Vaslo

“A typical golf game is 65-75 swings per game”

I wish…

Should say,”Soft skills are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?” Then you don’t need to read the article.

They’re mice. I wouldn’t worry a whole lot about them.

What is your big idea and how will it slow countries like China?

Yeah I mean it isn’t like there isn’t decades of content you can catch up on or anything.

Every data scientist and statistician who joins our team is always happier moving to Python or R away from Matlab after using it for a bit. I guess it’s ok for academia but at the two large companies I have worked at, no one is using Matlab or complaining about it being gone.

Someone gave me the quarter I needed to unlock an Aldis Grocery Cart

Seeing how other people solve problems opens up new ways for me to solve my own. Many people are not RTFM but instead want applied examples.

My world sounds exactly like yours and I love the astral packages - thanks for asking this

Very cool and can tell you keep up with it just with your addition of uv!

You linked the wrong article - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136901 takes you to a steam article

Yep - my company did the same thing in addition to a few other nasty cuts. The problem is that instead of dumping dead weight employees, we are losing excellent ones.

“Master at manipulating masses” is something you have to tell yourself when people you don’t like are highly successful, I guess.

I often get more excited about the commentary and what I’ll learn from interesting experts in the HN comments than the original link itself. Thanks to all who contribute their thoughts here.

I’m in the states and haven’t seen this despite a lot of travel but I’ll be looking out for it now!

Once I saw the use of “FaCiSm” and “capitalist corporate control” I tuned out. I wouldn’t trust this persons opinion on trimming my nails let alone future tech.

My team has all moved slowly from R to Python. There was no pressure to do so. R has a clunky feel with a bunch of modules that can be a challenge to automate. Python’s general purpose use beats whatever superior modules R has all day. If someone wants the same package on Python from R it’s probably out there.

While plotting may be clunky, I just don’t see r as much better. Plus in 2025 I can just provide a sample of data and what plot I want in an LLM and I get zero shot code of the plot I want.

Author sounds very academic to me.

Not unfortunate. They know what people are using and went that route.

Same, works great on my end, not seeing any poor experience like this.

Not when you have a huge lead over your competitors and it’s almost impossible for a new entrant to catch up without excessive funding. Even with that, if you have products that need lots of approval with long duration tests (this materials leeching into food and water over a long time), it can be years before even good products will replace you.

Probably the movie that made me want to get into computers. Dated tech but modern ideas like a computer using its own “supervised learning” to learn a lesson about tic-toe-toe and nuclear war.

My Nextcloud constantly needs updated. One day I started getting some odd random error about the database. The advice I got was do all this convoluted stuff to maybe get it working again. I uninstalled, and haven’t gone back. It’s just not in the same league as paid alternatives.

People buy illegal stuff and dark markets all the time. Even a decade ago I knew a guy who was buying dope and having it mailed to him from the dark web and he was minimally technical. They know there is a risk but they are willing to take it. This isn’t like buying a lawn motor - people will take some fraud as “acceptable losses”.

Very cool product but at $500 you can get a meta quest 3. I get that the meta quest is not multiplayer but still.

So are you implying I’m some fool out of idiocricy? I don’t get your comment?

Not sure if this question will get removed but a tangent nonetheless - I’d like to use this but I don’t know what to do with it since the advent of Discord. What do people do with IRC now and where do you find content?

I remember being a high school student and having an amazing physics conversation on IRC that included a description of Flatworld that really fascinated me.

I had a similar problem with Twinkly Xmas tree lights. It was even more frustrating than this because instead of just having me send the lights back, they just kept me trying all these different power plugs/checking with a voltmeter, etc. I should have asked myself “why in the f$&@ am I doing this” when clearly the lights were just dead. After the last correspondence I was busy and waited a month to respond and when I wrote them back they basically said it’s out of warranty, good luck. I pushed back and they couldn’t have cared less. All you can do is tell your friends and write a bad review. Good luck making it slip past all the positive fake reviews!

But almost no 14 year olds get murdered. When you take it as a percent of all 14 year olds, it’s almost nothing. Certainly not an excuse to pull guns from millions of legal owners who have a right to protect themselves no matter how much the media and the left sensationalize it.

I had a huge music collection of everything from thrash and death metal to new age and 80s. I don’t miss those days at all. I can’t tell you how many times I bought cds for one song and the rest of thing was garbage. When you’re a teen without a job or working to pay things like car insurance, gas etc, that 17 bucks was precious. No record store would let you return shit albums where I live.

Now I have all the music I’ll ever want for a low monthly fee, and I’ve discovered genres I would have never splurged for because of the limited resources I had at the time. My son does tons of music discovery through Spotify that I could have never done and doesn’t have to plop down 17 bucks for only 12-13 songs, 11-12 of which might be utter garbage.

Better said: people are lazy and would rather the quick buck than hard work