paced, don't worry too much about it. No corporation is going to say they are "Slow paced" because their customers and investors will literally run for the hills. Typically startups are fast paced (even if that speed is chasing their own tail, not to say all do that) and big co's are slower, so choose those since they appear to align with something important to you. Remember, at the end of the day your workplace is composed of humans like you who typically want a life outside of work.

When it comes to code reviews just accept that a) you are not perfect and b) you are trying. You appear to be trying hard enough. You will make mistakes, you don't need to project an image of perfection. Even if there is something wrong with your brain or your behavior that results in making the same mistake twice it's fine. It's not like your trying to make mistakes. Don't feel pressured to project an image of perfection. You are wasting your time, energy and happiness doing that. Just be yourself, let others deal with it. Granted you need to put on a filter for professionalism because it is a professional environment.

You may need to slow down and take a break. A vacation, maybe. Anything to slow down. Sometimes you can't do this.

I also wonder if you have any hobbies that give you release. Anything to focus on outside of work that you can focus on, that is engrossing to you, as opposed to being robotic or part of you trying to project an image of perfection. Try making music, suck at it, only if you are having fun and it is releasing emotion. Watch a movie. Do something engrossing. I think part of your issue is obsessing over these things that don't matter. Find something to obsess over that truly does affect your happiness, it will be awesome. This is very hard for some people.

This reminds me of a tweet I saw that was like "how did baseline human activities like singing, dancing, and making art turn into skills for a few instead of behaviors for everyone". Not to say those are the only things. For someone else it could be rapping, writing fic/nonfic/whatever, working out, just doing stuff that feels good regardless of what others think.

For many people working out also helps with confidence, and is important to our bodies.

And for the record, there could be serious issues with your diet, physical, or mental health causing / contributing to this. So take baby steps to improve all of these things, if you feel they truly need to be improved. If you expect perfection from day 1) you will likely quit 2) it won't be fun. Give yourself a metric crap ton of grace, no matter what you do. Learn to celebrate your mistakes as growth opportunities, because objectively, that's what happens when you make a mistake. I wouldn't be surprised if you punished yourself proportionally to your obsession with what others think.

A person before making a mistake < a person after making a mistake (and reflecting).

So if you truly want to become better, then making mistakes will make you better.

Maybe you'll get fired for it (extremely likely you won't). Or people will be assholes. Learn to laugh it off. You learned, and no harm was done. Eventually you will do better work because you won't waste energy and time thinking about what others think, making you more efficient. Meaning you will ask questions that will speed you up, you will advocate for yourself, and there may be that benefit from you speaking up as well.

All of these things will make you a more likable person. I think it's safe to say that nobody (who isn't trying to pretend to be a perfect person, or isn't a narcissistic and far gone) truly, in their heart of hearts, wants to deal with someone trying to be perfect. We are humans not robots.

Some people go their entire lives obsessed with what others think and never live their own life which is actually quite sad. These people are often confronted with a choice: continuing to be deluded or dealing with their shit. Many choose delusion. That is the essence of cowardice imho.

Many people can not deal with the struggle you are bravely choosing to confront (and even ask others help with!) and live their own life deluded until they die, maybe it hits them on their death bed. I truly do not know. I can't understate how great it is that you are choosing to truly confront and deal with this issue that can be extremely, extremely deep rooted.

Or maybe I am completely wrong. I didn't get too much to work with.

If the shoe fits, I hope I have been helpful.

I am rooting for you either way.

hmmokidk··on Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes
You joke, but I think about things like this...a lot.
hmmokidk··on Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes
I disagree with the first point, and agree with the second.

The usage, to me, feels appropriate for JS.

I agree that event.detail should be returned instead of the whole event. Can definitely save some space at the callsites there!

hmmokidk··on US Securities and Exchange Commission beginning to bring on DOGE staff
Yeah exactly. He is getting robbed and believes the robbers when they simply use the word “efficient”. His brain translates that to “in my interests”.

What any words mean don’t truly matter. Just what gets signaled to his brain. These people are effectively brainwashed. Or it isn’t a person, and is a bot. Who knows.

hmmokidk··on Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
There is a large measure of truth to this.

Also saw a non techie casually mention using Gimp.

These tools are reaching more people, slowly but surely.

hmmokidk··on Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes
I thought I would share this.

Please let me know if you have any improvements or ways I can cut down the size even more! Huge fan of anything JS13K related.

hmmokidk··on White House Says Gold Reserves May Be Used to Purchase Bitcoin
I am wondering if a BTC rugpull is inevitable. For the whales, why not just transition to another coin.

They see potential, they jump in on new coin, new coin flies. I don’t see why they wouldn’t. Microstrategy, musk and trump can collude. I don’t think there are any regulations stopping them. I don’t see why they wouldn’t, either. Unless they are worried about PR or that is just a difficult way to increase wealth.

hmmokidk··on State Department Will Use AI to Search for 'Pro-Hamas' Students to Deport
Netanyahu was pro hamas. He propped em up. Go after him
hmmokidk··on Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk
I refuse to believe you’re actually this clueless
hmmokidk··on Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk
Yeah this is exactly it. It’s the only solution; and the logical conclusion of not taxing the extremely rich aggressively.

Otherwise they will use their power to get rid of safeguards and government assets to essentially buy the governments power and assets.

hmmokidk··on Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
Nuke em
hmmokidk··on Wealth, Shown to Scale
That money essentially gets funneled back to the rich in a way where they grow in power consistently and the government loses a little power each time.

The richer the rich are the more influence they have over the government and the more they are able to obtain government funds. It’s a vicious cycle. They need to be taxed or else we all suffer.

The fewer assets the government has the less it can do with the same amount of money, IE if it’s renting a building from a rich person as opposed to owning it. An example is:

Elon just said to privatize the USPS and Amtrak. If he accomplishes that then it would essentially make the government less rich in assets and the rich richer, it will increase the expenses of using those things for the government and increase the power of the wealthy. Again, means the government can accomplish less with the same amount of $$$.

I think the link above needs more learning resources like Gary’s Economics or something.

hmmokidk··on Wealth, Shown to Scale
This is great. I would worry that the link may detract from your point. I feel like when you discuss this stuff you have to come across as extra mature and boring otherwise people tweak.

Really good project and well executed.

Could be nice to zoom out as well to just jump to the tldr.

Also if it’s possible to communicate somehow…how taxes are less than ever and in america’s prime problem with that much wealth we’re taxed extraordinarily. And everything was great.

hmmokidk··on Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
If you’re arguing for untouched by wildlife perfect trails just go to Disneyland.

If we are in agreement then please accept my humble high five.

hmmokidk··on Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England
Man someone has gotta say it. Thank you. This is not acceptable and does not solve the root problem. If anything it creates so many more. Stupid government. They have to get rid of the destructive species once and for all. Let the Beavers have the human houses, whatever it takes, just get the humans away from earth before they make the place uninhabitable for all.
hmmokidk··on Sam Altman Returns to Political Fund-Raising
Elon does what is in Elons interest. It’s not about principles. It’s just about throwing immigrants under the buss so people don’t realize the amount of resources the rich have is increasing and that is the reason they have so little resources.

It’s not about any principle besides lining his pockets, even if it destabilizes the world and leads to people moving further in the direction of blaming the other.

This may create an environment where someone more extreme than both he and trump will flourish and that will be a nightmare the likes of which we do not want to know.

hmmokidk··on Sam Altman Returns to Political Fund-Raising
Yep you gotta include the Kremlin budget for destroying the world’s super power. Otherwise the comparison is simply not fair.
hmmokidk··on Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers
As someone with tattoos I am spending a lot of time in the sun without sunscreen and smoke enough nicotine to satiate some region in france probably.
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