How to reduce latency for gaming

When having problems with latency the first advice is to check the distance of the server and issues with your Internet Service Provider. But there is something that might cause you problems if you have a slow Internet connection, bandwidth (BW) usage.

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Cheerful Pessimism

Even though optimistic people live more successful lives, pessimism has its place in the short term. Pessimism can support the realism we so often need. Confused? Think about a pilot, for instance, you’d rather have him an upbeat outlook at security or a mercilessly realistic one? Let’s call it practical pessimism because it serves us well. It is pessimism in the short term. You can still be optimistic about the end goal. But as Tai Lopez says, practical pessimism will lead you to your optimistic end goal.

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Post-traumatic growth without the trauma

Do you remember how you felt as a kid playing your favorite games? I do, and for me, it is like one of the best feelings I’ve experienced in my life. Somehow I’ve to a great deal, unlearned the skill to enjoy games as I did back then. I have a much better PC now which lets me play the newest games on high graphical specs. But It has become harder for myself to submerge so deeply in a game that I forget everything else. But I’m convinced this problem can be remedied. Especially after watching Jane McGonigal’s TED talks.

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La felicidad es el precursor del éxito laboral

Tradicionalmente el trabajo fue visto como algo que se toma en serio y con disciplina pero los tiempos cambian y con ello sus paradigmas. Actualmente dominan los trabajos que demandan creatividad y razonamiento. En cuanto a lo anterior, estudios demostraron que en trabajos intelectualmente intensivos la presión tiene un impacto negativo sobre el rendimiento y empresas como Google y Facebook lo saben. Esa es una de las razones por las cuales crearon culturas de trabajo con una motivación intrínseca.

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Ahorrar puede ser divertido

Hay mucho que decir sobre el ahorro. En mi experiencia, no tiene por qué ser una cuestión de disciplina como la mayoría de personas lo ven. Ahorrar no debe implicar dejar de disfrutar la vida. Muy al contrario, puede mejorar la vida si lo hacemos correctamente.

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Software Testing: Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs on a Time Budget - Raymond Hettinger

Raymond Hettinger is one of the people I enjoy most giving tech talks. He is one of the people who know how to give very down to earth explanation about many complicated and fun topics. He also loves Python as I do, the difference being that he is a big contributor and bigger expert on Python. Definitely check out his talks on YouTube. In this post, I made some notes from his recent talk called [Keynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKbfWk4Xyw)

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