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bobleeswaggeron Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps

> if you are truly spending time with the platform

I don't think folks who make $500 a month are going to have an Apple computer and the time to develop. Why are you using illogical examples to make your point?

bobleeswaggeron Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps

If you can find any Apple developers from Egypt or South Africa making median wage, I will happily pay for their yearly developer fees. Good luck.

bobleeswaggeron Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps

Why should Apple allow anonymous publication on a marketplace which they are ultimately responsible for?

bobleeswaggeron Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps

$99 per year is pennies if you are truly spending time with the platform. Apple could charge 10 times this and still make away like bandits, I think $99 is a good price point because it weeds out folks looking for an easy system to hack at. This is good.

bobleeswaggeron ChatGPT Hardware: A look at 8x NVIDIA A100 powering the tool

At this point the costs of hosting the trained model probably surpass the training cost.

bobleeswaggeron Walmart to close three tech hubs, tells tech staff to return to offices

> Netflix doesn't take your password sharing away

That's a weird way to frame Netflix enforcing the ToS users like you agreed to.

bobleeswaggeron U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities

Do you think the balloons are of domestic or foreign origin?

bobleeswaggeron Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

Adding detail seems like a good idea, a CV is really communicating how well you can boil off the meaningless details and manage upwards. It's more sales than we are taught or intuitively realize.

You are selling your time.

bobleeswaggeron Transmission v4.0

Seems their start was less than savory. Dog and Slug are the usual starter pair and cover 99% of folks' use cases.

https://old.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/20v5es/so_apparentl...

bobleeswaggeron Transmission v4.0

Owning their media.

bobleeswaggeron Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?

> super important in loops to never use "=" as a condition statement, but instead use "<=" (or ">="). Otherwise you might create an infinite loop.

Never seems a bit strong, it depends on the context. You can use = on int types all day.

bobleeswaggeron Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again

Nothing in life worth doing is easy.

bobleeswaggeron MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR

Patience.

bobleeswaggeron Show HN: Docker rollout – Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker-compose

elaborate

bobleeswaggeron Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academic hiring

> It's already started bleeding into the workspace with mandatory training and verbiage that essentially says anything you do in your interactions with a minority if they accuse you of anything they are right and you must meekly accept it and bow your head in shame.

This happened, exactly as you describe, before my eyes at a well known education startup in Denver 2 years ago. HR representatives publicly humiliated someone for defending protestors on January 6th. Their take was entirely in bounds and amounted to "I think we're talking past one another with the heightened rhetoric, we should have more compassion for other perspectives." They later were forced to publicly apologize for their "short-sighted comments" that "harmed BIPOCs." It was insane.

Looking back, that place was a leftist echo chamber like I have never seen, and hope to never see again. Really sucks how much politics is still driving a "data-driven" world.

bobleeswaggeron MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Piracy culture is human ecology.

bobleeswaggeron MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR

You have no idea what you're talking about.

bobleeswaggeron MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR

> obnoxious process

That process did its job of filtering you out quite well. Thanks for confirming my suspicion on the dot!

bobleeswaggeron MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR

It's like you've missed that the Popcorn time crowd was eternal September and you've never built up a significant ratio on any reputable private tracker. You don't just do that by "seeding longer."

> What contribution are people expected to make? Why does culture or level or tech aptitude matter if they're not interacting with anyone?

Again, if you don't understand how popcorn time was tragedy of the commons, I'm not going to sit here and lay it out for you. Fact of the matter is, piracy does not need to be made more accessible, and doing so would be a grave danger to the good parts of its culture.

bobleeswaggeron MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR

You missed my point entirely. Popcorn time was net negative for piracy. It led to the current state of things IMO; Netflix, Hulu, etc. may have had fewer ads, more features, and lower prices if Popcorn time had not led to so many non-technical people having ease of access.

Culture matters. Understand what maintains it. Protect it.

bobleeswaggeron MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR

>I'm amazed that you can't just buy a device that acts like a VCR, with composite and line in and out, but records and plays back via digital files instead of tape.

HDHomerun does this.

bobleeswaggeron MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR

> Sort of waiting for some new iteration of what "popcorn time" was

No. Popcorn time was a massive free rider/tragedy of the commons problem and a new version of it will continue to erode the good parts of piracy culture that exist.

If you're too lazy to contribute effectively to these cultures, you should just keep paying for Netflix or IPTorrents.

bobleeswaggeron AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes

Hilarious. How in the world was this banned? There's a clear difference between targeted transphobia and AI generated content dancing around the subject.

bobleeswaggeron Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company

> If you're actually a diverse company, then people will notice.

Yep. But the damage has already been done.

At least you have a voice. I recommend using it to change what bothers you.

bobleeswaggeron Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?

How is this different from any other office culture of participation? Align or leave is not a new thing. You do realize employees negotiated WFH and remote work with their employers _prior_ to 2019 without issues, right? I'm not sure why the bar had to be lowered from the point, to be frank.

bobleeswaggeron Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?

> there’s not much in-office dynamic like maybe there was 20 years ago

Yeah, because folks like you insist that office culture has nothing to do with productivity. I wonder if you've ever worked somewhere productive.

> dragging us back into the office

Dragging? Are we slaves now?

bobleeswaggeron Ask HN: Feeling Hopeless and Lost at 23

Your experience is becoming the norm more and more. Be kind to yourself, first. I am a data engineer with a decade of experience, and I turn 30 this year. I was a "gifted and talented" kid who "fell off the boat" as far as external perspectives were concerned. In reality I was undiagnosed ADHD, with a few other personality disorders, and having hard-ass parents made a recipe for disaster. I left school with a semester to go, and similar GPA because I realized I never wanted to be there in the first place. Fortunately I had a lot of practical skills, building a career has been easy compared to any difficult times I remember in school. Being kind to myself in the last 5 years has been the biggest help though.

You have self awareness, lean into that. You don't seem like you're making excuses, but if you dwell for too long you'll get there fast. Just keep moving forward, improving, and try to make each day better than the last one. It's all we can do.

bobleeswaggeron Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?

I think ChatGPT is controversial because, like other past controversial technologies, we don't know whether it will be good or bad for society on the whole.

If you don't notice how much money-momentum is behind it, you're burying your head in the sand. I think it's an interesting time because we are seeing how the market squeezes value out of emerging technology.

bobleeswaggeron Ask HN: Suggestions for working effectively with junior devs?

Wait till you learn their salaries.

bobleeswaggeron Proving Earth is a globe

That sounds a lot grander than a misperception of illusion.