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complexworld | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can I continue working as long as possible?

On general, figuring out a good ergonomic setup makes a huge difference. In particular for eye strain, having "computer glasses", and a large monitor, have solved it for me.

complexworld | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How can I continue working as long as possible?

I'm 60, and also a software developer. Are you still working full time as an employee?

complexworld | 4 years ago | on: Todo apps are meant for robots

I use a Todo app every day, starting in the morning. Almost all of my tasks are recurring, well defined, and relatively short. E.g. "triage email inbox every day", "vacuum house every week on Saturday", "upper body workout every second day", "renew passport every 10 years".

For me this works well, because: * I don't forget to get things done * I don't have to think about what I need to do, the app shows me a daily list * I get a small feeling of accomplishment for every task I complete (gamificaion), and for finishing all my tasks (daily task inbox zero).

It works for me.

complexworld | 4 years ago | on: iOS 15 Humane

Sounds like Audible believes the benefits outweigh the downsides of abusing their customers

complexworld | 4 years ago | on: Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

This study of Novamin concludes:

> Review shows that Novamin has significantly less clinical evidence to prove its effectiveness as a remineralization agent in treating both carious and non-carious lesion. Hence, better designed clinical trials should be carried out in the future before definitive recommendations can be made.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068624/

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

Three mile island, Pennsylvania

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation

I cancelled my monthly contribution to the Mozilla foundation.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation

Please read this to get another point of view on the calls to ostracize RMS. It has facts, quotes, and givies analysis from Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU.

https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Nowruz

I don't know about the rest of the US, but here in West LA there's a large persian community so it is easy to find "white fish"for Nowruz. I don't know what kind of fish it really is, but I've heard it comes from the great lakes.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

Jetbrains says they had not been contacted by law enforcement.

On yesterday's thread it said that Team city was only used, in the intended fashion, as the delivery mechanism for the malicious payload. Kinda like blaming ftp when a hacker uses it to upload a payload.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2021/01/statement-on-the...

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

Organized labor can negotiate with corporations and politicians to defend the interests of their members.

The way things are now in the US wasn't inevitable.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (2013)

For many Asians being FOB was an advantage. They had not been subjected to centuries of discrimination. I believe that immigrants coming from Africa do better in the US, on average, because they usually come from the educated elite of their home country.

The opposite occurs for some Asians minorites who were poor and uneducated in their home countries, they don't do anywhere near as well as the Asians who come from a privileged background.

Does that answer your question?

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Threat modelling case study: bicycles

My ebike was stolen. It had a good lock, and was on street with significant passersby. It seemed like there was nothing I could do to prevent that from happening again.

My solution was to buy a foldable bike that was half the price, and half the weight of my ebike.

I didn't even buy a bike lock because I never leave the foldable bike parked on the street. Wherever I go I bring it inside.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Dealing with Insomnia

I have followed a similar path. My problem is that I usually wake up at 3am after only 4-5 hours of sleep, and can't get back to sleep. After 2 nights of that I'll feel tired throughout the day.

I discovered that one good puff of marijuana when I wake up too early, helps me to drift off to sleep again. After that I wake up feeling great the next day!

My Oura ring tells me that the marijuana significantly lowers my resting HR, and increases my HRV (Heart Rate Variability). From what I understand both of those effects are beneficial.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?

What ended up working in my case was to install an app called Replay Media Catcher. It is available for both Mac and Windows. It can intercept any video you're watching in the browser, and save it to a file.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?

I have now tried that. But logging in isn't working for me :(

    app $ youtube-dl -u [email protected] -p zzzzzzzzz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1234343
    [youtube] Downloading login page
    [youtube] Looking up account info
    [youtube] Logging in
    WARNING: Unable to log in: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

I disabled 2FA, and confirmed that my password is correct by logging out on the web, and back in again.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?

Yes I think that would work. Except then I've lost the sound track. Much better than nothing. I'll use it as a last resort if I can't find a better solution within the next 3 days.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to do it, but YouTube still refuses to let me DL my video.

    app $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12345678
    [youtube] 12345678: Downloading webpage
    ERROR: 12345678: YouTube said: This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines.
    Sorry about that.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Android Studio 4.0

A major difference is that there is a tool for automatically converting from Java to Kotlin. I don't think that exists for Objc to Swift.

complexworld | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)

  Location: West LA
  Remote:Yes
  Willing to relocate: Not at this time
  Technologies: Android, Flutter, Kotlin
  Android best practices: https://github.com/franklinharper/lametro
  Résumé/CV: http://franklinharper.github.io/resume.pdf
  Email:[email protected]

Senior Android developer with 10 years of experience, and 2 X #1 apps (6M+ downloads)