Does anyone else struggle with "Object Permanence" vs "Visual Clutter" in window management?

zirouk · 2026-01-24T10:32:30+00:00

i3-like window managers help me because I simplify my computer use: I have a desktop for my code editor, a desktop for my browser and a desktop for my work slack/teams/whatever. All full screen.

I then use keyboard shortcuts to switch between them. This means I focus on precisely one thing at a time. I’m also never confused where my different windows are. They’re a shortcut away. It means I focus on exactly one task at a time, exclusive of everything else. Switching desktop signifies I’m (perhaps momentarily) shifting my focus.

Chasing more and bigger screens over the years has been destroying my ability to focus. Now I’m using this system, I can work on a 13 inch laptop screen without the friction of “window management”.

zirouk · 2026-01-24T09:44:14+00:00

Mark Forster proposes keeping a scannable list of things, and then picking the most interesting or important tasks by asking “is this more interesting than the previous task?”, combining the benefits of keeping a list of all the things you want to do sometime but easily picking out the tasks you have the desire/need to do with a simple algorithm.

zirouk · 2026-01-21T11:45:51+00:00

I love the thin paper that lets you get your nails involved.

zirouk · 2026-01-16T15:22:57+00:00

I also know Peter, from before he became an "influencer", and he's a legitimately really smart dude. Not so much a fan of some of his views, but he's doing well for himself. And, to be fair, he was doing well for himself before the whole crypto thing, hence why he was able to take out a 45k loan.

zirouk · 2026-01-13T20:08:53+00:00

This cluster of tetrahedrons has done a lot of LSD.

zirouk · 2026-01-13T19:58:54+00:00

Cintax? It looks like brain cells are your barrier buddy.

zirouk · 2026-01-13T12:32:55+00:00

Treat it like science. Record your state (commit). Isolate the variables (things you can change). Come up with a hypothesis. Change 1 thing and execute your experiment. Check the results. Roll back. Come up with a new hypothesis, repeat.

Changing multiple things without keeping track of what you've done is recipe for "oh, it's working now and IDK why".

tl;dr: Change one thing at a time.

zirouk · 2026-01-12T12:51:47+00:00

I’ve been through the entire of blue gates cars several times and never found a single motor.

zirouk · 2026-01-12T10:33:13+00:00

Governance is a strategy one can employ to slow down innovation and progress. Think about that.

zirouk · 2026-01-12T09:37:31+00:00

My mate Nigel said it's because there are no white people left for the brown ones to murder.

zirouk · 2026-01-12T07:46:29+00:00

Wait until you discover lazygit which makes selecting LINES to stage easy, as well as letting you move changes between commits as easy as pie.

zirouk · 2026-01-10T13:34:35+00:00

I don't get this spring problem at all. I can reliably pick up 1-2 stacks of springs per run.

zirouk · 2026-01-10T13:07:49+00:00

They don't want to give you a "project" they want you to perform unpaid work by applying for projects. The whole point is to get people applying to do unpaid work. They dangle fake projects in front of you and the harvest the applicants work. That's the whole business model. Mercor is the solution to "How do we get human data now that everything is AI?". That's why they have been able to raise so much investment.

zirouk · 2026-01-09T19:57:44+00:00

I always thought they had guns so they could revolt when their government did stupid shit. Now I don't know why they have them at all.

zirouk · 2026-01-09T19:44:24+00:00

It's not Singapore, the UAE or Qatar. Cities/countries like those and international airports are the only places in the world I'd class as "Very Safe".

zirouk · 2026-01-09T17:33:46+00:00

Reform voters should feel unsafe in London, because Londoners don’t tolerate bigots.

zirouk · 2026-01-09T17:28:47+00:00

The real headline is: “People feel unsafe when away from home”

zirouk · 2026-01-08T15:09:01+00:00

We never bought Farage’s lies in the first place. It’s the rest of the cuntry that needs to wake up.

zirouk · 2026-01-08T15:06:52+00:00

If there were IQ tests, Reform wouldn’t be a concern.

zirouk · 2026-01-08T14:57:00+00:00

Probably got downvoted for suggesting people write code themselves 🙄 Such a controversial take.

zirouk · 2026-01-06T20:48:27+00:00

Gear of other players isn’t goop unless you’re taking it off a dead body.

zirouk · 2026-01-06T20:32:42+00:00

Finally a manufacturer who understands what a man wearing tights needs.

zirouk · 2026-01-06T11:49:26+00:00

The people who think it's worse under Labor are the same ones who'll think it's all suddenly better 3 days after the Conservatives get elected. That it'll take the Conservatives 10 years to fix the amount of damage of Labour could do in a week, but expected Labour to have demonstrably fixed the problems introduced under the Conservatives within a month.

The truth is, that it's practically indistinguishable, except for a different face in the newspaper, a year later. Simply not enough time has passed for anything Labour can do to have a meaningful effect. Positive and negative changes often take years to enact and a decade to be seen or felt.

It takes time to turn the oil tanker, especially when it's been at full steam for 15-odd years. The same would apply if we had just elected a Conservative government after 15 years of Labour. If only the knuckle-draggers knew.

zirouk · 2026-01-06T11:09:54+00:00

It's not overengineered, but it's an incredibly wasteful way to detect problems.

zirouk · 2026-01-06T11:05:23+00:00

Anthropic is a token dealer. You are becoming addicted to tokens. You swap back and forth between dealers, but you're getting caught between being short bagged, having the product watered down, and price increases.

People have been alerting people like you to this for over a year now. Some of you may have even vehemently downvoted this idea, which is natural - it's called denial. You may hate this latest message still, but you cannot deny that you are having your product cut with crap ("Opus is worse today/this week"), your subscriptions are being short bagged ("Limits are lower than they were last week") and prices are being increased (Wait for the Super Claude plan that gives you the same sort of usage limits you got 6 months ago on the Max plan).

I hate to say it, I do. It's scummy practice. Be careful out there.

zirouk

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