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Techniques for streamlining your daily tasks and managing your time efficiently
Effective techniques for streamlining your daily tasks and managing your time efficiently!

Here are some effective techniques that I got to know. (Even though I'm not using all of these but I just know about it haha)

Use the Eisenhower Matrix to categorize tasks as urgent and important, helping you focus on what matters most.

Break down big tasks into smaller chunks and schedule time frames to work on them.

Start with the simplest tasks and gradually work on the most difficult ones.

Prioritize and take on the most nerve-wracking tasks first.

Use a Pomodoro timer to maintain focus and productivity.

Plan your day the night before, and time-block your schedule for specific tasks.

Delegate tasks that are not your core focus to others when possible.

Embrace automation to handle repetitive tasks efficiently.

Time block your day to minimize context switching and allow for breaks to prevent burnout.

Utilize tools like a personal assistant or time management app to stay organized and remember tasks.

Time-box your tasks to limit the time spent on each task.

Use talking as a user interface to interact with tools and manage tasks effectively.

Use time-boxing to prevent spending too much time on a single task and create a sense of urgency.

Plan your week ahead and make a checklist for each day the night before.

Organize tasks by importance and start the day with the most important ones.

Have daily meetings to cover tasks for the day and stay on track.

Schedule bigger planning sessions to map out tasks for the month.

These techniques can help you become more organized, focused, and productive in managing your daily tasks and time efficiently.
Klingon would be amazing too
> Computer quality has continuously improved since their inception.

Not really. For example the switch to LCD monitors from CRT was a step back in quality. LCD was just way cheaper and more convenient as in taking less space that regardless of worse quality it still took over. It took many years for the various aspects of image / video quality to catch up.

There are plenty of similar examples where price decrease was what driving the industry rather than quality. In general, shrinking form-factor brought lots of drops in quality, because it's harder to make various electronic parts smaller and as durable. Opening markets to wider range of players (eg. "the PC revolution") is also bound to bring drops in quality as many inexperienced players will be seeking to enter the market and typically contest the lower bound of quality.

It's only when the industry stabilizes on some standard and creates a group of experienced players who compete for the same niche is when it's possible for the quality to continuously increase. Did something like this happen in the 90s and 00s? -- I don't know. From software perspective, I think about those years as the time when the decline started to accelerate, and I see us still on the decline of software quality in general. But I don't know what the author is referring to.
Me too - I was there in fact - jwz was a friend back in the day. “Monkeybutter” is the password to his loft parties :-) my big contribution to the world of the web was search strings in the URL bar, which prior required a valid URL.
Armbian is such a great project, it's really nice to see it get more wide use and recognition.
This is why we turned off phone number verification on matrix.org.
> because you didn't pay Apple's through-the-roof storage prices in the first place

Are Apple’s prices “through the roof”? They seem comparable/equal to Google’s

And what dark patterns exist if you only use the free plan?
For a while FF on Mac was using a huge amount of CPU. For me it's fixed but YMMV.
Analyzing How Google Bard Display's Links in It's Response
I had grandfathers on the Western and Eastern front in Europe. Them being there doesn't mean they had any real idea of what they were doing and what was going on. Beyond short term survival that is.
I am kind of surprised none of the navigation apps divert your course slightly to pass in front of a large store or something yet. It could even announce the place. "On your right is such and such store where using the code Maps will give you a 10 percent discount."
1. It didn't. He did come back quite regularly. The article simply ommits that.

2. The evidence is mostly based on a police report which names Kundera. You could make a case that the secret police would occasionally falsify these things, but in general they'd also do this for a reason (mostly because they'd use for some blackmail / publicity stunt). This does not seem to be the case here...

https://www.respekt.cz/respekt-in-english/milan-kundera-s-de...
>> Hyperthermia Therapy

So just go eat some salmonella at Chipotle to cure your cancer?
These small nations will in a multipolar world soon enjoy Wagner and Chinese boots instead.
Fortunately, observing a levitating fleck of diamagnetic material is far less error prone than measuring heat or neutrons in a messy cold fusion experiment.
At long distance, the transmission losses are so uneconomical – that they never got built in the firt place. This is why you shouldn't look at current loss numbers, which already weeded out what was not feasible before.

Now, if transmission losses are near-zero, then yeah – you'd still get the same power for the same price & losses (for other reasons), but from 500-1000 miles away instead of 50-100 miles. Residential customers won't notice anything immediately because they'll pay the same due to initial capital costs and stuff. But decades down the line it would slowly, invisibly transform everything around you.
> Beyond learning the content in the link above

If you put it like that - OK. I was under the impression that you were implying "learn no Keigo at all beyond introductions (except Teineigo)", which would seem rather odd to me, as I've definitely heard 行ってまいります, Xでございます, etc. in Anime and movies.

If you're talking about the advanced uses that even many native speakers struggle with (unless properly trained), then yeah, maybe it's specialised vocab that you won't necessarily need.
Writing custom engines for VR makes too hard, and only custom will have the performance to avoid nausea.

Add to that closed platforms and no diopter adjustable non-fresnel lenses, and it's over.

Valve demonstrated why VR will fail, only a monopolistic company can succeed with it in a zero interest rate environement.

I was hoping Roblox on Quest 2 would be 120 Hz and smooth 3rd person but they failed.

RIP VR!
Nah, I rarely need to do calculations, and if I do I'll use cmd+space on Mac, Spotlight can do simple calculations, or Google.

For longer calculations I used to use Soulver, but I haven't needed to do that in a while. I recall last time I used it, it was for something in eve online. It's a bit more suitable for that kind of calculation because you can write down your thinking and name variables while doing stuff.

That said, I remember once upon a time we had an old desktop calculator, plugged in, chunky buttons, illuminated display (blue segment display), that thing was pretty cool, if I had the desk space I wouldn't mind a somewhat oversized calculator like that.
Yeah, you're probably right - fusion has a lot of hard problems to solve. But for it, cheaper superconductors could be the game changer we need. For these other things... We already have energy storage, motors, weapons etc. It's certainly reasonable to think we could build better ones but I'm more excited for fusion, as it has the ability to solve climate change and provide cheap electricity to the billions who don't yet have it at the same time, probably resulting in double digit economic growth in many places.
I thought that AMP was dead?
It would be amazing if the microphone detected say 15 second silence and responded automatically for a fully hands free experience
SO the tech can and does block adverts for toulet seats if you have just bought one?
The reason IE was hated for being tied in the OS was because the OS was crashing due to the IE bugs. That's not the case with macOS or iOS at all, just because the OS provides a JS engine out of the box doesn't make it Windows Me grade.
Web development is still wildly varied in execution. I think we can end up with blinders based on our work, but websites still get deployed in ways that would make a webmaster role relevant. Not sure you would call them a webmaster these days, but the role is there.
Naw, theory is perfect as long as there's the math to back it up, which in this case there isn't.

There are plenty of theories backed up by hard math which can be summarised as "this _should_ work" and then it usually does.

As long as it's classical physics I guess. Even with math it seems quantum physics still surprises us.
Nope, that never happened. You must be thinking of a different Brave browser.
This. The first thing I have to do on firefox is turn off a load of advertising.

That, crypto, and the Mr.Robot extension fiasco burned a _lot_ of goodwill.
Pedantic point: textbook remote attestation doesn't use encryption, it uses digital signatures. Nothing is being hidden from anyone.
By that time, 1945, no city, or town, of any of the beligerents was "purely" civilian anymore. Doesn't excuse the deliberate killong of hundreds of thousands of non-combatants so.
I see lead (Pb...something) as main ingredient, isn't it banned in most industries because how toxic it is and how hard it's to handle in industrial scale? isn't that a problem for potential mass applications?

(lots of comments about this discovery call this revolution that will change everything around us and that somehow implies mass production I guess)
“I was burnt out, and earned every penny of my savings and social security and [getting to grandparents here] pensions!”

You kids are just lazy socialists who think 15-20 years of economic insecurity is worse than when we burnt out.

(General Patton tries to slap the young man with a case of nerves to “get back on the battlefield”—but his subdermal MEMS insulin pump is performing an OTA update, and he needs to check whether his granddaughter posted on instagram.

Personalized to the geriatric General’s situation, adrenaline is released from the implant, and he is able to slap the young man who wrote that exact code).
Unrelated to the site, but you really shouldn't be using latin script for thai.
No.

But last week I decided it's time to revive my old calculator and I ordered spare batteries for it.

The reason was that I was building some cupboards and needed some simple measurements calculated.

Every time I took out my phone to substract or divide a number, some attractive push notification distracted me. Pulling me into some hole of chats, social media, a game, whatever. At least dragging me out of the flow of woodworking.
I think I'd rather be locked out of my Apple account and lose access to some stuff than be stuck in a job where I have to powerlessly tell people that this has happened to them every day.

I get where you're coming from. But in the end we're all powerless "cogs in the machine" with much of our autonomy stripped by, ehm, who even? Apple Management? Some Apple engineer who wrote this? The Algorithm (which may or may not be comprehensible and may or may not be able to explain its decisions)? Someone/thing else? I feel we need think about this on a higher level than just "customer X was kicked in the teeth" and even "customers regularly get kicked in the teeth".
From my perspective the story has went like this:

1. It's probably fake/fraud/error/hopium.

2. Yeah but, it's not a superconductor, it's just diamagnetic.

3. Yeah but, theoretically maybe, but not practically.

4. Yeah but, it's just a warmer superconductor, not room temperature.

I don't know if my sensibilities are "bayesian" or something, but while the naysayers are totally correct, their predictions are not where the trend is heading. This thing is consistently defying expectations and gradually becoming more "important" as more information comes out.

I believe if the Q-Centre team say it's room-temperature SC, then given the evidence so far I expect to get closer to that conclusion over time. If it fails, then I think it'll fail for very good reasons, not simple error or incompetence. At this point, fraud is totally ruled out.
> upgrading the banking system to use public-key encryption with reuse protection.

This is exactly what chip and PIN does. The chip is a smart card holding keys; the PIN authorizes its use. Online, there is 3DS which can be used similarly.

We’ve had both of these tools for over 20 years now. It’s just a question of how much the industry is choosing to cater to convenience and backwards compatibility, i.e. a security/availability trade off.

In Europe, the regulator has made the choice for the industry instead.
Oh interesting! Seems like a pretty specific requirement to have. Do you mind if I ask what you use those for?

As for the tracking - I'm pretty sure Firefox blocks a lot of those by default, last time I checked it was plastered all across their homepage. It's not 100% effective, but if them making an effort to do the right thing pushes you away, you might be asking too much unfortunately. Building an entire browser takes a lot of energy and time, and Firefox seems like the kind of browser that's worth it in the long term.
There's quite a bit more hammers in the government's toolbox. Off the top of my head, the government can use taxation, education, propaganda and mental health policy to address drug addiction. None of those need the judicial system to operate.
I used to work 10h shifts in a warehouse unloading trucks. Managers would talk about time theft like slow walking to the bathroom and taking lots of time in there, recent walk to the water fountain or just too much talking with the other workers. From their POV, the hours we spent in the warehouse must be used to unload trucks, store the goods and load trucks. Any time outside the allowed breaks not spent doing that is stolen from them, because they own it by paying the worker a salary.
There was workers also complaining about time theft if one annoying person was working less hard than them.
Sometimes, out of boredom, I would push myself to unload a truck as quickly as possible. Most of the time, I would work at a comfortable pace. Often, the goods in the truck were tricky to unload an in a team of 2 people, 1 would be ilde while the other with the right equipment deals with the problem. In this case, managers would say the idle person should "find something to do". It usually was taking a broom and stand with it, occasionally swooping it across the floor.
Some people worked fast. Some worked slow. The pay was a flat yearly increase until you reached a cap.

Today I'm a SWE, writing this comment while working from home. I often get praises by my manager for my work. I plan to clean my apartment this afternoon and maybe do some groceries. Never heard anything about time theft at my current workplace.

Unfortunately, managers can see how many boxes are left in a truck and how many were unloaded, they can't really see how many more line of codes are needed to finish a feature or how much thinking about the problem is required to find a solution.
It might be in the future
seems like an emotional outburst is not the worst way to have a long call with no actionable outcomes.

my sympathies for the call staff thou
RP2040 is a bitbanging monster with 8x PIO cores operating at clock frequency. RP2040 can even bitbang DVI easily. It can output nearly 4 Gbps at the nominal 125 MHz frequency.

While a great chip ESP32 doesn't come close matching RP2040 PIO's power in this aspect.
The best time to buy anything was before and during the internet's creation.
Watch this list of short videos and hopefully it will change your mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk9VQt5Nt64&list=PLxB143vg5_...

In my opinion short term things are getting worse indeed but in the medium future (10+y) it's going to start improving.
What is really weird is that the "experts" completely lack the ability to recognize exponential growth (S curves) and model everything linearly. Especially episode 5 (~3:15) shows how coal usage has been massively over-estimated and not just a couple of years but 15 years and it's still going. And similarly how renewable energy sources are underestimated massively. The estimated time for going to 10TWh of renewables is ~2100, but it will most likely happen in 2030 (same episode ~10:00).

Of course, nobody says to stop worrying because things are actually bad. But just from the perspective of cost all energy will migrate to renewables and after doing that and price starting to decline to 0, we will be able to look into other ways to fix climate (e.g. recapture CO2 which currently is cost-prohibitive).
As crazy as that sounds, IE had a better development team until IE6 basically killed off its competition. It was more stable than equivalent browsers, it had more features, I think it was even developed faster than competitors.

Which sounds a lot like Chrome, except closed source. Those considering how big and cumbersome browsers are... does open source that matter that much in the grand scheme of things? Just browser complexity is a HUGE moat, there are probably 5-10 organizations that can sustain leading edge browser development 10+ years.
I live in Durham and drive by this occasionally, but funny enough I don’t think I’ve ever needed to drive under it. They actually raised it a few years ago, but it still claims the occasional truck.
A Look at How Much Less Antarctic Sea Ice There Is This Year
This is DRM for browsers. Would you buy a computer from John Deer ... ?
The kalman filter depends on having an accurate estimate of the variance to work, if you incorrectly weight an input as being far more trustworthy than it actually is then it won't work very well.
The same video without ads: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Lk_57TP6RFk
The thing is you have to use build tools to use Tailwind. It doesn't work (well) without it being able to search your templates to generate css for the classes you use.

So anyone using Tailwind already has the setup to add tailwind.config.js into their project. They make it as easy as it can possibly be.

The reason why people don't change the config is that you need the default tailwind config for all the copy-paste-able snippets to work. People buy something like TailwindUI and copy what they find around. Including things like colors (which i find super stupid that the TailwindUI team didn't you know... use their own config OR css variables to be able to change brand colors).

And that kind of usage of Tailwind is lazy and you won't learn anything. But that's up to people. It doesn't mean Tailwind is bad abstraction or not possible to use for efficient design systems.
On a somewhat funny, somewhat related note:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

It doesn't disprove your point, it's just a cute bit of trivia.
Since it is in the browser, you could use the Yomichan browser extension to enable furigana/translation on hover.
It is jargon, i think pretty much any field has those - though graphics and gamedev have a lot of their own (sometimes conflicting).

My favorite is "brush" to mean convex polyhedron. I remember when i joined a gamedev company years ago and was looking around the editor and noticed some buttons with a paintbrush - clicking it didn't do anything and after asking around it turned out this was for making in-editor 3d geometry but the artist who made the icon (we wanted to release the editor which meant someone went and remade all the programmer-made icons) didn't knew about it or about the terminology (i think the original programmer-made icon had the word "brush"), so he just drew what the button was supposedly about: a brush :-P.
> Even then, I think 15 years of support for a Linux distribution is a bad idea anyway - software just moves way faster than that.

Have you asked yourself why this is the case and why it should be the default accepted case?

> Is that a better idea than keeping up-to-date with a rolling 24/36/48 month release cycle?

There are plenty of devices out there that exist for longer than 2 or 4 years. And those "rolling upgrades", how are you going to deal with "we're dropping 32-bit support"? Or "we're dropping support for CPUs that don't support certain features". Or a hundred other deprecations and the inevitable increase in bloat of software?
That's not an answer to that question.
As someone who hates Google’s behavior here, this “list” (3 whole items!) is deeply underwhelming to the point that I would say it’s some of the laziest social media activism (essentially the easiest form of activism) I’ve ever seen.
i guess there is something to be said in favor of humans and computers meeting half way
Yeah, actually working out the variance of your input is often the tricky bit (in a lot of cases it's just estimated once and then hardcoded, but more sophisticated approaches to try to estimate it dynamically are possible)
Microsoft selling consumer Linux?

That would be an interesting move.
A possible reason might be some patents owned by Microsoft: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/

That's also a good reason for others to drop support until licensing of these patents is clarified.
Not yet they aren't; wait until governments or other highly influential organisations such as banks decide to direct pension funds and the like to invest only according to certain ESG profiles and give individuals a convoluted and difficult option if they wish to "opt out".

If these concerns people have about ESG are so important, they should be passed at the democratic level via legislation. At least that way, people could debate and change the system as needed. You didn't need ESG to get rid of lead plumbing - just an interested government.

Of course these days, we can only have private power, not public power.
> Remember the "$BROWSER is the new IE" narrative?

Yes, it's always been much like the "Everyone I Don't Like Is Hitler" meme.
Thanks for the kind words! They did certainly motivate me :)
Both were war crimes, and as such unacceptable. Or rather should have been.

I like when people say "but the enemy did this and that, so us doing something similar is totally fine", because it is just false. But going to "we already did it once, so no biggy if we do it again right?" is even better. It acknowledges, and defends, the evilness of killing civilians at large scale at the same time. Kind of like wanting to be a big, badass and still feeling the need to morally justify all the shit one does.
> that will not change as long as Chrome has 80% marketshare. You need to sacrifice a little for freedom.

And herein lies the rub. 20% of people, at best, will sacrifice convenience for freedom.

Firefox and Chrome overtook IE because they were move convenient to use (Firefox had tabs and extensions, Chrome had a more reliable multi-process architecture and more CSS/JS/... features faster).
It's a question of liability at that point, not damage to the vehicle. If I put a barrier across the road, and you hit it, you can make the argument that while you hit the barrier you wouldn't have hit the tunnel roof. That's going to play out differently in different jurisdictions, I'm sure.
And who told you this is the example they want to set? They are monitoring for hate speech. Their goal is not completely shutting down social media.