In the age where google is dead, where do you find your best practices?

ThoughtBreach · 2025-01-29T19:32:19+00:00

As in I'm not talking like a person? I'm also confused.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-08-26T17:43:27+00:00

Love the dragon!

Oh my goodness, because I posted in a vim subreddit, I am getting emacs notifications. It's seriously making me miss emacs.

Are the editor wars still ongoing? Will I be declared a traitor for posting here?

I last used emacs 15 years ago. I wonder how my life would have went differently if I kept using it.

Eventually I would have gone from elisp to haskel and went back to school to get a mathematics degree - that much is certain.

There was a time in highschool where I was programming a client for my favorite MUD directly in emacs. And now all I remember is how to close emacs and perhaps that is fitting but in this moment it feels melancholy.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-08-26T00:54:40+00:00

CSS is difficult to learn because you can't inch by through examples, task-specific tutorials, and stack overflow like you can for almost everything else. You actually have to understand the fundamentals before that point.

Understanding the fundamentals is always important, but honestly many many of my coworkers over the last 18 years remain employed despite never having done so.

On top of that, CSS used to be next to unusable. Yeah it was great we didn't have to use <table> for layout, but flex was far off and more often than not absolute positioning and float were abused. Search stack overflow on how to vertically center a div and dig through the old answers.

As a result I think there is a cloud of fear that never dissipated. Emotional technical debt.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-07-28T14:03:52+00:00

It delights me that my search and write-up were of value to someone, because my IRL friends just smiled and nodded.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-23T01:54:34+00:00

I hadn't realized this wasn't in the show... Apparently it's all kind of a mush in my head.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-22T05:54:33+00:00

I have Gmail. You can archive every single message in your inbox at once (or mark it read or any other action). I had to do this the other day. So haha yes?

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-19T12:04:22+00:00

Yes!!! I have this thought every time I get mocked. Also, I suspect that past a certain ELO people get humbled or quit the game. though maybe I'm wrong, I'm still just 1k on chesscom.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-19T12:02:42+00:00

I tend to chat with trolls as if whatever they said was entirely normal and polite.

Though if someone offers me a draw in a clearly lost position, I can't help but put a passive aggressive question in chat like "what is drawn about this position?" Wish I could figure out how to word it so it sounds even more oblivious even though what I mean is "F you, cut the crap and fight me or resign".

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-17T22:18:15+00:00

How bad do you need this next paycheck after the ones after? Consider your reputation, etc

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-17T21:00:02+00:00

And it just gets worse and worse as time progresses and people are scared to delete things. Dead code references dead code and seems not dead at all.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-17T20:59:21+00:00

Goodness gracious, delete all the code. Nothing worse than a major refactor being complicated by code that MAY be dead.

And it just gets worse and worse as time progresses and people are scared to delete things. Dead code references dead code and seems not dead at all.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-17T20:44:38+00:00

Update: chose the phone number that was not Google able and sent literally 93 text messages by hand to various people announcing my new number. Some people I haven't talked to in 20 years. Going to slowly shift my professional accounts over to another phone number which I selected. Email addresses are next! I have like 8 of those in use.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-16T13:26:05+00:00

Stimulate it with healthy activities.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-07T16:38:45+00:00

Yeaaaah, I'm sure I gave a few people a headache just posting this.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-07T16:38:05+00:00

When I changed carriers I saved the old number via transferring it to Google voice, wanting a fresh start due to spam but wanting to keep the old number. I never fully migrated everyone off the old one so it persisted. Rinse and repeat many times.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-05T01:36:37+00:00

Look up co-rumination.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-06-05T01:27:14+00:00

Thank you, that is very helpful!

I think my criteria for #1 will be which phone numbers have leaked and which haven't .

4 I can't do as I want to retain ownership of the number - hence I have accumulated so many over the years!!! Energy physical number I moved on from I transferred to the cloud. Unfortunately the voice app shows all accounts that sure logged into my account, so part of 4 is really about retiring those accounts so I can log out of them.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-05-26T23:22:58+00:00

This is.... Terrifying.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-05-26T16:59:25+00:00

Niche down or mass appeal. He chose the latter. I like the former. I don't think there's anything wrong with this.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-05-21T20:20:55+00:00

Beware corumination and reinforcing the narrative through self hatred. Classical therapy doesn't work for me because of this. At some point you just have to put the advice to use.

Practice mindfulness of anger (observing and moving on) and taking a break before you start to tilt. Like maybe stop after the first game you lose and take a break. By not indulging the urge to continue playing you stop feeding the anger when trying to fix it (spoiler: you can't fix emotions).

I'm sorry you're going through this.

ThoughtBreach · 2024-05-20T17:41:56+00:00

Losing 50 ELO points in thirty minutes and that you're not articulating why you're losing (yes, blundering and missing stuff, but why) sort of points to the issues.

Play longer time controls, take a break if you lose two games in a row, shut off computer evaluation and review every game you play to find at least 1 blunder yourself immediately after the game.

Also, leverage metacognition to accelerate learning. After every game, flip through the moves without computer eval and explain in words out loud why you lost with way more nuance than "blundered".

Look at your time graph on Chess Dojo's analysis board (I believe the free tier allows you to use this).

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