DrBoring (u/DrBoring)

DrBoring commented on Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff blog.patreon.com/a-note-f... · Posted by u/jcalabro

behnamoh · 4 years ago

> but in fact to succeed in those spaces needs very hard work.

But that doesn't make it a job. You could do hard work in moving a mountain but that's not a job.

Needless to say, earning money off of your looks (something you didn't work hard to gain in the first place) doesn't qualify as hard-working job.

DrBoring · 4 years ago

> earning money off of your looks I'm assuming your taking about the sex workers of OnlyFans. I find your attitudes a bit dismissive and offensive. These are real humans with real feelings that you're talking about with such little regard.

Plus, I earn money off of my natural intelligence. I didn't do anything to gain it in the first place, I just happened to have intelligent parents.

> doesn't qualify as hard-working job

Two questions:

1. Why doesn't it qualify as a job if they are earning income?

2. Why should someone have to "work hard" to earn a living? If have a high-value easy-to-sell product, then why work harder than you need to?

DrBoring commented on Photopea: A Photoshop clone web app photopea.com/... · Posted by u/sanroot99

amjd · 4 years ago

Then what would you glamorize? I'd think that in a free-market economy revenue is a pretty good proxy for usefulness too in most cases.

DrBoring · 4 years ago

I like to think of it this way:

Revenue != Usefulness (to the users of the app)

Revenue == Usefulness (to the recipient of the revenue)

Analogy to non-software biz:

1. CandyCo buys ChocolateCo

2. CandyCo changes ChocolateCo recipe to use less expensive ingredients, generating new revenue for CandyCo, but less tasty chocolates for ChocolateCo's long time customers.

3. The new revenue has disparate usefulness for the two interested parties.

DrBoring commented on AppLovin bids $17.5B to acquire Unity axios.com/2022/08/09/appl... · Posted by u/marc__1

xyos · 4 years ago

I installed pi-hole in my house just for this.

DrBoring · 4 years ago

I configured my kid's tablet to use AdGuard's public DNS https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

No more in-app ads.

Strange thing, I tried it on my FireTV to block youtube ads, but it didn't work. I wouldn't be surprised if the FireTV monkies around with user settings. The other explanation could be that youtube uses the same hostname for videos and ads, so the DNS blocking can't distinguish.

I ended up side-loading a 3rd party YT client that doesn't play ads. https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/

DrBoring commented on Ask HN: Anyone tried development using an Oculus? · Posted by u/holistio

DrBoring · 4 years ago

I have this idea for a chorded VR keyboard that's modeled after a drum kit or xylophone.

I predict that once you learn the chords enough with muscle memory, you'll be able to take off the headset and just type with the hand wands.

DrBoring commented on Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring” · Posted by u/bckr

getoj · 4 years ago

From Bill Watterson's commencement speech at Kenyon College in 1990. I was lucky to read this when I was graduating and it changed my whole career path. I am now very happy and very boring:

"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.

You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."

DrBoring · 4 years ago

This quote reminds me of a book I just finished: "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/

It's about rejecting the default career path which our society considers normal and desirable. The default path is the one where you go to school, enter a career, work the career until you retire ... etc.

I have been a lot of trouble lately figuring out why I'm so unhappy with my career. I knew I was on the wrong path, but I couldn't see the next step on my trail in life. This book made me see that there are plenty of people living happily off the default path. The books made me more determined to seek the pathless path.

I suggest reading it for anyone who is feeling listless in their career and needs a fresh new perspective.

DrBoring commented on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone smallandroidphone.com/... · Posted by u/erohead

DrBoring · 4 years ago

I like the idea, I'll fill out your form later today.

Feedback on the website:

On the graphic at the bottom where you overlay different models of phone:

1. I think the red/green/blue borders would benefit from more contrast. It's hard for my eyes to distinguish.

2. I think you should add a deck of cards to the graphic. It would provide a frame of reference for scale.

... P.S. I just noticed the "Extrapolating from past models, the Pixel 10 will be roughly the size of California" below the graphic. If the purpose of the graphic was purely to accompany that joke, then I guess ignore my suggestions.

Although, a deck of cards may contribute to the joke. Hmmm

DrBoring commented on Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/palebluedot

boeingUH60 · 4 years ago

I used to like Elon circa 2018 up until he started acting up (pedo guy, et al), but the main thing that soured my opinion of him lies in being -- don't know if this is the right word -- unhinged.

I just can never trust anything he says because he has a significant history of being indecisive and disorderly. This deal is a perfect demonstration of how I feel. What I can't really tell is if he was always like that or grew into it at one point.

Also, the guy is always going to extreme lengths to seek attention, just like one certain US politician...Something turns me off from these types of people.

DrBoring · 4 years ago

> unhinged

I have this speculative theory that Elon Musk's public behavior is a complex long term ruse. I suspect his odd behavior is intentionally designed to get other to underestimate him. Consider it a mental form of the drunken fist martial arts style [1], where a fighter will use unpredictable body movements to confuse the opponent.

I use the word "theory" intentionally. I have explainable reasons for how I formed this theory. But now is not the place for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_boxing

DrBoring commented on “It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving” railwayage.com/regulatory... · Posted by u/mik3y

Finnucane · 4 years ago

I have tried, but life is too short for that kind of self-flagellation.

DrBoring · 4 years ago

I could never have read Atlas Shrugged if not for the audio book. I've always struggled with staying focused while reading a book. I'm too easily distracted.

If you are actually interested in learning more about the ideas presented in the book, I suggest you get a copy of the audio book. You might be able to find it at your local library ... thought I can't imagine how many CDs that would be. It's on Audible too, and other less official online sources.

For me, it's was sort of eye opening to read the book. It smoothed out some chips on my shoulder that drove my cynical view in life. Even though it was fiction, I still empathized with the character's struggles. I could connect it to real world events and human behavior that I had observed.

There are some books that help you see the world through different eyes. For me, Atlas Shrugged was an effective one.

The Fountainhead was similar. I connected with the frustration of young Wynand's attempts at grade school, only to find himself surrounded by dumb children and incompetent adults.

DrBoring commented on “It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving” railwayage.com/regulatory... · Posted by u/mik3y

phgn · 4 years ago

This reads like it's straight out of Atlas Shrugged.

DrBoring · 4 years ago

Glad to see someone else noticed the similarity.

I was more subtle in my comment, hoping that someone would pick up the thread and point it out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31315171

DrBoring commented on “It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving” railwayage.com/regulatory... · Posted by u/mik3y

DrBoring · 4 years ago

Trains derailing regularly is consider acceptable and to be expected, infrastructure being tasked with jobs for which it was not designed, calls for more resources ignored, policy makers prioritizing profit over safe and efficient transportation of goods.

This sounds like something from a fictional dystopian novel.