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debeloo··on Getter-Setter Pattern Considered Harmful
Reads like AI garbage.
debeloo··on PAROL6: 3D-printed desktop robotic arm
I'd love to see pictures and video on the landing page.
debeloo··on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
This is exactly the problem. There are so many 20 minute videos that should have been 2 minutes.

In a way, it's much easier to make the 20 minute video. Just hit record, rant an rave, stop recording and publish.

There are indeed justified long videos stuffed full with knowledge, insight and witty comments to make it fun.

Then there are "slow" videos but magical. Paul Sellers has a 30 min video on how to make mortise and tenons joint with hand tools. Just you and him in real time. You get a (recorded) private lesson from a master craftsman. It's magic. Every minute of it is knowledge transfer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aBodzmUGtdw

debeloo··on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
> You don't get negative feedback if you don't open communications channels for that.

This some next level philosophy pondering, thanks.

debeloo··on Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood
> You can easily look it up yourself.

Thanks for the quote and link. I do appreciate those who make the internet a better place even though they toss around a slightly passive aggressive advice along the way!

debeloo··on Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood
> you cannot learn absolute pitch as an adult

Why?

debeloo··on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
> And that's incredibly hard

>You need to both be able to ignore

> and be openminded enough to ...

I'm know it's pretty pointless to argue because we see the world in a different way. But realize the (quoted) requirements are you putting on the open source developer.

A developer without these skills will burn out.

debeloo··on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
> I don't get it.

I think that might be the problem.

It's comments like these that causes people to wear out.

debeloo··on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
> burnout was happening anyway but blaming others is a good smoke-screen.

Oh no. I'm convinced majority of burnouts are almost entirely caused by dealing with shitty people and/or shitty processes.

Shitty processes sometimes happen without shitty people, the people involved just let it happen.

debeloo··on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
Impressed that he endured 20 years of entitled users before burning out.

Criticism hits incredibly hard. I'd watch a friend play for hundreds of people at a concert and he'd receive a standing ovation.

But he overheard a single disgruntled remark from someone which nullified the whole experience for him.

I know he was being overly sensitive about it, but I've heard similar stories from other people too.

debeloo··on U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
> privacy from corporations matters very little, but privacy from governments matters very much.

Historically perhaps, but if you notice what's been happening in America then the line between government and corporation is getting very blurry.

Also historically, when you have a fascist government then companies/corporations are quick to join the party if they want to survive.

debeloo··on New DOGE site update breaks down government jobs by salary/age/headcount
Pay someone by the line of code and he'll write himself a Ferrari by the end of the month.
debeloo··on Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids
The article mentions the marshmallow experiment.

I wonder if it's "inverse" has been studied. Promise the child another one after 15 minutes but then either not deliver on the promise or even steal the one marshmallow.

I know people that had the equivalent happen to them as kids, and I think it had enormous effect on their personality as adults.

Depending how often it happens, I wouldn't be surprised if that's how you raise sociopaths.

debeloo··on New DOGE site update breaks down government jobs by salary/age/headcount
Mango Mussolini doesn't have big balls, according to witness statements.
debeloo··on New DOGE site update breaks down government jobs by salary/age/headcount
I'm the strange context of MAGA I think it's important to note that he's a South African immigrant too.
debeloo··on Visualizing Data Is an Art – We Should Treat It Like One
I'd call what you describe as impressive, art.

Flashy trashy is just crap. Some might call it art but then again everything is art these days.

debeloo··on Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried
Exactly. Even if he buys it, there's no guarantee he'll permission to dig it up.
debeloo··on We are destroying software
Agree with the toxic ecosystem wasteland, but I'm not sure semver is to blame. Linux has been good, but most projects were pretty wild before SemVer came to be. At least with SemVer you stand a chance knowing what you have.

It problem is more deep rooted with both "move fast and break everything" and non/under funded project. Everyone is depending on each others hobby project. The js/npm culture is especially bad.

Yes, SemVer makes it easy, but versioning has to be dead easy.

debeloo··on We are destroying software
>But all it has done is enable developers to make these breaking changes in the first place, under the protective umbrella of “I’ll just bump the major version.”

Which is just fine when it is a non funded free software project. No one owes you anything in that case, let alone backwards compatibility.

debeloo··on Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?
I have to agree with this.

Try sending this graph to an actual human analyst. His response, after you paying him will probably be to cut off any further business relationship with you.

debeloo··on New York claims a small victory in 'forever war on rats'
What would happen if we managed to get rid of every single rat on the planet. The great rat extinction.

Would other species take it's place? Mice?

Or would the planet just be a better place?

debeloo··on Global variables are not the problem
It's just like saying guns are not the problem.

Perhaps a unicorn doesn't die as soon as you first use a global var. But it has two .45s pointed to it cranium left and right. And at any random moment Danni DeVito will start blasting.

debeloo··on CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised
Judging by the last few days, I'd guess something to do with the aerospace industry.
debeloo··on The PETG adhesive test [video]
Missed PVA. That works fine for PLA and is dirt cheap.
debeloo··on CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised
"Of the 4,700 newspapers published in Germany when the Nazis took power in 1933, no more that 1,100 remained. Approximately half were still in the hands of private or institutional owners, but these newspapers operated in strict compliance with government press laws and published material only in accordance with directives issued by the Ministry of Propaganda."

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-...

debeloo··on Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets
Is this normal when there's change in presidency?
debeloo··on Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
That not very environmentally friendly.