“Lazy” is just another way of saying that you’re not doing something somebody else thinks you should be doing. Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness? | Hacker News
Should read man bash
One reason why the world is in a mess is because, for a long time, the ratio between ‘explore’ and ‘exploit’ has been badly out of whack. Entities like procurement have been allowed to claim full credit for money-grabbing cost-savings without commensurate responsibility for delayed or hidden costs. The Illusion of Certainty | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/rssarchiver - RSS archive command line tool
Most people think of “evil” as being synonymous with “malicious” and “doing really, really bad things.” But I have a broader view of “evil.” I consider a thing to be evil if it creates bad outcomes not just out of malice, but instinct or carelessness. Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made – Dormin
The tragedy of domestic cats is their minds are as rigid as their bodies are flexible. Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? · Gwern.net
Suffering is all the more cruel when those suffering do not & cannot understand why. Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? · Gwern.net
If you don’t rephrase something in your words, you probably don’t care enough to learn it How to Take Smart Notes :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy
New repository: aquilax/bookmarks - Netscape Bookmark File Format Parser Library
Updated ubuntu works fine so far
It is amazing what one can accomplish if one does not care who gets the credit. – JohnDoveIsaacs Egoless Programming
Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News
When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you, and you lose the part of your identity that was external to you, and kept within that person. When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you. - memory loss death | Ask MetaFilter
New repository: aquilax/pogovorki.rimichka.com - Guess the proverb
You can just say that a person it a slave to the extent of their desires/attachments. You’re a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” You’re a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News
If you want to know what an institution does, watch it when it’s doing nothing “If you want to know what an institution does, watch it when it’s doing nothing”*… | (Roughly) Daily
This is management porn. Faster, cheaper, better - pick all three and throw in an extra, and you unlock innovation! Fire Method: Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant | Hacker News
Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. Asking questions - Aaron’s Blog
Record decisions #todo
In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. 1% rule (Internet culture) - Wikipedia)
Happy Bring Your Work To Cat Month! The cat pictures will continue until morale improves | MetaFilter
- Eat a banana before singing to help improve vocal quality How I recorded an album on my own, in my room | Hacker News
A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn “A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn”*… | (Roughly) Daily
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”*… | (Roughly) Daily
#til https://www.edelweiss.plus book catalog platform
Willys was alf empty today from stocks and surprisingly packed with people
Pattern matching for JavaScript z-pattern-matching/z: Pattern Matching for Javascript
While not disagreeing with your point, it is also worth noting that in some contexts developers are regarded as unemployable if they don’t have experience with whatever the latest technology is so it is hardly surprising that people use every opportunity they can to get exposure to the latest tools. Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019) | Hacker News
When the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing; when it becomes too strong for song, you dance.” PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for “The American Musical, Part 2”
6% salary increase this year is worse than 3% last year
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure — Goodhart’s law as phrased by Marilyn Strathern The Original Sin of Software Metrics (2014) | Hacker News
Use dhall for package.json #idea
Ringelmann Effect: Members of a group become lazier as the size of their group increases. Based on the assumption that “someone else is probably taking care of that.” 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund
System Justification Theory: Inefficient systems will be defended and maintained if they serve the needs of people who benefit from them – individual incentives can sustain systemic stupidity. 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund
Depressive Realism: Depressed people have a more accurate view of the world because they’re more realistic about how risky and fragile life is. The opposite of “blissfully unaware.” 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund
Have to renew my Swedish ID Card #todo
Should try i3 with xfce combo. Maybe at work #idea
Simple imput device which is seamless to carry around. The iWatch is the closest I can think of right now, but it tries to do too much. #idea
Geting screenshots from video element seems to be relatively easy
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. (Brian Kernighan) dwmkerr/hacker-laws: 💻📖 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws
Join subs using infra sound from master’s device #idea #spotify-family
Why I work here game with your manager #idea
Today, workers change jobs on average every 4.2 years, according to a recent report on employee tenure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why You Should Change Jobs Every Four Years | Monster.com
Berlin…divides writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea , and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea . Turtleocracy | Hacker News
Added double log to the diary maybe that would be easier to maintain than creating daily files
📚 Finished reading All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3) by Dennis E. Taylor
📚 Finished reading All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3) by Dennis E. Taylor
New repository: aquilax/m3u-combine - Command line tool to combine multiple m3u playlists