I'm reminded of Scott Alexanders musing re: whether someone "has ADD" if they have trouble focusing on things that are simply boring as fuck, like looking at spreadsheets (or code...) all day every day, week, after…
Until very recently (a year or two ago?), the US didn't allow film studios to own movie theaters. Hadn't for something like 70 years. That was due to antitrust action over a situation pretty similar to what's happening…
I looked at it the other day after the discussion thread about JS frameworks, but bounced when I saw ".svelte" files. I accept (demand, really) TypeScript but I've become allergic to any attempt to add much more on top…
Yeah, it's normal. When you do the same damn thing for the tenth time (or more) and you've watched all the previous ones be discarded one way or another, usually without ever doing anywhere near enough good to justify…
A shift in the competitive landscape might encourage distributors to integrate better with aggregators or meta-interfaces of various sorts. Or directly with one another, in some fashion. > Would all of the Star Wars…
I think it's a good idea to mitigate the downsides of the monopoly granted by copyright, when possible. We saw similar problems with studio ownership of movie theaters, and solved that by not letting studios own movie…
It matters if they're not spending less for each show, on average, than other services. If you're dropping $20m a season, on average, and so are your competitors, but more of yours are duds, that's bad. If you're…
Exactly that. I want to see more competition on price, features, and quality, and less on content availability. It'd also make it easier to enter both parts of that market, as a production company or a distributor,…
The ratio of OK-or-worse to good-or-exceptional sure appears to be a less favorable for Netflix than the others. Though people's rankings seem crazy to me. Apparently just producing a Star Wars thing and not totally…
I think people are watching a lot more video in general. There are multiple generations, at this point, that mostly wouldn't pay for cable or even bother with rabbit ears even if TV & movie streaming services didn't…
The downvotes are because it's so incredibly stupid that one must hope it is a trolling attempt, or intended as a deadpan joke of some kind.
Wouldn't be that weird if they were. Perfect fit every time and any customizations he wants, for a relative cost that'd be indistinguishable from "free", considering how much money he has. Why not? If I could pay…
This was the case in the Midwest in our basically-the-same-shape-as-modern-cars 90s family cars. We'd use the windshield cleaner thing next to the gas pump nearly every time we stopped, when on road trips, and for good…
It's some thing about "getting people to think about the future" but all it does is make it harder to read. I've never seen it anywhere but HN.
Conway, too, found much to interest him, apart from the engrossing problem he had set himself. During the warm, sunlit days he made full use of the library and music room, and was confirmed in his impression that the…
> Am I wrong? Am I just creating an environment of anxiety? No. Parenting and schools have gone completely to hell. You're not wrong, everyone else is. I still can't believe schools started letting kids carry their cell…
> Does that imply you can’t use Redux without React at all? Yikes, I hope not. One of my favorite things about Redux (last time I used it, maybe three years ago) was that it was easy, and even natural, to build an API…
Yeah, last I checked they paid under typical wages (already bad, by coastal standards) at local jobs in my area. Jobs that have much easier interviews. And many of them allow remote, too. I didn't end up with a local…
This misses the part of the game where the doctor's office has you fill out forms giving them a bunch of the same info they already have. Twice. In the same visit. This may take 20 or more minutes. For no good reason…
Redux is the only thing (sort of) from the React ecosystem that I'd save from a fire. But mine seems to be a minority opinion.
AJAX was originally about speed, but as soon as it changed from fetching and injecting HTML fragments, to fetching data (usually JSON) and performing a bunch of transformations and interpretations of it before finally…
Like with those "personality tests" where anyone with decent perception and reading comprehension can easily tell which outcomes each answer's going to push them toward, and so obtain any result they like.
Is the correct response to slip a Benjamin to another waiter to "accidentally" trip the one who screwed up, so you can judge from their response what your demeanor should be like when requesting a correction?
Using container features to limit access of a program to the broader machine (disk, network, other processes) seems like it would tend to be more secure than... not doing that. Right? It's not as if I'm exposing any…
I'm no expert, but I can imagine that automatically opening an air vent to the outdoors, when a fire is detected, isn't a great idea.
I'm reminded of Scott Alexanders musing re: whether someone "has ADD" if they have trouble focusing on things that are simply boring as fuck, like looking at spreadsheets (or code...) all day every day, week, after…
Until very recently (a year or two ago?), the US didn't allow film studios to own movie theaters. Hadn't for something like 70 years. That was due to antitrust action over a situation pretty similar to what's happening…
I looked at it the other day after the discussion thread about JS frameworks, but bounced when I saw ".svelte" files. I accept (demand, really) TypeScript but I've become allergic to any attempt to add much more on top…
Yeah, it's normal. When you do the same damn thing for the tenth time (or more) and you've watched all the previous ones be discarded one way or another, usually without ever doing anywhere near enough good to justify…
A shift in the competitive landscape might encourage distributors to integrate better with aggregators or meta-interfaces of various sorts. Or directly with one another, in some fashion. > Would all of the Star Wars…
I think it's a good idea to mitigate the downsides of the monopoly granted by copyright, when possible. We saw similar problems with studio ownership of movie theaters, and solved that by not letting studios own movie…
It matters if they're not spending less for each show, on average, than other services. If you're dropping $20m a season, on average, and so are your competitors, but more of yours are duds, that's bad. If you're…
Exactly that. I want to see more competition on price, features, and quality, and less on content availability. It'd also make it easier to enter both parts of that market, as a production company or a distributor,…
The ratio of OK-or-worse to good-or-exceptional sure appears to be a less favorable for Netflix than the others. Though people's rankings seem crazy to me. Apparently just producing a Star Wars thing and not totally…
I think people are watching a lot more video in general. There are multiple generations, at this point, that mostly wouldn't pay for cable or even bother with rabbit ears even if TV & movie streaming services didn't…
The downvotes are because it's so incredibly stupid that one must hope it is a trolling attempt, or intended as a deadpan joke of some kind.
Wouldn't be that weird if they were. Perfect fit every time and any customizations he wants, for a relative cost that'd be indistinguishable from "free", considering how much money he has. Why not? If I could pay…
This was the case in the Midwest in our basically-the-same-shape-as-modern-cars 90s family cars. We'd use the windshield cleaner thing next to the gas pump nearly every time we stopped, when on road trips, and for good…
It's some thing about "getting people to think about the future" but all it does is make it harder to read. I've never seen it anywhere but HN.
Conway, too, found much to interest him, apart from the engrossing problem he had set himself. During the warm, sunlit days he made full use of the library and music room, and was confirmed in his impression that the…
> Am I wrong? Am I just creating an environment of anxiety? No. Parenting and schools have gone completely to hell. You're not wrong, everyone else is. I still can't believe schools started letting kids carry their cell…
> Does that imply you can’t use Redux without React at all? Yikes, I hope not. One of my favorite things about Redux (last time I used it, maybe three years ago) was that it was easy, and even natural, to build an API…
Yeah, last I checked they paid under typical wages (already bad, by coastal standards) at local jobs in my area. Jobs that have much easier interviews. And many of them allow remote, too. I didn't end up with a local…
This misses the part of the game where the doctor's office has you fill out forms giving them a bunch of the same info they already have. Twice. In the same visit. This may take 20 or more minutes. For no good reason…
Redux is the only thing (sort of) from the React ecosystem that I'd save from a fire. But mine seems to be a minority opinion.
AJAX was originally about speed, but as soon as it changed from fetching and injecting HTML fragments, to fetching data (usually JSON) and performing a bunch of transformations and interpretations of it before finally…
Like with those "personality tests" where anyone with decent perception and reading comprehension can easily tell which outcomes each answer's going to push them toward, and so obtain any result they like.
Is the correct response to slip a Benjamin to another waiter to "accidentally" trip the one who screwed up, so you can judge from their response what your demeanor should be like when requesting a correction?
Using container features to limit access of a program to the broader machine (disk, network, other processes) seems like it would tend to be more secure than... not doing that. Right? It's not as if I'm exposing any…
I'm no expert, but I can imagine that automatically opening an air vent to the outdoors, when a fire is detected, isn't a great idea.