jnovek

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   by jnovek 4y ago

   I think I’ve chosen language that doesn’t communicate well. It makes sense to me in my head, but the HN crowd doesn’t seem to follow what I mean. :-) Fundamentals: the social model essentially places the onus of accommodating disability on
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   by jnovek 4y ago

   I’m disabled. I have mixed feelings about the things in this list. E.g. part of my disability experience involves my mental health and, when you’re talking about me, anyway, I don’t mind the term “mentally ill”. On the other hand, it sort
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   by jnovek 4y ago

   I’m also a hobbyist and I think it’s just slow and incremental. This year I decided to expand my electronics hobby into synth stuff. I was by no means prepared for this, but after a year of studying various synth module circuits I’m starti
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   by jnovek 4y ago

   As someone who deals with the misery of an “invisible” chronic illness, one of my great fears is that everyone (or the majority, anyway) thinks like GP.
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   by jnovek 4y ago

   ADHD meds enable focus, but I find that I still struggle with picking the right tasks to focus on. I think picking the right tasks is a weaker skill for me, probably because I didn’t start to develop that skill until I was well into adulth
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   by jnovek 4y ago

   I know this wasn’t your point, but I’m a 3D printing enthusiast and I follow what’s going on in the industry. I wouldn’t consider 3D printing played out, but I would say that it’s become more boring in the last few years. This is a good th
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   by jnovek 4y ago

   I suspect you’re being facetious, but there are several 39mm screwmount lenses from the former Soviet Union that can be had for less than $100 (often much less) and offer excellent rendition for the price. It’s how I can afford to shoot a
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   by jnovek 4y ago

   This is what I do. I primarily use Linux because it has the most flexibility with typeface and scaling, but it’s still not perfect (e.g. all electron apps) and it’s definitely bespoke and hard to reproduce. I routinely open tickets with so
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   by jnovek 4y ago

   This is particularly visible with the sorry state of accessibility options for disabled individuals. I deal with a moderate vision impairment and everything I do to make computers more usable is bespoke hacks and workarounds I’ve put togeth
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    Had to dig some but it ends up that it’s on the index page of the docs. https://icestudio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    I’m on a slow upswing from a long burnout after (over)working a similar timeframe. I tried everything I could imagine and read about, no matter what I did the two most important ingredients were “time” and “therapy”. I guess “exploring othe
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    Part of why af Klint is interesting is that some of her abstract work apparently preceded Kandinsky’s. They were at least working in parallel for a time.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    Thank you! That seems like a pretty rational starting point. I’m enjoying what I’ve learned so far but the ecosystem is large and has its own technical language. It’s often difficult to dig up simple answers like this.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    I’m slowly working my way through the FastAI deep learning course right now. In that course, everything is a nail and deep learning is a hammer — which makes sense, because it’s a course about deep learning. As a total noob, I’m curious: h
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    I’m glad this works out for you, but your experience is not universal. I have a chronic condition I am stuck with a hospital system that seems to play PBX roulette. I have a dozen of their phone numbers white listed and still miss an impor
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    I’m in a similar boat — I am a founder and YC alum who became disabled a few years ago and I can’t currently work in a sustainable way. I want to work my way back very much. For me, the rule is to keep making progress. If I’m always makin
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    While this is a completely fair counterpoint, the part that GP didn’t mention is that a patient’s subjective experience is usually ignored or minimized in psychological research, which prefers to focus on behavior and biological phenomena (
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    Can you elaborate on this, please? I’ve never heard this hypothesis and I don’t totally understand what it means. Are you saying that SSRIs trigger changes in the brain? What changes? Why do they trigger these changes? Genuinely curious.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    I found them very unsettling . My brain is trying so hard to resolve words from that mess. This is the first time I’ve really thought about how the uncanny valley applies to spoken words.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    Has everyone on Hacker News lost their minds? I come here to read and sometimes participate in rational discussions. These comments are some of the lowest effort, least rigorous, paranoid bullshit I’ve ever seen on this site. We’re a step
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    I think I do, but there are so many other things in the airport and on airplanes (noises, smells, bright lights) that trigger migraine that I can’t really say for sure.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    Your skepticism is reasonable. It does sound like an extraordinary claim. The relationship between migraine and weather is a studied phenomenon. I admit that I don’t personally understand the research on this topic, but I trust my neurolo
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    I have migraines triggered by changes in the weather. The last two winters have been the most miserable of my life. This most recent winter I had a migraine that lasted an unbelievable 63 days starting the day after Christmas.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    Thanks for the heads-up, this looks good. I will try it out.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    I get migraines triggered by the weather and I can’t find another app with barometric pressure forecasts and history.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    GP isn’t wrong, though. Even if the primary value of Tornado Cash is dubious, I’m still uncomfortable with the contemporary attitude of “block first, ask questions later (maybe)”.
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    Anti-consumerist minimalism isn’t everyone’s preference. I have many hobbies. I derive nearly 100% of my enjoyment and satisfaction in life from my hobbies. My hobbies take up a lot of space and require “stuff”. Some people really enjoy c
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    You really believe that light alcohol consumption carries no risk? For example, no one has ever, in the history of humans, had a single beer which has impaired them enough to get into a fatal crash? Even a single such accident would raise
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    “The level of alcohol consumption that minimised harm across health outcomes was zero (95% UI 0·0–0·8) standard drinks per week.” Seems pretty clear. It’s likely that the risk of,(e.g.) one drink per month is also very low. What’s not here
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    by jnovek 4y ago

    As someone who has been a new CTO before: I suggest you practice delegating. It will be great for your parental leave and, as you outgrow your current responsibilities, you’ll need those skills. This is especially true if you were previous