tylerjwilk00

This is a good interpretation. Similar to a "Single Source of Truth" [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_source_of_truth

Give yourself permission to not be excited about things you used to. It's okay. There is nothing wrong with you. This can happen. This is normal for a lot of people. If you're comfortable and not starving, take it easy for as long as you need. Freeing yourself from worry may lead to some great insights and enlightenment. If not, no big deal.

I wonder if 20% of musicians make 80% of the streaming revenue.

"Never let a good crisis go to waste”

~ Winston Churchill

Replace "new species" with "human fetus" and it's basically the same argument that surrounds abortion.

I am not saying one side or the other is correct, I honestly don't hold a strong opinion on this issue.

Just that we can imagine a certain hypocrisy in a society that is against creating/terminating one life prematurely (smart monkeys)... but yet withholds the same rule against it's own species offspring (humans).

I totally agree with you.

The ethos went "mainstream" in the sense that it was fashionable to play the part and be in your words a "fake hacker". And for future historians and those unfamiliar with the jargon, hacker ethos isn't about criminally breaking into computer systems.

Seriously!?

Thank Darwin we had ancestors with thicker skin and stronger will.

Nobody wants nuclear war or to live in the aftermath of it.

However, should it ever happen I intend to do everything in my power to survive. Early humans endured terrible hardships so we had the privilege of building great comfortable societies. It's our duty to the future to keep carrying the flame.

I am speculating but perhaps parent means TV news and media is a lens (Eye of the Overworld) through which the wearer is shown a world layered over the real world. Media would then change the view to either squalor or majesty (perhaps depending on the elected president).

Indeed. One thing labs lack that the early earth had in the plenty is space (for multiple "experiments") and time.

You're still in a bubble. Taking a flight for a business meeting is wasteful. Full stop.

Reducing wasteful polluting plane travel is a bonus not a bug.

The "space" dimension is so overrated when it comes to meetings.

If that is the only thing that has been keeping cities together then they're doomed.

Is there a galactic equivalent of a solar system's heliosphere?

This is absurd. Yes rural lacks a government run composting program because it would have a negative benefit but plenty of people do there own composting and use it for gardens or such.

I never understood this logic. Outsourcing energy, building materials, and food production doesn't absolve a metro of it's climate impact.

I enjoy building up my primitive skills and trade skills. If the house of cards we call our current society falls down at least you'll have some valuable skills to rebuild from.

So no one set any buildings on fire? [1] It's all a conspiracy? These are deep fakes and propaganda news? [2]

1. https://nypost.com/2020/08/24/blm-protesters-set-portland-po...

2. https://youtu.be/4XSlXVgHYok

Interesting read. Honestly I never took stock of my "social network occupational diversity" but after reading this I feel lucky. Almost no one in my circle of friends shares the same industry, let alone job title. It has a wide range of age groups -1 decade / + 2 decades which may explain it. I'm rural so age isn't very homogenized and any local bars or clubs have a wide spread. We don't talk much about work... I'm now wondering if this is because our professions don't overlap.

The timing of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was so unfortunate.

My eyes are wide open. I agree with private property. But we're not talking backyards and prestine grasslands. These are remote rocky old mining trails, logging trails, and train tracks. I ain't saying there is any easy solution. I just miss riding like I used to be able.

This is happening where I live. Previously huge tracks of mountain and forest are slowly being cut up. However, it's the rich newcomers that are selfish with their land. When we were children we had ATVs/dirtbikes and could put in hundred miles a day of riding. Now many trails have gates and no trespassing signs. Used to be a sense of shared commonwealth amongst connected properties. Now, it's the "privatization" of nature and it sucks. I miss the old days.

Also, totally get the condescension you speak of. "Oh. You do your own <plumbing,welding,lawn, automotive,...>! How quaint."

Simple. Add a new config to the project root directory that defines the config locations. Done. /jk

I do like the .config directory naming suggestion though.

More focus on Performance and not just Eye Candy would benefit.

Growning up with the constraints of weaker computer hardware helped the Old Guard appreciate performant solutions.

Candy Landy is more deterministic algorithm than a board game. Young children are mostly oblivious to this though.

Does anyone know if there are any effects from inflation [1] at galactic boundaries?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

I agree with this.

Just this week I had a lengthy 2 day discussion involving 4 other employees, 8+ long emails, and hundreds of words in chat ... all to figure out that we need to add an if/else statement and two simple lines of code.

The code took 2 minutes. The discovery took 2 days.

The "curse of knowledge" works both ways.

Sounds specific to your boss.

My team and I are mostly remote, doubly so since pandemic, we are all chatting and vidconfing with our boss and each other daily. It's a nice well connected environment.

If we consider our brains conscious, and the foundational building blocks of that consciousness are electro/chemical reactions, it seems plausible that there is an innate property of consciousness to the underlying matter of those processes.

I don't understand the modern hate for OOP. Perhaps a bad mentor or inheritance nazi. Inheritance can be thrown in the trash but otherwise OOP is just a collection of related functions where you can have shared data to work with while not polluting global scope. I don't see how it's so oppressive unless if you're trapped in Java land where OOP is inescapable as opposed to dynamic languages where you can sprinkle in your OOP with other coding styles as needed.

I would up vote you more if I could. There is a weird group think happening on HN where you can't even question the quarantine measures. It's knee jerk virtue signalling and not data driven.

This has has always been my concern.

How many people have died because they couldn't get life saving elective procedures?

How many deaths will be attributed to the economic slow down?

As a counterpoint though I must also ask:

How many people have NOT died because of reduce automobile travel? Or from COVID19?