Hacker News: audiometry

New comment by audiometry in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?"

audiometry — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:24:51 +0000

Yeah this was exactly my conclusion too. And it enabled me to give up things that I wasn’t good at, couldn’t consistently practice, and felt as tremendous burdens. (Namely music and foreign languages). They just don’t stimulate me enough to be able to consistently practice as much as is required for mastery. Unlike jumping a bike which I can do for hours on end. Wish I could play music better and speak Japanese, but I can’t and I finally realized I never would for fundamental chemistry reasons

All these suggestions about different or better planning programs or habit forming things etc…. They have an efficacy that last six weeks, then wears off, and they themselves become another shameful burden.

And yes methylphenidate helps.

New comment by audiometry in "Show HN: AI Personal assistant for ADHD minds"

audiometry — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:42:56 +0000

Yuck. These “helpful systems” (of all flavors) inevitably, whether it’s a day or six weeks, become just another nagging burden to become averse to.

And using examples like “cleaning the kitchen” is insulting. Not everyone with ADHD is a low-functioning sub-normal…

I doubt the author of this has ADHD.

New comment by audiometry in "Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia"

audiometry — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:45:26 +0000

Would cialis likely have the same benefits?

New comment by audiometry in "The free soloist who fell to earth"

audiometry — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 11:24:58 +0000

This long form writing style where the author has to inject his own story as a secondary/support narrative gets really tedious. You could edit all of it out and the story would be sustained.

New comment by audiometry in "Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?"

audiometry — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 23:45:26 +0000

This story appears almost annually in the NYTimes I feel. Or at least it appears on HN annually, cited from some large media. I wonder why by this point I’d think everyone has heard the standard rebuttals/clarifications.

New comment by audiometry in "James Niehues Ski Map Artist"

audiometry — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 11:21:29 +0000

Yes. And oh and it’s an online store except there are no prices. Just turns into a submission form to contact the artist. (At least for the originals.). Forget it.

New comment by audiometry in "Neuralink transported brain implants covered in pathogens, group alleges"

audiometry — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 11:51:41 +0000

How will you or anyone ever be able to know this… just because you cannot perceive it, you assume it cannot exist?

New comment by audiometry in "Fewer people are creating new podcasts these days"

audiometry — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:38:04 +0000

I wonder how they count this? I use overcast app. It automatically downloads episodes of anything I’m subscribed to. But I migh not listen to it. Or I might listen to five minutes and delete. What level of truth do these podcast stats catch?

New comment by audiometry in "Fewer people are creating new podcasts these days"

audiometry — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:06:19 +0000

He also has appeared twice on The Nine Club, a skateboarding podcast.

New comment by audiometry in "Ask HN: What would you learn if you would have three to six months free time?"

audiometry — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 09:44:07 +0000

Why do you specify that one in particular? There are so many there. Don’t know how to separate good from the bad.

New comment by audiometry in "Carvana, which bought my car for more than I paid new, has lost 98% of its value"

audiometry — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 04:22:10 +0000

>just begging for some kind of regulation.

Seems like the market has regulated them quite nicely indeed.

New comment by audiometry in "Zuckerberg’s empire collapses"

audiometry — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:21:12 +0000

I dislike him even without being fanned by the media. Totally organic dislike for him and his product and his privacy invasion.

New comment by audiometry in "Getting Out of a Rut"

audiometry — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 13:55:22 +0000

Go on a three week video game moratorium. Get on a regular sleep schedule that wakes you up earlier than normal. Make task todo lists. Make “intentions for the week” lists. Make the items small grains of sand sand. Tick them off as you finish some of them. It won’t be everything probably. Get yourself on a program of your choosing and it becomes a virtuous cycle.

Talk to someone too. Not commiserate, which isn’t helpful, but someone who could help or offer objective advice or just even understand you better after you say your piece.

New comment by audiometry in "Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator"

audiometry — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 03:56:42 +0000

Is there a way to mute the weird static sound? I turned off the radio, but the static persists. When I turned on walkie-talkie, the static moved to the speaker of the my mic/speaker combo. Turning off walk-talkie just moved the static back to original speaker.

New comment by audiometry in "Show HN: Dead Acquire – Sell your pre-revenue or dead side-project"

audiometry — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 08:04:41 +0000

it's still dead, fifteen hours later.

New comment by audiometry in "The Quest for Fuel in World War II (1993)"

audiometry — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:17:27 +0000

Heh, the modern world would eat that much in about two months. 4? years compressed to 0.25 of a year? (basis ~90mn/day)

New comment by audiometry in "Why do some humans love chili peppers?"

audiometry — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 03:27:57 +0000

I like the taste of spicy food. But 8 hours later my guts are in misery. Any fixes? I asked my stomach/bowel doctor and he said he had the same problem. Knew of no solution.

New comment by audiometry in "Show HN: Subreddit Finder – find subreddits based on a topic"

audiometry — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:19:45 +0000

I would take the other side of that bet for whatever amount of money you’d like.

New comment by audiometry in "A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout"

audiometry — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:27:13 +0000

Small sample of weak (untrained) people moreover.

New comment by audiometry in "A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout"

audiometry — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:22:35 +0000

“Functional bodybuilding” what? Bodybuilding is explicitly not functional. It maximizes for appearance/size.