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GGfpc commented on Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming   theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/cyberlimerence
NoboruWataya · 9 months ago
Murakami's works, at least, feel quite westernised. They are filled with references to western music and other art, the protagonists generally have jobs that are also common in the west, and (not sure whether this is down to Murakami or his translator) the characters always sound very American in dialogue. Nothing about them feels particularly alien to a western reader, except the surrealism itself (and, perhaps, certain aspects of his portrayal of women that is sometimes considered problematic in the west).
GGfpc · 9 months ago
To be fair, Japan is westernized
GGfpc commented on Deterministic Simulation: A New Era of Distributed System Testing   risingwave.com/blog/deter... · Posted by u/tim_sw
GGfpc · 2 years ago
This is an interesting concept but unfortunately the article seems like an ad instead of an explanation.

I'd love to see some case studies of this being used in production systems

GGfpc commented on Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?    · Posted by u/hacsky
bayindirh · 3 years ago
When you give half the effort to set things up properly, a single server can handle a lot of load and traffic, and get a lot of things done.

If you know some details of the services you're going to host on that hardware, the things you can do while saving a lot of resources is considered as black magic by many people who only deploys microservices to K8S systems.

...and you don't need VMs, containers, K8S and anything.

GGfpc · 3 years ago
What are those details?
GGfpc commented on Mourning loss as a remote team   sofuckingagile.com/blog/m... · Posted by u/asyncscrum
bckr · 3 years ago
> We don’t say we’re “a family”

My favorite way of framing this discussion is use the term "village".

A village is a close-knit group of people with aligned interests (economic and otherwise), activities, rituals, beliefs, and ties of friendship.

GGfpc · 3 years ago
if I hear the expression "it takes a village" on more fucking time I will quit my job and become a baker
GGfpc commented on Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage   kwigglebike.com/en_US/... · Posted by u/bwindels
ketzo · 3 years ago
When I go their website right now (from the U.S.), I see the base model on sale for 850 pounds.
GGfpc · 3 years ago
that's like 1000€
GGfpc commented on Ask HN: What book changed your life?    · Posted by u/tomrod
vibrio · 3 years ago
I’ve not read Atomic habits, but keep hearing it recommended. If it is appropriate for me to ask, how do you distinguish the motivation derived from the book and that from 3 days in hospital with extremely high blood pressure? I live with a fear of hypertension because of genetics. My diet and exercise (what I can control) is at front of mind and so far so good, but my high level of motivation is driven by knowing where the disease road can lead. Not intending to diminish the book but just curious about how you balance the contribution of those two in your mind.
GGfpc · 3 years ago
The book isn't about motivation, it's about steps that you can take that make creating new habits easier. In fact, the book tells you that motivation wanes quickly and we need to force ourselves to create determination instead
GGfpc commented on Ask HN: Why the obsession with note taking?    · Posted by u/dmje
walterbell · 4 years ago
Memory can be improved with 2000-year-old techniques like memory palaces. This doesn't replace note-taking, but low-latency cache can improve synthesis and note quality.
GGfpc · 4 years ago
does that actually work though?
GGfpc commented on Sublime Clojure   tonsky.me/blog/sublime-cl... · Posted by u/rcarmo
ReleaseCandidat · 4 years ago
> get rid of the extra “REPL” panel for good. Why do you need it if you can see your results inline?

But I do not want them inline. I want to use the REPL as a _interactive_ REPL, where I can write my code and later copy that to the file. That's actually one of the reasons I still use Emacs: Common Lisp with Sly and Clojurescript with Cider.

GGfpc · 4 years ago
Why do you want to code in the repl when you can code in the editor and eval in the repl?

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