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zarmin··on Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
Thank you. I do rely on medication and note taking apps (though mine are a bit scattered).

One of my issues with motivation is what you mentioned: I really really struggle to get invested. Things that are "work" seem to live in an anti-motivation bucket, regardless of how organically interesting they may be to me outside of a work contest. I'm in my 30s now, and I've been doing this my whole life and it is killing me. It takes a tremendous amount of effort and an extremely imminent deadline to get me to start anything. This (ostensibly) runs completely contrary to my self-concept and value system, but the motivation problem permeates every fucking inch of my life, and always has.

I can read this back and recognize a defeatist attitude, but I don't know what else to do.

zarmin··on Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
As someone with ADHD and memory issues, your comment is what I hope my future looks like. Would you mind expanding on how you're able to work through ADHD symptoms, motivation issues and such?
zarmin··on Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)
Someone should invent a way to check whether software is working correctly. Call it "writing checks" or "check driven development" or something.
zarmin··on I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic
>he doesn't want to do himself.

"want"?

zarmin··on Joke written by an AI: “A basic program walked into a bar ”
>How do you justify behavior enforcement of another human?

This is a brilliant point that is true not just for gender — do you know how many NAMES there are out there? Millions of em! Keith, Sal, Harry, Keith...I could go on. And people actually want me to remember a specific name for them AND THEN address them by that name? GTFO, that's what I say! Nobody has the time or bandwidth to remember those specifics for EACH person they know. Gimme a break.

zarmin··on AI could end foreign-language subtitles
Why is this article written in bullet points?
zarmin··on macOS Is Hot Garbage
cringe article
zarmin··on Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
"Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?"
zarmin··on Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet
Cue Pinterest NFTs
zarmin··on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
Actually, as an assignment operator it dates back thousands of years:

    let there = light  # fix dark issue
zarmin··on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
I love this!!
zarmin··on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
Maybe a better question is, what would HTML have looked like in the time of Shakespeare?

   <doth whence="bæc">Forsooth!</doth>
zarmin··on Jack Dorsey mocks Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse plan, saying it's dystopian
what an absolute weirdo this guy is
zarmin··on About that time I had an outburst during the Y Combinator Interview
"My {extended family member} has been {mildly imposing verb} for {duration} and {frustrated expression}!"

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zarmin··on Hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
I prefer hyperbolic chambers. They are literally the greatest chambers anyone has ever seen anywhere ever.
zarmin··on O.mg Cable
What was the codename for the project to create that system?
zarmin··on Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'
>Win-1 is file explorer, Win-2 is web browser, Win-3 is email, etc...

Is this something you set up natively in windows? Or are you using AHK?

zarmin··on 3D printable cat feeder (2020)
What a shame?
zarmin··on U.S. government prepares to issue landmark report on UFOs
Nope.
zarmin··on Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
If you're trying to learn music theory by thinking about the mathematical relationship between frequencies, you are severely overcomplicating things for yourself. I have a tendency to do the same thing.

What question are you trying to answer with what you just wrote?

zarmin··on Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the floor
oh man, wait til you see the rest of the internet.
zarmin··on Show HN: Unclack – a macOS app that mutes your microphone while you type
Just want to confirm I understood this sentence. Don't speak a lick of English though.
zarmin··on BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima
No words. Should've sent a poet.
zarmin··on The Case of the Extra 40ms
> I've never seen a music production app I don't think on android now that I think of it.

Have you looked for any?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imageline....

zarmin··on GitHub Universe 2020: Opening Keynote
Loved this video! Concise, funny, and well-produced. Great job.
zarmin··on Mmhmm
I'm let down that you tried out new presentation software live during a very important presentation.
zarmin··on Millennials, the Dying Children
>Even suggesting that divorce should be harder, marriage should be younger, and women were built to be mothers, not office drones, causes the average Millennial to dissolve into hysterical outrage. We're the generation that thinks having a country is racist and the most important thing about space exploration is making sure hijab-clad Muslimas are a part of it

Screw you

zarmin··on How does consciousness even make sense?
Consciousness is fundamental, not emergent.
zarmin··on The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means
Paul Stamets is great! I've watched his Rogan episodes 4 or 5 times each.

(2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ6Ym719urg

(2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ

zarmin··on Archaeologists with drones discover pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas
We're going to find many, many more of these.

See also: https://www.amazon.com/America-Before-Earths-Lost-Civilizati...

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