I was expecting an xyzzy reference.
Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
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#22That reminds me of a specific (de)motivational video of one of my favorite comedians Masood Boomgaard, which specifically covers the rat race that prevails in todays workplace culture. While it's meant to be funny, it actually touches some deeper philosophical truths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8An2SxNFvmU [Do Nothing - a message of motivation from Self-help Singh- (un) motivational speaker and life coach]
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#23Breathing is something you can either do or not do, yet it's also something that happens automatically, such as during sleep or when you're not paying attention to it. When done perfectly correctly, consciously breathing nets the same benefits to the body as unconscious or automatic breathing. You don't really have to spend any mental energy on it to get the oxygen you need (your body will even yawn for you if it nee…
I have had a similar insight.
People often wonder what advice they would give their younger self. This would be it for me.
It something seems too difficult, it is likely because you are still struggling with a pre-requisite. Go back to working on the previous foundation until your mastery is complete.
This is true for work, mental & fitness progress.
I.e. if you find losing weight hard, you probably need to improve your diet (not to lose weight, but to find healthy food you enjoy enough to become a self-reinforcing habit).
Don’t try to improve your diet in order to lose weight. That is trying to solve two big things, on two different levels, at once.
This may take a while, but eventually you can find your way to an exceptionally healthy diet you like too much to require any discipline to stay on.
That is a health foundation of lasting value. And with that foundatiin, when you try to lose weight again, it is much easier.
Likewise, if you find it is hard to improve your diet, even in increments, perhaps you are fatigued? You may need to improve your sleep routine until you are habitually not tired.
For some of us, that might take a lot of work. But focusing on it, instead of downstream efforts will pay off.
Etc.
Foundations should be iterated on until they are self-perpetuatingly solid. Then the next thing will be much easier.
Math and physics are mental versions.
The result for any path: Go slow (iterate & explore to complete fluency & habit) to go fast (compounding instead of linear gains in understanding & progress).
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#24> There's no reward for lingering, just the peculiar pleasure of simply being.
Reward: the numbers go up. Almost like idle clicker games, but without clicking.
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#25Looking at the source code, I have never seen so many files for such a simple HTML page.
I'd advise a complete rewrite of Astro to Rust+WASM, then add most of what Angular does inside the framework, then usenothing will benefit from it.
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#26Could we get a leaderboard feature
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#27Looking at the source code, I have never seen so many files for such a simple HTML page.
I was also quite surprised, and I took a bit of challenge to make it a single file that faithfully reproduces the exact behavior and embeds all dependencies including the web font, besides from Inter which is only used for toasts and barely distinguishable from Arial in this context. It weighs 3,123 bytes without the specifically subsetted font which takes additional 10,433 bytes.
https://gist.github.com/lifthrasiir/f46725d3e9e9d055da40b3de...
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#28Could we get a leaderboard feature
I made it to 2 minutes and 5 seconds.
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#29Breathing is something you can either do or not do, yet it's also something that happens automatically, such as during sleep or when you're not paying attention to it. When done perfectly correctly, consciously breathing nets the same benefits to the body as unconscious or automatic breathing. You don't really have to spend any mental energy on it to get the oxygen you need (your body will even yawn for you if it nee…
Experimentally, increasing oxygen doesn't reduce how often people yawn.
We still don't know why people (or various mammals) yawn.
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#30This page is a great example how we got of rails with a webpage. Its a very simple page, with a counter and some text. The files and js needed to make it run is insane.