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It may not 'scale' as well as algorithmic feeds, but maybe that's what will save the Web. We need more sweat and passion, both in curation of content and in the effort to find it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402791

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>Electromagnetic pickups—(...)—fixed the loudness problem. But they left a new one: the envelope

Was it really a problem to be solved? Good tube amplifiers already existed back then. Clean guiar tone was not something frowned upon.

>Hendrix’s mission was (...)

>His solution was (...)

I don't think Hendrix was on a 'mission' to solve engineering puzzles at all. He was just experimenting, as an artist.

Yet, The Machine has good points.

>For someone whose entire career is built on "if it broke, I can find out why," this is deeply unsettling. Not in a dramatic way. In a slow, grinding, background-anxiety way. You can never fully trust the output. You can never fully relax. Every interaction requires vigilance.

> you are collaborating with a probabilistic system, and your brain is wired for deterministic ones. That mismatch is a constant, low-grade source of stress.

Back when I bought my first computer, it was a crappy machine that crashed all the time. (Peak of the fake capacitors plague in 2006). That made me doubt and second guess everything that is usually taken for granted in hardware and software (Like simply booting up). That mindset proved useful latter in my career.

I’m not saying anything new. Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas have written about it in a way better way. I find it to still hold very relevant guidelines.

https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/lieber/courses/csg1...

>Think! About Your Work

>Critically Analyze What You Read and Hear

As in "Please write just this one for me". Even still, I take care to review each line produced. The key is making small changes at a time.

Otherwise, I type out and think about everything being done when in ‘Flow State’. I don't like the feeling of vibe coding for long periods. It completely changes the way work is done, it takes away agency.

On a bit of a tangent, I can't get in Flow State when using agents. At least not as we usually define it.

You need to sober up. Tailor your resume to each application, Cut excesses. Write simpler and make sure your experience covers what the position asks.

Also, consider talking to friends or doing therapy. Opening up with someone you trust helps a lot. Avoid doomscrolling. Things can look bad right now, but they can get better. Good luck.

The author seems to put great value on doing grandiose things, so those suggestions may seem frivolous.

It's a respectable goal to pursue huge achievements in professional life, but please be aware that it involves lots of: (a) talk to other people and (b) doing mundane stuff most of the time. It all depends on how hard you want it.

For my hobbies, I still hope to get things organized (in my computer, my desk and my mind) to record some metal composings.

Where's your Sysop?

For a true superhuman AI, what you or me think is irrelevant and probably wrong.

Cars are still faster than humans, besides evolution.

What I really believe is that we'll get crazier. A step further than our status quo. Slop content makes my brain fry already. Our society will become more insane and useless, while an even smaller percent of the elite will keep studying, sleeping well and avoiding all this social media and AI psychosis.

Everyone is so comfortable doing shit like this.

Hard to explain.

After that, it must have been a matter of rewriting every GOTO opcode that pointed to the failed chip.

Totally guessing.