planarhobbit

Normally I’d agree, but there’s a market for everything and everyone, and timing is key. There exists a market for this, especially for people coming from abroad who have preconceptions around what kind of a person they want to be with. Engineers, in this case, are a category that is filtered - in good and bad ways.

Some of this can be fixed with technology - but men swiping on everyone, women being picky, and other ancient habits are probably not on that list.

What you’re after is more than likely much closer to a traditionally arranged communion (dating, marriage, whatever). The filters, pre selection, etc, would be in place by design. As we all know, that isn’t going to fly at all. You’d get your head cut off (in Minecraft) if you suggested this to women today as a viable means of pairing with men.

What you’re looking at now is what happens when we take the facade of civilization, society, some concept of fairness etc in the “dating marketplace” and the filters away, and we show humans as they are. Their wants, needs, desires, desperations. And if things look bleak to you, I assure you, it’s not because of technology and it’s not something technology will fix.

What if this is an app for women to find a relatively well off (replace with intelligent, etc) partner given that this app is, essentially, a filter that dictates level of income/job bracket (location dependent, but you get the idea).

> Fekete added: “Racism has become entrenched in policing as the rank and file are resituating themselves as society’s victims and organising on an ever more extremist agenda.”

Something to think about.

You should read into how the son of the founder is suing his sister and family for control of the company. Total trust fund bullshit and incompetence.

For most of us, these great awakenings come with age. They are rich, sublime flashes of clarity and intellect to be enjoyed (first and foremost) and nourished (thereafter) with more such awakenings. The simplest of deductions lead us to wonder how, what, and if. This is the tunnel through which some people end up believing, through disbelief and astonishment, that there is a grand design at play and that it is a thing of beauty and wonder.

Complete with surface noise.

You’d be surprised at the amount of things written by people to put a veil of logical reasoning behind impulsive, emotional and irrational life choices/decisions. Or maybe not.

I would imagine it’s the other way around, but maybe the infra has changed. I always thought it was Bell at the very top.

The flavour of outrage is a misguided, misandristic temper tantrum. So play that fiddle elsewhere.

I’m surprised there’s no chiming in from Bell customers. I’m on their Fibe or whatever plan, no issues all day whatsoever. My phone lines, however, are all down, as is merchant processing etc etc.

Really strange day but not unexpected. We “know” the telcos are screwing us but we don’t have a way to gang up against them, as people easily buy into their feelgood propaganda.

Management in my case. I lead a few teams now after having been mostly responsible for just the FE portion of things. I’ve always been a full stack dev but being the lead for FE team meant working a lot with business and presenting things, taking feedback and communicating back to devs etc. So moving up was a natural thing for me. Just a lot of meetings now, unfortunately.

I’ve had no problems hiring senior devs across the board - FE, BE, DBA, DevOps, etc etc. The existing ones recommend their friends so I imagine it’s a company culture thing as well.

After reading all the commentary I can’t help but feel HN got baited to shower a narcissist with compliments. I wish more people would just pile the OP’s answers and read before responding to any individual thread.

Well done lads, well done.

What id like to know is what happened to Russia retreating from Ukraine, as many sources originally said they would. They seem to have taken a good chunk of Ukraine just this past week, and there’s no news of this unless I dig into shady sources.

What the fuck is going on with our news?

I’d say they should show evidence that they know what they’re talking about, but then I’d be accused of credentialism.

The way adulthood is defined here, as in not having hobbies or personal time, strikes me as strange. I disagree with it - but I’d like to hear what people think of as adulthood.

I suppose I’m an outlier (aren’t we all) but most things I have to do, I like to do them. My job is an extension of an immensely satisfying and enriching hobby. If something breaks, it’s interesting to attempt to fix it. Having a choice AND not having one are both, to me, liberating in a sense. I’m a hands on person when I can be. The things I don’t like to do I often give them to family members or friends who do like to do them. Is there an air of petulance over needing to do things from time to time? Sure, but that’s normal.

Perhaps it’s to do with facing death, or seeing close friends and family pass away, or relinquishing a part of your time and energy to your kids, or seeing people change for the worse over time. But if this is what adulthood is, then whoever thinks so has not even begun to question what life is all about.

But this is a sliver of contemplation, it is not a be all end all to things.

So many days, weeks, months, years spent on Imagi-Nation, The Alter Realm, Abbadon, among other shards.

Horseshoe theory right once again: Grug and 100x’er megaminds are aligned, and the midwits are over complicating and underperforming.

Would decades of squats, deadlifts, free weights/kettlebells and a plethora of compound exercises build up enough hip/femoral bone density and muscle to withstand most chances of hip breaks occurring? Or most bone breakages, period?

I’m assuming most of the population does not engage in serious exercise regiments, but we rarely have studies performed solely on a highly athletic/strong cohort, so I have to be the glib one and ask if bodybuilders are exempt from these “frail in old age” studies.

One great study we’ve had done recently is how the heart is sculpted as pertaining to exercises that are done, namely cycling, swimming, lifting heavy weights, and rowing all exhibit their own reconfiguration of heart walls/chambers.

Housing and material wealth keeps coming up but we’ve survived and thrived after a good chunk of Europe was razed, critical infrastructure missing and entire countries needing to be rebuilt. Peoples wants and needs weren’t that different from ours, we just have more of them, but we desire them as much as any period of time before us.

We don’t, unfortunately, have many first hand accounts of how people survived during these times.

I do remember a poignant scene in Saving Private Ryan as Tom Hanks and the squad are moving through a shelled European city. I think it’s in France, but it’s been so long since I’ve seen the film.

In that scene they come across a mother and daughter living in an apartment, with no real hope of a better life as most of the city has been bombed. They invite themselves in for tea. A young Private catches the eye of the daughter, and vice versa. Tom Hanks, the mother, and rest of the squad pretend that they’re having tea and talking and laughing while the two young people go to a different room (subtext being to have a discussion of their own). Tom Hanks looks at the mother and gives her a warm smile. Everyone has a stupid-grin look on their face, acting ignorant. The scene, out of place though it may be, acknowledges the needs of young people, and that older generations sometimes literally have to play a part, and move out of the way and let the young people do what they desire to do and to not strip them of or take away their opportunities.

What is a non-crazy, correct take in this situation?

More than likely you’d need to write your own plug-in and start filtering things, have bots scan front pages of top news sites and their political sections and help guide the ML that way.

It’s not easy, but I’m sure it’s doable as the big G and others have done much more sophisticated analysis.

> The narrative kept moving and getting bigger as you got deeper into the "East".

The soundtrack did an amazing job to cement the movement of narrative. Act 2 in particular, because it’s the first time in the game (from Diablo 1 perspective) that we see a completely different environment within the game.

An all around work of art.

> it involves politically incorrect and demographically-exclusionary themes

Back when we could have blockbuster games with worldbuilding/fantasy narratives that didn’t involve shoehorning whatever currently trendy topics are flying about.

See also: baldurs gate remaster

> Yes, there are many people who blog and otherwise publicly discuss development methodologies and what they're working on, but there are even more people who don't. Blogging takes time, for example, and not everyone enjoys it. Other people are working on commercial products and can't divulge the inner workings of their code.

There’s a subset of this silent majority who tried to contribute to discussion platforms but gave up when they saw prominent voices that had next to no idea what they were talking about being promoted, hailed, and so on. The loudest voice is rarely the most articulate, and for subject matter experts articulation, nuance, and other learned-through-experience things count for a lot, one would assume.

I think what the parent is trying to say is that we have studies that show how myopia can be induced. I think EndMyopia gives examples in baby chickens or some such. But I’ve yet personally not come across a vetted study that shows reversal of myopia. And I support EndMyopia/Hormesis Theory as I’ve applied some of the ideas to help my one weaker eye get a bit sharper over time.

I understand there’s an industry that wants to be paid for prescription glasses and lenses and whatnot, and that can throw a wrench and it does into the whole thing - see the Sugar vs Fat vs Whatever industry battle. But a little would go a long way.

Hard to believe after all these years EndMyopia is not only being promoted on HN, but is consistently one of the most upvoted things on the subject. I figured the pros here would slice and dice and find issues with the research and recommendations and explain in depth why it’s snake oil (if it is), but it’s been a fairly forgiving topic.

See also: all the commentary around font rendering on MacOS/OS X vs Windows. IMHO Windows has always been far more towards pixel accuracy, but what the hell do I know (the internet will tell me I’m wrong either way!)

As per a few of the comments here saying that /pol/ is never wrong, this is something that is full speed ahead into problematic territory.

The issue we always battle with are facts, truths, and their presentation.

To give an example, every so often the topic of news media is brought up, and within a few posts the usual images start flying out. You might expect it to be some racist meme or whatever, and there is that, but it’s more often than not a grid of a lot of the upper staff of media companies like CNN, FOX, and so on. And each one of the people in that grid has a blue Star of David next to their photo.

The posts don’t even have to say anything, and yet they’ve in a way said more than any other website/forum/publication source or whatever is allowed to whisper.

They are not, however, factually wrong in the contents of the image.

You can extrapolate this kind of, “allowed” and “disallowed versions of truth” problem across many different topics. I’m bringing this up because they do the same with tech/SV companies.

When nothing is off limits, where to /pol/ very few topics are, there are no truths that cannot be interpreted. Most interpretations, however, would make people feel very, very uneasy.

Something to think about.

Early comment in the thread but I wonder if the overall “zeitgeist” opinion of C#/.NET/Microsoft has changed. Used to be in /. days that a lot of people stayed away from Microsoft stuff, preferring Python, Ruby. Then Stack Overflow came and things slowly started shifting.

I do internal dev tooling in C#. It’s one of the best languages out there for raw “get shit done” prowess. I’ve used many languages throughout the decades, some more elegant than others. Like others, I’m a bit wary of the explosion of syntax shortcuts and alternatives, but whatever, its no big deal. It’s a great all-around, general purpose language. I would love to use F# more but I don’t think some decisions they’ve made would go over well with many people.