heisnotanalien

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by heisnotanalien 2mo ago
Programming is NOT meditative even the old way. Yes you can get into a flow state but that's not really meditation. In fact you're really just disassociating in a way and is easy to end stuck in your head too much. In fact, witho
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by heisnotanalien 10mo ago
Yesss. I will never buy anything Meta so happy to see this.
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by heisnotanalien 10mo ago
I'm sorry but I just find this slightly ridiculous. Create a 'frictionless' environment as much as you want but it is never going to make you write. If you want to write then just write and overcome the internal resistance. I
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by heisnotanalien 1y ago
This is how LiveJournal was back in the day. I have some really fond memories of people just honestly writing about their life. It seemed more pure and less performative. Then of course the whole Six Apart thing happened but I know many Rus
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by heisnotanalien 1y ago
No. A properly trained therapist essentially holds space so you can find yourself. That's not something you want to burden a friend with. It's a common misconception that it is just about 'talking'. Good therapy is more
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by heisnotanalien 1y ago
You don't go to a therapist to learn cognitive knowledge. You go to heal your way of relating with others. It's not easy and can only be done in the messy complicated emotional world of relationship with another human being. You n
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by heisnotanalien 2y ago
Struggling to reconcile this is cool with what about the insane energy/water costs. Are we supposed to stick our heads in the sand? Hope it will magically go away?
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by heisnotanalien 2y ago
I've experienced this and I think it's due to skills matrix bingo. You're a junior engineer and to become a senior engineer all you need to do is make a line in the skills matrix. Write a test! Be nice to someone in a code re
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by heisnotanalien 2y ago
We need more third spaces beyond the gym or things based around alcohol. I like the idea of members clubs where people have similar values/interests and you can go there and chat to people. Laptops/phones banned.
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by heisnotanalien 2y ago
Makes sense. Thanks for sharing your setup. Sounds great.
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by heisnotanalien 2y ago
You work for Canonical but use NixOS? Isn't that er a bit weird?
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by heisnotanalien 2y ago
I don't know much about the project but as an outsider it all just seems totally insane! People writing letters with screenshots of actions really? Liking a post becomes the equivalent to going on a political march or something? I can&
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
Very interesting.
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
What's the advantage of this? Can't you use a modern paint program? What am I missing? Is it just coolness factor?
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
A lot of it simply comes down to management being butt hurt because they signed up for a 20 year lease on office space in Expensive City. That said, I think more focus should be on making remote nicer and productive as possible rather than
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
Then the PM comes and asks you to change the wood used on the back of the chest of drawers because they have some brain fart.
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
I would suggest all this stuff will arise organically if you just hire the right people and give them some good principles of what good looks like. Like actually train people in leadership and other skills instead of just having a 'pro
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
Fuck Scrum. How many devs are saying this privately how much they hate scrum but have a work persona where they have to love it? It's so fucking toxic. It's just focus on doing a good job and get back to basics. Hire the right peo
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
It's not so much time, it's more cognitive load. In scrum teams, it feels like you're always talking about the future. I think it just builds on the anxiety many people have frankly. It's just another attempt to unrealis
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
Of course it's in SF cos the people there don't spend enough time on computers already.
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
Great post. Us engineer types I would say are generally too conscious. That is we prioritise the cognitive left-brain side waaaaayy too much.
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
Me me me. Other people exist apart from you!
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
I love working from home as much as everyone else here (seemingly) but I don't think people are fully appreciating how damaging not talking to people in meat space is likely to be long-term. We are embodied/energetic creatures and
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
You might find changing your external circumstances doesn't change very much. You might finding the frustration is still there. It could even by the source of frustration is somewhat outside of your conscious awareness. I would suggest
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
I mean have you considered you don't get to be Bruce Lee without being a bit er crazy?
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
Pray tell, who is your perfect human being role model? Seems to me you have unrealistic standards.
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
I'm going to have a Coke Zero.
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
You can't be 'friends' with someone you have power over. It's that simple. You can be on friendly terms with someone but actual friends? Come on. You're not going to be completely vulnerable or honest with someone i
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by heisnotanalien 3y ago
I basically use i3 as a very minimal window manager. I just run all my programs full-screen on a workspace each e.g. one for chrome, one for visual studio code, one for slack, one for discord etc. I only ever use the tiling to bring up a qu
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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
The best thing is about travelling with a second-hand cheap Thinkpad is no one wants to steal them. Also it's a nice fuck you to consumerism IMHO.

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