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reverendsteveii commented on I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI   blog.rchase.com/i-played-... · Posted by u/reillychase
gdilla · 2 months ago
Yup, sw engineering is a slow march to being commoditized. Some things will remain hard (only because it's cutting edge and pushing the limits of something) but known patterns and services will be just-yell-at-ai to stand up. A lot of businesses can run on the latter, i guess - but at that point the challenge is having a viable business, not the software development of X.
reverendsteveii · 2 months ago
our industry has existed on the cutting edge doing what's hard since its inception. it's just that there was a time when sending a piece of text across a wire was hard. Now that's easy, so we do more with the tools that make that easy. When what's hard today becomes easy we'll do that quickly with the tools that make it easy and then do more hard stuff. We can say we've achieved AGI when the tools are doing better on their own than a tool plus an engineer would do, and I think that's a long way off.
reverendsteveii commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy   theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
mkbkn · 4 months ago
How do I find it?
reverendsteveii · 4 months ago
if you're LOOKing for a MOVIE or a tv show 2 download and you don't want to mess with DOT TOrrent files then there are plenty of options but it's generally considered uncouth to link to them publicly and directly
reverendsteveii commented on Every champion needs a rival   tombrady.com/posts/every-... · Posted by u/pbardea
dgfitz · 5 months ago
This is very simply refuted: you're not one of the 5 strongest people in the world. Brady, Manning, were the best at what they do, top 5 in the world at the time they played and to this day.

When you're not competing with yourself, it's an entire world of difference.

edit: typo

reverendsteveii · 5 months ago
what about everyone who uses Brady's system and also isn't the best? Does that refute Brady's system? Why choose the arbitrary cutoff point of top 5? Why focus on being the best when you'll definitely fail instead of focusing on being your best? If Brady could've been better if only he'd had a better rival does that indict this system?
reverendsteveii commented on Every champion needs a rival   tombrady.com/posts/every-... · Posted by u/pbardea
dgfitz · 5 months ago
actual point: if I'm the best at what I do, and nobody is pushing to become better than me, I will stagnate because nobody else has exposed a better possible pinnacle.

Iron sharpens iron.

reverendsteveii · 5 months ago
This doesn't preclude that though. Maybe it's because I'm a weightlifter and while we compete with one another we really don't, but my own numbers can be my rival. In fact, they're a much more effective rival than anyone else at the gym because they can never be permanently beaten, they can never retire, they will always demand more. If I wake up tomorrow and through some miracle I'm the best weightlifter on earth and can bench a 1000 pounds, 1005 pounds exists whether someone else can lift that much or not. If you're Tom Brady you don't need Peyton Manning in order to throw more touchdowns and fewer interceptions, you need to throw more touchdowns and fewer interceptions. If your rival has a career-ending injury does that define your pinnacle? Not if you're actually in competition with yourself it doesn't.
reverendsteveii commented on Every champion needs a rival   tombrady.com/posts/every-... · Posted by u/pbardea
reverendsteveii · 5 months ago
thesis: every champion needs a rival to draw out the best in them

antithesis: there is nothing about the existence of any other person that changes what my best is or whether I deliver it

potential synthesis: I am my own perfect rival. I am right at my skill level, my career is a perfect parallel to my own, I don't need to look outside myself for a reason to improve and I can always do a little better than I did last time.

reverendsteveii commented on Every champion needs a rival   tombrady.com/posts/every-... · Posted by u/pbardea
kryogen1c · 5 months ago
>That's why capitalism is in trouble. No rival.

Isn't this an oxymoron? Isn't regulated free market competition a foundational principal of capitalism?

reverendsteveii · 5 months ago
capitalists have rivals, but capitalism does not
reverendsteveii commented on Every champion needs a rival   tombrady.com/posts/every-... · Posted by u/pbardea
lordnacho · 5 months ago
What I find interesting about American Football is that the QBs are considered rivals, despite never being on the pitch at the same time. Messi and Ronaldo actually appear on many images contesting the same ball, Peyton and Brady you'd struggle to find pictures other than the post-match handshake.

Why isn't the rivalry considered to be between the QB and someone on the defense? There's actually two matchups in an NFL game (plus specials but whatever), the two offense versus defense pairings. It's odd to make the rivalry about two guys who aren't directly tackling each other, when there are people on both teams who really are tackling those guys.

reverendsteveii · 5 months ago
We compare QBs because QBs are comparable. It's really difficult to build a narrative around the number of passes one person completes vs the number of tackles a different person dishes out to different people on different teams, but very easy and meaningful to compare completion percentages for two quarterbacks. It's also because QB is considered a leadership and decision-making role moreso than any other position on the field, and so the overall performance of the offense tends to be attributed to the team as a whole but the QBs are compared on the decisions they make on the field and the rest of the offensive units are compared on their ability to execute those decisions.
reverendsteveii commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler   latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi
pyrale · 5 months ago
> most of them would probably physically assault you for suggesting they agreed with domestic terrorists

Poe's law working overtime here.

reverendsteveii · 5 months ago
I agree, but hackernews is evidently taking his side because any time I try to reply I get told I'm posting too often, even when its been hours since my last post.
reverendsteveii commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler   latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi
tiahura · 5 months ago
Semitic tribal warfare has been a thing since the Mari–Ebla hundred years war c. 2500BC.
reverendsteveii · 5 months ago
well yeah if you claim a war is justified because there have been wars between people in that area then every war is justified because warfare has been happening everywhere there have been humans since humans arrived
reverendsteveii commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler   latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi
reverendsteveii · 5 months ago
wild cuz it was sorta the rest of the world that started the "Semitic tribal warfare"

u/reverendsteveii

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