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I did it at the beginning of the lockdown as well. The lockdown did help. After 2 or 3 days, I begin needing naps mid day. I was sleeping more than 12 hours each day. Then at 2 weeks things went back to normal.

However, after about 6-8 weeks of success I woke up feeling like crap and figured one coffee wouldn't hurt. It did. The next day I felt like I was pre-quitting.

> SimCity was truly a game with multiple dimensions.

I keep hearing this, but what other dimensions does it have?

I remember playing SimCity in highschool and can't really remember anything it has that City Skylines does not. That is likely due to multi-decade-old memories and not that it actually lacks those dimensions.

I think 27 makes more sense with 97: Liking and wanting things are different.

I'm guess if those usually line up quite well, this advice seems insane. But if they don't, it is solid advice. I wasted years of my life waiting for motivation to show up, and it never did. It amounted to years of my life I simply regret.

Eventually I saw advice to the effect of 27, and it seems like it has mostly worked to help correct course.

> Likewise, wouldn’t you be baffled if you needed to click a “Start Editing” button in Word or Google Docs?

Word (and friends) kinda has that. I'm not sure what the heuristic is, but in some circumstances it will put a message in the window title saying you need to save a copy of the current file before you can begin editing. I know it happens for downloaded documents, and that's about it.

Same here. The last time I bought software that wasn't thru a well known store or processor I ended up with some fraudulent purchases on my next credit card bill[0]. Since then, I'll never do that again.

[0] - Thankfully my bank handled this without issue.

Another work-around I've seen is updating the old app that has a one-time popup to alert users to the new version. As a user, I can live with that as long as it is a one-time popup.

This is really something the store should handle.

Yeah. I've commented about this in the past. I have two YouTube accounts in different languages. One has great recommendations. One is terrible.

I wonder for the one with terrible recommendations if I fell into a particular failure spiral: YouTube tried to give me some new stuff for a period, but I happened to not like any of it. The AI noted I was just clicking suggestions from my subscriptions. It eventually tried different recommendations. I didn't like those either, and clicked videos I'd seen before from my subscriptions. Eventually the AI decided I only like watching videos for channels I'm subscribed to, and now doesn't recommend me stuff outside of that. Even when I branch out into a new area, it no longer suggests related channels or anything like that.

The bossy and neat-freak aspects of her character definitely ramped up across the seasons.

I used i3 for about a year. Tiling wasn't for me. But what was for me where the docs.

The docs for i3 are great. The read well linearly as you are learning the ropes, but were also very searchable once you mostly knew what you were doing.

> I don't think they've introduced a single feature that makes it better since they added subreddits

I think they've added plenty.

* Text only posts.

* Polls.

* Being able save individual posts instead of just threads.

* Friends. I use it to follow a few people who make stuff outside of Reddit but post intermittently on their respective subreddits. I don't use it at all for following my actual friends.

* Various features that prevent one subreddit from raiding others. np links are one, but there are others.

* Subreddit CSS.

* Mods being able to hide scores and the downvote button on their subreddit. It's a shame this isn't something done at the API level, as it means apps just ignore it.

* Suggested comment sorting. Can mitigate the natural tendency for a group to become an echochamber.

* Some of the features of reddit Gold are pretty good but considering you have to pay for them, they ought to be.

* Buying rewards is probably the least bad monetization scheme they could have come up with.

* While their image and video hosting is kinda crappy, it is there and it seems like imgur had to get less aggressive about forcing you to get an account.

If I let my Windows desktop go to sleep by being idle, it works perfectly fine.

If I select the sleep option in the start menu it probably won't wake back up and I'll have to unplug it for about 10 minutes to get it to boot again.

I have to turn adblock off to see many of these. Strange.

So is running your own delivery service. And if a restaurant wanted their delivery service to be as good as Uber Eats or DoorDash it would be more expensive than Uber Eats or DoorDash.

I know in my country, Canada, a lot of the discussion around marijuana legalization involved how the US would react. Would the US retaliate with trade restrictions? border restrictions? etc. For a lot of the people I talked to, that was their only hang-up wrt marijuana.

We did eventually legalize it, but not until after some of your own states did.

> When the primary users of enterprise software are in high turn over jobs, they are unlikely to develop expertise in your tool.

Just to add onto this, this can often mean that the users are learning from other users who themselves learned from other users. Workflows with the tool can get very cargo-culty.

Just because someone has an opinion counter to the Hacker News hivemind doesn't mean they are faking it.

In this case, I'd imagine this is a case where the people who have a bad experience with the YouTube suggestion algorithm have a reason to speak up but the people who are having a fine experience do not.

I have two YouTube accounts I use, for watching in different languages.

In one language, the suggestions are pretty good. I've found plenty of new stuff that I otherwise wouldn't have.

In the other, it basically recommends a mix that is 80% videos from my subscriptions that I've already watched 10+ times and 20% new stuff that I just don't have any interest in. I wonder if there is some sort of failure mode I'm hitting.

That is both really unfortunate, but also doesn't surprise me.

Tom Scott has a nice intro video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4X1JfX6_Q

The book he mentions, Because Internet, goes into more detail. But to over-simplify, there were a few major generations of people joining the internet as well as a generation that never fully joined, and each one developed its own conventions for casual writing on their own. Some used the same mechanism to mean different things.

I've been using fish for years now and cannot remember the last time something broke because it required bash but was run by fish.

One thing I do differently than most is I don't make fish my system-wide default shell. I leave that as whatever the system default is. Instead I just make fish the default shell within the terminal emulator I use.

Never had an issue with it, and it is much easier to setup as well.

I think there are a few reasons why people develop an impression that types are overhead:

* People who are learning to code are writing lots of code but not reading very much code. I think types do the most work when trying to understand existing code.

* Lots of people's first experience with typed languages was something like C++ or Java back when they had much worse error messages.

* The kind of mistakes you make when first learning to code make the type checker feel like a pedantic nitpicker instead of a protective ally.

* Programming instruction tends not to teach technique very much. If you invent techniques that leverage the strengths of types, then great for you. If you don't, then you might program for years until you are exposed to the benefits types can provide.

I think types also get in the way of writing speculative code, which is something I did a lot more often when I was new.

Run what you have so far. Print the last value you computed. Crash. Verify the data has the "shape" you expect it to. Write a bit more code. Repeat.

I can't count the number of times I've wanted to to get into flow and couldn't because the dev experience doesn't get enough attention.

... or because my story is vaguely defined I have to stop a few times to get clarification.

... or because I need a decision from several people.

... or because I need help from someone who only checks email twice a day to avoid distraction.

When discussing breaking flow, HN tends to focus almost exclusively on meetings and communication (eg email or slack). These things are a big problem for maintaining flow. But I find they aren't the only thing, and many other flow breakers exist that are solved by meetings or communication.

True. But the gif in the article indicates they intend to move the language selector to a more prominent location.

Or my anecdotes of when cyclists swerve into me when I take my right of way at a crosswalk.

I wonder if there just stopped being interesting questions to answer. I remember him saying somewhere that he got a lot of questions that read as if the asker was trying to create a specific answer.

>> HN is mostly a US based website

> This sounds like gatekeeping. There are lots of readers from all around the world.

As a non-American reader of HN, I assume things posted are about the US (or even SV specifically) unless the location is specifically mentioned.

I think it has become trendy on HN and r/programming to claim OOP is dead and no one has ever liked it.

In meatspace, everyone I know is fine with OOP. Usually it is other aspects of the programming languages that result in griping.

I think many of the responses to your parent post are focusing too much on `fold` and not the custom monad that is implied to just be a re-implementation of list.

EDIT: huh, I opened a couple manga I had nearby and my original post was dead wrong