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potta_coffee··on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
It's not bullshit, my parents had the same fridge from when I was born until I graduated from college.
potta_coffee··on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
Shopping for appliances recently, I found that ALL available brands are pretty shit as far as reliability goes. It's basically a gamble. I've learned to avoid Samsung though because the circuit boards in them cannot be had for any amount of money and so the appliances are essentially not repairable.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses
Yeah, pretty much. I've failed at a dozen projects already.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: Looking for new hobbies to relax, grow or make friends, any ideas?
Try Jiu Jitsu. It's the best thing ever.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: I have 10 yrs of Exp. Failed 4 takehome projects. What am I doing wrong?
I've aced take homes and still been turned down for various nitpicks. A lot of times I think the person reviewing the code is looking for their pet preferences to be met rather than evaluating the potential of the candidate.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has been an awesome venue for finding new friends. I highly recommend, plus you'll gain fitness and confidence.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: Is it possible to decrypt 256-bit encrypted radio in the battlefield?
Even capturing the radio is not enough. The crypto device that is used to synchronize the radios must be captured. The radios are synchronized in a secure area away from the battlefield.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: Is it possible to decrypt 256-bit encrypted radio in the battlefield?
IDK what radios they're using in Ukraine. US military radios have devices that sync to one another that rotate keys. Also the radios hop frequencies every couple of minutes. I think it's pretty much impossible to crack without the "brain" device that is used to coordinate the radios, which is closely guarded.
potta_coffee··on The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird
You're not the only one. I'm sure Typescript is nice / better, but I don't feel like having yet another bullshit language foisted on me. Also I dislike Microsoft.
potta_coffee··on The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird
Javascript is not going away anytime soon, probably. Personally, I'm waiting for React to die.
potta_coffee··on The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird
Vanilla Javascript is comfortable. I think I've pretty much given up on the JS ecosystem. I've been going back to web frameworks like Django / Rails / Laravel. Obviously not the solution for all things but most projects really don't need to be SPAs.
potta_coffee··on The decline and fall of the hit instrumental song
True enough. I'd like to be that good at guitar but it seems like he's somewhat of a savant. I can't say I envy his social life.
potta_coffee··on Running a movie theater is more expensive than you can possibly imagine
I really like the "slowness" of the old way of taking pictures. The results are better. Really I stopped because film is so anachronistic and expensive / inconvenient to deal with. I have a DSLR that's decent but it's still not the same.
potta_coffee··on The decline and fall of the hit instrumental song
Buckethead is my favorite instrumentalist. He's not a Jazz musician though.
potta_coffee··on Running a movie theater is more expensive than you can possibly imagine
I have several working cameras from the 40's and 50's and two fantastic Pentax cameras from the 60's and 70's respectively. The newer Pentax is a K1000 that I've had completely refurbished and it works like it just came out of the box.
potta_coffee··on Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
Monsanto is big money, that's why. Just like everything else in our blown out civilization.
potta_coffee··on Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits
My perception is that they don't want to "blend in" to the point that there's no distinction, but they want acceptance under the umbrella of Christianity. Most other groups under Christianity reject LDS doctrine as heresy, LDS church says "we are Christians though". I'm not trying to project an opinion about who is correct, just trying to describe what I think is going on.
potta_coffee··on Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits
When I was growing up in the 90s, I had a few LDS friends. My school had a ton of LDS kids for some reason even though I didn't grow up in an area that's known for them. These kids always described themselves as "mormon". I never heard the term "Latter Day Saints" until much later.
potta_coffee··on Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
I wish that were so but it fairly obviously isn't. Just jump on a thread about politics or vaccination or any other cultural issue.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: Are there software jobs that involve zero web/networking?
I've written a lot of cloud automation over the past couple of years. I'm utilizing different APIs which of course involve networks but the code itself mainly deals with the management of resources, like deleting / archiving old backups, changing instance attributes etc.
potta_coffee··on AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
Just what we need, another platform.
potta_coffee··on Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
I wish you were wrong. I've met actual Flat Earth believers, which I find astonishing and disconcerting. Unfortunately, I feel like the over-reaction against expert opinion is part of the cost of prior abuse of expert opinion. Trust in institutions is eroded and in my opinion, for justifiable reasons. We're definitely not in good shape as a society.
potta_coffee··on Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
It's one of the attitudes being pushed in the education system itself. After a couple of generations, "expertism" has embedded deeply into the American mindset. It's very dangerous to live in a culture where we don't question experts.
potta_coffee··on DIY IBM Selectric type balls give ’60s typewriters new life (and Comic Sans)
Thanks! I'm composing my resignation letter in Comic Sans right now.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: How did you learn to stretch effectively?
Do yoga and / or BJJ. Jiu Jitsu is fun and limbered me up so that my back doesn't hurt anymore; I reverse-aged by 10 years.
potta_coffee··on We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
I drive older Toyotas. These cars will never go into the landfill if I can help it.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
I just use my wired headphones with my smartphone when I want to walk around the house / yard and still attend a meeting.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: How Bad Is the Current Market? Pt3
IDK about that. I work for a massive company with employees around the world. We need people in all time zones. We need people who can do work in specific regions and markets. We need people who can communicate in English and other languages and understand cultural subtleties. Also have experience with outsourcing in several other companies and have seen some terrible results.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: What decade or older games surprise you with how well they have held up?
Upvoted but I actually have more fondness for HOMM2.
potta_coffee··on Ask HN: What decade or older games surprise you with how well they have held up?
I've played Super Metroid all the way through annually since it came out. It's still great IMO. Also still enjoying playing Skyrim now and then.
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