avianbc's comments

On: Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

[avianbc]

When I started stronglifts, I didn't tell anyone and people noticed just from my physique after like ~5 weeks of training. Noob gains are insane and definitely cause physical change.

On: Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

[avianbc]

I am 2/3x more productive on days that I get a powerlifting session in before work. There is no better feeling than overcoming a plateau through hard work and dedication.

On: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

[avianbc]

I beat cancer this year. Every day is a gift

[candrewlee → avianbc]

Congratulations, wishing you many more.

[uncomplexity_ → candrewlee]

hey don't wish my bro more cancer lol

On: Angular v14 is now available

[avianbc]

At ng-conf like 2-3 years ago they said that they use angular for over 2000 internal projects at google.

On: Angular v14 is now available

[avianbc]

AdWords was built with Angular Dart

On: Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?

[avianbc]

Looks like your link is broken due to some hotlink prevention stuff. :(

[random_comment → avianbc]

That's a shame. Good news is that any graph of bitcoin's historical price over the last 6 years will serve just as well :)

[meric → random_comment]

Yes, if the purpose is to make money as opposed to learning or for fun, I agree it's better to ride the trend. :)

[random_comment → meric]

> I agree it's better to ride the trend. :)

I think you haven't looked at a 6 year graph if you think the 'trend' is only ever going up. The point of my post was to highlight the risk of (another) crash.

On: Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

[avianbc]

I use FanBoy's filters w/uBlock origin. Check them here: https://www.fanboy.co.nz

[joeblau → avianbc]

The reason I go with Safari Content blockers and /etc/hosts is because both of those solutions stop network requests before they even attempt to make a network request. uBlock is a good backup solution, but I want my computer to think Facebook doesn't even exist as a url, regardless of context.

For example uBlock won't stop iMessage from trying to load Facebook's inline media content when someone messages me a Facebook link.

[omnifischer → joeblau]

for OSX blocking at DNS level: Posted a year ago in hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11793855

for linux use: https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor/tree/master/data

https://www.perpetual-beta.org/weblog/blocking-facebook-on-o...

[frickinLasers → omnifischer]

> for linux use: https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor/tree/master/data

This appears to be broken.

[Borating → frickinLasers]

https://github.com/evilneuro/FreeContributor

[omnifischer → frickinLasers]

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists

[joeblau → omnifischer]

This is also a great solution.

On: Nootropics

[avianbc]

I thought that one of the main benefits of melatonin was that it is not habit forming?

On: Paul's Online Math Notes

[avianbc]

Thanks to these and patrickJMT on youtube, I was able to ace all my college math courses.

On: TrueCraft, An Open Source Implementation of Minecraft 1.7.3

[avianbc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD English link