Hacker News Reader

Comment by api | Hacker News Reader

I feel like this is what happens when you reach the enlightenment stage with technology. I have a phone with eight 64-bit CPU cores built with 10nm lithography, and I cook on cast iron. "New" or "old" doesn't matter. We have things that do things. Pick one.

View on HN

Yeah, I definitely prefer the opposite. I cook my food with a WiFi enabled microwave and route all my phone calls through a cast-iron IBM 1401.

(What does "enlightenment stage" mean?)

I meant a stage at which shiny and new doesn't mean anything. A truly post-technological civilization would just have tools and would pick the right tool for whatever it wanted to achieve. Sometimes that's something exotic and new and sometimes it's a candle.

Supposing I want to show off my wealth and status, isn't a brand new gold iPhone a relatively effective way of doing that? Does that make me post-technological?

What does WiFi add to your microwave cooking experience? Genuinely curious.

To be fair, cast iron has significantly different cooking properties from regular pans. The added mass means they heat up differently, and things cook differently on them.

Not to mention they can go from the stovetop into the oven, which most other pans (pure stainless steel excepted) can not.

Not to get off the subject, but they are not mutually exclusive. I use my cast iron often, but would not cook anything reactive (i.e. tomato sauce) in it. It's a matter of right tool for the job.

I suppose the same could be said of many things: communication (people still use irc or even send cards), music (people own vinyl but listen to digital), books (people often read both physical and ebooks), and so on.

I like this mentality. It's not all about hipsterism. If anything, it's unfair to assume that a guy into vinyl is a hipster just because hipsters and posers are also into vinyl.

I like the idea of selling music on vinyl with a little token that lets you download mp4's of it from the band's web site if you have the vinyl. I've seen a few bands and electronic musicians do this.

The vinyl is like an original numbered print, while the download is like a glossy poster print.

In my experience every new release comes with a download card. Tbh it's actually not as important as it was 5 years ago because most of us are streaming now so have access to the digital version without downloading/using storage.

Big fan of this too. You can also link to Bandcamp, which offers a range of formats including VBR MP3 and Ogg.

What else would you be cooking on? An overclocked 8192-core CPU?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com