otreblatercero (u/otreblatercero)

otreblatercero commented on Youth and what happens when it's gone tolstoyan.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/mattgreenrocks

rowanG077 · 6 months ago

You really expect everyone at 45 suddenly turns around this switch and comes to your conclusion? Now not to be patronizing but that seems really naive.

otreblatercero · 6 months ago

It's not a sudden realization, it's just realizing that the body is just not the same, and time is more precious, not much margin of error.

otreblatercero commented on Youth and what happens when it's gone tolstoyan.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/mattgreenrocks

dangus · 6 months ago

Sorry, not everyone over 45 is painfully self-critical.

Example: the fact that I don’t have the DNA to be an NBA player is not a flaw of character. The fact that I don’t have an eye for painting or the brain for quantum physics isn’t a flaw of character.

This article basically encourages us to punish ourselves for happily existing.

otreblatercero · 6 months ago

Not being self-critical does not mean things don't happen. Suppose you love drinking, for example. At 20 it will be just a hangover, but at 40 it could even kill you. If at 40 you get drunk knowing you no longer process alcohol like you used to, that's a flaw of character. It doesn't have anything to do with DNA(supposing you're not an alcoholic). Mistakes have much more weight the older one gets. It's a fact, not a way of seeing things.

otreblatercero commented on Youth and what happens when it's gone tolstoyan.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/mattgreenrocks

joshuamcginnis · 6 months ago

It's powerful if you agree with that perspective, but I don't. We are all imperfect by nature. Said another way, we are all sinners. I don't believe that time shrinks your margin for error, as much as it grows your capacity to learn. I don't think mistakes are always character flaws. Youth chases a fading ideal of perfection but age reveals a richer self-awareness. Life's worth lies not in perfection, but in acceptance, gratitude and love.

otreblatercero · 6 months ago

You must be younger than 45, not to be patronizing but, otherwise, you'd get it.

otreblatercero commented on What it takes to save the axolotl nytimes.com/2023/12/05/sc... · Posted by u/samclemens

ndsipa_pomu · 2 years ago

And yet lots of people confuse "lose" with "loose"

otreblatercero · 2 years ago

If you loose it, you could lose it.

otreblatercero commented on Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases nautil.us/loss-of-smell-m... · Posted by u/jnord

dghughes · 2 years ago

> I think smell is way less impactful than sight or sound

I hate to be a downer but smell is incredibly powerful. Vivid memories can rush back from a smell. Food is probably 90% smell and 10% taste.

otreblatercero · 2 years ago

That's not a fact at all. For example, memories seldom come to me when smelling, like they say they do with everyone.

otreblatercero commented on Htmx Is the Future quii.dev/HTMX_is_the_Futu... · Posted by u/quii

0xbadcafebee · 2 years ago

I just want Visual Basic for the web man. Screw writing lines of code. I want to point and click, drop complex automated objects onto a design, put in the inputs and outputs, and publish it. I don't care how you do it, I don't want to know any of the details. I just want to be able to make things quickly and easily. I don't care about programming, I just want to get work done and move on with my life.

At this rate, when I'm 80 years old we will still be fucking around with these stupid lines of code, hunched over, ruining our eyesight, becoming ever more atrophied, all to make a fucking text box in a monitor pop some text into a screen on another monitor somewhere else in the world. It's absolutely absurd that we spend this much of our lives to do such a dumb thing, and we've been iterating on it for five decades, and it's still just popping some text in a screen, but we applaud ourselves that we're so advanced now because something you can't even see is doing something different in the background.

otreblatercero · 2 years ago

I feel you. I'd love to have a tree that gives money, and I tried to, but somehow I had to implement many things, like invent a seed that can actually produce golden coins, I had to read about alchemy, seed hybridation... I just wanted to get money from a tree. But do not despair, while documenting my process, I found a revolutionary tool called Dreamweaver, I think it's the future, I think it would be terrific for your needs.

otreblatercero commented on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/rdl

nradov · 2 years ago

In Taiwan the homeless rate is very low because having a homeless relative is shameful. Affluent people do whatever it takes to ensure that no one in their extended family is out on the street in order to save face, even if they don't particularly like those relatives. No such culture of family responsibility exists in the US.

As an island nation, Taiwan also has a somewhat easier time preventing narcotics smuggling. Whereas the mainland Chinese Communist Party has covertly targeted the USA for "Opium War 2" by tacitly allowing the smuggling of fentanyl precursor chemicals to Mexican drug cartels.

otreblatercero · 2 years ago

What's there on the other side(the US)? Mexico does not have a fentanyl problem here, maybe there are some American cartels over there in the US which are not being put on the spotlight because... who knows.

otreblatercero commented on Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket oliverburkeman.com/river... · Posted by u/pps

karaterobot · 2 years ago

I have an English Lit degree, and the following advice from a professor almost made it worthwhile: "if you're reading for pleasure, and it's not pleasurable, put the book down. Give the author 50 pages, and if they haven't made it worth your time, move on to the next book."

I share this advice with everybody, but almost nobody takes it as far as I know. There's way too much guilt and shame surrounding reading: "if I pick it up, by GOD I will finish it, even if it takes a year and I hate every second of it". It shouldn't be that way.

otreblatercero · 2 years ago

I think it's not so good advice. I have read many books which took me many, many attempts to get to the point of no return to love them and finish them, most of those books are now my favorites. The consumerist approach of giving 50 pages would be better suited for red flags, for example, if it's a theme you don't like, or maybe, just maybe, something against your personal beliefs and values. Life is too short to not give a chance to literature masterpieces.

otreblatercero commented on Elixir for Humans Who Know Python hibox.live/elixir-for-hum... · Posted by u/EntICOnc

Spivak · 3 years ago

Assuming the author is in the comments, the paragraph about data immutability is wrong. Integers are immutable in Python, when you created the lambda the name x is in its closure. When you assign to it it changes where the name is pointing to. Elixir does something wild and completely different. When you assign x that second time at that moment is creates a new variable behind the scenes and you transparently start using that one when you now refer to x in that scope. So lambda has a reference to x@0 and your outer scope has a reference to x@1.

otreblatercero · 3 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out, I knew it was a closure because of the Elixir in Action book, and the example's explanation threw me off balance.

otreblatercero commented on Military unable to determine how the objects were kept aloft reuters.com/world/us/ruli... · Posted by u/mach1ne

guhcampos · 3 years ago

They are just balloons. Please try to keep the aluminum foil hats out of Hackernews.

otreblatercero · 3 years ago

Either a Government Façade(conspiracy) or Extraterrestrials. Now the "reasonable" people are in a conundrum.