Readit NewsCosmicBagel commented on Blizzard manager departs in protest of employee ranking system bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir
CosmicBagel commented on React Native is not the future blog.standardnotes.com/40... · Posted by u/samwillis
As someone who uses this off an on amount, I was really disappointed when I opened the app to the new web app. It was slow, janky, required me authenticating multiple times (biometric then username and password). I'm now looking for alternatives because "as fast as possible" is an important feature for me. I keep the app on my android home row, not because I use it a lot, but because when I need it, I need it instantly. Massive downgrade for the user imo, this only benefits the developer.
CosmicBagel commented on For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain washingtonpost.com/wellne... · Posted by u/wslh
I'm not formally diagnosed with ADHD, but I find myself able to relate with the struggles.
There's this place at the back of my university's library in the silent section, I think it's below a large HVAC fan motor or something. There's always a deep 'brrrrrrrrrr' sound going, and it is an absolutely sublime place to work. (https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php?l=... this sounds pretty close to it).
Earplugs help, but for some reason the deep 'brrrrrrrrrrr' is very relaxing. A quiet environment with the 'brrrrrr' is preferable to pure silence (though I'll still take ear plugs over one of those horrific open office environments).
Moving off topic a bit, but other things I do to help focus:
- Redirect bad habit sites (like HN tbh) in the `hosts` file to 127.0.0.1 as a site blocker
- Turn off cell phone, and place well out of arms reach
- Kill & block discord, telegram, ect
(Fortunately, I'm at a place in life where no one really needs to contact me on short notice)
---> The goal being to give my brain literally nothing else to do besides the work <----
(Not perfect since I tend to daydream a lot, but I'm almost graduated uni, so I guess it's working well enough)
If I'm really struggling to get work done, I'll set a countdown timer to create artificial external pressure.
During my internships, and side gigs, I find myself setting up "real work" periods where I (try to) block the world out, and communication periods. (I get along with people too well and chit chat too much otherwise).
In general, if the day-to-day work environment requires just a whole lot of "raw willpower" it's not going to work out. Willpower is for losers anyways, better to remove the distractions / change the environment. (Also fuck MS for constantly trying to weasel more ads into its OS, their new widgets panel in Win11 is literally useless to me for mandatory news ads)
Oh, but MS Edge's read aloud is a god send, it has the best text to speech voices I have access to, and I can use it on any html or pdf article easily. MS giveth, and MS taketh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Unfortunate that zlib died. MS Edge TTS only works with html and pdf, zlib basically let me have any textbook I needed in school read aloud to me as a pdf (janky, but it gets the job done). In particular it really falls apart with math textbooks, but eh.
~ I've rambled too much, back to homework now ~
CosmicBagel commented on CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code github.com/notepad-plus-p... · Posted by u/prvt
Oh great notepad of the lake, what is your wisdom?
"Social media does not make people stupid. It just makes stupid people more visible."
CosmicBagel commented on Ask HN: Why are ringtones not interesting anymore? · Posted by u/lagrange77
In my experience, interesting ringtones are mostly just used for alarms & reminders. A classic being Chop Suey by System of a Down as your wake up alarm.
CosmicBagel commented on Ask HN: Why are ringtones not interesting anymore? · Posted by u/lagrange77
Oh wow, i didn't know that about gen z.
Here's the thing, where I live (Canada) spam calls have become so bad that (unless you're in my contacts already) I almost never answer the phone. The scams aren't even in English most of the time :/
Actually it's filtered so that only 3 or so of my contacts get through the dnd.
*Scheduled calls / expected calls from specific companies are my one exception.
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- Recent grad, comp sci major (security focus), business minor
- Interested in Rust and C++, graphics, game engines/tooling, and cloud infrastructure, but open to all work.
- Have prior professional work experience, both before and during university, including a full-stack summer job.
- I've participated in CTFs including NCL Spring 2022 where I placed 30th of 6010 contestants.
- Interested in learning C++ as it lets you build applications that no other language lets you build, but man its hard to stay away from Rust once you've had a taste of the cargo build system and reliable intellisense.