daveslash · HackerTrans

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Low quality comment here, but this line in the article "Back in the day, a computer was something so special and expensive that you only had one, and it was set up in a way that everyone had access to it." reminded me of that line in Back to the Future - the scene where Marty makes reference to having multiple TVs in the house and the dad correcting him: "Oh Honey, he's teasing you, nobody has two televisions."

daveslash

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Our track coach would do the same thing! And he got really frustrated with me because the foot that I led with seemed to vary by day. I'd be fairly consistent on any given day, but another day I'd be consistently the other foot.

daveslash

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Came here to make the same comment. I have a copy of The Red Atlas. Fantastic. Here's a link to the comment thread about it here on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378422

daveslash

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Re >> Can you check this is correct for me?

That's the part that really gets to me. It's one thing to say Hey friend, you could have quickly gotten the right answer yourself. It's another thing to say Hey buddy, you asked me a question which I COULD answer, but instead of giving you the CORRECT answer, I'm going to give you AN answer, and let you figure out if it's correct <-- with the unspoken expectation that if it is the wrong answer and I run with it because you gave it to me, it's still my fault.

daveslash

2 месяца назадdiscuss

I'm similar. I do very little with both hands, but I'm split between left and right on individual things. Throw is right, write is left. Where I especially get hung up is learning something to do with feet - surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, etc... I struggle to figure out which one is my preference. I usually find that I'm equally bad at both.

daveslash

2 месяца назадdiscuss

I think I heard somewhere (can't find reliable source right now) that he created Captain Planet as a revenge. He had some renewable energy initiative/deal that he was trying to get pushed through that got clobbered by big oil lobbyists. So he created Captain Planet as some revenge scheme.

daveslash

10 месяцев назадdiscuss

Came here to say the same thing. Folks have been saying for a while "it's a tell tale sign of AI!" and I've been thinking - have people forgotten about Microsoft Word (and other word processors) automatically changing a hyphen to an em-dash?

daveslash

2 года назадdiscuss

Ha, that's a good point. We were broke kids in a rural town without drivers licenses a hundred miles from anywhere that sold physical VHS or DVDs. We didn't have money, and if we did we didn't have the means to get to a store, and if we did it was far far away, and if we could I don't think most of us had DVD players at home. The phone bill, on the other hand - parents pay for that. ;-) IIRC, our dial-up ISP was a "local call", which was free then. I'm pretty sure my friend capitalized on the phone line during night times when the house was asleep.

daveslash

2 года назадdiscuss

Downloading The Matrix over a 28k dial-up modem (on a shared house/family line) was an exercise in patience! I didn't, but a friend did... and we all waited weeks for it to finish.

daveslash

2 года назадdiscuss

Agreed. The same with Music - with the rise of services like the iPod and more modern streaming services like Spotify, the effort just wasn't worth it. It turns out that people will happily pay for that content if its in an easy and convenient format.

Regarding video specifically, one problem I see with the streaming services is the increasing push of New content. Streaming services like Netflix or Hulu or Paramount+ are really dependent on new subscribers, which means they tend to focus on new and exclusive content to draw in new people, so they prioritize that (to a fault imho).

Many of us still want to rewatch those shows from the 90s we loved. Paramount+ specifically is "The Star Trek Streaming Service", and I know the folks over on reddit have their beef with P+ for seemingly de-prioritizing it instead of milking an extensive library like a cash cow. The past few years I've been digging into older movies - some black and white, silent, foreign, or weird avant-garde stuff. Streaming really drops the ball there, but I can understand how the business model doesn't really favor that.

daveslash

3 года назадdiscuss

Came here to say the same thing. Threw me for a loop! Glad I'm not the only person who noticed.

daveslash

4 года назадdiscuss

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daveslash

6 лет назадdiscuss

This. I immediately develop deeper respect for a colleague when they interact with me this way. (Assuming it's not me who's not following - that happens plenty too!). When a colleague, including junior devs, ask questions and dig in, I interpret that as thinking critically about the problem and digging in. That's exactly what I want out of engineers.

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