ethicalsmacker's comments

Fair enough. It's hard to imagine a worse DMV, but anything is possible!

Well, it couldn't make the DMV any worse.

This kind of activity is exactly what I hate about Github and the new and unimproved "open source community".

No one cares you updated your vimrc file. Nobody wants to see another "awesome list" in a code repository. Nobody cares about that cool project you started over a weekend and haven't touched in three years.

Your commits are not important.

We have become so narcissistic. We are now coding with the kardashians.

Odd to me, I have always been the "fun parent" the kids wants to play with constantly. My wife probably feels like he does, but she basks in it because it's finally time for her to be alone and recharge.

I thought "minimal job board" was like, minimal UI, simple and clean. I didn't know it meant very few jobs.

The thing that pushed me over the edge was browsing personal sites I found via http://wiby.me/

I was reading fairly old gamedev, emulation and other blogs. The content and spirit of them made me realize how things have come along since and depressed me. Said fuck it.

Neither require sharing publicly (ie, blog). Other than for the vanity/upvotes/etc.

The data isn't always accurate. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it's not happening often. Your perception isn't always correct.

Anecdote, I spent some time wandering around east palo alto (at the time, was the murder capital). It didn't feel particularly bad, but the data said otherwise.

You can't trust random people's perception of safety. You can't trust the data either.

One of my last memories in SF was around 4th and King where I watched a man steal from Walgreens, grab a person's handbag and run past a police officer and down the street.

The officer didn't do anything and shrugged when the Walgreens employees were asking for his help.

edit: by the way, this was around afternoon/lunch time in broad daylight.

I used to blog and quit (pulled all of my content from the web). I still have a landing page, which serves as a general "This is who I am, I'm a real person" because I have a business and people Google my name.

I couldn't find a good reason to continue publishing content for everyone to read. I also gave up on the open source community at the same time.

The idea of "giving back" to the community is gone. The open source (and open knowledge) web is gone. People (and companies/ML models) take/pilfer/plagiarize/rehash/profit from your contributions and you get squat in return. I decided to no longer take part in it.

I can write on my own, privately. I can share and link to content with private links. I don't need the vanity, opportunities or monetization (ie, peanuts).

There are some good thoughts in there, but it fails to answer the actual question. Why publish a blog? Sure, writing has benefits. You don't need a blog to write. You don't need a blog to make your own content linkable.

The only nuggets in there are "vanity", "monetization" and "possible opportunities" which are all pretty bad reasons to publish a blog.

Kind of upset they didn't leverage a corny phrase like "the buck stops here".

Music with no vocals (classical, chiptune, etc) can work pretty well as long as you don't go down the rabbit hole of "finding music to listen to" every 15 minutes.

Dang that's a lot of karma!

The simplest guide to NNs I have ever read is this one: http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/evolved/nnt1.html

It's an old site and guide, but probably still the easiest to understand if you're coming from a programming background.

I built my own "music streamer" for this. Basically takes any folder as an argument and recursively goes down and sucks up all music files and serves them via a web interface with the standard player controls and UI you would expect. Does everything I ever wanted and more.

Why did I do it? Kind of stupid actually. I wanted to listen to the same music that I listen to on my laptop, but on my phone. Overkill? Probably, but 100% cool.

Opposite for me-- music causes daydreaming and other issues.

I'm much better off with ear plugs and silence. No more looking for music to listen to, watching random videos or day dreaming.

Ear plugs to drown out sound. Don't use headphones. Stay as unconnected as you can from the machine (no Youtube/music/etc).