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jghn commented on Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourd... · Posted by u/thecsw

gnz11 · 21 hours ago

The production crew would have used "fixers" to get insight into good locations for filming and other things of interest. Whatever fixer they used was probably just friends of and/or part of this "wrong" crowd. Bourdain and his producers made a lot of shows over the years, some are going to be better produced while others are flawed. How it goes. Bourdain and his team weren't perfect — doesn't make them inauthentic at a wider perspective.

jghn · 19 hours ago

Not only this, but depending on which season of which show of his, there may have been other reasons for why spots were chosen. For instance there was at least one season of No Reservations where episodes were themed with the location as a backdrop. The episode he had in my hometown caused a lot of locals to complain that he wasn't choosing the best spots, but the point was the whole episode was a narrative and the spots chosen fit the narrative.

jghn commented on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools larr.net/p/namings.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

jghn · 3 days ago

R followed the long standing tradition of being one letter off as it was derived from S. And its creators were Robert & Ross.

jghn commented on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools larr.net/p/namings.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

shaftway · 3 days ago

> > > No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable.

Lawrencium has entered the chat.

jghn · 3 days ago

Biology, not chemistry but there's also the Sonic Hedgehog pathway [1]

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

jghn commented on Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries sethmlarson.dev/deprecati... · Posted by u/scolby33

tgsovlerkhgsel · 5 days ago

Deprecations don't work. Don't deprecate stuff without a really really good reason. The new API being cleaner is not a good reason. There are very few good reasons.

If you deprecate something in a popular library, you're forcing millions of people to do work. Waste time that could be used for something better, possibly at a time of your choice, not theirs. It was emitting warnings for 3 years... so you think everyone should have to rewrite their software every 3 years?

Especially for something like this. Only document it in a footnote, mark it as deprecated, etc - but don't remove the alias.

Don't break stuff, unless, to quote a famous work, you think your users are scum. Do you think your users are scum? Why do you hate your users?

jghn · 4 days ago

Open source developers have no such obligation. They’re doing things on their own time. But hey, I’m sure they’d be willing to give you a full refund for the amount you paid them to use their work

jghn commented on How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/skx001

poisonborz · 5 days ago

Stock market crash? I believe less and less a 1929 style crash is possible. Tesla, Uber, hell, look at GameStop still... The market is rigged. The US and the upper class needs numbers go up, the numbers will go up.

The only way an adjustment to such stock prices would come is if US power and dollar vanes. There is a chance now this will happen, but I guess it will still take a long time.

jghn · 5 days ago

> The US and the upper class needs numbers go up, the numbers will go up.

You don't think anyone had ever tried that prior to past crashes?

jghn commented on So you want to speak at software conferences? dylanbeattie.net/2025/12/... · Posted by u/speckx

braza · 5 days ago

I like the general idea, and I owe so much for the talks and bloposts. That said, I really miss the old deep boring technical talks with speakers with an attitude of "I do not care if you meet the tecnical (and probably cognitive in some several cases) requirements to be in this room".

I used to go in talks in the late 2000s and the difference with talks now in the mid-2020s is that the speakers now are so good and well-crafted, the slides way more professional, and the storytelling is so compelling, and... that's the issue(?) for me.

The strange loop maybe was the last bastion of tech conference where I could check in those kinds if speakers.

There are so many aspects of topic accessibility and formatting that some of the open-ended parts of a technical argument or some not-said parts are not in the presentations anymore.

Beforehand I used to go to some talks and literally take notes on 90% of the things, and back home I started to do some research about it, and eventually I learned 70% of it, and I started to have at least 2% that made some difference in my daily work.

Now the talks are so well structured that I do not see most of the time the open-ended unsaid topic that could be an intellectual side quest, given how well the presenter placed it and made it uninteresting for me, or they do not talk about this open-ended aspect at all, and it never sparked my curiosity.

Maybe it's not such a sophisticated analogy, but the old format would be like reading a book and piecing together a lot of not-explicit points from the author, and the other one is like having the same book in a cinematic experience with a well-crafted screenplay, costumes, dialog, and so on.

jghn · 5 days ago

> The strange loop maybe was the last bastion of tech conference where I could check in those kinds if speakers.

Strange Loop was amazing. The vibes were perfect. And I've never been to another tech conference that I found to be so mind expanding. Most of the talks I'd attend had no practical utility in my daily life, but got me thinking about all sorts of what ifs and if/how I could apply some nugget of what they were saying to more practical applications.

jghn commented on How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/skx001

blitzar · 5 days ago

It would be like SVB all over again. Small governemnt, anti bailout, pull yourselves up by your bootstraps tech CEOs on TV crying and begging for someone to cover their losses.

jghn · 5 days ago

Same as it always was. Privatize gains, Socialize losses.

jghn commented on Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms nber.org/papers/w34534... · Posted by u/bikenaga

DigitalPaladin · 6 days ago

A relative of mine was in the late-stages of cancer, and was not able to find ANY trials willing to accept them. The worst of those trials was out of Baltimore (MD USA), and they ghosted my relative after initial in-person consults that required by relative to drive out of state. Despite the patient's repeated and dogged outreach to the trial authors after that point, there was never an explicit "no" that would let the patient move on, just radio silence instead and that felt cruel to me.

jghn · 6 days ago

This also comes up with rankings of cancer centers. As the rankings get based on metrics that include things like survival, taking on the hard patients can have a negative impact on their rank. I've seen this cause internal debates on how to handle.

jghn commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull

devilbunny · 6 days ago

If you want the cassette experience without the massive downsides of cassettes, pick up an old Minidisc recorder. Physical media that are nearly infinitely re-recordable (unused ones are expensive but used ones from Japan are not) and nearly indestructible. The NetMD ones have been bid up in price because of transfer speed but older ones that only do real-time transfers are not hideously expensive.

jghn · 6 days ago

I remember minidiscs, but never had my own player. But I don't want any sort of physical media.

jghn commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull

xg15 · 6 days ago

I find it depressing that there seem to be only two ways to distribute media and manage one's audio collection: Either ultra-convenient but fully locked down streaming services - or analog "vintage" media like vinyl or cassettes, which do give you a physical medium under your full control, but also require you to forego all the progress we made with digital media.

The one thing that's absent: Plain old audio files that you can store on your hard drive and copy to your phone or other devices.

Edit: Ok, there are still more options left than I thought. I take that back then :)

jghn · 6 days ago

I buy music either on bandcamp or iTunes, both of which gives me DRM free audio files. I then store them locally.