> camcorders have been around for ages but you don't have millions of directors around just because you make a tool more accessible
tiktok alone has 1.5 million directors! it's just that we call them creators now.
the meaning of the word director has changed, that's all. but professional roles shift in meaning all the time. a computer used to be a literal human doing arithmetic. an engineer was someone who designed war machinery. being a doctor used to mean teaching at an university.
human beings are natural tool makers. we always have been. the frontier material to manipulate where the most advanced engineering happens constantly changes: stone -> bronze -> iron -> ink (descartes) -> steel -> silicon -> javascript (YOU ARE HERE).
notice how each step is an improvement/abstraction on top of the steps that came before it. some say english is next in that chain. i honestly have no idea. all i know is there will always be The Next Thing and it'll be much nicer to work with.
if you haven't read the factorio devblog before, please do!
after HN, it's one of my favourite places on the internet because i constantly learn new, random, insane things almost every time. imho it teaches you how to think + shows you what great engineering taste looks like. sorry if i'm overly effusive but each post is so deeply technical and well-written that i can't believe it's free.
you don't need to know anything about factorio or gamedev btw (i don't), just pick a random number between 1 to 438 and start reading :)
>Note that there isn’t the slightest attempt to explain the planet trajectories (specifically, why the planets keep ending up where they do regardless of how many epicycles you bolt on) from a theoretical perspective. My impression is that they have absolutely no idea why the heavens behave the way they do; all they can do is stare at the night sky, record, and see what happens. That is not reassuring to me at least.
Lol the irony of publicly announcing the addition of end-to-end encryption in one app (Whatsapp) while secretly breaking TLS in another, all in the same year #Tethics
sometimes I try to mess with sites that ask for an email address for a mailing list by entering their own addresses: like "[email protected]", "[email protected]", etc.
let them deal with their own spam, then they'll understand.
