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by galdosdi 2y ago
I've done it and I think it's neither. Neither easier nor harder than software engineering and the like. Just different tools. Very similar in a way really. Why one pays more? Not sure. Some kind of higher barrier to entry for sof
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by galdosdi 2y ago
That's like asking why would anyone go to college anywhere but Harvard. They would, but Harvard has limited slots, so you do the best you can. Also, it's weird you pose this as some kind of counterfactual proof by contradiction, i
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Because money doesn't buy happiness, and a lot of the increase in purchasing power is pointless stuff like the fact that you can buy an iPad that's twice as powerful for half the cost, or get YouTube for free instead of paying $50
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Everyone is trying to get someone else to eat the inflation.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
You're both wrong -- if you need two different resources as inputs to make something, and either missing makes the process impossible, it doesn't matter what your subjective opinions are when deciding which is more valuable. They
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by galdosdi 2y ago
If so, what happens when the music stops and they run out of furniture to burn for heat? Is the job market going to explode again because suddenly they desperately need IT professionals to rebuild the mess they've made? Is it going to
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by galdosdi 2y ago
There's a technology called a driver's licensing and examination bureaucracy. It was invented hundreds, maybe thousands of years ago (not for driving obviously but the basic idea of having a state bureacracy that administers exams
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by galdosdi 2y ago
nitpick: this blog post was written in 2013, so they were wasting their time watching TV or browsing facebook, not on "twerk tick" (I assume you sarcastically meant tiktok) major point that is not a nitpick but is related: Since 2
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Then they can disregard my advice obviously. But I saw plenty of others in this thread who seemed interested in it genuinely for practical reasons, and with all the times I've seen young devs disregard old mature solutions, I thought i
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Silly comment. Awk is nonstandardized, different in different environments. Perl5 is the same everywhere. don't you recall that that's actually the main reason perl was invented, as a more powerful and more uniformly compatible re
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I'm trying to help people here. I know some young people may not even be aware of older options and not realize this problem has already been solved repeatedly. They are free to disregard my advice, so I find your objection more nonse
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Not in containers by their nature, but you have control over those so you probably won't use amber or bash or perl but just whatever you actually wanted..., but I assure you the underlying hypervisor has perl Even bash or sh need not b
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Because they've heard the "lol perl is line noise" jokes and taken them very seriously instead of the jokes they are. Perl is way more mature with way more libraries, stability, documentation, etc. I hope I don't have to
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Have you tried perl or are you just judging it based on strreotypes? The only weird syntax relative to something like JavaScript is $ at the front of variables. There's a lot of funky syntax and features available but you do not have t
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Right, I agree -- much of the web has turned into slow superficial low info density high entertainment density video stuff. I kinda thought the whole point of HN was not to give in to the superficial wave, and focus on more information dens
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Cool idea. In practice: they already did this and it's called PERL! Why would I ever use this instead of just using perl5, which solves all these problems already and is preinstalled on every Unix machine I've ever seen (and I&#x2
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Yes, but this is easy to avoid. It's only happened when the governmental authorities foolishly believed they should respond to deflation with austerity, which is now obvious to us that this is backwards. See https://en.m.wik
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Fed chair bernanke famously said "the us government has a technology called a printing press" to explain why deflation was in no way to be feared, bc unlike inflation it can be fought easily and without serious drawbacks. Deflatio
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I self taught myself calculus at that age (11th grade), obviously had a hard time at first, and persevered by sampling a good half dozen different books till I found one that would make things click. These are my credentials for making the
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Even Charles Duell wasn't speaking originally here: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9 (circa 250 BC)
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I get your point. Your view is widespread. The war is over, video has won. I know I have to accept this. It just makes me sad, because there's no way around the fact it just takes _longer_ on a time-per-idea basis to consume content th
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Essen is like this in Manhattan, probably the closest spiritual successor to Horn & Hardart and the automats there is. A big buffet cafeteria. Not too cheap though, though OK for manhattan commuter office worker lunch prices I guess Unf
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I am aware of the feature. The styling makes it hard to read and the autogenerated transcript text is poor quality, so without a real transcript made by the author, it's useless. A real, literate piece of text intended for reading rath
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Transcript or blog post please, there is no reason for this to be a video
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Carlson or Giuliani? :-)
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by galdosdi 2y ago
1) The hunter gatherer example is not as far off as you think actually, because from the point of view of their economy, our economy might as well be unlimited magic. Probably all the work a hunter gatherer does in a year might only amount
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Seems I accidentally double posted. Sorry. Thanks (genuinely) to whoever kindly voted the dupe down to zero while leaving the original alone, that was a good choice. Too late to delete unfortunately.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Unless they've been to an Aldi, which is massively exploding in popularity everywhere in the US right now since they're a perfect fit for the current economic environment. Aldi has carts you put quarters in, and Mr Carlson tried t
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> I don't see a future where people can adapt to this and get through it. You lack imagination then. If you read history and anthropology more, which you haven't done enough of, clearly, then your imagination will expand and yo
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> I don't see a future where people can adapt to this and get through it. You lack imagination then. If you read history and anthropology more, which you haven't done enough of, clearly, then your imagination will expand and yo

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