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fergoncoon Ask HN: How do you develop internal motivation?

Reduce your dopamine levels. If your live a monastic life you will find many things to be interesting.

On the other side, a world of distraction and constant stimuli will create a reference level against which it is hard to compete.

fergoncoon Words that don't translate into English

On the other side translating a book would have much more text than a film. That would increase the chances of running into difficult translations.

fergoncoon Common mistakes using Kubernetes

Shameless plug but on topic. I wrote recently about readiness and liveness probes with Kubenetes. If you look for an educational perspective you can check: https://medium.com/aiincube-engineering/kubernetes-liveness-...

fergoncoon GitHub issue calling for retraction of Imperial College study for codebase flaws

If only all the studies that do not publish their code got half this level of criticism.

fergoncoon 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice

Another unsolicited advice, from a 40yo this time: do not use alarm clocks to wake up. The pressure shifts to the evening because you have to go to sleep early if you want to wake up early.

And then it magically happens that you sleep as much as you need. Being a long time supporter of naps I find myself not doing them at all.

Of course this applies only if you have flexible hours to work, don't have appointments, etc.

fergoncoon How coronavirus infected my brain: anxiety, the internet, and keeping up to date

I am happy that I quitted all social networks before the corona crisis. I decided that contempt, destructive critic and all that were not the circuits in my neuronal network that I wanted to activate every day. Even if you have a very interesting timeline, you read a bunch of negativity mixed with the interesant bits.

With the crisis in China and Italy I got properly informed in meneame (Spanish reddit-like site). I could prepare me and my family in advance.

And the keywords are "in advance". It was very useful before the thing blowed up in our faces. There was a lot of important information about how the virus is transmitted, etc.

Now we are all full of dirt and social media is about who's fault it is. There is nothing in there that can be useful anymore. Moving on.

fergoncoon Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?

> Do you know _why_ this uptick has happened? Does anyone?

I don't know but my take is that media makes more money if we get angry, and this anger-inducing style is permeating in the population.

fergoncoon Show HN: Ping.gy – An app to connect with people within 1km from you

Bug report: hitting ENTER n times sends the message n times. Until the message box is cleared.

fergoncoon How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer

In the case of an alcohol addiction, decrease of consumption is almost a guarantee to relapse.

fergoncoon Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Codex

What I remember is that their criteria to choose who were they throwing to the volcano was very varied and nonsensical. Like "children with more than one hair swirl" (not sure about last word, hope it is clear).

And sometimes they didn't use a volcano but just remove the skin of victimes and store them in a cave. They will use the skins to dress up and dance a month later.

In any case, victims were members of their society. It was maybe an honor. Yeah, colonizers were brutal, but it seems it was the state of the art back then...