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distcs commented on Sustain Open Source, sustain the planet: A new conversation   opensource.net/oss-for-cl... · Posted by u/protontypes
distcs · a year ago
For those like me confused how opensource.net is related to opensource.org from their about link:

> OpenSource.net launched in response to the halt of Opensource.com operations by supervising entity Red Hat, which supports the move. This includes facilitating the republishing of selected, previously published material from Opensource.com for the archives of OpenSource.net with the project’s community manager Seth Kenlon continuing to play an advisory and supporting role.

distcs commented on Sustain Open Source, sustain the planet: A new conversation   opensource.net/oss-for-cl... · Posted by u/protontypes
blitzar · a year ago
The Ai that comes up with that would be the dumbest LLM I have ever seen.
distcs · a year ago
From the HN guidelines:

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

distcs commented on Things to commit just before leaving your job   gist.github.com/aras-p/62... · Posted by u/occamschainsaw
ayhanfuat · 2 years ago
I see something that makes me chuckle, I upvote it. 20 more people do the same and it is on the front page. Nothing mysterious, really.
distcs · 2 years ago
It isn't mysterious. It just doesn't match the vibes of HN. I don't come on HN to see silly jokes. And as you can see by the number of flags this post has received to kill it, it looks like most HN readers agree with me.
distcs commented on Things to commit just before leaving your job   gist.github.com/aras-p/62... · Posted by u/occamschainsaw
ayhanfuat · 2 years ago
It's a joke.
distcs · 2 years ago
Still it is not clear why a silly joke needs to be on the front page of HN!
distcs commented on Everything will be alright in Iceland   memoirsandrambles.substac... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
bbarn · 2 years ago
I lived in Iceland for several years recently. One thing you have to keep in mind, is this philosophy is pretty much born out of necessity. Until the US Military built a base in Keflavík (which later became an international airport), the country was quite behind the times. As one friend put it to me "When you were landing on the moon we were getting running water installed"

Iceland was a very poor country for most people other than a few well off in the fishing industry. Today it's still relatively "medium" with few people very wealthy, but also almost no one in destitution. The attitude is that everyone should be able to live a good life, and while it's not truly socialist, it's pretty darn close.

Þetta reddast is used somewhat interchangeably with "I don't feel like dealing with this" and "Some how things will work out even though it doesn't look like it now" and "fuck it". To most people it's kind of an in joke you say when something really sucks.

distcs · 2 years ago
> Iceland was a very poor country for most people other than a few well off in the fishing industry.

Very insightful. I had no clue this was the case.

Is there any published list somewhere that measures the relative richness between the countries? I am just curious to see which countries come out at the top and which ones at the bottom. Anyone knows any such list?

distcs commented on An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)   robinsloan.com/notes/home... · Posted by u/distcs
caipira · 2 years ago
This is poetry. I have been working on a personal project for the last 10 years that replaces every other app I used to use - E-mail, calendar, and all the others we all use on a daily basis - and every time someone sees me using it they ask "Wow, this is amazing, how do I download it!?", and the answer is always the same: you don't.

There's a beauty to engineering something having yourself as the target user, and no one else. I'm 100% convinced this project single-handedly keep my mental wellbeing in check, and it provides me with a constant source of hopefulness and happiness to the future - that no company/salary could ever offer me. My exclusive, differential, unique characteristic against the world, my joker card.

distcs · 2 years ago
Tell us more about your project! Did you start it from scratch? Or did you use another opensource app as starting point and developed it further for yourself? What language is your app written in? Where do you run it? In CLI? or desktop GUI? The more you can share about it the merrier. I am sure others want to learn more about this too.
distcs commented on An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)   robinsloan.com/notes/home... · Posted by u/distcs
rcxdude · 2 years ago
The poster is speaking through the analogy: they mean most people here have coded professionally but not at home. I'm not sure I agree with that, I think a lot of programmers have done hobby projects, even if only when they were starting out.
distcs · 2 years ago
Thanks for clearing up my confusion! That comment makes total sense now and not as baffling as it first looked.
distcs commented on An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)   robinsloan.com/notes/home... · Posted by u/distcs
siva7 · 2 years ago
> When you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen.

What if you have never cooked at home but all the time in a commercial kitchen? That's the reality for most of us here so it is a bit difficult to relate to this article.

distcs · 2 years ago
> What if you have never cooked at home but all the time in a commercial kitchen? That's the reality for most of us here so it is a bit difficult to relate to this article.

Really? I'd hazard a guess that the majority here (> 50%) have never worked at a commercial kitchen!

I'm honestly curious to understand why you think most people here must have worked at commercial kitchen and never cooked at home?

u/distcs

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