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I spend too much time on hn, but don't think I share your approach. Either I learn something, enjoy reading it (or both), or skip the issue alltogether. Is ever

I spend too much time on hn, but don't think I share your approach. Either I learn something, enjoy reading it (or both), or skip the issue alltogether. Is everything where you think "you should know this stuff" actually relevant to you, or just interesting?

whynotmaybe 4y ago
That's the issue with my mind, the filter between "I should know it" and "you'll learn it if you need it" is sometimes not working. Like the post about Numba, the Python compiler. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148455 I've never used Python, and probably won't ever use it, but some deep part of me "needs" to read the article. It's harder for me to fight this insatiable desire to learn something unuseful, than to stop reading HN.