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enw··on My dad's resume and skills from 1980
> My dad is 92 and we just put him in a home.

Can you stay healthy enough to die of old age in a regular home? “Put him in a home” sounds so ominous and forceful.

enw··on Amazon's Jeff Bezos in economy warning: 'Batten down hatches'
What about assets? At least if the asset prices go up you can recoup.
enw··on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
1. Start web server

2. Add AAAA record from domain to RPi IPv6 address

3. Profit

enw··on Magic Leap 2
> like with Android

Most people when they think of Android or the Google Play store they think of a cesspool of ugly inconsistent amateurish trashware.

enw··on Why Men Are Hard to Help
Well it's a spectrum.

If someone's opening up about something truly traumatic or difficult, they get all my attention and respect.

But if I feel like they're being a cry-baby (e.g. being hurt by words rather than their meaning, complaining with a plank in their eye, complaining without making efforts, being dramatic over a small difficulty/fear/etc., not pushing their limits, etc.) I cannot but feel repulsed.

Edit: as for the why, I guess because as men I think we should always strive to improve, face the abyss, and overcome dragons on a frequent basis. If someone cannot overcome the tiniest of dragon eggs, they seem weak and not worth my time. It's the antithesis of someone I want to emulate or associate with.

enw··on Why Men Are Hard to Help
As a man I also feel repulsed by it, if it's too much. Even when I am being vulnerable, I unconsciously make sure to stay in the "strong because vulnerable and facing hell" zone instead of the "weak and pathetic cry-baby" zone.
enw··on Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)
> An octopus is very closely related to you, far more so than any conceivable space aliens - and yet we have no idea what the fuck is going on in there.

If octopuses really are so closely related, why can't I see any sort of large structures or societies or vehicles or weapons created by them? They're a plateau'd species leeching off the planet barely surviving in the balance of nature, like pretty much every species except humans.

enw··on Coffee with Brian Kernighan [video]
I hate that I even feel like this, but I'm always in awe when old people (in this case 80+ years old) talk in depth about software with such fluency.

I know it's self-evident, but I'm so used to being around younger folks in tech that it's really cool to see gray hairs.

enw··on Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks
I’m also not American but am glad they are the world’s police. I’ll take them any day over Russia, China or any other large power.
enw··on Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months
Retarded

Edit: just realized that should’ve been r6d. Case in point.

enw··on Show HN: Our project got 4 connectors and 4 l10ns from community in 2 months
C1n w0e p4e s2p w2h t3e r5d a9s?
enw··on U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline
I wish our culture also stopped normalizing being fat.
enw··on Why does anything exist?
> So universes with (seemingly) deterministic laws of any kind are just extremely rare sub-trees of this wave of ”every possible wavestate”.

Wow!

This is very similar to what I experienced when I accidentally ingested a large amount of psilocybin (and went to ER just in case, it was the most terrifying experience of my life).

This is what I wrote in my notes post the bad trip:

"I felt a disconnection from my self and could see the fabric of existence, that life is an inconceivably large tree of choices that forms the current state of the universe among an infinite amount of universes (for each infinitesimal choice)"

e.g. I "felt" that there is a sibling branch in this tree of choices in which the universe is a slight modification of the current one. But curiously even when my whole personality disassociated from my "self", there was a "foundation" of my consciousness always attached to the current existence, and to it all parts of my personality that form my consciousness (id/superego/whatever) eventually converged once I got back normal.

enw··on How SQLite Helps You Do ACID
Journaling with big DICA energy.
enw··on Cut the cutesy errors
"Well, this is awkward" reads as "omg oopsie whoopsie did we make a lwittle error uwu!!! ><" which I'm not surprised is viscerally cringy.
enw··on [dead]
It’s pretty obviously satire and the author is just pointing out the absurdity of it all.
enw··on Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours?
> ensure you have some part of your identity unrelated to work

I don't want to be that guy, but this is one thing religion helps with.

If your identity is based on anything physical (e.g. family, money, looks, career, etc.) it's fragile and can be lost easily, but if it's a constant not part of the physical world, it can help live life more resiliently.

enw··on Study: Alcohol is never good for people under 40
People who don’t drink or otherwise risk-averse bland people aren’t fun.
enw··on Vite 3.0
The entire NPM ecosystem is based on semver.

That’s the sole reason for the squiggly marks and carets that exist in every package.json.

enw··on Vite 3.0
That’s what semantic versioning is:

https://semver.org/ https://docs.npmjs.com/about-semantic-versioning

enw··on Vite 3.0
> We decided to release a new Vite major at least every year

Isn’t this exhausting?

Is it impossible to design good contracts without having to break compatibility every year?

In most other language ecosystems it would convey incompetence.

enw··on Go generics are not bad
Honestly I have no idea what's going on with this code.

Where is `zero()` defined? Why does a `Numeric` have a function to `add` two numbers? Shouldn't you add a single number to a numeric? What is the relationship between `<T>` and `Numeric<T>`? I thought `T` was a `Numeric`?

Edit: Upon closer inspection, I kind of get what's going on. But it's really cryptic for something that should be simple to express.

enw··on The most livable cities
It’s relative. I’ve been in countries where the care is both top-notch, and you can get specialist attention and full-body checkups in a matter of days.
enw··on The most livable cities
And health care in Canada is a joke.

Unless you have terminal cancer or close to death, good luck getting any specialist’s attention. You’ll wait for a year on a waitlist for someone to care. Doesn’t matter if you have money either, no way around it.

enw··on Bible Semantic Search
> jesus being a gigachad

>

> Mark 1:25 - And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

enw··on LaMDA is not sentient
Do you believe the world is deterministic?

That if you feed all the variables of the current state of the universe to an algorithm that knows all the laws of the universe, we can replicate life 1:1 to the last atom, from the beginning of the universe to any arbitrary point in time, the same way, every single time?

enw··on How to stop a robot vacuum from getting stuck on the laundry rack
Now how to make it not get stuck in wires so easily?
enw··on Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health
I hate to say it but there's no better advertisement than this on Hacker News.
enw··on Cat S22 Flip Phone
Get a Kindle and start reading books instead. It has Wi-Fi as well to browse Hacker News on e-ink.
enw··on Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
> Very little about how I interact with the site has ever changed.

GitHub tunes the UI all the time.

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