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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Aside from getting treatment, what’s helped me:

    • know that you’re incapable of forming habits. You have to choose to do the thing every time.
    • Trick yourself into hyperfixation if you can. It’s a superpower, if you can aim it in a useful direction. Find something gratifying or satisfying about the task to focus on. Sometimes watching the todo list get smaller or the inbox get cleared out does it for me.
    • This one’s hard to describe, but sometimes you have to realize that the hyperfixation easy-mode motivation isn’t coming and you’ll have to draw motivation from somewhere else inside yourself. Sometimes just getting over the initial jump of starting a task makes the rest of it flow naturally.
    • Break big problems into little problems.
    • Simplify your life as much as possible. You only have so many executive function tokens every day, don’t waste them.
    • have a todo list. Don’t make it complicated. If possible, just do the thing immediately instead of putting it on the list.
    • Get enough sleep. This is not optional.
    • Exercise, specifically some kind of cardio. 30 minutes above about 120bpm, 3 times per week. There are studies, it makes a big difference in a million ways.
    • Give yourself grace. You’re playing on hard mode, don’t compare yourself to neurotypical people.

    Edit: also it’s not laziness, not really. Lazy people are comfortable with it.


  • Eh, I try to keep this username separate from my real name. It’s not too hard though, you just need ‘@media print {‘. Set display none on stuff like the navbar and footer, and you also need to think about page breaks and such, there are guides.

    Browser dev tools can simulate print styles, and you can preview with the regular print preview. To get consistency across browsers you probably want to set a definite width, so the sizing stays the same.






  • I used supermaven (copilot competitor) for awhile and it was sorta ok sometimes, but I turned it off when I realized I’d forgotten how to write a switch case. Autocomplete doesn’t know your intent, so it introduces a lot of noise that I prefer to do without.

    I’ve been trying out Claude code for a couple months and I think I like it ok for some tasks. If you use it to do your typing rather than your thinking, then it’s pretty decent. Give it small tasks with detailed instructions and you generally get good results. The problem is that it’s most tempting to use when you don’t have the problem figured out and you’re hoping it will, but thats when it gives you overconvoluted garbage. About half the time this garbage is more useful than starting from scratch.

    It’s good at sorting out boilerplate and following explicit patterns that you’ve already created. It’s not good at inventing and implementing those patterns in the first place.





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    It’s pretty dependent on humidity and temperature, so a DVD buried in a well sealed plastic bag with a desiccant pack is actually in good conditions. No light, generally cool, and low humidity are perfect.

    A hard drive has a lot of moving parts that must work and are basically impossible to replace. With optical media you’re just storing the platters, and I’m sure you’ll still be able to track down a drive somewhere. You can still find VHS players and those have been obsolete for 25 years.


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    3 months ago

    I’d go with optical media here. Probably multiple capsules.

    • M-Disk (DVD if it will fit, otherwise Blu-ray)
    • Make an encrypted archive of your data. Strong password - I suggest diceware with 8 or more words so you might remember it in 30 years
    • Use DVDisaster to add parity data. You sacrifice some space, but you get error tolerance in exchange
    • Wrap the disks up in good jewel cases, well sealed plastic, along with some good big silica gel desiccant packs.
    • Put all that in the smallest durable, airtight container you can
    • stash somewhere it probably won’t be disturbed for a few decades. Memorize.
    • destroy all evidence you did this.