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Deletionk commented on The crypto crisis has created an advertising vacuum   digiday.com/marketing/adv... · Posted by u/ilamont
ditonal · 3 years ago
Hacker News has gotten overwhelmingly anti-crypto to an extent it’s as bad an echo chamber as many pro-crypto echo chambers.

People have such a hatred for crypto they are overjoyed to celebrate a crypto crash. They were annoyed people they disliked were getting rich and now feel “vindicated” the bubble is popping.

But…have people actually looked around? Airbnb stock is down 80% in the last 6 months. Netflix, Twilio, DoorDash, and many many other companies have taken a similar beating.

Bitcoin has actually done much better then most of the tech stocks, especially if you look at a 2 year chart.

Amazing to see all this gravedancing when the crypto crash isn’t a crypto crash at all but a speculative asset crash and most of our jobs fall into that category.

Another funny dynamic is many pro-crypto subreddits hate NFTs but similarly we’re seeing gravedancing over monkey JPEGs even though the bored apes have held up better then many “serious” crypto projects.

My point is that people want confirmation bias for their narrative. And they are overjoyed to celebrate crypto crashing to extent it confirms their narrative it’s a big Ponzi scam that was due for a crash. But they seem less eager to be intellectually honest and work in the rest of what’s going on into that narrative.

If bitcoin falling 60% proves it was a scam what does Airbnb falling 80% say about Airbnb. And I know your answer will be they have a business model with cash flow. But these are all “a priori” assumptions. The crash is viewed in a different lens based not on evidence but on what we believe to be true beforehand.

Tech bros celebrating the death of crypto bros are knee deep in the icey waters of the Titanic sinking celebrating the guy whose shoulder deep as they both continue to sink, but due to preconceived notions refuse to realize they’re all about to drown from the same iceberg crash.

Deletionk · 3 years ago
It's different and connected:

Different because shares still give you a part of a real business and equal because it showed that money was too cheap.

I'm not anti crypto just because, I have plenty of good reasons.

And no real cryptobro was able to convince me with good argument s otherwise.

Of course the share prices General looked weird that's why I didn't invest last time I wanted to.

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Deletionk commented on Goodbye, Feedly   erikgahner.dk/2022/goodby... · Posted by u/erikgahner
bayindirh · 3 years ago
> is that really so bad?

In case of Feedly, yes. I feel like a hamster being tried to be converted. Feedly's free tier doesn't feel like free. It feels like a getaway drug which tries to make you pay for other features.

I have used for a week, then SDF announced availability of their TTRSS instance. As a paying member, I moved there. I am much more happier now.

TTRSS is free and open source. I'm just supporting SDF so they can continue to exist.

Deletionk · 3 years ago
Your sentiment is frustrating to read as a software engineer.either do it yourself or accept that those people also want to have a great job, good salary etc.

And as stated on another comment: no it's not that bad. I use it free since Google shut down theirs

Deletionk commented on Goodbye, Feedly   erikgahner.dk/2022/goodby... · Posted by u/erikgahner
blacklight · 3 years ago
RSS is basically impossible to monetize. It's a protocol to access content. Monetizing RSS is like trying to monetize HTTP.

The problem is that companies try to monetize RSS, and the only way of doing so is to provide features that RSS can't offer. AI-curated feeds, integrations with X or Y, nudges to let go of RSS entirely for some applications and instead use whatever integration they've come up with...

Some people may be happy with this. Some people may only care about the information they eventually get, not HOW they get it. But I'm not among those people, and many other people are not.

I personally felt very annoyed by Feedly nagging me on a daily basis to upgrade in order to get features that I didn't need and never asked for.

I feel like being approached every day by a dude who wants to sell me a vaccum cleaner that I don't want. And of course I understand that they also need to make money, but they should also respect those who simply want an RSS reader and are insensitive to all these campaigns.

Thats the reason why I moved from Feedly to a self-hosted Miniflux instance (and Nextcloud News before it). If I host it myself, then I don't have to pay anyone for hosting my feeds, and I'm not supposed to be targeted by marketing campaigns to pull money out of my wallet on a daily basis.

Deletionk · 3 years ago
I'm using the Feedly app not paid since Google shut down theirs.

I have no clue what you mean.

Where do they show this daily?

And don't get me wrong, you traided self management against a nag pop up? It's your choice but Feedly still does it with a reasonable offering.

And I actually thinking about going pro to remove all the rumor news shit I don't care and the cve feature sounds nice as well.

Deletionk commented on Super Mario Bros warp zones were intended to work slightly differently [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=61m5M... · Posted by u/raldi
cplusplusfellow · 3 years ago
But how else would we make $300k a year on YouTube?
Deletionk · 3 years ago
Weird criticism.

Video is a nice relaxing medium with video and audio.

Some prefer it others prefer text, I prefer both depending on where I am.

Guess what I prefer on the couch

Deletionk commented on Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?    · Posted by u/wg0
Deletionk · 3 years ago
For me the primary thing is OOM killed. But swap support is being worked on.

And then perhaps the proper handling of persistent disk.

Deletionk commented on Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs?    · Posted by u/samemail88
Deletionk · 3 years ago
We are converging.

We have people working on ML for understanding multilevel tasks, recognizing the souroundings, understanding items, generic ai etc.

Digital twins become normal.

The race for the robot has already started and with companies like Tesla now talking about it much more than before, we might see it happening in the next 10 years.

Buy a robot,.show it what it should do, replace low skill workers.

Deletionk commented on A picture of me   caspercloudwalker.bearblo... · Posted by u/memorable
Deletionk · 3 years ago
I got very nihilistic when I was in my twenties.

There was a yt video were someone said: you can be miserable nihilistic or life your life.

On my nihilistic side it actually doesn't matter what you choose.

But I'm trying to go the other path.

We are all unique and not at all.

But it's your life and it's your only life,might be worth it to make it work for you.

Deletionk commented on A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [pdf]   spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/S... · Posted by u/happy-go-lucky
mgraczyk · 3 years ago
Plug for my team at Google. One of the cool things in the Pixel camera is an "astrophotography mode", which takes far more pictures than normal with longer exposures.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/11/astrophotography-with-nigh...

You can try it out on any recent Pixel device by holding the phone very still (probably need to mount it) when it's dark. You can get incredible images with no additional effort, just pointing it up at the sky.

Deletionk · 3 years ago
I'm curious if those algorithm would be usable with existing DSLRs.

But I think that the app might do more than just taking a few pictures and calculating stuff on it after.

Is there any CMOS magic it does like reading the chip in a way that it's not the same of taking a few pictures?

u/Deletionk

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