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waingakeon The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

Yes I should have mentioned the story in HZD is quite well thought out and reveals itself to you well over the game. Whereas Nintendo has the eye rolling save the princes from the baddies, again.

waingakeon The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

I've attempted to play through BOTW a couple times and ended up giving up due to weapons breaking, endless shrines, generally rather boring gameplay. The hype here is fascinating. I guess nostalgia and liking what everyone else says they like is a powerful thing. I just finished Horizon Zero Dawn, which I found to be a far superior open world game, the graphics alone are jaw dropping, the gameplay is exciting, quite an incredible production. I'm curious if any of The Zelda fans here have played it?

waingakeon ARM64 Linux Workstation

> Moreover, running Asahi is perfectly legal because Apple formally allows booting non-macOS operating systems on their Apple Silicon platform.

How nice of Apple. #snarc

waingakeon Widespread ethernet issues reported on new M2 Pro Mac mini

This was an issue with the M1's when they were first released. Took a few months until they released a fix

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253647922 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252564061

waingakeon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://truckm.app

Find local food trucks. Now to convince food truck owners to use it ...

waingakeon Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

Would love to know how you built this ( even at a high level )

waingakeon Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

I made a site to record and vote on playlists sorted by last updated as well as popularity https://playlists.mohiohio.com

waingakeon Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (2009)

Under my house ( 1920's wooden home ) I see EPS pushed up against the wooden floor boards. This was done by the previous owner. The EPS itself is exposed. Is this safe ?

waingakeon Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus

The amount of hate Unity would get on this website... Hackers gonna hate it seems. It's a shame that Canonical listened.

On a positive note I'm very impressed that the reboot is being lead by a such a young developer. Thank you!

waingakeon Life is not short

Read Martin Hagland for a much more applicable take on this. The primary way we waste time is via waged employment. For this reason most people have very little control over how they are spending their limited time alive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/if-god-is-dead...

waingakeon Behind the Ferrari and Lamborghini rivalry

I'll start a spite ~store~ car.

waingakeon Terraform Provider for Spotify

I'm not exactly sure what this is doing.

I've made a service that scratches my own itch of wanting a way to sort a collection of playlists by the last time they were updated. I've got that running here, and I use it often.

https://playlists.mohiohio.com/

waingakeon Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac

Lol also had a similar thing happen. I think they auto close idle transactions now. But I'm very careful about disconnecting when done now!

waingakeon Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

What if we forked it with a Kickstarter campaign to fund core engineering salaries, followed by a low monthly subscription. Personally I'd happily pay if I knew the money was going where it should.

waingakeon Unlearning perfectionism

If you enjoyed this I'd recommend Simone De Beauvoir's book; The ethics of ambiguity. It's short and accessible and describes a number of character traits, which hinder personal and collective freedom, focusing on the outcome of projects rather than the ongoing process is discussed, but additionally she wraps an ethical framework around these discussions so that it becomes more about how to live in general.

waingakeon Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs

Capitalism here is what you are doing once the accumulation of further capital becomes the principal objective of you activities.

If you generate a lot of profit, but you use it all to finance a luxurious lifestyle of even just to keep you and your employees comfortable then you are not necessarily doing capitalism.

The pursuit of captial accumulation is always dependent on the exploitation of someone's labour / time somewhere.

If you really care about freedom why are you happy with a system that means all but the very rich must spend the majority of their lives in toil?

waingakeon Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs

Not while we place very little value on peoples time ( their sole existence on earth ever ).

Capitalism is happy for people to waste there lives doing things they don't want to do.

A society that values peoples time as it should would encourage automation.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/if-god-is-dead...

waingakeon Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

The New Yorker is great https://www.newyorker.com. Amazing writing, so much so that I can be pulled into articles that I wouldn't expect to be interested in. I had a Kindle subscription, but liked it so much I forked out for a print subscription. I find it a real struggle reading long form articles digitally.

waingakeon The Ecology of Freedom (1982)

All power must be justified.

waingakeon The Zen of Drinking Alone

Its sad that this seems to have such an appeal. We seem to be becoming all so isolated, despite technical advancements that were meant to make us more connected. Going to a bar and talking to people that are outside your friend group, outside your "bubble", and while feeling the happy inhibition that being slightly drunk gives is healing.

waingakeon Living on 24 hours a day

> a pagan slave population which can be worked to death in order to provide for the intelligentsia utopia fantasy

Are you describing the people who made your iPhone?

waingakeon Living on 24 hours a day

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. -- Karl Marx

waingakeon Fashion, art cycles are driven by counter-dominance signals of elite competition

This is Hegel’s Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis. Not a new idea! https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1...

waingakeon Security issue related to the NPM registry

And should we all start rolling our own crypto now to avoid dependencies? In most cases a stable library is going to be much more secure than a custom implementation of `x`. Everything has trade-offs. What's stupid is dogma.

waingakeon Firefox 94 has No Visible Border on unfocused tabs

Yeah I agree. It reminds me of all the hate that Ubuntu Unity used to get despite it being great. Seems like a very vocal minority that gets upset with UI changing at all in OS software.

waingakeon Lots to See in Firefox 93

I've often thought this myself. As I'm reluctant to donate money to Mozilla knowing they have a record of firing developers and splurging on executive salaries.

What if a fork was funded in a kickstarter like way, enough ideally to pay the salaries of the development team.

I'd happily pay ~$20 per month knowing that the money was going where it should.

waingakeon Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture (2015) [video]

He certainly hasn't abandoned the anarchist label, and is still very active in leftist circles, frequently giving interviews in these areas.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12618.Chomsky_On_Anarchi...

waingakeon The uncanny absence of nihilism

Try Simone de Beauvoir's the ethics of ambiguity. It's deals with many of the concerns Neitzsche raises in the area of ethics and moralality and provides some convincing arguments in a short accessible book.

waingakeon How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastinating

Why can I accomplish anything I set my mind to?

> When I have time to focus on my interests

Why are there objective limits to what I can accomplish?

> Wage slavery

Think about it.

waingakeon It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

I think the only point of value for crypto currencies is enabling the purchase of drugs online, and don't get me wrong, being able to escape the terrible effects of prohibition is a very useful thing. Anyone who has tried will tell you how much better ( by any metric ) buying digitally is to the alternatives.