itstooreal (u/itstooreal)

itstooreal commented on Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children? · Posted by u/justneedaname

scop · a year ago

Good question. Yes they can play. The main absolute no-go activity with friends is something with exploration on the internet. That includes things like YT kids. But, hey you want to play Smash Bros even though we don’t at home, sure have fun!

These are not hard and fast rules, more of a system. Our youngest plays video games much younger than our oldest kid, since we have video games in the house now and didn’t with your first. However, I still make sure my youngest is getting plenty of tactile/analog play in as the majority of time spent.

itstooreal · a year ago

> These are not hard and fast rules, more of a system

This is key. You’re trying to build a base of good behaviors but it’s flexible because the world is full of complexity and having overly strict rules is impossible.

itstooreal commented on Fulcrum: an ergo-mechanical split keyboard with extra thumb functionality github.com/dschil138/Fulc... · Posted by u/zdw

rwilson4 · 3 years ago

I have a Kinesis Advantage 2 and the thumb clusters are my favorite part. I think I probably spend too much time optimizing the layout of those keys though. Like, Escape is really awkwardly placed in the default layout so I moved it to the right thumb cluster, but I was actually just thinking about moving it to the left cluster. Talk about micro-optimizations!

itstooreal · 3 years ago

I know that feeling.

There’s also the hold/tap key thing where you don’t have to move the key physically. Between that and layers the keyboard is an infinite canvas for customizations.

itstooreal commented on Fulcrum: an ergo-mechanical split keyboard with extra thumb functionality github.com/dschil138/Fulc... · Posted by u/zdw

itstooreal · 3 years ago

I love these kinds of projects. Each time I move to another keyboard I inevitably “lose” keys - numpad, then function keys. So I’m maybe a couple of iterations away before I’m ready for this ultimate challenge.

itstooreal commented on Fulcrum: an ergo-mechanical split keyboard with extra thumb functionality github.com/dschil138/Fulc... · Posted by u/zdw

BigElephant · 3 years ago

Are there any brands/stores where I can buy a split keyboard with everything setup? I don't want to build everything from scratch.

itstooreal · 3 years ago

Like just a normal QWERTY split? Kinesis makes a nice one that’s pretty affordable and even has LEDs :)

https://gaming.kinesis-ergo.com/product/freestyle-edge/

itstooreal commented on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? · Posted by u/devoutsalsa

65 · 3 years ago

I'm in my 20s. I live alone in a city where I don't know anyone. Remote work destroyed my mental health.

All I wanted was to be able to go into an office and talk to a real life person. I would go weeks at a time not talking to a single person in real life.

I don't think people understand the plight of the young office worker until they've experienced the torture of solitary confinement. Day in, day out. All alone. I don't have a girlfriend, friends, or a life in this city.

I tried to join clubs and a maker space, but no time - I was working all day. The maker space closed early. I'm creative, I like working. I just wanted to go to an office. That's all I wanted. I wanted a routine. I wanted to commute and people watch. I wanted to feel like I was living life. But no, I had a remote job.

I got a new job that's supposed to be 3 days a week in office. Guess what? My team can't get enough remote work - they're not going to go into the office. And here I am, again, in the torture of solitary confinement.

I've been thinking about getting a new career, going into the trades. Anything that would allow me to have consistent interaction with other people.

I've become anti-technology, anti-society. I'm an optimistic person, yet I slip into depression because the only thing I want - to be able to go into an office - will not happen for me.

itstooreal · 3 years ago

Thanks for your very honest comment. At my office we’re hybrid and people oscillate between the home and in-office for the same reasons as you - sometimes it’s just nice to hang out with people, even if you’re working.

I would hope you wouldn’t have to abandon your career and maybe a little job hopping is in order. I don’t think the world will go full remote, even if that’s personally the way I enjoy it.

itstooreal commented on Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts nytimes.com/2018/05/25/op... · Posted by u/rrauenza

madhadron · 8 years ago

It's very easy to tell just so stories like this, and there are a number of plausible ones. That doesn't make them correct. For example, we don't know how antibiotics kill bacteria. All the models such as impeding crosslinking of cell wall and the bacteria bursting from turgor pressure? All wrong. Still taught, but entirely wrong. We don't know how antibiotics work.

itstooreal · 8 years ago

I am definitely in the bucket of people thinking this is how antibiotics work. Do you have some links I could read talking about how this isn't true?