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volume commented on Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads timsh.org/tracking-myself... · Posted by u/apokryptein

volume · a year ago

neat details shared, might check out later.

Does this apply to Brave browser?

volume commented on Use a work journal fev.al/posts/work-journal... · Posted by u/charles_f

flakiness · 2 years ago

To me the hardest part of journaling (or Pomodoro, or whatever work-related methodology/hack) is to stick with it. I have a work journal. I abandoned it and came back, then abandoned it and came back again. It's an endless back-and-forth.

To those who keep doing this for a longer period: Any tips would be appreciated.

volume · 2 years ago

I think you need to go past this common thinking to "just focus on consistency/habits/discipline". You need to get clear about how/why you decide in the present moment. I assume this takes varying amount of time/effort for different people.

I think one needs to unravel our inner state and psychology ... we cannot simply turn on and off. But then, once we understand our inner state/psychology it makes it easier to turn on/off.

volume commented on Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B – sources reuters.com/technology/mu... · Posted by u/wglb

edge17 · 3 years ago

Why does this article claim to know that Twitter might go down due to cost cutting? Isn't there a possibility that their infrastructure is just hugely wasteful?

Having never worked at giant web app company, if it were run efficiently then what should we expect their server and infra costs to be? Surely that is the type of Fermi calculation someone on this site can make.

volume · 3 years ago

> Why does this article claim to know that Twitter might go down due to cost cutting? Isn't there a possibility that their infrastructure is just hugely wasteful?

I see the authors (Sheila Dang, Paresh Dave and Katie Paul) quote "sources".

volume commented on Notes against note-taking systems sashachapin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/Tomte

dopu · 3 years ago

_elaborate_ being the keyword here. Taking notes is not the same thing as constructing a zettelkasten system with which to take notes.

volume · 3 years ago

I agree "elaborate" is the keyword but for a different reason. He doesn't elaborate about what he considers "elaborate" so we have to fill in the blanks.

When I read it, "our most provocative thinkers and writers" made me wonder:

- Given any system don't you have a range of rigid versus loose followers? This looks true from my own observations of the note talking community. - Couldn't normies those who are not "our most provocative thinkers and writers" get value out of such systems? - Is Sasha aspiring to be one of "our most provocative thinkers and writers"? He wants to make his mark on the world so part of this writing is self talk.

Sasha accomplishes his goal. it's provocative writing and has produced a decent HN response. I have no evidence he means what he says because if so, it's a topic of personal preference. Fun and interesting but not immediately valuable (to me).

volume commented on Notes against note-taking systems sashachapin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/Tomte

redavni · 3 years ago

Came here to say this. I have a highly evolved note taking methodology/snippet setup(common MAC address prefixes etc)/auto-insert timestamp every line that I use VS Code for. If I spoke to someone 15 months ago, I can tell you who and the exact time/day and some shorthand notes about the call.

These notes are invaluable.

volume · 3 years ago

That sounds more powerful than Lion Kimbro's version (https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf). You should document it!

volume commented on Ask HN: Google Search down? · Posted by u/alhirzel

sydney6 · 4 years ago

No Worries! The Google Server in Mountain View has had a disk failed in it's RAID and therefore the sqlite-DB has only half the iops to it's disposal. A new 500GB hard disk is already in dispatch with Amazon. These are the moments why Google is a proud Amazon Prime customer.

volume · 4 years ago

> A new 500GB hard disk is already in dispatch with Amazon

What if in fact Amazon uses EMC gear underneath

volume commented on Being swamped is normal and not impressive gkogan.co/blog/swamped/... · Posted by u/gk1

germinalphrase · 4 years ago

Does anyone have a good reference on how to prioritize in a structured manner?

volume · 4 years ago

eisenhower matrix and cynefin framework