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somehnacct3757 commented on Unbundling Tools for Thought borretti.me/article/unbun... · Posted by u/exp1orer

Really enjoyed this read, but also couldn't help but feel sorry for the author still trapped in the labyrinth. "Just one more CMS and I'll be free..."

The jewel in the post is the rejection of Vannevar's acolytes and their hand-wrought memexen. Biology already gave me a perfectly good memex in my skull. If its shortcomings give you anxiety, take 2 YAGNI until productivity resumes.

somehnacct3757 commented on Couples who meet on dating apps are more likely to divorce (2021) today.com/tmrw/couples-wh... · Posted by u/onetimeusename

jasmer · 3 years ago

Or ask yourself how cynical your own line of inquisition is?

Yes, church groups are probably going to be a bit more 'pro-marriage' than some others. I guess the 'anti-marriage' people?

And?

Everything in the press is presented by someone with some perspective they want to highlight.

And the link you referred us to states probably what to most of us a bit obvious - that celebrities divorce more often - but which is thoughtful to have in numbers.

And?

So, what specifically is wrong with the study in question?

Because I think it seems helpful.

I buy that online dating may not be quite as effective at forming 'long term relationships' as otherwise, and that it might be worth looking at in more detail. It could maybe be a matter of 'distance relationships'. Or possibly those individuals may have been less likely to be married in the first place?

I'll wager 5x more people are going to be interested in this issue than 'crypto currency' for example.

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

It's a group that took statistics from Wikipedia articles of famous people to then run the headline "rock and rollers twice as likely to divorce." That headline is misleading. They didn't study rock and rollers, they studied celebrities.

This older survey similarly has them playing fast and loose with the statistics to get a flashy headline. In their own data it's clear that online dating has cannibalized dating at bars, and shares a near identical divorce rate - 20% vs 19%. In other words the survey is a nothingburger. All it shows is a shift in dating channels. But that's not the headline they pushed.

If their clickbait strategy isn't clear to you yet, don't take it from me. They claim this is their goal on their own website: "Time and again our research department has injected reality and hard evidence into this debate with eye catching research which the media have broadcast."

somehnacct3757 commented on Couples who meet on dating apps are more likely to divorce (2021) today.com/tmrw/couples-wh... · Posted by u/onetimeusename

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

Rather than swallow the headline, ask yourself what a church-aligned think tank has to gain out of smearing online dating in the press?

Some of their other research: "Rock and rollers twice as likely to divorce" https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/rock-n-rollers-tw...

Hopefully next they will look into the impact the Devil's Lettuce has on marriage; or Harry Potter.

somehnacct3757 commented on DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/elorant

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

What content blockers do people use alongside Safari on iOS?

I've been trying Firefox Focus but it's barebones, ad-centric, and doing nothing for cookie popups. Now with these Google popups infesting the web it feels like the 90s again and has made me stop browsing the web on my tablet.

somehnacct3757 commented on How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS micahwalter.com/how-much-... · Posted by u/Stratoscope

jiggawatts · 3 years ago

It cracks me up that both AWS and especially Azure overcharge for logging to the point that it’s easy for logs to cost more than the underlying system they’re monitoring!

If you sit down and work out their cost of data processing, it costs them cents to provide a service for which they charge tens to hundreds of dollars.

I figure the reasoning is that large enterprise requires logging for compliance, and it’s a hidden charge that’s easy to overlook in a bill.

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

I also got a chuckle because the author is a professional AWS architect and still couldn't avoid accidental charges. Well, architect isn't salesman! Thankfully the mistake was corrected by paying the bill in full.

somehnacct3757 commented on Sesame allergen labeling law has unintended effect: sesame in more foods fox9.com/news/new-us-food... · Posted by u/4ad

ada1981 · 3 years ago

I think I’m a jerk because I found this industry response satisfying.

Perhaps this creates an opportunity for certified allergen free foods companies to get into the game in a bigger way.

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

This is my thought too. We are reading articles like this at the onset of a new law because it plays well to crowds who want to have Online Opinions about government oversight.

If the problem is as bad as these articles claim, then these facilities will need to clean up their act or willfully hand over a slice of the market to competitors. We've even already seen this play out in the bread industry with gluten. A bunch of new brands started taking shelf space away from the big brands and a few years later those big brands have their own gluten-free lines. The same could happen with sesame in time. To form an opinion on the new law this early is a recipe for sour milk.

somehnacct3757 commented on O Holy Crap thefp.com/p/an-elegy-to-a... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

user3939382 · 3 years ago

> there's a tier of disposable goods

There are some product categories for which no strong options exist. For example, contemporary, top-of-the-line Kitchen Aid mixers have intermittently been produced with plastic motor parts. Go look at the reviews for sewing machines.

Klein tools, which have historically been super high quality, made in USA, has started mixing in cheaper made in china products. Chippewa boots (Warren Buffet company) same.

These are examples in a sea of examples. This is a trend.

MBA types move into companies with brand trust and loyalty built slowly for decades, and mortgage it for shot-term profits by slipping in cost cutting measures. It takes consumers a while to catch on, and by then the execs have a nice line item for their resume. Or the holding company behind the changes divests, leaving a hollowed out husk of a brand behind them.

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

Kitchenaid, Cuisinart, these are the kinds of brands I'm talking about. They had their moment last century but the brand has been transferred to a new owner, or they've switched to volume sales in a big box retailer, or both.

Kitchenaid is not a good brand. They haven't made top-of-the-line anything in decades

somehnacct3757 commented on O Holy Crap thefp.com/p/an-elegy-to-a... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

I just don't see it. My pens and my matchsticks work fine. My gloves are still gloves five winters later. Potato peeler, peels potatoes.

I think the author doesn't understand that there's a tier of disposable goods for just about everything and if you don't shop wisely you'll take some of it home.

Appliances for example: don't buy them from web pages and don't listen to Wirecutter. This is just letting marketers tell you what to buy. Instead go to a showroom that also repairs appliances. They'll know exactly which contemporary brands are crummy because they'll have been fixing them.

Specialty stores will also have the entire price range for the product so you can see what quality costs for that good. Marketers prey on us during times of inflation, making their cheap goods look high end before we adjust to inflated prices. If you've only ever shopped appliances at places like Target, Best Buy, or Home Depot, you may have never seen a high quality appliance in your life. And if a brand you like starts showing up in these stores, run. (Famously, Levi in Walmart.)

somehnacct3757 commented on MelonJS – a fresh and lightweight JavaScript game engine github.com/melonjs/melonJ... · Posted by u/modinfo

Mizza · 3 years ago

Nice! Is this yours?

I've tried building a few real-time games with different implementations of these HTML5/JS game engines, but I always hit a wall when trying to add multiplayer capabilities.

The main issues I've found is there's never a way to get a "universal" X/Y/Z position for an object that can be accurately stored in a server that syncs with the position for players. It always tends to be ever so slightly off in a way that desyncs over time, making a stutter when the server has to force a resync. This is then compounded with collision detection physics, which these engines never do in a "standard"/specified way, requiring me to reimplement their physics server side, which inevitably causes occasional game breaks from the inconsistencies - going through walls, or total desync.

Anybody have any suggestions/solutions/recommendations?

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

Don't make your goal to be accurate state across the internet. Game making is all about lies, cheats, steals, and fudge.

In this situation you can stream movement waypoints from remote clients and lerp between those waypoints locally to simulate movement. If latency is low enough you can make predictions about the next waypoint and it won't look bad when you're wrong.

If you're PvE, you're done. Nobody needs to know precisely where their teammate is as long as the game feels fair. (The AI players on the other side won't complain.)

In PvP the opponent will complain, and they're also a customer, so you have to do something about it. This is an entire technical discipline within gamedev if you want both accuracy and player freedom.

Don't be afraid to let technical constraints guide your design. If you don't want to spend your life building remote physics validation or latency-aware consensus algorithms, make your players interact with the world via clicking so you always know exactly where they wanna go next. One of the super powers of being a programmer + designer combo is making trades across disciplines to maximize your output.

somehnacct3757 commented on What AMC’s streaming troubles say about the greater TV industry nytimes.com/2022/12/18/bu... · Posted by u/lxm

evanelias · 3 years ago

I really don't think that's a fair take on The Leftovers. It was adapted from a novel, which season 1 follows the plot of pretty closely and completely. The remaining two seasons are entirely new plot but iirc the author was involved.

The novel doesn't resolve the core mystery. I won't spoil whether the show does, but it's kind of beside the point anyway. One of the core themes is how people grapple with sudden loss, something beyond their control, something unknowable. In any case the show resolves itself with a satisfying amount of closure in three seasons. Much fewer open threads and plot holes than LOST. The unresolved aspects of The Leftovers are genuinely thought-provoking and deep.

I wholly agree with Wikipedia's summary: "The first season received mostly positive reviews. However, the second and third seasons were highly acclaimed, with many critics referring to The Leftovers as one of the greatest television series of all time, with particular praise for its writing, directing, acting (particularly Theroux’s and Coon's) and thematic depth."

You say "The finale comes only when there's no more money to be made" ... that doesn't jive with a final season having a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and 98% on Metacritic!

somehnacct3757 · 3 years ago

The Leftovers is indeed aware of the show formula I'm critiquing, it's even in the theme song: "guess I'll just, let the mystery be." This is Lindelof indoctrinating the viewer to accept his style of writing, which doesn't burden plots with conclusions. He's still frustrated we asked 'why' of the LOST plot, to which there was no good answer. The Leftovers similarly offers no good answer to 'why'. Making that the point doesn't stop me from asking.

If the show was doing well HBO would have signed a fourth season and they'd have left enough room in the third for yet more surreal diversions headed nowhere. Online review aggregators are meaningless.