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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I disagree, and I want to try to say this in the least cringey and New Age-y way possible, bear with me. Your limited sensory experience indicates you are the “center of your life” - that you are some spirit in your head, inhabiting a body
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
So what? Why take risks? Merely to say “look I took a risk and it paid off”? I get that risk-taking can result in wealth, fame, etc. but (and I think this is where opinions like OP’s break down for a lot of people) a lot of people struggle
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Agreed. This brand of self-aggrandizing “I did it my way” advice adverts always exemplify a special brand of narcissism; the speaker is unaware that they aren’t the center of their own life. The truth is that “blowing up your life” isn’t us
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Mark my words, this week new data will come out showing an uptick in all things inflation related, and by a larger-than-expected margin, the Fed will raise rates, and a lot of the hopium that’s been filling balloons for the last six months
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I agree with your point on AI - the hallucinating black box isn’t going to change the world in any meaningful, fundamental way. But positioning crypto as the antithesis of wasteful, useless tech (esp. Ethereum) is truly laughable, as no one
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Edge does make a lot of sense, but only if you’re actually talking about physical computers that need to exist at physical locations to do no-network/embedded systems/rtos without the cloud, but with a cloud-metrics or aggregation
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Amen. Love, hate, or don’t care (me), Apple does have an earned reputation for not delivering flops to market. While I have about as much (personal) interest in Vision as I have in anything Apple-stamped past the release of the iPhone 6, it
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I’m less concerned with the “VR Games as a market segment” and more concerned with the “all video games will eventually, essentially be AR/VR” concept. Like you I’m less than convinced that Apple knows what they’re talking about/d
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I too have trouble thinking this is truly “cool” - it’s basically a self-contained Plato’s Cave. I feel like the “cool” of the next decade will be distinctly luddite-inflected, but who knows.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Sure, but again… it’s like 10x the price of a competing piece of equipment which is still regarded as pretty niche. In the case of an iPhone, 2x the price for 1000x the functionality was a clear “buy”. There’s a reason that among basically
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Good point imo. In the Serious Gamer contingent, you’re perceived as being basically wheelchair-bound if you try to play any major title PC game on a Mac, regardless of its basic capability of running said game. It’s similar to how many cod
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Agreed, I think they may struggle to overcome the whole “Black Mirror” effect. Feedback from my brother and parents (veritable Apple-philes) this morning amounted to “sounds kinda cool but I’d probably think someone was a grade-A weirdo if
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
That’s my take as well. You can stretch out, watch a movie on a flat screen TV, sleep, stand up and walk around, have food and drink with a sturdy table, or curl up with a book or otherwise. I recently did international first class for the
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Sure but.. there’s just the fundamental “not real” element of digital “stuff”. It goes away when the $3500 headset comes off. And I’m not even a pure luddite about this shit, I enjoy getting a new sword in Diablo IV, but the notion that the
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Agreed, I don’t think most current-day musicians are amazing or even technically proficient at what they do. Hell, most people can’t even name a non-vocalist instrumentalist who recently appeared on a record they enjoyed. Not that that’s so
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I know this may be controversial, but ChatGPT is an absolute godsend for this exact problem. K8s YAML an overly flexible markdown language (itself with infinite options that you may or may not choose to RTFM about), complex custom resources
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Oddly, a lot of “traditional masculinity” actually involves close male friendships. I think the husband/wife as best friends thing is a relatively new development, and the “neo-heteronormativity” of being a “wife guy” or “ride or die g
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Not familiar with the reference but I would describe it as similar to the classic Midwest/Minnesota/Wisconsin “ohyooobetcha” parody, but more dour/deadpan in delivery, and almost with a lilt. People from Saskatchewan would sa
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
For a lot of Americans, unfortunately, the biggest exposure one gets to Southern Accents is from the fake, “dumb on purpose” caricature that defines country music stars and Larry The Cable Guy. I’m from Montana, and know several born-and-ra
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I like this a lot. “Error handling in relationships” is a great concept for a blog post
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
If you (+above commenter +any other HN per users) want a good Wikipedia article, the metalanguange/metacommunication ones do a great job of explaining how this works in CS friendly terms - the connection to meta programming is a great
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I think you’re reading that upside down. Commenter is saying “I think I should be able to work from home, and those who MUST go in (warehouse people) should get extra compensation to pay for the commute”
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Most DAW’s impose a workflow and set of tools on you. Hell, any set of notative or formal tools will do that - it’s part of what makes music-making possible. If you’ve ever messed around with a complete alien tool like the therimin or Tenor
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The thing is, a product that users love and a product that generates profits are frequently not the same product. You need to add more feature-cram to be profitable, and users hate feature-cram.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The reason to split it is that as soon as you give your BI dept. free reign to query the tables for users, user_widgets, widgets, widget_metrics, widget_metrics_metadata, and half a dozen other things with one query, they will do it and loc
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The problem from an economic standpoint, and the article alludes to this, is that a lot of these platforms just aren’t profitable at stage 4. They might be ubiquitous, well loved by users, and have next to no meaningful competition, but if
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Duplication hell is the current bane of my existence - I think we would agree that it’s more of an inter-team coordination issue than it is the type of thing that you and the four other people on your team can fix with Kanban/Scrum. Bu
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I think in general you’re right on the money and have been throughout your comments here. Lambda pinball is a great term as well. I agree that serverless incentivizes a “nanoservice” approach that flies in the face of patterns like classes&
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I’m not a huge scrum defender - I’ve seen it done right and wrong. Same with Kanban. The only real problems I have with Kanban is that without those annoying team planning/documentation meetings, work will get duplicated, done hastily,
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by zerbinxx 4y ago
By contrast, the listicle that you would read today, written by a college student for some mid-tier “technical news” outlet, would eschew any meaningful reflection on the history of software engineering. It would be required to be too short

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