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arkaic··on We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus
I use my camera very often now for functional purposes, like snapshots of documents, paper maps, door notices and hours, etc where it serves as a replacement for having to remember things or even having to jot down a note.
arkaic··on Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
Mr. Robot's entire final season. Especially the last half.
arkaic··on Resignation Letter
"Stop boosting her"

Why am I never convinced, and always get annoyed, when I see phrases like this?

arkaic··on Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times
Also, typing braces are annoying. To think about it from a UX perspective, this solution on gist, judging by the video, is perfect.
arkaic··on What's Coming in Python 3.8
Verrrrrrry few languages in common use are like this.
arkaic··on Sleepless in Silicon Valley
On the contrary, my Charge 2 is generally pretty accurate in terms of when I'm asleep vs awake.
arkaic··on Researchers identify sleep as a reason why personality traits predict longevity
Isn't it also because participants of these studies who sleep too much does so because they already have health problems that keeps them in bed?
arkaic··on Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
"But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past" by Chuck Klosterman was very influential in getting me to step back and question all my assumptions.
arkaic··on The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial
I can offer my anecdotal experience. Been shutting off the hot water at the end of my morning showers and enduring the cold for a few minutes for the past 3 years. I have noticed that I get fewer colds. And with the colds I do get, their symptoms are lighter, and they go away much quicker, often gone in a day or two. And I haven't caught anything real bad, like a flu, since.
arkaic··on Decades
I think this coincides with the rise of the Internet. With information, discussions, and media of the past 20 years being instantly accessible, the disconnect from looking at the past is really tenuous or it doesn't exist anymore, and everything just sort of melds together.
arkaic··on The Unfinished: David Foster Wallace’s Struggle to Surpass Infinite Jest (2009)
I found Infinite Jest extraordinarily compelling, hilarious, and endlessly entertaining. I wouldn't go as far to say that it was "hard to put down". The book will fatigue you at points, as there is such a density of ideas within a single page that you need to just step back for the day and take it all in. But I was inevitably drawn back every time to sit down and open Infinite Jest again and again. Maybe it was the prose, or the endearing and terrible characters that DFW make all come to life, or the sprawling mystery plot. I love the way DFW makes these small, minute observations of life that always seem to make me go "yeaaaah I can relate too!" So many unforgettable moments in that book, including the section about marijuana, and the chapter of the kids playing tennis analogized with war.
arkaic··on Working at Netflix 2017
How is their culture deck one of the most horrific things you have ever seen in the tech industry?
arkaic··on “A state of flow can be achieved by deep work”
How long have you practiced this?
arkaic··on Apple 13" MacBook Pro review: the best computer you shouldn’t buy
He did say it came to about even between Chrome and Safari. Maybe Chrome upped their game and is better at the battery usage, or did the new MbP optimize for it?
arkaic··on Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You
Have been playing guitar off and on for over five years, no musical training. I found the best way to keep playing is to play along to songs you know, and routinely practice them every day. Hours go by without you even noticing, it's great.

What's hard, though, are things like actually moving to the next step. Are you even practicing correctly, continually pushing yourself to new heights, or are you defaulting to the riffs or melodies that you like to play because they're easier?

The hardest part for me, currently, is trying to learn music theory on my own. I've tried getting into the creative side, writing songs and melodies, but so far, that process isn't very fun at all because of my lack of knowledge in scales, chords, and progressions.

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