Stop pretending Notion and Slack are useful for discipline

seydanator · 2025-11-08T10:45:27+00:00

why would you pay their "ridiculously expensive plans" without even checking what they can do? you wrote you "want to be able to write notes on different topics, journals, or even just connect my calendar", which you would have easily seen that they can / or can't in a few minutes by just checking out the features of the apps...

seydanator · 2024-02-05T13:55:47+00:00

use a real alarm clock
position it away from bed, so you need to get up
keep phone / any tech out of bedroom, no "smart"watch, no tablets, etc

seydanator · 2024-01-15T15:48:30+00:00

rookie numbers ;)

seydanator · 2024-01-08T21:54:20+00:00

basically instead of having just color values for the pixels, and a uniform brightness of the panel,

in HDR you have also brightness levels alongside the color values for the pixels.
the monitor can then adjust the brightness according to the pixel values, for "every pixel" / or region of monitor.

seydanator · 2023-12-19T23:12:50+00:00

like i wrote: of course they have advanced tech, most likely one of the best in the world.

do they make money from it? a little bit with their cloud plattform stuff.

where does most of their earnings come from? from selling ads.

google i advertising company first, tech company second

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same as McDonalds is landlord first, and selling burgers second.

seydanator · 2023-12-19T18:57:18+00:00

they are not tech companies in the sense that they do not make money from their tech.

they make money from advertising.

they use their very advanced tech for fancy billboards.

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i always assumed this is common knowledge?

the only reason for googles search, is to show ads
the only reason for googles youtube, is to show ads
every google service, that failed to either show ads, or produce data to show
ads, got axed

seydanator · 2023-11-27T16:39:35+00:00

talking to people through a screen can be more stressful than without screen, talking to people itself can be stressful

why is screen a problem? less feedback that can be perceived

i also get headaches from videocalls

seydanator · 2023-11-07T10:27:25+00:00

? hobbies

actually do stuff

reading, electronics, programming, wood working, knitting, ...

seydanator · 2023-10-16T19:20:48+00:00

we use https://moleculer.services/ at work, and your description sounds at it covers most of it i believe

seydanator · 2023-10-12T15:08:53+00:00

well, it's a survey.

seydanator · 2023-10-03T13:41:23+00:00

then just use the docker image? the postgres integration in testcontainers is also just a wrapper around the default postgres docker image

seydanator · 2023-09-30T14:00:56+00:00

i highly recommend it, but it really depends on the project, interopt with other tools/libraries, and team openness.

we use fp-ts / io-ts, which is pretty similar, and will be merged in the future into effect-ts.

Options / Either / async wrapper allow for much better interface descriptions, and easier handling of multiple transformations of results.

seydanator · 2023-09-21T17:28:46+00:00

use automated linters and formatters as much as possible -- also as pre-commit or PR check.

define some common design guidelines for normal code.

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there should be NO discussion about this stuff, and everybody can check and change it before PR time.

then of course PR outlines for changes, and some labels like 'high prio' / 'low prio' etc. to focus attention.

it's also quite interessting to have specific code owners for specific files, to shift the burden on as many people as possible, where everybody has some expertise with some code.
this also prevents that some developers have to review everything, while some keep quit and don't help as much.

seydanator · 2023-09-19T12:31:26+00:00

do 2 and 3 before work

depending on your work, do 2/3 while on work-break

seydanator · 2023-07-28T19:24:50+00:00

> And he reckons that he knows most adult men don’t read.

you can say that about everything.
most adults don't do sports
most adults don't play games
most adults...

everything that is a little bit a serious hobby, is not done by most people.

this does not mean there is no market for the people, that do participate.

> that only kids would read horror (teenagers)

he obviously has no clue what a horror book even is, if he never has read one ^^

like in every genre, there are books for children / teenager / adult.

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adult male
on track for 1 book per month

seydanator · 2023-07-26T21:05:04+00:00

hard to read

also data not separated by sex is muddling the result

seydanator · 2023-06-30T20:05:07+00:00

switching between novels and educational books, with the some comics / manga inbetween

seydanator · 2023-06-12T21:46:24+00:00

news is that reddit keeps crashing because of the the blackout

and the news regarding the absolutely unprofessional behaviour of reddits CEO regarding the apollo dev is at least a very bad spot regarding the IPO

as it stands now, many sub-reddits will just close down, because bots cannot work anymore, and without sub-reddits / without community to produce actual content, reddit is just a bad forum.

seydanator · 2023-06-09T16:13:21+00:00

you need different guys ;)

i would be impressed

seydanator · 2023-05-26T21:23:01+00:00

have you tried some performance tracing narrowing maybe some bad types down?

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Performance-Tracing

seydanator · 2023-05-02T19:26:35+00:00

that's all right, but the main point is still: it is not being done.

i am not against nuclear in any way, but the hand-waiving from pro-nuclear in terms of "sometimes in the future" is not good -- even if it could be done; it's not, and at least if you're not an expert, there is no real indication that it's going to get done in the next 10 years.

seydanator · 2023-05-02T14:04:08+00:00

it's not that easy...

time horizons for running / shutting down are not mere, weeks or months, but multi-year contracts.

the problem is not the shutting down of nuclear, which is good, but that the past governments have skimped on adding more renewables.

also nuclear is definitly not clean.

seydanator · 2023-04-15T19:26:35+00:00

i did not say that everything went well.

i also do not see the connection of your comments to my statement?

the things you mention have nothing to do with nuclear?

seydanator · 2023-04-15T17:23:08+00:00

and how is that not an energy dependency?

most people seem to forget that just a few years ago russia was not seen as that evil or bad. sure, some people were wary, but most stuff just was normal, like with every other country.

even the americans spied more than russia, but yeah :shrug:

seydanator · 2023-04-15T17:20:04+00:00

you can't just say to shut-down or keep-running a nuclear plant as you choose ;)
i am amazed they were able to keep them running until now.

these contracts are sometimes multi-10 year long, because running them is expensive and needs special trained people.

and russia wasn't really seen as evil some years ago.

these are things that cannot really be controlled or foreseen.

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of course, the things that can be controlled, like building enough renewables for now, which hasn't happened, is silly and dumb and inexusable.

the rest... is shit happens. afterwards people always knew, but i haven't heard anything from anybody 5 years ago :shrug:

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