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recuter commented on American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record fortune.com/2023/03/09/am... · Posted by u/paulpauper

recuter · 3 years ago

Shame that. Last time I drove past a college in the US it was the day the hat sorts people into fraternities or however that works and there was a great big cardboard sign on the lawn with a poignant message scribbled in sharpie: "Thank you for your daughters"

Quite the facial expressions on parents dropping off their kids and good chunk of life savings at these ivory towers.

recuter commented on Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza nytimes.com/2023/03/17/di... · Posted by u/jwcooper

analog31 · 3 years ago

The best way is to sit at the dining table with a glass of cheap wine, watching pizza being made in the kitchen, as I happen to be doing at this very moment.

recuter · 3 years ago

Ah, the cycle of pizza.

               Broke, Single, Drunk, $1 Slices, Diarrhea, Regrets 

            ↗                                                    ↘


  Divorced, SVBed/FTXed, Weight gain       Gym, Steak & Eggs, Productivity, Redemption Arc                                  
            
              ↖                                                 ↙
                       Vested, Married, Primo Pizza, Carbs

recuter commented on JPEG-XL vs. AVIF and Others: 27 Images Compared giannirosato.com/blog/pos... · Posted by u/computerbuster

edflsafoiewq · 3 years ago

Unfortunately this basically means JPEG-XL is dead.

recuter · 3 years ago

X-JPEG-XL, bereft of pixels.

recuter commented on Libgsqlite: A SQLite extension which loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table github.com/0x6b/libgsqlit... · Posted by u/x2bool

bargle0 · 3 years ago

Improv brought me joy. There isn’t anything like it.

recuter · 3 years ago

I read this many times on HN. As far as I can tell Excel copied most of it about a decade later with pivot tables.

recuter commented on The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendary hackerspace cyberscoop.com/boston-l0p... · Posted by u/ecliptik

legerdemain · 3 years ago

Meanwhile, here in South Bay, an activist board member (who is a senior lead at Tesla by day) just fired our longtime hacker space director with zero days notice because membership wasn't growing fast enough. Now our events are struggling and members are leaving because of this cavalier display of leadership.

It is almost impossible to find tech-adjacent countercultural spaces in the Bay that aren't fully co-opted by a self-devouring corporate mindset.

recuter · 3 years ago

You remind me of a guy called Brian. He is a very naughty boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4

recuter commented on 10 Reasons Why Current Music Sucks So Hard benjamingroff.com/blog/10... · Posted by u/neverminder

ndsipa_pomu · 3 years ago

It's all expected, things are for the lookin'

recuter · 3 years ago

If you persist in your efforts

You can achieve dream control

..How are we feeling today, better?

recuter commented on What was the impact of Julius Caesar’s murder? historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/diodorus

roundandround · 3 years ago

The paper ends with the claim that the conspirators destroyed the republic but as you said it was already dead. Given that countries like the US like to draw parallels to Rome, I think it is an important message that normal people dont accept the late society with a consolidating dictator as a republic. Killing Caesar was a noble act, but it apparently required killing his adoptive son too. We can only learn from history if we listen to it without falling into a Stockholm syndrome like a scholar that specializes in one of the monsters.

recuter · 3 years ago

> Killing Caesar was a noble act

  Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

  The evil that men do lives after them;
  The good is oft interred with their bones;

  So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
  Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
  If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
  And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

  Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
  For Brutus is an honourable man; 
  So are they all, all honourable men– 
  Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

  He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
  But Brutus says he was ambitious;
  And Brutus is an honourable man.

  He hath brought many captives home to Rome
  Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
  Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
  When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
  Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
  Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
  And Brutus is an honourable man.

  You all did see that on the Lupercal
  I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
  Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
  Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
  And, sure, he is an honourable man.

  I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
  But here I am to speak what I do know.

  You all did love him once, not without cause:
  What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

  O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
  And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
  My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
  And I must pause till it come back to me.

recuter commented on 10 Reasons Why Current Music Sucks So Hard benjamingroff.com/blog/10... · Posted by u/neverminder

recuter · 3 years ago

Pretty much anybody who plays an instrument figures out why after a while.

This was perfectly demonstrated 13 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

I know a lot of comments here are trying to show how hip they are and that garbage on top-10 Spotify is totally good for you - commendable attitude. Truly. But happens to be misguided if you develop your ears. Which you should. Has nothing to do with being an old fogey, pop music really has gotten worse for various reasons.

Start here, maybe it will hook you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt2zubHcER4

Once you understand you can't unhear it or pretend otherwise.

recuter commented on Why is building a UI in Rust so hard? warp.dev/blog/why-is-buil... · Posted by u/osener

MrPatan · 3 years ago

Maybe it turns out web and electron UIs took over the world because web technologies are just a better way of building UIs, and everybody who tries them in earnest realizes it.

How about "Every GUI toolkit out there trying to avoid using web tech is going to end up implementing a half-baked implementation of CSS", to coin a phrase.

recuter · 3 years ago

Somebody should just sponsor a minimal browser engine written in Rust. Bet it would be uniquely well suited for it. Wait..