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If you want to watch all of your team's games you need to a) purchase an expensive monthly cable subscription from the company that holds the football rights. b) pay a sizeable sum on top, I think it's about 50 euros per month to be able to watch the actual matches.

This is just for La Liga games, you'll need to pay extra if your team plays in other competitions.

And I suppose you don't fall into that definition because you discriminate not based on their race but on their culture?

Would be very interested in hearing what's your definition of racism.

>I mean that is what normal people care about, too.

Depends on how you define normal. I think it's much more likely that the number of people who care about it deeply is extremely small - a small sub-group within the group of people who see gaming as their main hobby.

>public company

Why does it have to be a public company though?

You gotta love the mental gymnastics people will go through to convince themselves that not paying and blocking ads is the morally correct thing to do.

If you truly have those beliefs the right moral action is to not use YouTube at all but god forbid you'd have to make any sort of sacrifice.

The mental gymnastics some will go through to justify being a cheapskate...

> know you’re being sarcastic but indeed if we reasoned properly we would all agree

We would also lose everything that makes us human and will find no satisfaction in knowing.

How much does it cost to have it run for 7 hours straight?

In full agreement with you on the flagrant incapability of a sizeable part of the HN crowd to understand and value of the arts.

Throughout history man has been celebrated and distinguished as the rational animal. As master of the earth this animal in our days dedicates its brightest minds to the continual increase of economic growth. Ask the rational man what is growth good for and after a few exchanges they perhaps will say that it ultimately improves our quality of life and even extends it. If might even allow the human race to flourish beyond earth and thus prevail long after resources on earth are depleted. But ask him then why is improving the quality of life a good thing at all? Is it just a meaningless cycle in which we improve the quality of life so that we can then improve the quality of life even further? No. Ask an individual human (in contrast to the ultra rationalist who thinks they represent the human race as a whole) what they work for, what they strive to achieve, what does quality of life ultimately mean to them and you will end up with happy times spent among family and friends. With meaningful moments listening to music, watching a film, reading a book. About time spent in creative endeavors that are totally their own. The rational animal in its hubris forgot what it thinks for and trapped itself in an endless cycle where the true meaning of being human is hidden from the sight of many.

But I think a wake up call is due very soon. The rational animal is about to discover the rationality it prides itself on was merely a sample of the true possibility. From the rational animal we have been relegated to another animal with some rational capability. As we slowly realize how futile are our attempts at thinking, we'll realize to our horror that the gift we are left with is the ability to recognize the futility and inadequacy of our attempts. Hopefully then we'll decide to retreat back into what truly makes us human, to what is ours, to what quality of life really means.

Python has evolved into quite a complex language considering the amount of features that come built-in. The documentation, while complete, does not facilitate discovery of many of those features.

I suppose this is a new project. I am always turned off by projects, of this sort, that on day one start to push monetization, and this blatantly. If you are here for the long run why not build some goodwill first instead of immediately going for a quick buck?

An NNTP server that allows you to experience old Usenet with a 40 year delay. You'd get each day's messages as if they were published today.

At the bare minimum educate yourself on the matter before expressing yourself in public

This is a defensive war. This is the lesson we learned when the world did nothing to stop Hitler's initial aggression. This is the moment of truth. Doing nothing is easy, it's the default. We now know the possible consequences and we've made our mind to not let that happen again. Have we learned nothing?

Exhibit A for level one thinking.

Criticizing is easy, I'd like all critics to suggest alternatives to how FF development should be funded. I don't like this at all but I also cannot come up with any realistic alternatives.

Cloud computing is ridiculously expensive. The other day I wanted to increase Mongo Atlas iops by 1000 on a 3 node cluster and it costs $3000 a year. How does that make any sense?

This is answered in their FAQ: https://zed.dev/faq :

We envision Zed as a free-to-use editor, supplemented by subscription-based, optional network features, such as:

       Channels and calls
       Chat
       Channel notes

We plan to offer our collaboration features to open source teams, free of charge.

>How some people prefer manual is probably one of the mysteries I'll take to grave with myself.

When I find myself thinking like that I try to come up with generous analogies to try and position myself in a similar mindset. With manual transmission the advantage seems to be fine grained control over the engine at the cost of more complexity and additional work. This fine grained control may be imperceptible or totally unnecessary for some people. However, I run Linux for similar reasons and enjoy tinkering with it. I also tend to prefer tools that target power users at the cost of complexity. So, even if I'm not a gearhead myself, I can easily understand the preference for manual transmission by others.

>And yet LLMs were still fed articles written for Googlebot, not humans.

How do we know what content LLMs were fed? Isn't that a highly guarded secret?

Won't the quality of the content be paramount to the quality of the generated output or does it not work that way?

You'll probably enjoy When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut.

There is a lot fire directed at Mozilla on HN. I'm not saying I support or can make sense of all of their decisions but I'd love for someone in the criticizers camp to explain what steps they would take to make Mozilla and the continued development of Firefox a financially sustainable and independent endeavour.

It's been a few years since I last watched his stuff. He always had that crazy genius vibe, similar to Terry Davis but but not as unhinged and much more friendly and wholesome. I'm fascinated how these individuals that are clearly immensely gifted with rational thought are also religious fanatics. How do they rationalize it? I can understand believing in a supreme being but it also being the one described in bible seems difficult to rationalize.

The term you are after, used to describe authors noted for their use of language is prose stylist. Given your examples I think you'll adore Moby-Dick; what Melville pulls off there is astonishing.

It's certainly worth it, especially if you have some appreciation for the craft of writing, a love for words and the English language and the patience to take things slow and put the effort to really understand what you're reading. After the clouds clear and you can see what he is doing a monument reveals itself and there is this feeling of astonishment that a human was able to create such a thing.

The second half of the book (chapters 10 to 18 although page-wise it's more like two thirds) is especially satisfying. Each chapter is written in a vastly different style: imitation of music, a romantic novel, a play, the historical development of style in the English language, how a bad writer writes, a technical text, and a couple of others.

It's challenging and might not be satisfying if you're looking for plot (there is none). I suggest to read a chapter and then the accompanying text in https://www.ulyssesguide.com

>I think the fundamental assumption of the analysis that there are two mutually exclusive groups, 'pro-Israel' and 'pro-Palestine' is flawed. It is possible to simultaneously support the interests of Palestinian and Israeli civilians

That would be a nuanced view. The reality is that most people and especially most people who post their views online are not capable of seeing things that way.

Not sure if you missed it but it's a reference to CmdrTaco's initial take on the original iPod https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...

I have never connected with any artist as much as I have with Cormac McCarthy. His writing brings forth feelings and ideas that seem to have always existed inside me but were waiting for his words to take shape.

Throughout his work runs a line of thought that is never explicitly explained or can be easily summarized but some of his sentences and paragraphs nod at it. Here's one of my favorites:

"He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower."

For those of you who think they don't "get" jazz, Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" is a great eye opener. It's a bit long but the tune should be very familiar and recognizable. If you pay attention, and jazz is a type of music that is best enjoyed with attention, you can easily follow what Coltrane is doing to that tune. It gets played, extended, deformed, touched, hinted, lifted and lowered by the creative forces of a great artist. And that's really what jazz is all about.