why_Mr_Anderson (u/why_Mr_Anderson)

why_Mr_Anderson commented on Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications twitter.com/benkrasnow/st... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

bkraz · 4 years ago

Thank you. I make a conscious effort to avoid the craft that I hate so much myself. Luckily, I have a day job that allows me to treat the channel as a hobby -- I know others are not in this position. Other downside is that the day job takes time away from making fun videos :) let me know if anyone has a topic suggestion.

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

Hi Ben, after yet another (3rd I think? could be 4th) round of binge-watching all your videos, I was wondering if you made any progress with "Wire EDM" that you mention in one of your videos. That process is (for me, at least) pretty much pure magic. And the resulting cuts are just unbelievable.

why_Mr_Anderson commented on Case Study: Why you should play Factorio deprocrastination.co/blog... · Posted by u/vitabenes

Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL · 4 years ago

The benefits of playing Factorio compared to? Compared to programming on your own project? Compared to reading something intellectually stimulating? Compared to working out or investing time to eat healthy and sleep properly? Compared to spending time with people you love? Compared to fulfilling your actual _responsibilities_?

> "If you’re in a slump (rut), chances are you feel like you can’t complete anything. You feel like you’re unable to finish anything so what’s the point of starting. Factorio is a great cure against that. Especially when you view it as a challenge."

"Why you should play Factorio" ; you absolutely can, it might have more benefits for you than other games, but besides that I really have trouble with such a headline, especially since the URL is called "deprocastination" (the home page sells an e-book, which promises to solve your problems and you can sign up via e-mail, not confidence inspiring). If you want to stop procrastinating, you probably should just delete Steam and get on with your tasks?

I'm not saying it's easy. There are things that can help: Meditation, proper task scheduling, talking to people about your problems, stress management techniques, in extreme cases therapy ...

"Play Factorio!" - Great advice /s

> "You can start taking the skills you learned and use them for anything else that is productive."

FAANG should look for new employees on World of Warcraft servers... /s

There is no technological cure to a spiritual problem. This is selling snake oil.

Edit1: interesting to see the up-/ and downvotes on this. I am not dissing gaming, not dissing the game. But recommending a computer game as a means to deal with procrastination and develop "real life skills you can use being productive" (paraphrased), that notion I do indeed find ludicrous and stand by it.

Edit2: From an answer I gave to a comment below (sorry for the edit, but I think I worded it in a nice way there):

The implication, that "procrastination" means "no due diligence" in anything is _WRONG_. It's due diligence in things that should take no priority as the very means to avoid the things you should be doing instead!

"Play Factorio, it has benefits for you that help you be productive" in response to someone dealing with procrastination? If that isn't absurd, I don't know what is.

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

Sorry, but your reply sounds like "just stop being poor".

Procrastination is serious problem and anything that helps someone deal with it should not be dismissed.

Edit:

Procrastination is all about avoiding a problem (could be work, could be phone call, anything really) by looking for excuses/reasons why it cannot be done or why it must be postponed before something else is done first.

In Factorio, if you don't have enough let's say steel plates, you _HAVE_ to go and increase your ore production. No excuses will help you avoid the issue and if you get used to it, it can help you get this attitude outside the game and apply what you've learned in real life.

Edit2: (I can bypass the time lock this way? interesting)

Considering I'm nice person as well, I'm just going to say that it's probably more useful for people actually having the problem than meditation and similar new age nonsense.

Doing anything right when it needs to be done can be a huge step forward from the horrible swamp that is procrastination.

why_Mr_Anderson commented on Case Study: Why you should play Factorio deprocrastination.co/blog... · Posted by u/vitabenes

Tade0 · 4 years ago

I've consciously decided not to buy Factorio because I know that would be my favourite thing for months, if not years to come and it would distract me from my duties.

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

There is a reason why those hopelessly addicted to it call it Cracktorio :)

why_Mr_Anderson commented on Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid therecord.media/ransomwar... · Posted by u/blinding-streak

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

I can imagine that sooner or later reply to threats like this would be a Tomahawk or two.

why_Mr_Anderson commented on Why Lichess will always be free lichess.org/blog/YF-ZORQA... · Posted by u/hydroxideOH-

DivisionSol · 4 years ago

Some advertisements are malicious attacks on your attention to build brand recognition and entice you to buy things you don't need.

However, I think advertising in itself isn't inherently evil. If a chess website served non-tracking, static (no-JS) banner ads about relevant products (maybe, specifically, chess products?) to offset costs, I don't see anything wrong with it. Of course the question is: "what is a relevant product to advertise next to chess?" Would... other board game advertisements be acceptable?

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

That's exactly how Google ads worked in the very beginning. Text only, all in one place, it was great! If we could somehow return that type of ads, I'd consider disabling adblocker.

why_Mr_Anderson commented on Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds themultidisciplinarian.co... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

WalterBright · 4 years ago

Smart is how well your brain works. Education is the things your brain knows. Wisdom is the combination.

Smart does not imply having knowledge.

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

It's also important to distinguish between 'knowing' and 'understanding'.

If someone tells me how to says Good morning in, let's say, Mongolian, I 'know' how to greet people, but dont 'understand' how it works (can't tell which part of the sound/symbol represents what, etc.)

why_Mr_Anderson commented on Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands en.mercopress.com/2021/04... · Posted by u/pedro-guimaraes

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

This is still happening? It used to be very annoying decade or so ago, but I thought it was already solved/fixed/improved.

Are there really no option to make a domain registration without expiration?

why_Mr_Anderson commented on EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd eff.org/press/releases/ef... · Posted by u/oxylibrium

TheSpiceIsLife · 4 years ago

> medical doctor you'll have to do a ton of memorisation

Which is a load of dingos kidneys.

Gate keeping.

All the good doctors I've ever been to have a wall of reference material and use it, even if only to show the patient, but it's there and accessible.

And besides, it's not like practising medical doctors don't make heaps of mistakes.

The number one cause of complications in a medical setting is medical intervention, so it could be argued doctors should be using more reference material and not relying on their over worked brains.

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

But parent post is arguing that to become a doctor you need to memorize ungodly amount of things, which is absolutely true. And about that wall of reference material .. yeah, it's usually there to impress patients, most of those books were never touched :) (I'm from family with too many MDs)

why_Mr_Anderson commented on Word usage guidance and alternative terms developers.google.com/sty... · Posted by u/PurpleFoxy

foxes · 4 years ago

Most of these are perfectly reasonable, a lot to do with helping clarity of writing. Abbreviations definitely do not help clarity and should be avoided. Colloquialisms also do not help clarity if it is meant to be understood by a large audience (international even).

As for the ones that hacker news by and large seems to think are controversial, I agree with the style guide, there are only historical arguments for keeping gendered/race based language. Why not remove it. Language is dynamic, it can evolve.

why_Mr_Anderson · 4 years ago

By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. (Gorge Orwell - 1984)