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Hell hath no fury like an engineer angered! This was such a good read and epitomizes hacking: "Was it worth it? To read one book? No. To prove a point? Absolut
by emptybits 1y ago
Hell hath no fury like an engineer angered! This was such a good read and epitomizes hacking:
"Was it worth it? To read one book? No. To prove a point? Absolutely. To learn about SVG rendering, perceptual hashing, and font metrics? Probably yes."
- bityard 1y agoThis is essentially how I find myself defending a lot of my DIY stuff. "Wait, you work in tech, why would you ever work on your own car when you can clearly pay someone else to do it???" Because I like to learn things.
- robotnikman 1y agoAgreed, that is the same way I view things. There is also the great feeling of satisfaction when you finish repairing your own stuff.
- sojournerc 1y agoMore than that, I know every bolt is tight, every piece is inspected, and it connects me to the machine. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, if you haven't read it
- jakogut 1y agoLearning things is good. I also find I care more about the outcome and timeline than many professionals do, because I have to deal with the end result. That's not to say professionals can't or won't do the job better, or that they don't have more applicable experience to do the job more efficiently, but evaluating professionals is often as much or more work as learning how to do the job myself and just doing it. On average, the end result is at least better than a poor professional, sometimes as good or better than an average professional.
- brnt 1y agoI hate not understanding things. I hate pricing that I do not understand.
- noisy_boy 1y agoRecently I had to do some changes to a 3d rendering my contractor provided so I learned Krita to do it. Dare I say the results were not bad. But as good as a professional designer? Of course not. Was it satisfying to be able to show him exactly what I wanted? Hell yeah.
- phoronixrly 1y agoI hope they don't get in trouble for publicising how to defeat the DRM...
- lozenge 1y agoThey still have to request every 5 pages separately so they could be caught for requesting pages faster than you could realistically tap through the book on an actual phone or tablet.
- Frenchgeek 1y agoWell, it would be nice to be able to use my Kindle 4 again... Thanks to KOReader, it's no longer a brick, but most of my ebooks are kept hostages at Amazon.