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willeum commented on Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old github.com/Tablane/tablan... · Posted by u/marconlp

diarrhea · 3 years ago

Be careful about trying to recreate campus experience with YouTube videos at home. If a lecture is basic and you could indeed replace it with a quick video, look for better, more challenging or unique lectures/degrees/curricula. The whole adage of if you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong wrong room.

You’ll quickly reach a point where YouTube and Google won’t easily do, and only genuine and deep work will. That’s when rewarding, lasting impressions will happen (which superficial topics like HTML or the latest JS framework aren’t!). It shouldn’t be like just another frontend boot camp, just longer. Challenge yourself and reap the benefits forever. That and campus life in general of course…

willeum · 3 years ago

I'm also experiencing OP's problem.

> If a lecture is basic and you could indeed replace it with a quick video, look for better, more challenging or unique lectures/degrees/curricula.

This has for years been a point of frustration for me.

Do you have any suggestions on how to get into more challenging lectures when the previous ones are prerequisites, and cannot be tested out of?

willeum commented on Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/go... · Posted by u/tapanjk

NayamAmarshe · 3 years ago

> ready for "ordinary users" when it clearly still

If my family is not made up of 'ordinary users' then I guess we live in different worlds.

I installed ZorinOS on my father's computer more than a year ago. He works with Libre Office, uses internet browser, edits photos with photopea.com and watches videos. So far, not a single time has anything crashed or caused issues for him which was a common occurrence in windows.

So yeah, Linux desktop may never be ready for you but I can literally see Linux desktop being more than ready for ordinary users.

willeum · 3 years ago

Linux works great for the highly technical and the tech-ignorant.

However, the "ordinary users" among today's young people grew up with tech, and expect more advanced functionality. Advanced functionality that, on Linux, requires advanced knowledge because of how fragmented and rough it is.

willeum commented on 72-year-old Congressman pursues a Master's in AI washingtonpost.com/dc-md-... · Posted by u/HillRat

onion2k · 3 years ago

If you are not growing, you are declining or dead.

What's wrong with retiring and living out your last years peacefully relaxing with your hobbies and family? There's absolutely no reason why people have to continually grow until they're in the ground.

You're applying an adage about companies to people, but companies need to fight against inflation, and people don't.

willeum · 3 years ago

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

willeum commented on I started taking English classes at the age of 46 mxgrn.com/blog/english-cl... · Posted by u/homakov

joshuaissac · 3 years ago

> "that being said, ..."

You can think of it as a contraction of, 'despite that having been said'.

willeum · 3 years ago

You can also simply use "that said".

I've always taken the phrase "that being said" to be a variation of the phrase "that said" that isn't as assertive of what was said, relegating it to only "having been said" rather than set in stone

willeum commented on It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness academic.oup.com/brain/ar... · Posted by u/mpweiher

matsemann · 3 years ago

Ironically I feel your beliefs about this stem from whatever bubble you yourself are in. No normal person goes around afraid of being "attacked by a woke mob". This is some stories you've been told, and blindly believe, from the other side.

willeum · 3 years ago

This is not the case. Companies for one do enforce woke culture. I believe GP wasn't talking about being physically attacked by a mob, rather their reputation and livelihood

willeum commented on Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought nationalgeographic.com/ma... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

yamtaddle · 3 years ago

Educational attainment is going backwards for boys, while girls are doing great and have far surpassed them. I think they passed them some time back in the very early '00s, IIRC, but it's been a while since I looked at that stuff—this is all mainstream, they've been talking about it in education-academia for quite a while and it's uncontroversial, it's openly discussed among teachers et c., though proposed solutions aside from "try to hire more male teachers" are thin on the ground—bizarrely, "restore all that recess you cut over the last decades, in the name of more butts-in-seats time" doesn't seem to have much traction, and, call me crazy, but if I were in charge, that's the first thing I'd try.

Boys/men in general are exposed to a far higher likelihood of worst-case outcomes in a variety of ways, and there seems to be little societal attention to improving that. If women had the incarceration rates, the "successful" suicide rates, or the lagging lifespan that men have, it'd be all we'd hear about. Instead we figure that's just how men are, so, whatever.

I've got two girls and a boy and I'm a lot more worried about the boy's future than the girls', for sure. Seems a much finer line he'll need to walk to avoid a downward spiral, with fewer off-ramps available from such a spiral. Like, I reckon he's 75% of our risk of one of the three having a very-bad outcome, without even seeing any especially bad problems with him yet.

willeum · 3 years ago

There is an important distinction here:

Girls on average get higher grades. The modern education system is by and large assembly line busywork, or child daycare. From my personal experience the grade gap should be attributed to the average female being more willing to play the systems game, while the average male calls bullshit

willeum commented on Being fatter than Homer Simpson nicky.bearblog.dev/fatter... · Posted by u/memorable

AnIdiotOnTheNet · 3 years ago

I once weighed somewhere north of 320lbs (145kg), and eventually starved myself down to about 165lb (75kg) and kept it within 15lbs (7kg) of there for many years until COVID happened.

I say this so you understand that I believe I speak from a place of authority when it comes to struggling with and losing weight.

I think it is impossible for anyone who spent their life not having to pay attention to what they ate to maintain a "normal" BMI to understand precisely what it is like to not be that way. They look down on people like me because they think I must have gone out of my way to eat so much, when the truth is that I experience food in a completely different way from them. It's like I don't have an "off" signal for my compulsion to eat. I have to constantly pay attention to what I'm eating and try to ignore my hunger and non-hunger eating compulsion. Constantly. As in all the fucking time. It frequently makes me wish I were dead rather than have to put up with it.

Frankly, I kinda hate people who don't struggle with this. Partially that's because those are the kind of people who made me feel like shit my entire life for being the way I am, and partially it is for making it look so easy that it trivializes my constant war with my own fucking body, but mostly I think it is envy. I have said many times, and I'm not sure it was entirely exaggeration, that would kill and eat such a person if I thought it might grant me their power to simply stop eating when they've had enough calories.

I can tell you from experience that doctors and nutritionists don't know shit about this. And neither do you, random Hacker News about to promote a keto diet or intermittent fasting. Any diet will work for about 10lbs, I had to lose 15x that. There is a lot of bullshit science done on behalf of people selling food, selling diets, etc. making it pretty much impossible to separate useful information from marketing.

I wish I could offer an answer. I have spent the past 15 years or so of my life constantly looking for one, to no avail. The best I've managed is that if I can put myself in a sufficiently manic state I no longer seem to have an appetite, but that's hardly viable.

willeum · 3 years ago

It's addiction. Managing food isn't as hard when you're not addicted

willeum commented on Early stages of Google Docs support in the Ladybird browser twitter.com/awesomekling/... · Posted by u/calgarymicro

marginalia_nu · 3 years ago

You're really just dogmatic making assertions. I don't really see much backing these assertions up. Making them more firmly isn't making your case more convincing.

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Let me make a silly argument. Let's say you write a program in rust, a sort of elaborate turing tape that interprets C++ code and evaluates it as a C++ program according to all standards and rules. To the end user it is indistinguishable from a C++ interpreter, but between the C++ code and the system is a layer of rust.

According to standard rustacean dogma, this program will simultaneously be guaranteed to be memory safe because it is rust, and inevitably have memory corruption bugs because it is C++. This is surely a contradiction. It cannot both be incorrect and correct at the same time.

willeum · 3 years ago

I'm not agreeing with rvz, but I don't think even extremely pro-Rust devs would agree with what you just claimed

willeum commented on I help seniors with technology issues twitter.com/_danilo/statu... · Posted by u/thinkingemote

taumoeba · 3 years ago

I think there’s room to have this discussion while simultaneously applauding the one major computer company that avoids these problems.

willeum · 3 years ago

It's really trading one set of problems for another

willeum commented on American men are losing interest in fatherhood fastcompany.com/90796821/... · Posted by u/ppjim

bell-cot · 3 years ago

THIS.

"It's the economy, stupid!" - James Carville (political strategist for Bill Clinton)

But with one party quietly intent on making the economic situation worse for 99% of America, and the other party too deep in their ideological narcissism & just plain stupidity to actually care...I doubt that anything is gonna improve.

willeum · 3 years ago

On the contrary, I don't think it's the economy... it's your last paragraph. People just don't feel very encouraged to have children in such a toxic culture