justinmarsan (u/justinmarsan)

justinmarsan commented on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free' theverge.com/entertainmen... · Posted by u/01-_-

the_real_cher · a month ago

It just seems weird to me.

It's like a carpenter saying they're power tool free.

You have an amazing tool to speed up your work why wouldn't you use it?

justinmarsan · a month ago

The problem with AI isn't really the tool itself, it's the fact that the tool is only able to produce because it has stolen the work of real artists to rip them off, and then take their jobs...

justinmarsan commented on Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis

71153750 · 5 months ago

This reminds a little of Usain Bolt famously having chicken nuggets before his final at the Beijing Olympics. Although hardly indicative of a bad diet that he may or may not have had.

I think as well there is some difficulty with variability between people that isn't clear or maybe doesn't matter at scale. The article linked study was across 43 nations with 4213 adults. Yet there may still be individuals who can argue differently. CICO (calories in vs calories out) must apply to us all, but the composition has an affect on what the body chooses to store vs how energised or hungry/satiated we feel. A bad diet could perhaps me we feel we have less enthusiasm for running or other activities. Age, lifestyle, and even cultural factors are massive in affecting metabolism (more the foremost) and of course what we consume (the latter two).

I run a fair amount (over 2000km/1200 miles in 2025) and find that once I start doing above ~70km/43 miles in a week whatever eating habits I have are indeed outcompeted by my running and weight loss is inevitable. Even so it does slow around a BMI of 23 for me for longer than I am able to be consistent with the running to observe further effects. Still my point is that my diet isn't anything to write home about and I anecdotally I feel that as far as weightloss is concerned I can very much outrun it.

justinmarsan · 5 months ago

I do bouldering and I eat fast food multiple times a week, I can definitely outclimb my poor diet... I probably helps that I don't eat breakfast though...

It's well known though that as you build muscle, your rest calorie consumption increases, so probably if you build/maintain enough muscle, then you can just outrun your intake, since you consume more without doing anything to start with...

justinmarsan commented on Regardless of age, quitting cigarette smoking will add years to your life newatlas.com/health-wellb... · Posted by u/yusufaytas

testmasterflex · a year ago

I _think_ that as long as I’m working out, I’m in better health than an _inactive_ non smoker.

I bicycle everyday, a few gym sessions a week and smoke half a pack every weekend or so.

justinmarsan · a year ago

I wouldn't be so sure... Or rather I'm not sure it's that simple.

If you compare yourself with someone that's sedentary but also not eating right, than yeah, possibly you're even with an overweight non-smoker, overweight being linked to so many diseases... But if you compare yourself to someone sedentary that eats properly, or let's say as well as you do, for the sake of good comparaison... I wouldn't be so sure... The damage you do to your lungs and heart tissues are unlikely to be offset by the little time that you spend at the gym or on your bike...

This coming from an also fairly active smoker (now vaper).

justinmarsan commented on Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files github.com/queer/boxxy... · Posted by u/icar

justinmarsan · a year ago

I don't know if the reference was on purpose, but I now have this 13 years-old remix on repeat : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHNZVAjadqY

justinmarsan commented on Ask HN: Do retros that don't suck even exist? · Posted by u/pypudding

justinmarsan · a year ago

I've been at a company that really decided to go all in on Agile and actually let teams change things to work more efficiently, and it's one of the best experiences I've had, it really had all the components that make things work.

One issue I've seen since then regarding retros is that they'll fall into two extremes. The rare one is that retros are just fun recess times that nobody gets anything out of besides doing doodles and ice breakers. The other one is that teams will try and be very action oriented and find concrete solutions to concrete problems, but will not have the emotional maturity to address difficult topics, so they're either avoid them or turn into screaming matches.

You need to feel somewhat close to your coworkers to be able to bring difficult topics with the certainty that others will know you do it for the right reasons and that you're all trying to work towards the same goal of making work more effective, pleasant and satisfying. Teams that never work on the closeness of their members cannot address important issues. You need the doodles, the inside jokes, the team spirit to be able to do that.

But you also need to have a mastermind to spot issues and then figure out ways to role play and brainstorm around those in a way that feels like playing, but ends up providing the team with actionnable solutions.

At the company i've worked at, I've had to sometimes do tasks that were really not my duties (data entry, QA work) because it was the most important thing that I could do for the team. I happily did it because I felt like it really was our project, that I'd be bringing value to customers and the company in doing it, and that our product would be better with that work done by me. I'd stay late if there was a problem I could possibly assist my coworkers with, even if I stayed for nothing or could only contribute through naive questions to try and get neurons firing... But we were a close team, despite having different roles and seniority levels, and we were all very happy to do what the project needed.

In my current company the sense of ownership isn't as important, people don't know each other as well (the team also is larger and with more turnover) so it's made of smaller groups of kinda close people.

In a perfect world everyone in all teams would be a trustable high performing dev and there would be no need for any lubricant to make the machine work smoother, but the reality is that the majority of us have pet peeves, quirks and shortcomings, the group can be a good way to mitigate those, as much as processes and methodologies, but having both is what will get you the best results, and I think this is something that is overlooked by many teams.

justinmarsan commented on Only <SPAN>s onlyspans.net/... · Posted by u/lifthrasiir

nsonha · 2 years ago

Aria should be the source of truth, the list of things is much simpler and straight forward than html tags. They ARE made for accessibility and accessibility only, unlike html which at worst treat accessibility as an after thought and at best just another overloaded function of the mark up.

justinmarsan · 2 years ago

Even the Aria docs say you should rely on semantics and only use Aria for when that's not possible...

I'd much rather use a <button> that exposes itself as such and has well known interaction functions, then create my own div and have to handle the clicks, keyboard navigation, navigation shortcuts and so on... That actually requires a lot more knowledge than HTML semantics, and unless you test frequently with expert and non-expert assistive tech users, you won't know what kind of UX issues you'll be creating for them...

justinmarsan commented on Find My Device on Android blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/el_duderino

justinmarsan · 2 years ago

Does anyone know of a good way to have an Android phone ring from another Android phone, without sharing all account access ?

My wife keeps her phone on silent but loses it multiple times a day. We use the computer to make it ring using Find my Device, but it'd be a lot easier if I could just do it from my phone, which I can if I install the app and then add her Google account to the accounts on my phone, but then I get access (and notified of) all her emails, google photos and stuff like that.

Is there an alternative ? Some way to just have both phones agree to sync somehow and then one can make the other ring, regardless of sound settings.

justinmarsan commented on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014) zachholman.com/posts/only... · Posted by u/throwup238

justinmarsan · 2 years ago

Youngsters need to know how much markup and images we needed for fluid containers with rounded corners...

Also did I tell you about CSS-only triangles ?

justinmarsan commented on Brandchirps – Simple Brand Monitoring brandchirps.com/... · Posted by u/JamesGreene

justinmarsan · 6 years ago

Unlike other commentators I don't think you need a free trial, but I think you need a couple of free searches per day for example. Let me try my brand and maybe a competitors, see the results and then if I try to get one more, or if I want to export the results or whatever let me know this and many other nice things are available for registered users.

Also I'd like to know how I'll be alerted, will I get an email for every single mention or is there the possibility to have hourly/daily/weekly digests ?

Either way I think this is a good alternative to the other services out there and I could probably see myself using that on a side-project soon as the fairly low price isn't a barrier to me at all ! $7 is like free except you get money, unlike the limited free trials that get very expensive for the lowest plan available.

Nice work, bookmarking and eager to see actual results !

justinmarsan commented on Ask HN: Make something of the free time at work · Posted by u/highhedgehog

justinmarsan · 6 years ago

I'm sure many people have headphones on, download courses on your phone and listen to them, or audio books, nobody needs to know where the sound is coming from !