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kerryoco commented on Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?    · Posted by u/synu
bufordtwain · 3 years ago
My son is taking classes in IT and one of his current lecturers switched from carpentry to IT after cutting off several fingers.
kerryoco · 3 years ago
dang. Do they avoid high typing requirements, or have a workaround of some kind? I often wonder what my backup plan would be to any kind of hand injury, let alone missing fingers. I used to do a lot of carpentry but my fingers are intact.
kerryoco commented on You don't need a build step   deno.com/blog/you-dont-ne... · Posted by u/vancroft
rsp1984 · 3 years ago
> What exactly needs to happen to make server-side JavaScript run in the browser?

That sounds like an oxymoron to me. I have honestly no idea what they mean by that. To me, a browser is client-side software, so saying you want to run server-side JS on it doesn't make any sense. They mention it several times in the article but I simply can't follow.

Could someone with a deeper understanding ELI5 this to me?

kerryoco · 3 years ago
it has nothing to do with server side business logic. It's simply that javascripts package manager, npm, was widely adopted to server / node needs. And then the notorious "node_modules" folder, which was before handled by server compilation, became a part of clientside dev too because it had so many goodies in it, so now the client was de facto having to do the same build as the server, so, by "server side code", I think it's safe to say what they mean is "node modules".
kerryoco commented on WebKit Supports Nested CSS   webkit.org/blog/13813/try... · Posted by u/gslin
jhughes982 · 3 years ago
I agree, for some reason my brain sees the non-nested versions of CSS as more readable. Although we seem to be in the minority here. Very open to trying out nesting and perhaps my brain will 'flip' to eventually prefer it.
kerryoco · 3 years ago
it comes down to the Inspector for me. I've had zero problems thus far right clicking on elements and then clicking on the relevant CSS exposed. I don't think anyone should actually be reading through CSS docs (will admit I'm a solo dev here so got it easy), and I'm afraid this could make the Inspector more confusing.

furthermore I suspect a very large % of people do not realize you can actually edit and save your CSS directly with Workspaces.

kerryoco commented on Chronophoto   chronophoto.app/game.html... · Posted by u/jmduke
XCSme · 3 years ago
I love how there are no instructions, and yet it's pretty obvious what the goal is and how to achieve it, good UX.
kerryoco · 3 years ago
for the first 30 seconds with the "Submit" button I thought it was a crowdsourced analytical thing though. Almost bounced. Might be worth changing the wording but otherwise agree
kerryoco commented on YouTube Addiction   jntrnr.com/youtube-addict... · Posted by u/ingve
cl3misch · 3 years ago
> It's scary to think about having a hole and not being able to fill it with that comfortable "zoning out" feeling.

That is exactly my experience. I've also rather recently came to the revelation that this behavior and dependence on "zoning out" is addiction. It doesn't matter that the object of addiction is a website with silly popular videos. The pattern of behavior _is_ addiction.

kerryoco · 3 years ago
I think many addiction treatment programs looks specifically at the negative impacts of your "zoning out" though. Zoning out is just a brainstate, probably as old as (human) time. But if it's causing your self esteem to drop, to miss deadlines, etc, then -those- are specifically the problem. I think it's no surpise that as we continue to remove nature from our environment, we turn increasingly to digital media to get these pseudo-meditative experiences, and we should not entirely blame ourselves for this dystopian state of affairs.
kerryoco commented on Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail   newsletter.mollywhite.net... · Posted by u/mfbx9da4
adammarples · 3 years ago
I sort of disagree. He had a money printing operation and somehow wound up blowing half of it on bad bets, losing the rest criminally, and now blabbering without a lawyer. If he's playing 4d chess I'll be amazed to see his endgame working out.
kerryoco · 3 years ago
i dont think theres any 4d chess involved, the poster is just saying that what appears to be self effacement is actually alignment with the greater powers that be. the story looks better for them this way. say you're bartending in the trendiest club in town and you spill some drinks on the VIPs. you agree to whatever punishment the VIPs dispense, because you dont want the punishment of the club owner.
kerryoco commented on Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail   newsletter.mollywhite.net... · Posted by u/mfbx9da4
kerryoco · 3 years ago
how much time should he do, HN? he seemed to willingly avoid thinking of money as real. but we also have a financial system where this could even happen. i feel those 2 factors should be weighed against each other.
kerryoco commented on Tesla.com/.gitignore   tesla.com/.gitignore... · Posted by u/nateb2022
dingosity · 3 years ago
The reason people think this is bad form is it indicates the site operators did something they did not need to do. It is an artifact of carelessness at best or misunderstanding of how their web server software works at worst. You do not need to serve a .gitignore file for a site to perform its basic function. But the obverse is also true. Serving .gitignore does not detract from the function of the site.

But among people who do this kind of thing for a living, there's a belief that every action you take (like copy a .gitignore file to the directory from which static files are served) should have an intent which can be traced to a specific requirement.

It's crazy to believe some product manager sat down and put "serve up a .gitignore file" in their PRD. Some people are therefore taking the existence of the .gitignore file in Tesla's public webspace to demonstrate a lack of care when it comes to matching requirements with behaviour.

But as people have pointed out, maybe this isn't a Tesla failing as much as it is a failing for one of their providers. And sure, on the list of failures, this is pretty minor. And if you can find a web host that ties behaviour to explicit requirements, I would LOVE to hear about it. Web hosting is a low margin business which doesn't pay premiums for detail oriented staff. To be sure, there are some AMAZING people working for web hosting outfits, but my point is they are working at web hosting firms in spite of their technical capabilities, not because of them.

To say Tesla is a crap-fest because they left a .gitignore in their public web-space is laughable. Tesla is a crap-fest because their stock is in the toilet, they often blow past promised delivery dates (cybertruck, anyone?) and are extracting cash from the rubes who believe "full self driving" means your car will drive itself in more than the most contrived of contexts.

Elon Musk is not an idiot because you can read a .gitignore from tesla.com. Having done business w/ Mr. Musk, I can assure you he is not an idiot. But he's also did not impress me as the super-genius many seem to make him out to be. He is not playing 4D chess. He's a reasonably intelligent guy who won the lottery (rich parents, older brother who cut him in for a percentage, met the right people just as the USG wanted to buy more launch capability and state and federal governments subsidizing electric cars.) If anything, he's uncanny in his ability to identify opportunity. Maybe that's even better than the Sili Valley execs whose skills extend to being white, pretty and GSB educated. (If you downvote me, please downvote me for the slight on the Haas School this last comment was intended to be.)

To recap... serving a .gitignore in your public web-space doesn't mean you're a dolt. It also means you're probably taking less care than you could. But maybe we don't need to take such care on a static web-site. But it does make me wistful for the days when competence was more obviously exhibited.

Elon Musk is considered a jerk because of his behaviour, not because someone in one of his companies left tesla.com/.gitignore in the public web-space. Tesla is not god's gift to American industry. It is a bit of a goose up the backside of entrenched incumbents, and for that I will always have a soft spot for it. Except for the bits where they seem to be a lightning rod for controversy which always seem to be unforced errors.

Good Day To You, Sir!

kerryoco · 3 years ago
TIL "obverse", ty
kerryoco commented on Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU   trevorklee.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/exolymph
DoingIsLearning · 3 years ago
> So, when it comes to prescribing (...) Giving psychiatric medicine “as needed”? Go wild.

This implies a lack of duty of care which is painfully unfair.

As a counter story to this I have a friend of mine who is a _former_ ICU nurse with a gigantic scar on her forearm.

I much later in our relation found out that the scar is from a patient who basically ripped her forearm biting down on it while she was trying to stop him from tearing out a central line in his own neck.

It's ironic that in trying to stop a patient from having a massive central line bleeding she ended up bleeding herself.

Outside hospitals we fail to realize how disoriented and irrational patients can get when coming out of anesthesia or with certain diseases.

So yeah 'as needed' is absolutely right because everyone is entitled to work in a safe environment.

kerryoco · 3 years ago
his "go wild" sounds like it's blaming the nurses, which it is partly, but I think moreso he's trying to point that this situation is just pretty awful. Or at least he should be trying to focus on the bigger picture. I certainly don't blame the nurses for showing up to work and trying. But I think we can all see how the 'path of least resistance' and financial incentives also leads us to this 'medical factory' type of treatment of people. And that's not the nurses' problem, that's just all our problem.
kerryoco commented on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?    · Posted by u/curious16
kerryoco · 3 years ago
the original Processing textbook: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262028288/

I don't know if the code is still executable with current Processing, but this book enabled me to finally start my own self-learning coding journey. It's basically a visual introduction to programming.

10 years ago I was figuring out what to do with my life, knew that I liked the idea of coding, but had found the Comp Sci curriculum at my college a bad fit at the time, and disheartening.

I finally took this book on my own, and spent a bit of time every morning.

The emphasis on design set it apart from so much of the other material I was coming across in trying to get started.

u/kerryoco

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