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Ask HN: What are you planning to unlearn in 2021?
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#22drupal. it is horrible.
I once got fired for printing out and posting a jackie chan meme about drupal on my cubicle. Everyone thought it was funny as shit except for my boss.
> Everyone thought it was funny as shit except for my boss.
What a petty child. But there must've been more that cause your termination.
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#23Just got a split keyboard, so mainly trying to unlearn bad typing habits :)
What did you get? What do you recommend? I'd have to relearn typing, since i have terrible typing habits. Though, the idea is curious for me.
For a split that isn’t too wild, try an Alice layout from Switchcouture. I’ve been using one for about 6 months and it’s amazing. Else try Kyria from splitkb. Had that for about 4 months and it’s so nice to type on. For one with numbers, you can get a Lily58.
It took me about a month to get up to speed on the Kyria but just a few days on the Alice.
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#24To unlearn this year: reading too much and too fast, without taking notes. I am a very regular Hacker News reader, visit here almost daily and find lots of interesting reading. However if you ask me today what did I learn in the last year, my answer will barely scratch the surface of everything I have read. Effectively, it means that the time I have spent reading was merely spent on a diversion, not learning. I still…
I can relate to this. Thanks for sharing the blog post
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#25Two months ago I woke up with tight fingers/hands, feeling really weird in my arms as well, that gradually pulsed between discomfort/numbness/pain in the arm/forearm/hand/fingers. It scared the shit out of me, and when I looked at the mirror I was all twisted with a shoulder forward and pushed up, the other shoulder was lowered, and my back was bent forward and tilted to the side of the downward shoulder. I couldn't…
Wonder if anyone has tried the posture corrector belts available on amazon. They look uncomfortable
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#26Javascript
Haha. Wonder if there are people who got drawn in to the ML/AI hype, got disillusioned somehow and now going back to traditional software development
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#27Just got a split keyboard, so mainly trying to unlearn bad typing habits :)
Cool ! never heard of those until you mentioned. why is regular keyboard bad?
Not that regular keyboards are bad necessarily, but given I spend many hours in a day typing in a position that isn't exactly great on my posture or wrists I figured it might be time to make an investment for my future self (mainly just for good ergonomics)
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#28Just got a split keyboard, so mainly trying to unlearn bad typing habits :)
What did you get? What do you recommend? I'd have to relearn typing, since i have terrible typing habits. Though, the idea is curious for me.
I went all out crazy and got a Moonlander[1]. I love it. It took maybe a week or two of daily usage (an hour or so - writing code and doing the training exercises that they recommend via their online tool) for me to get back to feeling comfortable using it.
I feel like I could type nonstop for hours without my wrists or back getting sore. Having the ability to configure absolutely everything also really boosts productivity. I do a lot of Python development so I've got shortcut keys to run the linting tools, auto-formatting etc. in Pycharm.
However I had serious buyer's remorse once I started using it; I felt like I had to start typing all over again and it's a bit of an investment to get productive again. I guess like trying a new IDE.
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#29To unlearn this year: reading too much and too fast, without taking notes. I am a very regular Hacker News reader, visit here almost daily and find lots of interesting reading. However if you ask me today what did I learn in the last year, my answer will barely scratch the surface of everything I have read. Effectively, it means that the time I have spent reading was merely spent on a diversion, not learning. I still…
I have made the decision to take daily notes, almost like a diary, in the hopes that I can look back on the past and have a full history of things that I read, learnt, took in etc.
Like version control for your brain :) (except without the merge conflicts ... hopefully)
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#30Two months ago I woke up with tight fingers/hands, feeling really weird in my arms as well, that gradually pulsed between discomfort/numbness/pain in the arm/forearm/hand/fingers. It scared the shit out of me, and when I looked at the mirror I was all twisted with a shoulder forward and pushed up, the other shoulder was lowered, and my back was bent forward and tilted to the side of the downward shoulder. I couldn't…
Wonder if anyone has tried the posture corrector belts available on amazon. They look uncomfortable
From my research posture correctors aren't good solutions, because they will make be doing the work of your muscles, rendering your muscles weaker - specially concerning on muscles that are already at fault for being weak.
They could be worn for short periods of time, at max like 15 minutes.
You need to strengthen your back and shoulders, stretch muscles that make you curl forward, and you need to be patient... I was very frustrated in the first weeks trying to correct my posture because I wasn't seeing much results, but it just takes time.
Like you're trying to undo years of bad posture in few days it's impossible, your muscles need to gain strength, they also need to rest, and you will need to learn to do proper movements with the new acquired strength and muscle activation.
So I don't think posture corrector doesn't cut it, I'm sure they're very useful in specific situations, but for the majority of people you just need strength and stretching.