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A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by kaashif »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #603
kaashif wrote: post #601

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If you're comparing multiplayer esports shooters, why not compare to multiplayer horror games like Lethal Company or REPO? I love those games and have played them for hours and hours. And these are games where you meet enemies infrequently. The pre-canned single player horror games like Amnesia or whatever are what you're talking about.

nah bro, lethal company and Repo is game where you meet enemy pretty often lol how can you say that, also like most horror games this games would feel "dated" after few runs because "horror" aspect is not something you can replicate over and over again

In REPO it can be 10 minutes until you see an enemy, then if you kill it, the respawn timer is like 10 minutes. Towards the end of levels things get much more frantic, but if you're fast you genuinely can do multiple levels without even seeing enemies.

Anyway I agree horror can't be replicated, it's not like I'm scared after I know all of the enemies, what they do, and what affects respawn times.

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Post by ajolly »

Groxx wrote: post #341
uncircle wrote: post #115

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I was about to be a little snarky but your comment reminded me to be kind. Thanks. I don't have a receipt printer, what helps me is an A4-sized whiteboard with marker when I feel like I'm falling behind my tasks. Also, to use todos sparingly, so they retain their effectiveness. It's actually quite underrated to forget and let go of tasks; what's important tends to stick around in your head and keep you up at night. T…

Whiteboards have been my main strategy too. And a little while ago I ran across this: https://community.frame.work/t/whiteboard-input-module/58985 and bought the same stickers and pens and it works much better than I expected - the pens write super-durably for dry-erase and light bumping doesn't erase them at all. I have weeks-old reminders on there that are almost new looking. For day to day stuff I just use a more…

Related: 3m has an easy erase whiteboard roll that is both easy to erase will even let you use permanent marker on it. It's been working great

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Post by ajolly »

mjfisher wrote: post #412
homefree wrote: post #121

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Yubikey nanos are the way out of that specific problem

Is there a way of getting them to store a dozen or so totp secrets? And if so, how do you select which one you want to use?

For that use case get an onlykey rather than a yubikey.

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Post by swyx »

> I plan to release my software publicly in the coming weeks. You can subscribe to my newsletter to get notified when it's available.

i think a fun challenge for any new vibecode tool youve heard of but havent tried is to just make this. it cant be that hard... (famous last words)

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Post by komali2 »

laurieherault wrote: post #67
jameshart wrote: post #62

I feel like you could increase the visceral satisfaction of task completion by getting one of those old desk spikes to spear each task receipt onto when you’re done with it.

Yes, I thought about it, but I was afraid I might hurt myself stupidly one day :p

I can practically guarantee you this'll never happen. They look really scary but never in my life have I heard of an injury on one of those things, and people tend to make all sorts of fantastical injuries in the restaurant industry. It just doesn't happen.

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Post by rkagerer »

afro88 wrote: post #586
karpierz wrote: post #526

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Here's an analogy that might make it clearer: Alice is in a wheelchair. Bob has a broken leg. Charlie is unfit, but otherwise a healthy adult. Alice, Bob, and Charlie would all say "I find getting up the hills of San Francisco difficult". But "doesn't everyone find that hard" conflates the causes and severity of the difficulty for the three of them in a way that isn't useful for making their complaints feel heard, or…

ADHD-I has a range of symptoms where the person needs 5 or more that are significantly disruptive to their life for at least 6 months. So when someone reads the first paragraph and immediately thinks the author has to be ADHD because they talk about 1 of these symptoms that in isolation the majority of the world has, I ask "but aren't we all like this?"

Those threshold numbers seem so arbitrary...
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