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Post by verylittlemeat »

tstewart161 wrote: post #327
Aeolun wrote: post #306

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> doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable You do you, but this is my apartment. It is there especially to allow me to do the things that I want to do. If this person is not doing carpentry work at 12 o’clock at night, they’re not disturbing anyone with their activities.

No, negative externalities aren’t ok when you do it, or when cities do it, or when businesses do it, or when anyone does it. You don’t get to harm other’s welfare. Take your construction project to a public park or outdoors somewhere

I don't think this whole conversation needs to be so dramatic.

I live in NYC and do projects like this chair all the time. I talk to my neighbors and ask them when they wont be home or when would be a good time to do X hours of work.

Most of the time they say don't worry about it as long as it's not past like 9pm or before 10am. I extend the same courtesy to my neighbors in turn. Just communicate and be reasonable.

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Post by vagrantJin »

octoberfranklin wrote: post #310
scottlamb wrote: post #301

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I hate this attitude that apartment dwellers shouldn't be able to live their lives. I regret that I went along and never played my flute while I lived in an apartment for many years. I think we should either be expecting some neighbor noise (during reasonable hours) or demanding that landlords soundproof thoroughly.

People like you are why I don't live in cities anymore. Seriously, everytime there is some kind of pro-urbanist post here on HN, I think to myself "sure, but noise". And people who don't value peace and quiet.

I'm not sure cities are the place to find peace and quiet.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by georgetony »

Instead of having just one position to work from, I found it is better to be able to alternate between an ergonomic sitting position and a lay-down position. The easier it is to alternate between these positions, the more you will do it because there is less friction.

Picture of my setup: https://imgur.com/a/OLhkrPV

Bought a used Aeron chair about 10 years ago and is still working fine. Love the Kinesis Keyboard, also about 8 years old.

The Lounge chair needs to be replaced once a year ($50) because by that time the fabric on the back becomes saggy and will start to cause discomfort on the back.

I don't like to use multiple monitors. Somehow I couldn't get used to it.

When I'm on the Lounge chair, keyboard is on my lap and I use the arm rest to make sure my wrist is not pressed against anything.

When I'm sitting, the armrest is adjusted to keep my wrist from touching anything.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by octoberfranklin »

fyfy18 wrote: post #339
octoberfranklin wrote: post #310

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People like you are why I don't live in cities anymore. Seriously, everytime there is some kind of pro-urbanist post here on HN, I think to myself "sure, but noise". And people who don't value peace and quiet.

As the sister comment said, noise isolation is what you want. I live in an apartment with masonry walls and floors, and I basically cannot hear anything from my neighbours. The most I hear is tap tap tap when someone above is walking with heels on. Now if you have any ideas for noise outside I'm open :-) A hipster bar opened opposite last year (when we moved in there was a commercial unit that had been empty for a fe…

> I live in an apartment with masonry

I live in an earthquake zone. Masonry construction is illegal on almost the entire US West Coast.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by octoberfranklin »

vagrantJin wrote: post #362
octoberfranklin wrote: post #310

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People like you are why I don't live in cities anymore. Seriously, everytime there is some kind of pro-urbanist post here on HN, I think to myself "sure, but noise". And people who don't value peace and quiet.

I'm not sure cities are the place to find peace and quiet.

I came to the same conclusion, but urbanists get very angry when I tell them this.

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Post by de_watcher »

grenoire wrote: post #265
hinkley wrote: post #253

I stopped hanging out in /r/DIY before /r/DIWHY became a thing, because it was turning into a roast of people risking life, limb, and property by doing something structurally unsound. There's educating people on building standards, and then there's just bagging on people. In an attempt to be more of the former than the latter, if the string or especially that strut sheer off of their mounts, that whole contraption is…

Lord, thank you for this comment. The structure looks like a death trap and the physics of its construction make very little sense. Be careful everybody!

The comfychair and Spanish inquisition.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by skocznymroczny »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #277
skrebbel wrote: post #130

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> And damage does not scale linearly. This must be today's "most HN" comment.

When I think of a "most HN" comment, I think of one of four options: - Dismisses a new project that simplifies a task and makes it more approachable to non-technical folks (Like the famous Dropbox comment [0]) - Is extremely pedantic and serves only as a distraction from a discussion - Argues in favor of pure functional programming - Misses obvious sarcasm, even when the /s is included. [0] https://news.ycombinator.c…

pure functional programming is so 2010. rewrite it in Rust is the 2020 way.

Re: I built a lay-down desk

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

hinkley wrote: post #253

I stopped hanging out in /r/DIY before /r/DIWHY became a thing, because it was turning into a roast of people risking life, limb, and property by doing something structurally unsound. There's educating people on building standards, and then there's just bagging on people. In an attempt to be more of the former than the latter, if the string or especially that strut sheer off of their mounts, that whole contraption is…

/r/DIY, and basically every other part of the easily accessible public internet where people used to build things died because the people who build things left those parts of the internet.

The people who actually build cool stuff left because they didn't like a bunch of people with little to no experience in the things they are doing telling them about how they should have done them and that should have worn more safety glasses, used more jack stands and that a Dremel is going to eat their hand if they use it while wearing work gloves. Nobody who's actually contributing content of any value is going to stick around somewhere they have to take shit from a bunch of internet riff-raff that isn't contributing anything.

There's calling out stuff that's actually unlikely to last and there's pandering to the safety crowd for virtue points and the publicly accessible internet is rife with the former while actual constructive criticism is proportionally rare. For every comment to the tune of "you should consider fastener X because your application is Y and that plays to X's strength Z" there are ten teenagers (or adults acting like teenagers) making some low effort jab about something in the building code, or some written list of best practices, they don't understand the reasons behind.

It takes time and effort to build something. It doesn't take any time and effort to make some quip about PPE so that a bunch of teenagers can click on an up arrow and you can get your fix. The people actually building things got sick of being used like that.

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