hooskerdu (u/hooskerdu)

hooskerdu commented on Homeschooling hits record numbers reason.com/2025/11/19/hom... · Posted by u/bilsbie

next_xibalba · 4 months ago

> Bullshit. You know how I know?

People should be able to bypass public schools if they want.

hooskerdu · 4 months ago

I don’t disagree with your final statement, but they’re also not wrong. Growing up it was well-known that homeschool kids were strange, intelligent in some ways, and completely inept in most ways that mattered. People who desire to completely shield their children are just as detrimental to their children’s development as those who over-expose. However, in my purely anecdotal experience, the ones who were over-exposed were better off than the former. And the middle road led to better outcomes overall.

hooskerdu commented on Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most nautil.us/childhood-frien... · Posted by u/dnetesn

scrubs · 4 months ago

I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist. My observation is the more difficult cases of attachment in important adult relationships esp. partner/spouse is far more impacted by parents and their relationship than friends.

This doesn't gain say that in the ages of 15 to say 35 peer interactions are not there or impactful to the worse or better but extremes in the nuclear family are not to be underestimated.

hooskerdu · 4 months ago

It could be said that for any of us to think we could understand - with such a relatively short and still arguably shoddy understanding of the mind - or especially could say… is possibly insane.

hooskerdu commented on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/jinxmeta

testartr · 4 months ago

which shows that only businesses care about that stuff.

normal people don't give a fuck, they actually like the things HN bitches about - online account, data storage and services

hooskerdu · 4 months ago

Word on the ground is this is turning around

hooskerdu commented on James Watson has died nytimes.com/2025/11/07/sc... · Posted by u/granzymes

bhickey · 4 months ago

You might be thinking of Kary Mullis, who supposedly came up with PCR while riding his motorcycle on LSD.

hooskerdu · 4 months ago

I thought he was driving in his car up a mountain with his wife/girlfriend asleep in the passenger seat.

I need to re-read his book

hooskerdu commented on Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste seated.ro/blog/tinkering-... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

Kinrany · 4 months ago

> This will be highly subjective, and not everyone’s taste will be the same, but that is the point, you should NOT have the same taste as someone else.

Lost me here. If tastes don't converge in the limit, then there's no point and you're just justifying a hobby.

hooskerdu · 4 months ago

Wrong. ;P

hooskerdu commented on IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 ikeamuseum.com/en/explore... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

zeroq · 5 months ago

Fun fact - Getty Images used to send physical albums of their stock photo collections.

It was some 25 years ago, I was doing freelance for an ad agency, and while visiting the office and waiting for my appointment to finalize some paperwork I was browsing through these. When my guy finally showed up to pick me up he asked if I liked them and said - you can get these for free, just write them. So I did and they mailed me 10kg worth of albums. Just like that.

Just a cool memory from the past. Back then internet wasn't that rich, mobile phones were novelty, and when you visited a musuem or gallery and liked you bought a massive album to hold on to your memories.

These days, when visiting such places (think sistine chapel) I don't even bother to do pictures at all. If I want to recall something I can find endless stream of top quality pictures made by professionals with equipment worth as much as my car and in clinical settings, with no crowds and perfect lighting.

hooskerdu · 5 months ago

Not saying this is you, but I’m reminded of a story of a woman who took a ton of photos of vacations - all the sights. But upon the death of her husband realized she never captured the people with her

hooskerdu commented on The publishing industry has a gambling problem thewalrus.ca/the-publishi... · Posted by u/Caiero

bonoboTP · 5 months ago

Yes, and the number of atoms in the observable universe is also finite. I obviously didn't mean it literally. The point is that they don't need to do any personal action per sale. Selling 10x as much does not make them 10x as much tired, while e.g. a lumberjack gets much more tired if he has to cut down 10x as many trees in a week.

This is different from in-person performances, where again giving more concerts is more effort, though giving the concert in a bigger stadium for 5x as many people is again not more effort.

The point is the scalability, or in other words low marginal cost of sales. It becomes a commodity.

Most regular jobs that people do also don't scale. Even in software, custom one-off software for a particular company is still the rule, not the shrinkwrap or public SaaS.

In a more profane context, it's like the difference between a prostitute and an OnlyFans performer. The prostitute with the most clients won't have 100x as many as the average, while orders of magnitude difference in subscribers is common on OnlyFans.

hooskerdu · 5 months ago

Upvote for that there first sentence

hooskerdu commented on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available koreajoongangdaily.joins.... · Posted by u/ksec

hooskerdu · 5 months ago

Does a half-decent job of breaking down how things were affected https://youtu.be/j454KF26IWw

hooskerdu commented on FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness theregister.com/2025/09/2... · Posted by u/sipofwater

NooneAtAll3 · 5 months ago

how long ago did this self-certifying practice start?

how much smaller was Boeing (and the whole aviation industry) back then?

hooskerdu · 5 months ago

Unit membership for manufacturing started with the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, but I’m not sure how involved or hands-off it was at the time.

hooskerdu commented on There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers workweave.dev/blog/hiring... · Posted by u/mooreds

hellojimbo · 5 months ago

Yes

hooskerdu · 5 months ago

I’m all about that.