Hacker News: Bootwizard

New comment by Bootwizard in "Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive"

Bootwizard — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 01:14:59 +0000

Have you found a way to download or torrent them all?

New comment by Bootwizard in "Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify"

Bootwizard — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 20:25:17 +0000

Just use Spotify, it's vastly superior to all other streaming platforms and basically runs the music industry these days.

New comment by Bootwizard in "Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive"

Bootwizard — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:59:26 +0000

Yeah that sounds like some good fun. I'd love to do that! What are you on about?

New comment by Bootwizard in "Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive"

Bootwizard — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:57:28 +0000

FINALLY! I've been wanting to remix these kind of songs into hiphop songs for a long time. This is such a weird victory for music producers. These are a gold mine for hip hop sampling.

New comment by Bootwizard in "Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?"

Bootwizard — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:02:22 +0000

People who are actually bad at what they do rarely realize it! I think that's the difference between an imposter and "imposter syndrome".

New comment by Bootwizard in "Future of DeepSpeech / STT after recent changes at Mozilla"

Bootwizard — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 20:35:37 +0000

Can you run audio files through any of these or do they only support audio from microphones?

New comment by Bootwizard in "Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary"

Bootwizard — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:24:10 +0000

I did almost exactly the same thing at my last job. I'm a game dev and they provided us all with woefully underpowered MacBooks that didn't even have a dedicated GPU. The game engine was constantly crashing while working and making it very difficult to get anything done. I recorded the amount of time wasted on these crashes over the course of a week.

I then proved to management that there was about 5 hours a week being completely wasted for me waiting for my machine to open applications after they crash. So after that we all got new MacBooks that were properly spec'd out for game development. I got to pick the specs :)

New comment by Bootwizard in "Making Poverty Fashionable to Millennials"

Bootwizard — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:20:33 +0000

Yes, we are in our mid 20s

New comment by Bootwizard in "Oatly: The New Coke?"

Bootwizard — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:28:35 +0000

I honestly never thought to try online just because I was worried about food safety during shipment. I could try Whole Foods but everything I've bought there in the past has been massively overpriced. I haven't shopped there since Amazon acquired them though, our local chain has been fine for most of my needs, besides bulk goods.

New comment by Bootwizard in "Fire your bad customers"

Bootwizard — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:23:50 +0000

Surprise! It wasn't Oracle :)

New comment by Bootwizard in "Making Poverty Fashionable to Millennials"

Bootwizard — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:18:53 +0000

I would say you're wrong. I know this is anectdata but I'm a non-single millenial, and my girlfriend and I have decided to never have kids because we value our own happiness and wellbeing too much to sacrifice it raising a child. We would be happy to live this type of lifestyle.

Edit: and it has nothing to do with our income. We're both 6 figure engineers.

New comment by Bootwizard in "Fire your bad customers"

Bootwizard — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 06:03:17 +0000

Careful not to go too overboard for this. I won't say the company's name for fear that I may work there one day. At my last job, a large enterprise database provider wouldn't provide any support to us unless we agreed to pay them upwards of $60k a year for a product we weren't going to use. And we weren't exactly a small customer for them either, we just weren't as big as some of their others. Don't become the toxic one yourself!

New comment by Bootwizard in "GPT-3 Explorer"

Bootwizard — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 05:58:39 +0000

Does anyone know if they'll ever release the models for GPT-3 so we can train/re-train then ourselves? Or is GPT-3 so general that it doesn't need retraining?

New comment by Bootwizard in "Oatly: The New Coke?"

Bootwizard — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 15:03:14 +0000

At least where I'm from in the US, there is no "bulk goods aisle" in the grocery. It makes it a hell of a lot harder to eat healthy because we have no alternatives to canned and packaged goods in many categories of foods.

New comment by Bootwizard in "Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste"

Bootwizard — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:35:03 +0000

I'm kind of just getting started on web development. What would you recommend instead of Bootstrap?

New comment by Bootwizard in "Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste"

Bootwizard — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 06:35:36 +0000

This site loaded faster than most I've visited in recent memory. How did you accomplish that? I'm impressed!

(Also this is great, I may end up buying a license!)

New comment by Bootwizard in "The history of economic growth is a tale of cleanliness"

Bootwizard — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:08:33 +0000

Well to be fair, in SF that's probably human poop

New comment by Bootwizard in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

Bootwizard — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 06:14:32 +0000

Isn't it better to be happy than to be "the best"? Would you really rather draw meaning in life from your country's position in the global economy than from your own happiness? Do you even matter at that point as a human being or are you just a gear in the machine to crank up the economy of your country. You're disposable.

New comment by Bootwizard in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

Bootwizard — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 06:04:00 +0000

This is the actual dilemma with UBI that should be discussed. I feel though that not everyone who leaves the workforce will generate $0 in value. There are many people who would rather create their own small business, maybe selling a minor product, streaming video games, or any number of things. Over the past few months I've realized that there is so much opportunity to work for yourself online by providing some niche service that you really can sustain yourself. If you have enough time, patience, and money to find that niche and work at it that is.

New comment by Bootwizard in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

Bootwizard — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:59:21 +0000

I'm in a similar situation after being laid off from my job. I would have a much more enjoyable life if I didn't have to find a new job. I've improved as a person more over the past few months than I have in the past few years working full-time. Now I have the time (all of it really) to actually think about who I am and how I can improve my habits, diet, health, etc.

I feel like nearly everyone (especially in America) are too caught up in their careers to realize how unhappy and unhealthy they really are.