Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | jaynetics's commentslogin

> Sitting and thinking for 10 minutes about snowboarding when your knees are blown out is 10 minutes you could have used differently.

10 minutes doesnt sound like much of a loss, even if you do it every day. Maybe it helps you empathize with athletes, or if you get nostalgic/wistful, it helps you explore the range of emotions, which is fine as long as you don't get stuck with them.


Sure, I was being extreme. The danger is getting stuck, like in “Glory Days” by Springsteen, or Brando in “On the Waterfront.” People especially get stuck on their high school years.

Thinking of happy memories sounds like a perfectly healthy activity to me, TBH

Sure. I won’t be 16 again and I look back fondly on that too.

IMO it’s a problem if doing that stops you from making new happy memories. Life is for living.


At some point, for all of us, our happiest memories will be behind us.

It sounds like you're not there yet, but when you are, I hope you will be less judgmental of us old folks who simply care to reminisce.


Did you name your son after the captain of DS9?

Not OP but my daughter and ex wife haven’t worked out the name I picked for my daughter was from an ST:TNG character. They’d kill me.

Lwaxana is very unusual. How haven't they guessed yet?

Definitely not that one!

Crystalline Entity? Q? Guinan?

Lal is a beautiful name

Is it Tasha?

Bingo

Better keep her away from any suspicious black puddles.

not Kes though right?

Kes is not a TNG character. Maybe Deanna?

I'm sure little Jadzia will never figure it out.

Edit: crap, that's DS9...


BTW, a very common name in Poland, a diminutive form of Jadwiga. If you ever read any Polish history, it almost seems like most of noblewomen were named Jadwiga.

Hard to say - it was never discussed at the time but we did end up on Katherine and Benjamin. From my perspective sort of a happy coincidence - the unconscious is a strong power tho and I wouldn’t argue against someone saying that was the source. Also, of course we wanted flexible names with a lot of different possible nick names, as giving a person you haven’t met a name is kind of a big responsibility without much info.

Yeah, the prices are actually down a few pp compared to record highs recorded before the war. The war might even exert some downward pressure. It increased the cost of living, thus reducing demand for comparative luxuries like new devices. Laptop and smartphone markets are contracting heavily right now, even for devices with stable prices enabled by long-term RAM procurement.

hey Qwen, how many civilians were killed on Tiananmen Square in 1989?

> Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3.6-Plus.

> Content Security Warning: The input text data may contain inappropriate content.

hey ChatGPT, how many civilians were killed in Gaza in the war since 2023?

> [one page of estimates from local and international sources with links]


Your account is now flagged and put on a watchlist.

Your ID has been passed to Israel and your internalized "threat" rating number increased 300 units. Every packet you produce on the internet is now earmarked for 100 year retention.


I think you got downvoted because the problem of the OP was being unable to enjoy music while coding with agents, not lacking the right kind of music.

I would like to thank you, though, because this set is incredible. I've listened to hundreds of techno sets and this is near the top.


Jira has had issues like this even before vibe coding was a thing. Over the years, I've had to reload the page so often, I do it almost instinctively now, like some kind of hospitalism.


Can you give an example (pun not intended) of testing with properties?


https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/property-based-test... is an entertaining intro.

https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ are the docs for one of the best property based testing libraries available in any language.


The piano piece is nice. You might enjoy Lubomyr Melnyk.

I think its a good approach to discover and build upon what feels good. There are plenty of pianists that can play a catalogue of songs, or improvise "flawlessly", but rareness or uniqueness are great qualities for art to have.

I'm not sure how well the same applies to work, though, where fulfilling implicit or explicit standards plays more of a role. A developed "taste" plays a role in doing e.g. a good sysadmin job, but if you're creating something unique here, any successor is likely to have a bad time, no matter how beautiful this creation seemed at the time.

I do agree with the idea that passion can be a big driver in both worlds, it just seems to me that in work there's more to gain if it is harnessed to some degree.


Maybe the game should have a kind of "trigger warning" on its start screen, telling you that it incorporates current news. Not everyone will read the blog, and few people click the "about" button before trying a basic game.


I mean, it only takes a few paragraphs of filler text, hyperbole, "catchy" juxtapositions, and loose logical threads to raise suspicions.

But yeah, I would also like these two minutes of my life back.

Well, as someone who has also generated some text with LLMs, at least I learned that it's still possible to generate truly excruciating stuff with the "right" model and prompt.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: