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funnily enough i'd never heard of that film before o_o so i guess i know what i'm watching next! thanks!

this resonated for me, quite hard actually. there's the famous quote which has always stuck with me on this stuff slow is smooth, smooth is fast . thinking about it a little more, i would person…

> But I think I still didn't register that these concerns were real at that time. It was easy to believe that I wouldn't be working on anything that impactful. This did change once I star…

i was writing a bit of a lengthy reply, but yeah this is the whole point really. making that money, getting that job title, being at that company, working on that project -- are these success? or is s…

ooo these look interesting. thanks! i shall have a read.

ah, fair enough! maybe it is/was a uk thing (admittedly times might have changed a little since i did my masters/phd). at the very least i have a wikipedia article on therac 25 to read throu…

> Be intentional about deciding your own moral and ethical boundaries up front. Don't settle for the lie of compromising your principles "just for now" until you can find something b…

tree based directory structure stuff is available on gitlab’s free tier — so are all the permissions inheritance for groups etc. so, while you’re technically right, these features are apparently paywa…

ive never read (?) it but ill take that as a compliment. thanks!

something was bugging me so i’m adding a second comment. i often end up crying during zazen. i’ve done it for a couple of years. i was never really sure why. it was just a thing. i cried for 5 mins af…

> When I do it "right" i get the scare quote usage. but still feel like it’s a good time to point out. there’s no right zazen. there’s no wrong zazen. there’s just zazen. sitting down and…

i’m not sure but they may be speaking about rinzai zen. watched a few bits and bobs about rinzai and some of the practices are kinda of that “willpower” ilk. dunno, never practiced it, not my vibe. th…

i’ve caught myself doing the “it’s this and that — it’s not the other” thing a few times. i dunno if it’s because i’ve seen it so many times because of AI generated comments etc and that’s become a no…

someone is potentially insane enough it would seem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911579

also related, a bbc article on the impact from the speculation on the families: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po > The speculation, she says, is "den…

tbf it sounds like you might have dodged a bullet there, so try to not beat yourself up too much for thinking you weren’t good enough. we all have imposter syndrome when we start out. as long as you d…

i believe that those people are wrong :shrug: doesn’t change the bigger, more important fact that the struggles people have with git stem from the system design . i.e. the thing that ultimately deter…

> “UX" encompasses a lot of design work that can be distilled into the UI like how git needs you to “commit” changes as if you’re committing a change to a row in a database table? thats a desi…

i lump those into user experience (UX) stuff as it’s more leaning towards “flow of user action” etc.

> I think yes, because git famously has a terrible UI, and any amount of telemetry would quickly tell you people fumble around a lot at first. 1. git doesn’t have a UI, it’s a program run in a term…

wait, hang on, someone did what to a goat...?

i was just scanning the comments and decided to not click through until i saw yours -- space invaders is now what i'm doing for the next hour.

> Simpler tools are a forcing function for simplicity. If you don't have code search, you'll need to write code that is legible without searching. i was working in a place that had a real…

i guess it's a market thing? because when i build stuff in a B2B scenario for customers, it is about the customer's users. Because the customer's users are the money. at least, that…

while we can learn from the past, we probably shouldn't look at it through sunglasses that are rose-tinted ;) --- sabre, the company that owns and builds the current version of the system SAB…

a condescending note about not commenting about votes on comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html a secondary comment explicitly explaining why this comment’s author …

a comment that only make sense to people with showdead turned on

curiosity (will probably) kill humanity although whether humanity dies before the cat is an open question