I've had to take advice that saved my relationship. It doesn't feel natural but that's what changing behaviour is about. Never stop worshipping your wife. Remember she's your Queen. You put her on a pedestal and would do ANYTHING for her. Climb a tree for honey, slay a dragon. Suddenly making a cuppa or cleaning a cup is easy right? I did ask a friend once what he did when his wife started tidying and nagging and he said he just joined in tidying. If I'm too busy to help I often transfer a large sum of money to her account without telling her. Or maybe later I go out to the garden or garage and sort that out. I remember there's a bit in the classic book 'Men are from Mars" about just the thing the author is talking about and he really could have done with reading that book. I read it about 20 years ago but it had the bit on 'relationship points'. Now he thought his salary was worth 50 sex pts. But really it was only 1. and the dirty dish was worth -1. So he was left on 0 pts.
I don't think you can do this one as a hobby really. You need to store brains which means taking them out of peoples heads or getting hold of animal brains. Plus you need to create liquid nitrogen and you also need a block face scanning electron microscope which has diamond parts and scale that up to a brain. So ur looking at several mil and a team of 50 people.
Yeah I was thinking more of brainstorming and ideating on how to do it at scale before launching a real co, I agree that you can't have a fly by night operation when you're dealing with something like this (just the regulatory issues alone I'm sure require tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to get set up correctly).
It was like world of warcraft but in reality. say for example there was a rumour that someone called 'smokey' could catch an eel. and you wanted to catch an eel. someone would say. Smokey can catch eels. So you and 5 pals would walk 6 miles to find Smokey. You'd sit in the sun and he'd share his stories of how to carry out the task. Then you'd go to the said location at night and fulfill the task. etc. It was fun.
That's interesting: It's like we've introduced "spoilers" into almost everything we do. I mean, if you have some discipline you can still do things "spoiler-free", I guess (specially if it's not a job or particularly dangerous), which I agree sometimes presents a great learning opportunity and completely different experience.
I remember the world before the internet. Full of rumour and supersition and gossip and people you go to for certian knowledge about things. Lots of people outside, all over the place. climbing trees, riding bikes. Filling the spaces. Now you come home from being on it all day working. your family are all on it. don't talk to you, bark if you interupt them. You can access all the facts and know everything. I kinda hate it. Here I am on it.
“Full of rumour and supersition and gossip and people you go to for certian knowledge about things.”
The more things change…
We’ve recreated that online. There was a brief golden age when only the early adopters were online with visions of a digital utopia and now it’s just like real life but crazier.
The same thing will happen if we go to mars. It will just be the same stuff just on another planet.
The people of Mars would likely be somewhat different from the people of Earth, since they'd be so heavily influenced by whatever idiosyncrasies they inherited from the first colonists.
If there are genetic propensities to whatever would make someone healthy enough to travel to Mars, intelligent enough to run the machines, yet disconnect enough from Earthbound society that they wouldn't mind leaving the planet, that is what Martians would generally be like.
funny you say this. i was reading about peri wigs the other day. and apparently washington didn't wear one. he fashioned his hair that way. I guess he didn't have syphilis and wanted to fit in.
Growing up, I had a friend with a desktop PC in his room and I was dumbstruck and intrigued by the idea of being able to stay all day on a computer, gaming and IMing and surfing. Now we are all like him, sitting at a desk the entire day. Sometimes the desk follows us.
Without the internet I wouldn’t haven’t met some of my best friends or discovered my passion for filmmaking. I’d also probably be still using a lot of questionable language and espousing some pretty whacky ideas like I did in high school. Honestly the internet improved my life. I get what you’re saying but it’s sort of an old take and lacks nuance IMO.
> I’d also probably be still using a lot of questionable language
All sorts of cultures, online and off, involve members policing the ingroup for transgressions against the internal culture.
Language isn't "questionable", its usage is. There's no such thing as a bad word.
The culture of the internet (and, as a subset, that of 2022 mass social media in the english-speaking world, which is itself a subset of internet mass social media) is mostly not because of the internet, but because of the participants and the state of the wider world. The internet isn't responsible for wokeness, it's just the medium through which this particular human culture phenomenon travels.
>it’s just the medium through which this particular human culture phenomenon travels.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. The internet exposed me to other ways of thinking and more diverse people. I’m not sure what all that other stuff is about.
We can acknowledge that the internet has done great things for people while simultaneously acknowledging that it is deeply altering the fabric of society.
I’d never disagree it’s altering the fabric of society. But I’m not sure I’m prepared to say it’s a net negative, which the comment above me definitely implied.
I could totally relate. who couldn't? Didn't that lack nuance? I'm only just past 40, and I don't take the current for granted either btw. I guess it depends what your counting in your net. Maybe we lost something.
People used to make jokes about me because I was on my computer all day. This was back before it was big, when people just used it for AIM instant messenger. I never understood how they could not be amazed by it. I'd imagine how amazing it would be if computers could be faster, portable, wireless.. how much could be possible. Now all those people are on Facebook and have their phones glued to their eyes. I still use computers and devices a lot, but having spent so many hours lost in cyberspace I have a certain dislike for using computers without getting some value back. I also find staring at screens in the middle of conversations to be annoying, while most of these people don't have a problem with it. It's a weird irony. I kind of hate it too, especially all the misinformation that spreads nowadays
and i think i just need to merge that state machine router into it for a test. I believe it's part of the architecture for templating engine called tenjin that predates even jinja?
found your benchmark repo but not installed wrk yet to test.
Have you tried doing a "Show HN" post for your project? Creating a "Show HN" post is often a good way to get some attention and feedback for your project provided your post receives a few early upvotes in the first 30-40 minutes and reaches the front page.
I had considered but it's not quite good enough yet. I posted on reddit once and got 1 upvote and 1 comment. aha. Think it's as I did it really late on a sunday. Timing is everything. But it hepled me a lot with not stressing too much about posting.
For this project and content on the net in general, You should generally show a compelling answer to the following questions within a few seconds:
What is this? Why do I care? Why is this exciting? Do I like this?
At least for me I can't answer those questions when I see your project. Maybe I'm stupid or ignorant and you simply don't want to reach me, alright fine.
Also some projects simply cannot fit into this box.
Sometimes reader enlightenment is required to see value. Those are the hardest ones.
Essentially your task is to convince the reader that you have an answer to things they never thought to question or connect together and your proposed way of doing things fixes problems they thought were just the way of the world.
That's why my more sophisticated projects do much worse than my simpler fun ones and why silly things do so well and hard things do so poorly.
There is value to solving hard problems but as the new patterns form, people forget so the appreciation of great achievement is often fleeting.
So I dunno, people suck and life is hard. Whatever
I think you're right. The project changed direction several times. from being a tag generator and a general wrapper before settling on trying to port the DOM. I still need to take it beyond being a curiosity. In ways I avoid wokring on those aspects that make something 'useful' as for me it kills the drive so I work around that aspect doing all the other bits first. And end up picking up on lots of tits bits that others don't. But I should probably fill in more of the expected functionality. It's a habit I got into to keep me engaged on a project.
