chefandy · HackerTrans

Appreciate it. I got through about 10 paragraphs of preamble and disclaimers before giving up. I’m sure this document is what the community and author need it to be, but only being interested in the technical takeaways, your comment at least helps me know what to skim for.

chefandy

2 年前議論

share the chats then

chefandy

2 年前議論

> People do get oddly grumpy when you criticise OpenSCAD

Most of us don't realize how much our comfort with familiar concepts affects our ability to objectively evaluate them. Moving from dev to being a tech artist, I see the same exact sort of irrational biases, hang-ups and endemic misconceptions with completely different tool chains and types of complexity. When I first started using Houdini, I tried to turn every task into a Python coding problem because that's what I was comfortable with— Python is amazing in Houdini but it's definitely not the best way to accomplish most tasks.

chefandy

2 年前議論

I've encountered nearly no businesses that don't accept cash and I pay with cash all the time. The lower-income end of the working class makes up a huge percentage of our economy, and it's an extremely cash-centric demographic. But even then, I've got a friend who sells fine handmade jewelry and some folks came in and bought like a 30k piece from her in cash because they owned a cash-only business. I can't imagine anyone existing outside of a ultra-gentrified corporate enclave that would encounter nearly any businesses that don't accept cash, let alone most. Maybe they just never see anyone use cash because they're not in a socioeconomic segment where it's still the standard?

chefandy

2 年前議論

I don't have direct access to my long-term savings and retirement accounts— I have to go through my financial manager who'll works in a small, local firm, and so would anyone trying to impersonate me. He would probably recognize my voice, knows where I live and what's going on in my life, to whom I'm married, etc. because we have bi-annual check in meetings. He'd definitely contact me through his existing contact info if there was anything weird going on with one of my requests, especially if it involved a different address or account than he's used to dealing with. As anyone in that compliance-and-accuracy-focused line of work should be, he's very intent on making sure all of the Ts are crossed and Is are dotted. He charges a flat percentage of my modest retirement savings annually (I'm far behind most white collar workers my age, coming from a working class early adulthood) so he has a financial interest in my investments, and does a really solid job managing them. The accounts are in a large investment-focused bank which I believe only he can access. I think it's about as safe as you could get while still keeping your money active in the economy and not having a rich person's resources.

chefandy

2 年前議論

If you have at least a fraud watch on your credit which means creditors are supposed to call you on the number they have listed before they open new accounts, then the money is arguably worth protecting more. But if you think it's tough to convince the bank with which you have an existing relationship that you didn't make some withdrawals, imagine trying to convince a bank you've never heard of that you didn't actually approve a loan for 3 Cadillac Escalade Platinums which neither you nor the bank realize are currently in a shipping container on their way to Abu Dabi.

(Nothing against Abu Dabi— I just picked a random place not under US jurisdiction where plenty of people have Escalade Platinum money.)

chefandy

2 年前議論

You can have a financial manager control your accounts for you and just keep a small checking account, (plus they'll help you grow your balances) but they're not free. Well, they're not free if you want them to be unbiased. Given, what's going to keep them from getting scammed? Maybe what you're looking for is several safe deposit boxes.

chefandy

2 年前議論

Right. Snowflake facilitated AT&T'S abject negligence, but ultimately the buck stops with AT&T, here.

chefandy

2 年前議論

Well it's starting to feel like data privacy just doesn't exist anymore. I don't know why administrators for big customer databases even bother setting passwords these days.

chefandy

3 年前議論

> One of the things I look forward to in an HN discussion is the comments of people who can collate expert opinions on the subject and surface these kinds of points in a more ELI15 kind of way.

HN is full of subject matter experts on computing-- that is, software, and to a lesser extent, hardware-- beyond that it's a mixed bag at best. Even as an interface designer, I see so much confidently presented and totally bogus pseudo-expertise on art and design here that it's actually kind of funny, and that's much more closely related to software development than physics is. That BS sounds credible to other developers because it's in a developer's voice and trips on misconceptions common among developers. I suspect that's true with the other non-computing topics discussed here that I don't know enough about to give an expert opinion on.

As a long-time developer myself, I've been on both sides of assuming our astonishing intelligence and analytical capability can make up for lacking the requisite expertise. The mistake is expecting the HN crowd's musings about things outside of it's expertise to be more trustworthy than any other internet forum. If this were some physics subreddit or something like that, the criticism would make more sense. This is just people being excited by something a lot of other people were excited by.

chefandy

3 年前議論

Imagining that attention to this somehow displaces attention those things is beyond dubious. You could pick literally any popular topic and level the same exact criticism.

chefandy

3 年前議論

So... who cares? Why should laypeople be expected to engage in that much analysis solely to avoid excitement? These aren't policy makers. No lives were lost. Only keystrokes were wasted... and, calling them wasted is probably too harsh. Lots of people learned what a cool thing this would be if it happened, are disappointed that this isn't it, and might even be a little more interested in physics going forward. Why are you so emotionally invested in saying "told ya so"?

chefandy

3 年前議論

Jeez— it's almost like few people around here are physicists, consider physicists credible on their specialty, saw physicists excited by the potential, and get excited by exciting things.

What a shamefully foolish intellectual failure!

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