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BareNakedCoder commented on New motorcycle lighting design could save lives news.rice.edu/news/2022/n... · Posted by u/ohjeez

juve1996 · 3 years ago

Being more visible will always help but you still have to ATGATT and drive defensively.

BareNakedCoder · 3 years ago

For the non-riders, ATGATT means "All The Gear, All The Time". I wince whenever I see some young kid and his girlfriend riding with t-shirt, short pants, and sandals. Human erasers on donor cycles :(

BareNakedCoder commented on Children and a teacher were killed at an elementary school in Texas npr.org/2022/05/24/110103... · Posted by u/evo_9

MollyRealized · 4 years ago

Treat these shootings as a process from (decision to implement action) to (horrific outcome). Enlist experts to find out what can continually stop that process.

And, yes, some of those steps would be gun laws. "How do we stop these kind of fires from burning down houses? Please don't say water, we have plenty of that at the lake."

BareNakedCoder · 4 years ago

The Dickey Amendment[0] frightened the CDC from doing just that. Lobbied for by the NRA and added to a spending bill by a Republican congressman. "Although the Dickey Amendment did not explicitly ban it, for about two decades the CDC avoided all research on gun violence for fear it would be financially penalized." The CDC had budgeted $2.6M to study the problem. This was stopped and, in addition (as "punishment" perhaps?), exactly $2.6M was diverted to something else. Willful ignorance. What can you do?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

BareNakedCoder commented on My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll alexanderell.is/posts/inf... · Posted by u/otras

sodality2 · 4 years ago

I'm still young so maybe my mind hasn't matured enough to where I can combat this well. So I went heavy-handed - I have a button on my desk that when I press it, my server's DNS server (through which all my devices and router resolve) begins rejecting requests to reddit, instagram, twitter, hackernews, news.google.com, etc.

For the next two hours, there is nothing I can do outside of SSH'ing through my mobile device (purposefully don't have an app for it) and resetting the countdown on the DNS server and restarting the server, to allow these DNS requests. It denies all SSH connections from my home network, and doesn't even resolve its own subdomain (dns.my-domain.com for the DNS dashboard) for me to reset it.

BareNakedCoder · 4 years ago

My method is super simple but does require a wee bit of self discipline. I "HALT!". I even have "HALT!" written on a post-it on my monitor. Whenever I notice that my (valuable) attention is wandering, I yell "HALT!" in my head or out loud (depending who is nearby). This makes me snap out of it, to break the pattern. Ideally, I return to what I should be doing but very often I can only do the minimum. The minimum being sitting there doing nothing, thinking of nothing (except the thing I should be doing), until I get bored and want to do something ... but only allowing myself to do what I should be doing otherwise I must continue to sit doing nothing (being halted). It's often too hard to halt AND switch do what I should be doing, so this method breaks it into two steps. Halting alone is much easier to force myself to do since doing nothing is easy. Once in halt-state, the only possible exit is to the proper do-state.

Oh, I just noticed something. HALT!

BareNakedCoder commented on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project? · Posted by u/JNRowe

BareNakedCoder · 4 years ago

Made https://securemypw.appspot.com so I could securely share passwords with my wife (for bank, investment, biller accounts) in case something happened to me. URLs are saved in a Google doc we both have access to. Now I use it for most of my passwords.

BareNakedCoder commented on Laravel 9 laravel-news.com/laravel-... · Posted by u/riipandi

TimWolla · 4 years ago

Laravel definitely is everything, but light-weight. It's the slowest of the large names in PHP.

see http://www.phpbenchmarks.com/en/comparator/framework or https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...

BareNakedCoder · 4 years ago

Agreed! Framework == good doesn't mean any/all frameworks == good. Many of PHP's frameworks seem to have ignored PHP's unique run-time characteristics and adopted Java idioms (with Java, you pay once at compile time; with PHP, you pay with every single request). Ubiquity, near/at the top of the PHP benchmarks, seems to accept PHP's unique run-time characteristics (so performs well) and yet still provides all the benefits of a framework (consistency, etc). Ubiquity should see much more love than Laravel/Symfony/etc but doesn't :(

BareNakedCoder commented on Ask HN: Favorite product that got shut down? · Posted by u/rajarshc

delgaudm · 4 years ago

Mozilla Persona

BareNakedCoder · 4 years ago

Agree. Shame it wasn't adopted by more websites. It shutdown just before we launched a new SaaS that used it for auth.

BareNakedCoder commented on The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed askamanager.org/2022/01/t... · Posted by u/amadeuspzs

engineerthrwawy · 4 years ago

Your criticism is fair. However "obedient" isn't always what an engineering organization needs. Many times, I wish that our Indian contract workers, would speak out when they see something wrong, about process, quality, or business requests. I'm not sure if it's a cultural thing or what, but it seems they are more hesitant to speak out. It has been my anecdotal observation that our US-born hires are way quicker to say something to management if they feel something is wrong.

I mean no disrespect, by this observation.

BareNakedCoder · 4 years ago

Read "Speaking of India" by Storti. It really helped me understand a lot of the strangeness I also observed working with India-born coworkers and contractors.

BareNakedCoder commented on How to rest well psyche.co/guides/how-to-r... · Posted by u/rognjen

justinzollars · 4 years ago

Best advice for quality of sleep: Stop drinking.

BareNakedCoder · 4 years ago

Best advice for quantity of sleep: don't stop drinking :)

BareNakedCoder commented on Ask HN: I'm making like 0 friends at college, how to fix it? · Posted by u/collegeburner

XnoiVeX · 4 years ago

Get a motorcycle!

BareNakedCoder · 4 years ago

Lol. I did and it was one of the best things I ever did. But I did it after university. Rode all over north america on it, me and my tent Ƈ:)

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