TwoFerMaggie

Quote from author on Bluesky:

> one of the reasons Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry is having too much fun making it and didn't want to stop.

Also this one from the article:

> "What is Jira?" Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application.

> obviously treating their wealth like some sort of highscore

yep. see

> Caleb will later recall, in an interview with D Magazine, asking his dad why he works so hard.

> “It’s a game,” Randy explains to his son.

> “How do you know who wins?” the boy asks.

> “Whoever dies with the most money.” [1]

not even exaggerating

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/alden-g...

It invalidates this CinemaSins nitpick on Alien completely

https://youtu.be/dJtYDb7YaJ4?si=5NuoXaW0pkGoBSJu&t=76

PNBL was a thing at some point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layaway) but was rendered obsolete by the advent of credit cards. Seems to me like a personal austerity measure which becomes more popular in worse economic conditions. The cynic in me believes that there's more money to be made when you encourage people to spend less responsibly and with less financial literacy.

But why would the merchants willing to pay the fees in providing a BNPL scheme for their customers?

One would assume that it would increase sales, which makes it worthwhile. It's not caused by increase outreach though: from what I've seen, BNPL is usually an additional payment option when you're already on the product page.

Then the question becomes: who are the extra customers that a BNPL scheme would bring, that wouldn't have made the purchase if such a scheme was not available?

ha! just thought of the same..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43240394

The most common issue with Pentax ME Super, one of the most popular consumer-grade manual focus SLRs, was caused by a degraded rubber ring near the mirror assembly.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Pentax+ME+Super+Mirror+Box+Serv...

The ones without such an issue is still often recommended for hobbyists who want to get into analog photography today, because they are generally inexpensive, compatible with very nice lenses, and there are so many of them circulating still for parts and repair.

Given that they were made in the late 70s to early 80s, and the shutter mechanism is fully controlled by electronics (instead of mechanical), it's quite amazing that the rest of the camera mostly held up over nearly 5 decades.

A poll suggests among Dutch Tesla owners, 40% feel embarrassed due to Musk's behavior, and 30% consider selling. [0][1]

[0]: https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/19/tesla-owners-react-elon-musks-... [1]: https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/panels/opiniepanel/alle-uitsl...

This reminds of the joke in physics, in which theoretical particle physicists told experimental physicists, over and over again, "trust me bro, standard model will be proved at 10x eV, we just need a bigger collider bro" after another world's biggest collider is built.

Wondering if we are in a similar position with "trust me bro AGI will be achieved with 10x more GPUs".

> I remember Pop telling me how much cheaper Ektachrome was (compared to Kodachrome)

gone are the days when ektachromes are considered the cheaper options.. now they are one of if not the most expensive 35mm format films

> Nobody was pushing hard on worker protections or labor law enforcement - not cool enough, but affects a big fraction of the population.

I don't think this statement is fair. There has been unionization effort across the country throughout the years.

The difference is that corporate media is often very comfortable boosting ideas such as racial justice, but not class consciousness.

Left strategy appears to be terrible is imo because neither party is left wing. There is simply no place in the current political landscape for a labor party/wing to address the issue for the big fraction of the population you mentioned. The republicans pretends to address it, the (majority) democrats dance around it.

I quoted the phrase "it's feeling more like a third world country" verbatim, which is the part I have issue with. I also said "I get the sentiment", meaning that I understand what they were trying to express (that it's getting worse). I don't know what you were disagreeing with though?

> You can't then come along and say

Of course I can. That is also my experience. According to OP many third world countries they visited seem to be handling this better than places like Paris, but imo it's just because they have the power to sweep the problem under the rug. I don't think that is the solution we should aim for.

Oh and btw

> You can't come along and pick some worse example from another place.

I didn't pick them, OP did. I literally would not have replied to OP had they not invoked the "turning to 3rd world country" drivel.

> with the same logic you could say...

The comment I replied to said "it's feeling more like a third world country", I replied "no it's not even close to an actual third world country". I don't see how you could then derive that I meant "therefore it's not important".

Are third world countries the only place where things need fixing?

(forgive me if it's sarcasm and I missed it)

Nobody wants confrontation because it's uncomfortable. But inequality like this is literally the inescapable reality migrant workers live in. Your average locals might be able to turn a blind eye to it, they can't.

Seems at least a little bit hypocritical to enjoy the life made easier by (often imported) cheap labor while not wanting to be aware of their troubles, or you know, live with them in close proximity.

Having lived in an actual third world country for a couple decades, I personally can't take statements such as "xx is becoming more like a third world country" seriously. I get the sentiment behind it though.

If I compare, for example, my experience living in cities in China vs cities in Europe, I would argue that the relative freedom of movement forces residents in Europe to confront the inequality in their everyday lives.

In China, on the other hand, such inequality can be easily covered up by either confining the migrant workers (an artificially created underclass of people without hukou[0] registration in the city but still seek opportunities there) in urban villages[1], or sometimes, simply cracking down on and expelling them through policy changes with little resistance[2].

I don't doubt the fact that you're not a sheltered person, but even the average urban residents in China can be oblivious to the plight or even the existence of such an underclass. I'd argue that one can be quite sheltered even if they live there, which is also by design. And this is actually quite common in relatively wealthy Asian countries, see this example [3] in Singapore of how people talk about maids.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_village_(China)

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/27/china-ruthless...

[3] https://youtu.be/QH9fX4KIhZg?si=Yp5KjI59Owc09fvd&t=1007

Is it just a "silly mistake" though? One could argue that racial & gender biases [0][1] in image recognition are real and this might be a symptom of that. Feels a bit disingenuous to simply chalk it up as something silly.

[0] https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discriminatio... [1] http://gendershades.org/overview.html

I think part of it is the switches. They use Topre capacitive switches which have a very distinct key feeling than your average mechanical switches made by Cherry (and its clones) or Alps.

RealForce (the keyboard brand from Topre) now have their own line of capacitive keyboards, but a while back HHKB was _the_ capacitive keyboard, or at least around the people I know.

Which makes it very interesting that this new model is using Cherry-type linear switches instead of Topre.

What point does this argument hold besides "it's what we do now so we don't change it"? Same thing could be argued when five-day work weeks were first proposed.

Here's Rob Scallon covering the entirety of Enter Sandman backwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R2ERDANb8E

Guess the percussion instruments are the most difficult to sound good in reverse.

QQ is made by the same company as WeChat. It was like the last gen IM, with a desktop focused application and an accompanying social media (QQ Space, so you know what the inspiration was). They are still used nowadays but in a much more niche.

On android it's the only keyboard I could find whose position (not size of the keys) you can adjust without setting it to floating.

With the bezel-less smartphones, I found that if the keyboard sits at the bottom of the screen, one-handed typing is impossible for my thumb. With swiftkey I can basically add a bezel at the bottom to bring the keyboard up to where I can comfortably type with one hand.

> Because the COVID-19 in China, we can not work ,and we was blocked in home ,we can not go anywhere .

> Please wait some days ,I think the COVID-19 will go away in 3-2020 .

:( this makes me really sad... hope they're still doing okay now

> What I don't quite understand is why they couldn't just create some joint venture with a Western pharma company and then supply a rebranded version of the mRNA vaccines to their population

At the start of all this, around 2020, there was a media campaign against mRNA vaccine in China's propaganda, mostly emphasizing its side effects. It fit the nationalistic narrative that "our covid response is superior". The fear mongering worked and now many people are afraid of the side effects of the mRNA vaccine. Not quite easy to walk that back now.

I actually got it serviced at an apple store, and coincidentally they only had one 1st gen SE battery in stock at that time.

I don't think the battery was bad though, but instead the new iOS version being more power-hungry given the new models and chipsets coming out every year. The new battery was already at 92% health only 4 months after it was installed, which was a bit surprising for me.

At this point I just accepted that it was at the end of its lifespan.

I'd say pretty happy. Do I think it's the perfect phone? Probably not. But I'm pretty sure it's the closest one I can get in 2022 for my desired features.

Regarding the camera, I have to say that I don't really know. Moving up from 1st gen SE camera, I don't really have an reasonable point of reference. All I can say is that, it's definitely better than the SE (duh), but not like mind-blowingly better. Well I'm not really into shooting photos so ymmv.

I've been using one since 2016. The recent two years have been a bit tough because of the degraded battery. Swapped a new battery earlier this year, it was good for a while and now it's slow again and barely last a whole day. The last straw was the music player/spotify stuttering while I'm using Safari.

I have made up my mind that I won't buy another iPhone due to their design choices in the past years (mainly, removing headphone jack, but also in general undermining reparability while preaching sustainability).

So for me the must-have features are 3.5mm jack and relatively small form factor. I ended up getting a Asus Zenfone 9 (actually saw the post from HN first). Have been using it for about a couple weeks and I don't have too many complaints switching to Android. Only gripe I have was that the screen is still way too big. A bigger screen and very thin bezels are of course visually nice, but it's impossible to reach the upper and lower left corner when I use it with my right hand. Welp, I guess that's the compromise that I have to make in exchange for the features more important to me.

> There is always a loser to any change — even when it’s an otherwise overwhelming net positive.

What an insidious argument. It makes the "loser" sounds like someone randomly selected by bad luck, but we all know that when there is lack of regulation, especially in these cases (construction, industry, etc.), who gets the short end of the stick.

> you have tired and jaded people without a fun childhood

Man this hits really hard because I spent my first 20 years growing up in China... Good thing is that now I'm in a much less authoritarian place with a job that has decent work-life balance. Have been trying to cultivate some hobbies in the past few years, feels like I've been trying to reclaim the childhood I never had.

This is sadly how a lot of economies function. Something is dangled in front of you (life in the big cities, citizenship in developed countries, etc.), and in order to get that you must agree to be exploited, to different extents. This way inhabitants of said economies get to enjoy the fruit of such cheap labor.

Sometimes the facade of a convenient modern life is built entirely upon an underclass who are intentionally kept in that situation just so they can continue to be exploited. This is of course neither healthy nor sustainable.

Of course incentives and promises of upward mobility after some hard work are nice, but one must question themselves: if the local economy will simply cease to function when there are not as many people willing to be exploited, is this model still ethical?

In my opinion these are the three things that can't really be all achieved under current technology/infrastructure: cheap delivery, fast delivery, and delivery workers that are not miserable.

The illusion of all three being achieved at some point is because they are running at a loss of VC's investment money. Eventually investors will demand profitability, and one of the following happens: fees go up, deliveries get slower, workers become miserable.

This is also what bothers me with this new "hire others to run errands for you" industry. These are things you might find bothersome (go out to buy food, buy groceries, etc), but their perceived value as compared to the things you're buying is so incredibly small, that any "fair" compensation for the person doing it would discourage most people from paying for the service in the first place.

At its core, the amazement of "wow, the delivery of my groceries is so fast and cheap" is not at the shiny technology that makes it possible, but rather the amazement at "wow, there are people willing to do this for such a small amount of money".