thetricia's comments

I see a lot of youngsters use Discord sort of in the way IRC would be back in the day. I'm guessing though, as quite frankly it was never something I liked. Didn't like IRC and don't like the ones today either.

But the leading researchers are very much on the hype train. I agree that lack of knowledge only makes it worse. But feel like there's a lot more going on.

Hype in of itself is a very attractive thing. For a practitioner it's hard to pass on a narrative that puts you in the center of the universe. Then world-is-about-to-end/change alarmism is very attractive too.

And on the other side skepticism and cynicism generally isn't something that spreads easily. Unless the hype is so absurd that the criticism itself becomes sensational. Which might be happening at the moment.

Uh, really wish I haven't seen it. Not exactly surprised, but I forgot how many people in the industry (and the world at large) are like that.

And for the most part when the prices differ 9 out of 10 times it's more expensive outside the US (and sometimes significantly so).

Whenever I go to the US it's shopping time. Pretty much everything is cheaper. And many items you just can't get elsewhere (which is another aspect many ignore).

I know this is going to be controversial, but healthcare-wise high earners might be better-off in the US too. Generally it would seem to me, the more money you make the better US is in comparison.

dev.to, had pretty good experiences with it

Well the big difference is it's reasonable to assume a Mainland Chinese company could get banned or sanctioned in some manner.

Now just to be fair, from what I read, there was a lot of Super Micro drama going on beforehand which likely magnified the pessimism.

Btw if you search for 'supermicro "is a chinese"' you will find some people that do think that.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but the most sinister part of the story in how some might assume SuperMicro is a Chinese or a MainlandChinese-founded company. It came right around the time ZTE, Huawei and others were facing renewed scrutiny. So you can imagine how easy it is to read the story and just think "oh, another Chinese company got busted".

The biggest takeaway for me is how important stability and deleveraging is. In the regular stock market such price action would more likely be thought of as crazy volatility rather than a bubble-crash situation. Before the sudden appreciation there was a lot of optimism at similar prices. If it never happened many of these companies wouldn't go bankrupt. Volatility killed them.

As long as the overlap with regular users is small there's no reason for why that would cascade [0].

That kind of content is usually banned/censored on most mainstream services, just letting it be will get you a non-insignificant number. I've seen people claim 3% for twitter, no clue if true or not, but few would say that about Twitter here. Too many people in tech are in the core user-base to fall for this.

[0] unless shut down this will be a loooong slow death no matter what happens. I still have a semi popular account on one of the dead sites of the era. Everybody knows it's dead but these communities are a bit like families, hard to completely ghost them.

This, unfortunately, is how most business'y events are, unless very corporate or govt-related. Just slightly less blatant. I really envy people who have this ability to filter it all out and still feel at ease.

I'm not a big fan of this meme of porn being bigger than what it is. Tumblr was never about that and Snapchat wasn't and isn't a sexting app.

The adult content that showed up was pretty annoying, especially on some tags that were seemingly less censored. Like, most LGBT tags were clean, but some would have a lot for whatever reason. I'd welcome the change back then (which was around acquisition time). But even then it was apparent Tumblr's odds of becoming anything other than another diary/blog graveyard weren't great.

Tumblr occasionally banning thinspo blogs was probably much more of an "attack" on the core user base. Not by numbers but in spirit.

edit: and for the record I'm not especially talking about parent's comment, not sure why i picked this one, mostly agree with it

And the last century has shown us that while the preference for candy/sugar might have created a big obesity problem, we're still around and there's no going back. The jury is still out whether or not it's inherently bad.

Not being online-savy would put me at a social disadvantage. I'm in my early 20s. My impression is that it's only more so for younger ones. When people talk of "real-world social skills" they usually mean the ones that made sense during their adulthood.

Why are you learning this language? Do you have an end goal in mind? A community you'd like to participate in, etc? If you do have one you probably want to structure your learning around it.

Otherwise it's like learning to program without ever working on a project - possible but an uphill battle.

It's relevant the way organizations like CNN are. In an age where there's very little information asymmetry and everybody's equally an expert, legacy brands serve as a credentialing baseline.

Wonder if there'd be any lisp or clojure dsl that compiles down to fairly minimal c/cpp, so that you wouldn't have to have the cuda program be a string

I usually listen to them but anyways (I had to, sorry!!) - I really enjoyed Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble. It's a very cynical take on the startup culture, which usually isn't something I'm into, but the author really did a good job at keeping it fun (he was one of the valleywag people) and has enough experience from the inside that there's actually plenty of subtle insights.