This kinda has the vibe of every project that inevitably explodes due to the devs and mods either all burning out, or all turning on each other, or turning on the community, or vice versa, or all of the above.
- big ambitions
- a kitchen-sink list of features that don't have any particular philosophical bent other than "be good"
- a proposed audience of everyone
- insisting that it will be responsive to the community, unlike those other projects, but without any particular ideas about how governance will work better this time around
(there is approximately one single good centralized website with community governance and social aspects and it's Wikipedia. That's the only one. This would be the second.)
The portrait modes on these are getting really good. The blur is pretty convincing looking. The only open-source software I know that does similar stuff is body-pix which does matting, but I don't think it generates a smooth depth map like this thing. It would be cool because then you can do a clever background blur for your Zoom backgrounds with v4l2-loopback webcam.
By the way, I decided to also quick summarize the usual HN threads that have the trigger word iPhone in it:
- No headphone jack
--- Actually this is good because ecosystem built for it
----- Don't think ecosystem is good. Audio drops out
------- Doesn't happen to me. Maybe bad device.
----- Don't want to be locked in. Want to use own device.
------- That's not Apple philosophy. Don't know why surprised.
--------- I have right to my device
----------- cf. Right to Repair laws
------- Can use own device with dongle.
--------- Don't want dongle. Have to get dongle for everything. Annoying.
----------- Only need one dongle.
------------- If only audio, but now can't charge.
----------- Use dongle purse.
--- Apple quality have drop continuous. Last good Macbook was 2012.
----- Yes. Keyboard is useless now. Have fail. Recalled.
------- I have no problem with keyboard.
--------- Lucky.
------- Also touchpad have fail. Think because Foxconn.
------- Yes. Butterfly? More like butterfly effect. Press key, hurricane form on screen.
----- Yes. Yes. All Tim Cook. Bean Counter.
----- Yes. Many root security violation these days.
------- All programmers who make security violate must be fired.
--------- Need union so not fired if manager make security violation.
----------- Don't understand why no union.
------------- Because Apple and Google have collude to not poach. See case.
------- Yes. Security violation is evidence of lack of certification in industry.
--------- Also UIKit no longer correctly propagate event.
--- Phone too big anyway. No one make any small phone anymore.
----- See here, small phone.
------- Too old. Want new small phone. Had iPhone 8. Pinnacle of small beauty.
------- That's Android. No support more than 2 months.
--------- Actually, support 4 months.
----------- Doesn't matter. iPhone support 24 centuries and still going. Queen have original.
--------- Yes, and battery on Android small.
--- Will buy this phone anyway. Support small phone.
----- No. This phone is also big. No one care about small hand.
------- Realistically, phone with no SSH shell dumb. I use N900 on Maemo.
--- Who care? This press release. Just advertisement.
----- Can dang remove clickbait. What is one-eye anyway? Meaningless. Phone no have eye.
--- Also, phone not available in Bielefeld.
--- Phone only have 128 GB? Not enough. Need 129 GB.
----- 64 GB enough for everyone.
------- "640 KB enough for everyone" - Bill Fence, 1923
You are absolutely correct on both counts. Olympic fencing blades are wider at the base and taper down. They’re designed to flex mostly in farther half of the blade, the base needs to remain fairly stiff or the sword would be weak in parries (and would
flop around excessively).
Many historical swords taper in width, thickess, or both in order to improve handling. Distribution of mass matters quite a lot in how nimble a sword is, especially for historical swords which were heavier than modern fencing weapons.
Apparently what is meant is talking to strangers face to face, i.e. Twitter/HN doesn’t count.
> "I like humanity as a whole more because I talk to strangers."
Anyone here have any anecdotes where you had that same experience? What are some good ways and places you have found to get into conversations with strangers?
I just tell recruiters I simply won't. Turned down continuing with an interview process with a company just last week for this reason.
I'll do take-home programming, I'll do collaborative debugging and coding in a shared IDE with something that looks like a real project, I'll do system design etc. interviews, talk to you about programming, etc. and I'll show you my GitHub etc. projects and you can judge from that, and my 20 year long resume, whether I might be a fit.
Want me to write CS-class algorithm & data structure problems on a timed clock on a whiteboard or equivalent? You've just told me everything I need to know about your engineering culture.
I worked at Google for 10 years and I hated their interview process, it needs to stop spreading to the rest of the job market. If enough of us say to no to this process, it will end.
And to hiring managers: most of you are not Google (thankfully) and don't have a bottomless pit of talent to choose from. Stop pretending otherwise. You'll get better results. If you feel you have to do it, save it for new grads and stop using it for senior talent. All you're testing for is whether people practiced leetcode or whether they're straight out of a CS program.
> Therefore, a good diagnostic question to ask might be: would you still be curious about Web3 if those currencies were worthless, in dollar terms? For some people, the answer is “yes, absolutely”, because they find the foundational puzzles so compelling. For others, if they’re honest, the answer is “nnnot reallyyy”.
Can we add group #3, people who are profoundly uninterested in this version of Web3 even despite all the money in it?
I was a fan of decentralisation when it stood for federated software and the idea that the web should generally be the same for hobbyists and professionals.
I really can't see a desirable vision of the future with a web based on artificial scarcity, intentional resource waste and anarchocapitalism.
