ananth99 (u/ananth99)

ananth99 commented on The quiet art of attention billwear.github.io/art-of... · Posted by u/billwear

kvetching · a year ago

I've found cannabis to be extremely helpful. It adds a tinge of paranoia - so if you're paranoid about not reaching your potential, it can kick you into gear.

ananth99 · a year ago

nah I found cannabis to be counterproductive in my case. It was never only a "tinge" of paranoia. It always comes up in bouts. And it was a slippery slope. I'd often keep getting distracted with other things like YouTube, games and social media to keep the anxiety and paranoia away.

Took a while to kick it out.

ananth99 commented on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox androidpolice.com/never-b... · Posted by u/Hary06

Sloppy · 2 years ago

Haha, followed the link in Firefox but it was blocked because of my ad-blocker.

Who has the time to track all the stuff Google collects about you? At least spread out the tracking by NOT using every Google app. They've become the single largest surveillance organization in history, dwarfing even China's government.

Besides Firefox and Duckduckgo work so well I don't notice the difference.

Next, dropping Gmail...

ananth99 · 2 years ago

This. FF and DDG work so well together that I hardly notice any downsides moving to it. DDG is my default search engine now and I rarely use google for sports updates. That's it.

ananth99 commented on Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps theverge.com/2023/6/5/237... · Posted by u/netfortius

jacooper · 3 years ago

I keep hearing this, but how many of reddit users actually use third party apps?

If Twitter proved anything, its that its really hard to kill a popular social media network, no matter how badly managed or drama filled it is.

ananth99 · 3 years ago

I moved from Reddit's official App to Apollo about 2 months ago because of huge battery drain and haven't looked back since.

ananth99 commented on The Effects of Noise on Health (2022) hms.harvard.edu/magazine/... · Posted by u/averageValentin

ThatGeoGuy · 3 years ago

An addendum to the posted article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

Cities aren't loud; motor vehicles are. Tire noise near heavy stroads and highways are in particular egregious offenders. There's a lot of other points in the comments about some other urban nuisances (leaf blowers, anyone?) but I encourage anyone to walk around (yes, walk) while measuring the ambient noise levels with your smartphone's microphone.

It will be extremely obvious where the noise is coming from. This is an often misunderstood part of "the war on cars:" the stress gained from additional constant noise (e.g. like a highway) takes YEARS off our lives.

And don't get me started on how loud shops are in North America. For whatever reason they seem to always keep the volume three or four levels above comfortable, making it much harder to have a conversation without shouting at least a little.

It wasn't until I started traveling a lot that I started to notice any of this. You can have your quiet part of town, but often you get to your quiet part of town by driving through the noisiest part of town where a good number of people live and work.

ananth99 · 3 years ago

Add to it the ridiculous sounding honks in trucks and other big vehicles, it really is causing a huge menace. I literally have PTSD for several honks we have over here in India.

Very strange that the Government here that is proud of its Bharat Stage(BS) regulations, does not factor in regulations for honks and the noise pollution that it is causing by and large!

ananth99 commented on Ask HN: Alternative To Kippt? · Posted by u/joeblau

ananth99 · 12 years ago

Have you tried Pocket?

ananth99 commented on I am starting a blog to write everyday · Posted by u/shah_ocean

ananth99 · 12 years ago

Make sure to remove the placeholders. Good luck.:)

ananth99 commented on Ask HN: How do you build landing pages quickly · Posted by u/vishalzone2002

ananth99 · 12 years ago

Check these links. Might be useful. Some of them are paid but are worth it. :)

* http://startbootstrap.com/ * http://bootswatch.com/ * http://bootstrapzero.com/ * http://designmodo.com/shop/

ananth99 commented on Google Now for Chrome google.com/landing/now/#... · Posted by u/jaseemabid

tyleregeto · 12 years ago

I had to enable it from chrome://flags for it to work. I'm using Chrome unstable, it doesn't appear to be in the stable branch on Linux yet.

ananth99 · 12 years ago

Ohh,I had too many problems with the unstable distribution. I guess I'll wait then for the stable build then. Thanks!

ananth99 commented on Google Now for Chrome google.com/landing/now/#... · Posted by u/jaseemabid

ananth99 · 12 years ago

Does it come for Linux Distros too?