DigitalBison (u/DigitalBison)

DigitalBison commented on Firefox tab groups are here blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/TangerineDream

I'm not consistent about going back and closing tabs. By the time I've browsed on a couple topics, I have enough tabs open I can't see the titles any more, and it's downhill from there. Some of them, I think "this is good, I'll come back to this when I get a chance" so I don't want to mass-close them. Eventually I'm opening new tabs of tabs I already have open, because it's faster than finding the original.

Every now and then, I declare tab bankruptcy, mass bookmark them (to get over the feeling that I'll be closing something important), and close them all.

I've never, ever, once, in 15ish years of operating this way, looked at any of the bookmarks.

[EDIT] I guess the main issue is that deciding to close tabs I'm not currently looking at takes time, because I have to evaluate each one, and when I'm down to just favicons on the tab itself, that means actually looking at each page. Just periodically mass-bookmarking and closing is less work. It's a UI issue. Plus, if I'm looking at my browser, it's because I'm doing something, and that something is basically never "playing tab-gardener". My very first action is gonna be "new tab" and go from there.

DigitalBison · a year ago

I'm essentially the same way, with the caveat that I do occasionally go back and find something from one of those archived bookmarks. Maybe a couple times a year at most, which is all the validation my lizard brain needs to consider this a critical practice that I will continue doing without questioning for the rest of my life.

DigitalBison commented on IAM Is the Worst matduggan.com/iam-is-the-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

belter · 2 years ago

> 1. There are permissions at various layers. If anything along the chain doesn't line up, permission denied.

- I am shocked that you don't seem to find Deny By Default the best thing in the world... (looking at you Azure...)

> You need deep understanding of each service's specific IAM setup.

- Color me shocked...

> Ancillary permission requirements are not obvious if you're not familiar with the details of how a service works.

- Imagine...Having to understand how stuff works to be gainfully employed....

> Permission related failures do not make the root cause immediately clear.

Cloudtrail is your friend...

> Secrets related permissions are especially tricky.

- Define the complaint....

> The out-of-the-box managed policies are too broad and will often have you granting much more permissions than you need if you use them.

At least for AWS, you are not supposed at any point in time to use out-of-the-box managed policies. Instead, you should use them as templates for your own policies or create your own Customer Managed Policies from scratch.

"...Another best practice is to create a customer managed IAM policy that you can assign to users. Customer managed policies are standalone identity-based policies that you create and which you can attach to multiple users, groups, or roles in your AWS account. Such a policy restricts users to performing only the AWS Private CA actions that you specify..." - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/privateca/latest/userguide/auth-...

DigitalBison · 2 years ago

I'm not the person you're condescending to, but it is possible IMO to simultaneously recognize the security value in deny-by-default and Principle of Least Privilege while also finding it challenging to work with AWS's IAM permissions in practice.

DigitalBison commented on Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can cause a fire cnbc.com/2023/11/02/toyot... · Posted by u/thm

seanmcdirmid · 2 years ago

The RAV4 been gaining bulk over the years. I remember in the late 90s it really was a small SUV. It went from 148-164″ L x 67″ W x 65″ H in 1998 to 180″ L x 73″ W x 65-67″ H in 2013. Today it is 181-182″ L x 73″ W x 67-69″ H.

DigitalBison · 2 years ago

I'm sure I'm slightly misremembering/exaggerating, but RAV4s of recent years seem like a similar size to how I recall the Highlander from that time period, and now Highlanders are more like how I recall those older 4Runners(?).

DigitalBison commented on ‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay review historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/prismatic

jurynulifcation · 3 years ago

Please don't recommend people take Xanax recreationally. Benzodiazepines are fraught with danger. It is not something to take lightly. Your experiences are not universalizable. I appreciate your insight, and I'm glad you've found substances you enjoy. But please refrain from engaging in drug exceptionalism. The first and foremost consideration of engaging in a substance ought to be harm reduction. This is not one of those "iykyk, yk" situations, in my humble opinion.

Also, fun aside: DMT may have interesting anabolic effects. I quite enjoy vaping DMT while working out. It helps me engage my muscles and mind more fully, and safely, in bodyweight non-ballistic exercises.

I hope you have a wonderful day, fellow seeker.

DigitalBison · 3 years ago

If you don't mind my asking, is your caution about benzodiazepines out of concern for the addiction potential, the long-term effects (e.g. dementia risk), or something else (or a combination)?

DigitalBison commented on Ask HN: How to Focus Again? · Posted by u/brainrot

idlewords · 3 years ago

So far I've been too distractible and absent-minded to do a proper nerd-out on the topic. :-) But I found section I of this blog post to be pretty interesting: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...

DigitalBison · 3 years ago

I genuinely don't understand what point you think this article is making that backs up what you've said here -- would you mind elaborating?

Full disclosure, I am diagnosed with ADHD and take stimulants daily, and initially felt pretty defensive when reading your comments here and starting to read that article. I have some problems with the article and generally find that author pretty insufferable, but the article concludes that the risks of medically-supervised stimulant use are low enough that the author personally finds stimulants worth prescribing to patients who benefit from them.

Even Section 1 which you specifically referenced, and which admittedly made me pretty annoyed until I read it a few times, and even though the author certainly seems to be trying to insinuate that ADHD isn't real, doesn't really seem to be actually backing up that point. His main point or objection seems to be that ADHD is diagnosed using arbitrary subjective criteria rather than objective measurements like other spectrum disorders (isn't blood pressure also a normally distributed trait, where we* "arbitrarily" draw a line and say people on the wrong side of that line have hypertension and should be prescribed beta blockers?).

I'll admit to feeling a little argumentative after reading some of the comments here but I do genuinely want to understand these points better, and I feel like I must be missing some fundamental context or point that the article is making.

*for various definitions of "we", since different countries and organizations define hypertension differently.

DigitalBison commented on Ask HN: How to Focus Again? · Posted by u/brainrot

pyr0hu · 3 years ago

Feeling the same as OP and I've tried the vacation/detox thingy and I just came back worse. First I passed it as "just still in vacation mode", but as the days kept passing by, it did not get better. Might have to look up a doc too :|

DigitalBison · 3 years ago

Please don't be hard on yourself for a vacation not "fixing" whatever is ailing you. If you're depressed or have ADHD or similar, you should consider seeking professional help (e.g. therapy and/or medication, if appropriate), and "just take a vacation and turn off your phone" is about as helpful as telling a diabetic to "just produce more insulin".

DigitalBison commented on Ask HN: How to Focus Again? · Posted by u/brainrot

nosefurhairdo · 3 years ago

That's more a semantic disagreement than an opposite conclusion, considering you both agree the constellation of behaviors exists.

The degree to which any medical diagnosis exists is on a spectrum. A cancerous tumor obviously exists, high blood pressure exists but is relative, schizophrenia - and psychiatric diagnoses generally - exist but can be more difficult to observe externally.

The behaviors associated with ADHD are so common and relatable to most folks that the diagnosis seems less legitimate. To my knowledge, you cannot scan the brain of someone with ADHD and point out an abnormality associated with the disorder. Yet we give 8 year old boys stimulant medication because they can't sit still in a classroom for hours a day.

Fwiw I have ADHD and take stimulant medication daily. But I also understand folks' resistance to accept ADHD as being as legitimate as other medical diagnoses.

DigitalBison · 3 years ago

> To my knowledge, you cannot scan the brain of someone with ADHD and point out an abnormality associated with the disorder. Yet we give 8 year old boys stimulant medication because they can't sit still in a classroom for hours a day.

I'm not well-versed in the risks of stimulants given to children so I'm not commenting on that specifically, but I want to push back on the insinuation (if I understood you correctly) that ADHD or its treatments are any less legitimate because we haven't yet figured out if we can use brain imaging to diagnose and measure treatment efficacy.

It would be great if all medical disorders could be externally measured and quantified objectively, but when they're not, we often rely on evaluating and diagnosing them based on the (often somewhat more subjective) impact of their symptoms. That's not ideal, but it seems better than nothing to me.

Full disclosure: I'm also diagnosed with ADHD and take daily stimulants. Apologies if I came off as combative, I'm relatively new to my ADHD journey and genuinely curious to learn more about the medical/scientific aspects.

DigitalBison commented on Rust on Espressif chips – 2023 Roadmap mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-... · Posted by u/mabez

londons_explore · 3 years ago

A lot of people look down on the arduino ecosystem because "it's for beginners", but there is no benefit to complexity for complexities sake.

If your product needs to do X, Y, and Z, and that can be built in arduino in a few days, and built in some other "professional" toolchain in a few months, then you will save money by building your real product on arduino.

And when the thing you're doing is outside the scope of what arduinos library ecosystem can provide (eg. you need to drive some GPIO pin with cycle accurate latencies), you can still write your assembly to do it.... But you still get the benefits of simplicity for the rest of your functionality.

DigitalBison · 3 years ago

This is exactly where I'm at. I'm a professional SDE and I'm pretty damn good at writing code and solving problems at all kinds of different levels of complexity and abstraction, although professionally I mostly write Java code and build web services and that kind of thing.

When I got into electronics and embedded development recently as a hobby, I started with Arduino. And for the vast majority of my projects, which are mostly simple smarthome IOT type things, or little toys for my kiddo, the Arduino framework is just fine and the ecosystem of libraries is great.

But when I recently started a project that was much lower-level (in fact, it was your example exactly -- driving pins with cycle-accurate timing), where I didn't need those libraries, I used ESP-IDF without Arduino.

I'm also just lazy, and just don't want to deal with more complexity than I have to.

DigitalBison commented on Skip Level Meeting Guide for Leaders codingsans.com/blog/skip-... · Posted by u/womitt

username90 · 5 years ago

> That's going outside the chain of command and creates political and organizational issues that no one will appreciate.

I'd refuse to work anywhere that cares about chain of command. Managers are for bookkeeping purposes, not commanding. If your manager doesn't let you talk to the people you need to talk to to get things done then it is a very toxic environment.

DigitalBison · 5 years ago

I agree with this, and disagree with the parent comment's framing of this as "going outside the chain of command", but I do think that if you have a healthy relationship and open communication with your direct manager, I can't think of many reasons not to tell your direct manager something before telling your skip-level (or above), as a courtesy and an opportunity for them to address the issue first but not because of some rigid expectations around "command structure".

Of course this isn't a hard rule, if I'm having a conversation with my skip-level and some topic happens to come up that I haven't spoken with my manager about before, I'm not necessarily going to hold back just because of that, I can follow up with my manager later. But if something's bothering me or I have some feedback or something like that, I'd generally chat with my manager about it before anyone above them.

DigitalBison commented on Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack salesforce.com/news/press... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

variaga · 5 years ago

Amazon is a big place and I can't speak for all of it, but while IT announced that slack was "available" a few months ago, I don't personally know anyone that has actually switched to using it. Everyone still uses Chime.

That may just be a peculiarity of my department, but saying "Amazon as a company switched to slack" is definitely overstating what happened.

DigitalBison · 5 years ago

This is super org-dependent -- my entire org has completely switched to Slack, I only use Chime for meetings now (except for the occasional recruiter or someone outside my org who will ping me on Chime).