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I am glad you did! It was great watching this. Thanks!

What a find! A video posted 10 years ago, 88 views (after you posted here) and a non- descriptive title or description that is about micromouses

How did you find it?

I agree.

> ” others want to try building things and only once they hit the wall, figure out the background”

I am exactly this type as a software developer. I am ok that I won’t be a computer scientist, nor a very senior engineer working for a state of the art company. Still, I enjoy developing software. I like the daily activity of writing code. Be it a personal project to learn stuff or learning new things at work.

It is kind of limiting in a way (I will never expand the body of human knowledge in software development), but that’s ok for me. It’s liberating in other dimensions too (I am always creating new, if simple, stuff).

Not necessarily. Especially the notations are certainly not a necessary step towards the student playing.

Playing for them, sure. But you can play once and invite them to play. Not keeping showing until you think they learned.

That is common in several occupations. It is worth asking yourself an important question when you are deciding to become something that you are not. “Do you want to write or to be a writer?”, ”Do you want to develop software or be a software developer employee?”

Often the role/title is desired for its status and/or money. I think that’s a fair enough motivation actually, except it should not _solely_ be that. You have to want to learn and practice. Or else, counterproductively, you will have less chance to get the role/title.

I think inviting the person to play is much more engaging than just showing them you playing.

Showing the music notation to the student = tell

Playing the music to the student = show

Letting the student play the music = engage

Makes sense to me

Did he give his own personal money? Or is it company budget?

We have that habit in the small company I work too, and it’s great. It does not scale indeed, and it only works if, outside of those, you only have very few meetings, but I enjoy having this more humane and organic connection with my coworkers

I think it was there to show she is a teacher, rather than a scientist. The legend says so. The image itself is of a very typical teacher. It didn’t bother me in any form. It not even looked as “high-brow” to me (a serious picture of her looking to the horizon or a typical “writer pose” looking into the camera would look more highbrow to me)

From my understanding, a panic was the result of more than a hundred people being violently killed by an animal. Not by “the media”.

There is not one mention of werewolf in how it describes the happenings of the time, only when talking about the game.

Very clickbaity title trying to get the attention of those that like to blame “the media” for everything

I am a web dev and I think I’ll stay relevant to earn a decent living as a web dev until I retire (it’s hard to predict 20 years ahead, but definitely the next 5-10 years at least).

It seems the author just want to change their career, not necessarily because of they won’t be able to earn money if they don’t.

Yep. Obviously they have a product. Millions and millions of people that are not software engineers or any very tech-savvy persona use their product. And a lot of those people pay for it. It’s just silly to say they don’t really have a product.

Specially given the rest of GP comment, OpenAI seems to be the Google, Facebook of the industry and will be the infrastructure company of it (already is kind of)

Nothing like pyramid scheme because what sustain the “scheme” overall is public interest, generate experiences that people pay money for and companies are willing to sponsor. It’s not the new young players that input all the money in the industry.

Even in the case of very young players that are paying to play, it’s the parents money, so not exactly “youthful optimism” that powers it.

That’s what was in the author’s mind as well. He added a footnote:

” Worth noting that these comics fell within/adjacent to the Franco-Belgian comic tradition (Bande dessinée or BD for short), which have a very different reputation from their American comic book counterparts. Superheroes are, thankfully, approximately non-existent and BDs are generally respected as an art form, and their appeal cuts across a much broader age range.”

No. Tinder and similar actually make dates happen, a lot.

There are even a few niche ones where only the women can start a “match”.

I disagree with your three points.

> *”because they immediately get a ride close-by”

That’s is unsubstantiated utopia (from you POV). People do not have uniformly distributed locations for starting and ending routes. There are concentrations of where people work, live, go to restaurants, schools, etc. More so if you are assuming suburban homes. The direction of routes also have very strong biases.

You very strongly and, again, unsubstantially overestimate shared rides. Shared rides could already be happening at scale with a human driver and are not. There is nothing about self-driving tech that solves any urbanistic, social or economic barrier to shared rides. Also, a shared ride negates most of the benefits of self driving cabs. You are not alone in the confined space, you are sharing with others, others that will likely be more intrusive than a professional driver. The vehicle will not be as clean, as comfortable, as silent, etc.

About commute getting cheaper seems a pipe dream. There is nothing in the self driving tech remotely indicating that a currently $60 ride will cost $5 with self driving cars.

Great job! I enjoyed going through the steps.

The final though seemed like a huge leap for me, who don’t know anything about those math mysteries (which I assume is your target audience).

First I was curious to learn how is the fast way to understand that 1, 2, or 4 colors suffice. And why finding out such a way for 3 is so hard.

The zero-knowledge proof demonstration felt like “changing the subject”. Probably I missed the connection there.

Hey, I mentioned you in my comment elsewhere on this post. Checked your recent comments and found you here.

You were right in 2019, despite being downvoted. Good call. Congrats

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774532

I wonder if Paul Graham regrets investing in and defending Austen for such a long time.

I only made a comment long time ago that Lambda School sounded like a good idea to me and I regret how fool I was.

Edit: btw, bitwise, you were right in 2019, despite your response to my comment being downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774532

I voted “overhyped” because some people are out there saying it is more important than the fire or whatever. These people are out of their mind (or just performing PR stunts). But I don’t think it’s a bubble.

Not in terms of value — I think it is already delivering a lot of value and it will deliver more and more —, nor in terms of finance. Some overspending VC losing their bets does not constitute a bubble. NVidia has a somewhat diversified demand in games, crypto mining and AI. And it’s not negligible the chance of the next software big thing also use GPUs.

I don’t think it will end up being more impactful to humanity than the internet itself, but it will be big and useful.

“Filler” is very subjective. A very long chapter going on a tangential introspective mourning thoughts may be viewed by some, as it “doesn’t move the plot forward”, but it can be the most pungent point of emotional connection in the entire novel for others.

Sometimes going on talking about minor characters routine is kind of the main point of an author’s intention, but it may read as “filler” by some.

Or something like Brandon Sanderson books, where his fans enjoy spending more time in that universe, but make their novels very long.

What differs a short story from a novel is definitely not “economy words and filler content”. The two are very different narratives, structure and concepts. You don’t usually start writing a novel and realize it’s a short story or vice versa. Even if you do, then you rethink your whole structure.

Economy with words and filler content might differentiate a good from a bad novel, but not a novel and short story.

Yep. I was curious about what that mitigation was about. Anyone knows?

I always understood the promise of Triplebyte was ”do the first steps of a hiring process with us and skip them for your next dozens of job applications (that are through Triplebyte, obviously)”

Did they never deliver on that promise?

Not only that, but also not optimizing for the happiness and satisfaction of the people working at the company. In particular those working with this person. Everyone will have a worst work environment to allow one person to get away with not being earnest during the hiring process

Another option is starting a newsletter, which feels more suited for a writer to gather readers (when compared to gather “followers” on any social media).

Full disclaimer: I believe that so much that (as a fellow beginner writer) I created a “newsletter” platform more suited for fiction writers to slowly form an audience of readers owning the mailing list.

https://writer.confabulists.com

You still have to keep writing constantly (essays, short stories, chapters of a novel, or even some communication of what you are doing) but it feels more natural for writers to write than to keep posting cute pictures, hot takes or creative short videos.

Also, I added the concept of “books” in my platform, so new subscribers to your newsletter start reading your old stuff (not only your future posts).

Having a newsletter also is very satisfying that you keep some contact with people that like what you write, no matter how few they are.

Maybe more abundance of vegetal food during the Ice Age on Africa?

Did I understood correctly that we now have tools that will likely provide more clues to the disappearance but the text mentions no particular clue, yet? (I read it diagonally trying to dodge the ads)

I didn’t know it was when no balls were left. So this time I got an initial game, jumped ahead after using a special, then let all balls pass. I won by two points! :)

I have dual boot with Fedora and Windows in a Dell laptop for some years. I remember it was very easy to set it up just following some tutorial that I found online, and I am no OS or file systems wiz.