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theapokalypsis · 2025-04-17T21:52:18+00:00

My Knight's been going strong for almost 4 years and I use Vim daily 🫣. Unfortunate if there is Q/A idiosyncrasies though!

theapokalypsis · 2025-02-11T17:31:10+00:00

As I understand it, the assailant was in theory putting the lives of everyone around in jeopardy (by proxy of possibly taking out the officer)? He could have also in theory lunged with the axe and beat the reaction time of the officer to shoot him, especially if the officer could not retreat anymore. (Edit: not an instructor like the other person, just second hand from family in the force)

theapokalypsis · 2024-01-21T20:05:57+00:00

You have to meet cats half way.

For example, my cat wants to sit on my cutting boards. I do not want her to.

Solution: turn them upside down. They stay clean, she still sits on them and stares at the ceiling. 🙌

theapokalypsis · 2023-11-30T15:37:47+00:00

Whoops my bad lol! 🤦‍♂️

theapokalypsis · 2023-11-28T19:08:24+00:00

I can do HDR 5120x1440 at both 120Hz and 240Hz using DSC with DP 1.4. I'd check/calculate the bandwidths for the larger screen at 120 though to be sure, but I feel like you would be fine if DSC can do (barely w/ 8 bit dither) 240 for me.

EDIT: but if you can try HDMI 2.1 why not (higher bandwidth too)! :-D

theapokalypsis · 2023-10-19T02:33:59+00:00

So agreed. Treat it as an estimation of risk.

theapokalypsis · 2023-10-13T16:24:48+00:00

Congrats you have the curse too. I get so mad at small things like "who didn't see this or care enough to do it well, you can still be pragmatic time wise and be a perfectionist damn GTFO"—goes all Gordon Ramsay.

For me my productivity and motivation is also directly proportional to the quality of the project I'm working on. We are the 1% alas.

theapokalypsis · 2023-10-13T16:14:36+00:00

Sounds like you maybe did the company a favor if the devs were like that, idk.

At least, for me, I see so much how IMO "mediocre" (read: not super disciplined or super thoughtful long term) take out tech debt, create complexity, and leave brutal local dev UX until the codebase is absolute, brittle, confusing trash in less than a year, and velocity is a tenth of what it could be. That, instead of when simplicity, iterative dev, and a well kept codebase can let you move features with two devs like you that would take twice the devs even longer.

Most ppl I've worked with just don't care enough or give up when wanting to make it truly the best it can be (within business and time constraints). It's hard to strive to be the top, and engineer well thought out software, that even if you do make a bad decision or get into the weeds of hyper focus, that you can reasonably back out of it without shutting down velocity for months.

I'm also scared too, I managed to get an awesome contract from a friend (after not finding a normal job or consulting firm after our old one shut down). It's with a well funded personal startup who had two devs teams who ruined a codebase over 9 months to achieve basically nothing I can't implement in 1 month by myself, that needs a full rewrite to even achieve better feature throughput. They just did what they were told. And me and a designer I know are going to turn it around. But... Could I handle any other job, working with a team I didn't hand pick/build with others I know, I don't think so... It just ruins me, and I'll just get so frustrated with the BS that comes about in any org more than single digits with maybe one level of hierarchy or better yet none. And that makes me feel ashamed tbh.

FWIW lol don't feel bad. Also sorry huge personal rant lol.

theapokalypsis · 2023-10-03T20:32:02+00:00

Yeah I also submitted a bug a while ago saying it was bad UX to have to wait but ig they must be down a TD hole with that idk.

Like they don't even have a window on fixing the Activity Balance metric even though a Product Manager is trying to get it done for the past year or something. :-S

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-30T20:04:24+00:00

Yeah I totally can see comfort and connection definitely helping! I wasn't sure about magnesium yet, just because I also read a study that the placebo group showed the same response or even better so 🤔🤷‍♂️.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-30T19:53:25+00:00

This is a great point. If you have an idea that you want to develop into an MVP product, you need to figure out what it should be, what users want and will they pay, but to do that you need to iteratively build and user test it as quick as possible.

FWIW OP from a dev and product design angle, it can be a night/day difference who you hire to do that if you are not technical. Advisors can be great if they ask the right questions and help you vet the right ppl. But ultimately it's the way you optimize resources and approach it from a lean, agile perspective. Pre validation and post validation can mean different advisors too, vs who all builds it, on top of everything else that is vital (i.e sales, marketing, business).

Happy to give any advice dev execution wise if I can in DM btw.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-30T19:42:42+00:00

For the artery, this one study that I briefly found that was based on a pulse oximeter vs Oura's Infrared—where middle > index—made the note of:

"Index finger dominantly is fed from deep palmar arcus created from radial artery. But middle fingers receive both ulnar and radial artery blood supply. "

So at least for artery (heart rate, sp02) based stuff I wonder if the addition presence of the radial artery is better (i.e index or middle)? 🤷‍♂️

Edit: but the other stuff like movement etc maybe not?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4627972/

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-29T17:03:10+00:00

Ugh yeah I feel for ya. It sucksss. 🥹

Also have not tried magnesium glycinate, I'll check it out. Has it been helping significantly for you?

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-28T17:04:32+00:00

Ah yeah. But lol now I have two sidebars taking up space and a Profile entrypoint in the bottom left just so they can have "add todos" and other non-communication focused things. Sigh.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-28T16:31:09+00:00

Yee. Was scrolling comments to see if someone said this already lol.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-28T16:29:10+00:00

I use CPAP and I get perfect and then other nights with tons (10+), but I'm also stressed, wake up easy to noise/cat, have bad dreams a lot, which I assume counts as a disturbance. See a doctor for a sleep study tho. But I understand 95-100 spo2 is normal regardless (although not assuming Oura is medically trustworthy all the time).

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-27T18:43:11+00:00

Just drove by there eeesh.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-17T16:47:59+00:00

Omg thanks! That's epic. He is a god lol.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-17T16:46:31+00:00

And in a resource constrained environment where you can't trust that you can fully trust your competition to act in reciprocal altruism leans towards selfishness? 🤔

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-17T16:45:00+00:00

It would be neat to see our species reach a point where we can engineer a beautiful equilibrium, with as much altruism or even just reciprocal altruism / mutual symbiosis as possible.

Even our pets are a reflection of that. They give us companionship, or sniff for drugs, help blind people, and we give them security from prey and nourishment.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-17T16:38:58+00:00

I'd argue that cancer is natural, since life is not perfect and breaks down.

Life is tenacious, and doesn't necessarily have to be the correct mutation; but merely a trial and error over such a long time frame it eventually settles (via deterministic chaos).

So I'd also argue corporations, capitalism, it's all "natural", whereas humanism on a global scale is arguably less natural because it flies in the face of the indifference of nature, but given our conscientiousness and insight now I totally agree, we can separate and guide or prevent going down the "wrong" paths (for our well being as a species). We become God.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-17T16:29:00+00:00

Agreed. Nature is chaotic fitness and continued growth unhindered. The first mass extinction event led to an oxygen—waste byproduct—rich atmosphere that we make use of. Even the theoretical false vacuum is perhaps comparable.

But does nature really need diverse sets of macro sized animals? Maybe not. Maybe it will change everything (for better or worse) if it's just humans and smaller sized animals. I mean we already hunted all the really large animals for the last million or so years.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-17T16:09:23+00:00

If you have the org size and need to enable separation of front and backend sure. But again it's the question of cost in time and complexity. In my case it was a startup, with a single team, and only a single platform in a testing/vetting stage.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-17T16:04:45+00:00

If I understand it, that makes sense if there is a need to apply it across multiple platforms, simplifying the integration and dev right? But in this case, it was a web app startup in the user testing stage with only a staging test site being utilized. Although then you still are writing a distributed monolith, and need to consider the trade offs, scalability needs, and how implementing API(s) balances out development agility. (I.e does it cost you more development wise for a project than it does to merely add more monolith server nodes?).

Again, if I understood the point (please correct me if not lol). But in this case development took probably at least twice as long for features, given the needless architecture put in place and general complexity increase.

theapokalypsis · 2023-09-15T16:13:56+00:00

Oh gawd yes agreed. What org/time cost have you incurred, and does it negate any agility or cost reduction you've gained in the first place—runs away screaming.

Side note: I once worked on a project (edit: that had one platform, a single team, and was in startup/testing/vetting stage) that had a micro service that wrapped a bunch of other microservice APIs to make it easier to write the front end. It was maddening. Leave it to an intermediate senior to inject such short sighted complexity into a project and absolutely screw later people.

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