- nkozyra parent1. Generate slop music nobody will ever listen to 2. ???? 3. Profit
- > But I mean, you should be able to be an odd duck and also be a director of a brand, as long as you behaviour isn’t hurting anyone…
I think the canonical example here is the Kirn Corksniffer[1] which could have been avoided with some foresight and subsequently a quick apology, but ego can sometimes get in the way.
Behringer definitely made bad products for a very long time, and while I appreciate the increase in quality the synth recreations don't really blow my mind. They're low cost, they're hardware, but almost all of them fall short of the originals.
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-major-synth-company-create...?
- Having lived in both worlds, there are services wherein, yeah, host it yourself. But having done DB on-prem/on-metal, dedicated hosting, and cloud, databases are the one thing I'm happy to overpay for.
The things you describe involve a small learning curve, each different for each cloud environment, but then you never have to think about it again. You don't have to worry about downtime (if you set it up right), running a bash script ... literally nothing else has to be done.
Am I overpaying for Postgres compared to the alternatives? Hell yeah. Has it paid off? 100%, would never want to go back.
- I'm an amateur with this stuff and honestly find the ESP experience significantly more pleasant than Arduino. I'm sure there are footguns I haven't encountered, but I get so much more bang for the buck out of random ESP builds + the incredible line of various bundled ESP devices that come with touchscreens, sensors, etc. for incredibly low prices.
- > in a particular human being, to be intelligent as measured by IQ means that you are more likely to be autistic
I find this part to be a really strong highlight of our change in perception of autism and what it means to be "autistic" or "on the spectrum."
Perhaps due to the broadening of the spectrum or just an odd association with success and spectrum attributes, we now strongly associate intelligence with spectrum. Historically - perhaps due to a narrower definition of autism - the inverse was true. It's understood now to not have much strong correlation with IQ at all, but apply fairly distributed in a way similar to general population, certainly not skewed one way or the other in a strong way.
- > Dunno, almost all of the people I know anywhere in the ML space are on the C and Rust end of the spectrum.
I wish this were broadly true.
But there's too much legacy Python sunk cost for most people though. Just so much inertia behind Python for people to abandon it and try to rebuild an extensive history of ML tooling.
I think ML will fade away from Python eventually but right now it's still everywhere.
- If I can shine some light on my specific qualms, it's these:
> Too many people coming here that don't integrate and don't assimilate is bad.
But ... why? This is stated as a matter of fact without any real qualification. Why is different "bad." We have far too many examples in our very own country of different - sometimes dissonant - cultures in the same space and still enjoying success as a society and a nation.
> A nation cannot thrive with too many conflicting demographics.
Again ... why not? NYC is our prime example of this working and the city succeeding despite some very, very different cultures side-by-side. There are also monoculture countries that have fallen far behind us to use as counterexamples.
> People coming here and extracting value from the economy to send home is also a problem.
This is my biggest issue. If you work here, you're producing something for this country. What you do with your money is frankly, your business. In either event, you're also spending money on housing, food, etc. You're both producing in this country and contributing to our economy. If you want to send the rest back to Mexico, why is that my business? Why does that hurt me?
- > A nation cannot thrive with too many conflicting demographics.
Our most prosperous times came in the wake of great immigration waves. I think the expectation is that "assimilation" is:
- a one-way street and - immediate
Neither is true, of course. German assimilation from the mid 19th century took several generations. Same with Italian assimilation in the late 19th/early 20th century.
- Indeed, the 2nd term is a radical departure from the first, which was more muted than most would have expected given the campaign.
The 2nd term is making fundamental changes to our economy that carry a promise of bearing fruit. Not only are those promises generally contested by economic experts, the short-term results have been unsurprisingly poor.
- If there's a dichotomy that I can't really reconcile politically, it's the fundamental idea that people coming here is bad. That we cannot allow anyone else in. We can't even allow things from other countries to come here.
The effects of this insular isolationism can only be explained by simplicity that doesn't hold up in reality: things will be more prosperous for us if we keep what we have to ourselves. But in truth growth is growth. To build prosperity, we need more production, which means more people. Perhaps your share gets bigger, but the pot gets smaller.
- The dumpster fire aspect is mostly that it's a thunderdome of engagement bait at this point.
Just thousands of people posting whatever nonsense they can to get their $5 in adshare revenue.
The way they do this - topics, language - is less bothersome to me than the underlying economy of it.
- I think peak Perl was before then, but that's about when Perl fell off the map and started getting replaced by Python or PHP to replace CGI since it had some syntactic overlap.
This is when I started professionally and we were asked to replace "slow, old Perl scripts" As a new entrant, I didn't ask many questions, but I also didn't see any of the replacements as improvements in any way. I think the # of devs left to take over messy Perl projects was shrinking.
As you might imagine, this job involved a lot of text processing. People still point to that as the arrow in Perl's quiver, but it seems especially quaint today since any language I'd reach for would blow it out of the water in terms of flexibility and ease of use.
- Carbs are extremely helpful for strength, but there's a middle ground between ketosis and the standard American diet.
Most who lift and do low carb time their carbs before and after workouts for specifically this reason. Some also do carbs before bed.
But the rest of the day is close to no carbs. This still works. You can get < 100g of carbs a day and not have strength and energy negative impacts.