Hacker News: turbojet1321

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

turbojet1321 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:04:18 +0000

Thanks for newsminimalist - other than what comes up on HN it's the only news I read these days. It's usually just enough to keep me in touch without any of the outrage.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

turbojet1321 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:01:50 +0000

That's a false equivalence which is at the heart of the issue. You seem to be be assuming that "being informed" makes you better placed and/or more willing to take right action, but I'm not convinced that's the case

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:38:39 +0000

Yes but unfortunately that doesn't make it false.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:06:15 +0000

> too young to lie or corrupt

In my experience, youth has little to do with honesty or corruptibility.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:54:43 +0000

It's the circle of life

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022)"

turbojet1321 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:09:35 +0000

> I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.

There's an Anki plugin[0] though I know almost nothing about Anki or incremental reading, so I have no idea who good it is.

0:https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/999215520

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Goodbye, Slopify"

turbojet1321 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:40:54 +0000

I recently ditched Spotify for Qobuz. Spotify has always been a bit of a letdown, even though I've been using it since Rdio went bust (so ~10yrs). The thing that finally pushed me over the edge was the amount of shit content they push at my kids.

I want to me able to give my 10yo an app on their phone to listen to music, and not have to check to see if they're actually watching videos, or listening to (possibly wildly inappropriate) podcasts - or worst of both worlds - watching video podcasts.

Qobuz isn't perfect in terms of UI, but they seem to care about, and only care about, music. I trialed Amazon Music, but it (unsurprisingly) is an ad platform, too. Apple Music was a contender - the only reason I didn't end up with it is because (also unsurprisingly) it doesn't integrate well with network streamers.

Qobuz is a bit more expensive, but so far it has been worth it.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs"

turbojet1321 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:23:11 +0000

This looks cool, but I'm not 100% sure what it does. Is the "music server" part just a backend for the web UI, or does it serve via other protocols like DLNA?

New comment by turbojet1321 in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

turbojet1321 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:20:30 +0000

> What do you think happens once a company knows you are looking for a job and then you don’t get the new job?

Maybe it depends how useful you are. IME, they're grateful to have you say a while longer.

One of the guys I work with had accepted another job and was virtually out the door when the new job fell through. My company gladly welcomed him back, kept giving him challenging work and eventually promoting him.

A couple of months ago I told my boss and my boss's boss I was going to start looking for other jobs. They tried to see if there was something that'd make me stay, and when there wasn't, they were 100% supportive. If I said tomorrow "actually, I've had a change of heart, I'd like to stay" they'd be genuinely pleased. This has basically been the story my whole career.

Sure, if your boss is an arsehole they'll do arsehole things. My advice is not to work for arseholes.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

turbojet1321 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:04:55 +0000

It's a job; not a cult. People come and go. If I were working somewhere that made me feel like I couldn't leave without being super secretive about it, that would be a huge red flag.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:02:13 +0000

The big thing that got me to move off passwordstore to BW (and self-hosted vaultwarden) was sharing passwords with family. The app and browser extensions are nicer, too.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:18:47 +0000

> No one is going to let you talk to your current manager and let them know you are looking for a job.

What on earth do you mean? Who is going to stop me from talking to my manager?

Over my 20+ year career, in all-but one case my current manager has always been one of my referees and has known that I'm looking for other jobs.

Maybe this is a cultural thing. Here (Aus) references from colleagues are basically disregarded and all that prospective employers are interested in is referees from current and former managers.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:36:28 +0000

It's not at all false IME, though I'm not in SV or the US. Most job want up-front references from at least 2 people, one of whom must be your current supervisor/boss (or someone else higher in the chain of command). You can occasionally get away without it, but it's difficult.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:27:27 +0000

The question to ask yourself then is: why is it that the behaviour that brings you pleasure/meaning/satisfaction happens to align exactly with what the company wants?

I spent most of my career with a similar attitude to yours, and TBH it's still my default. The question I find myself asking more and more is: can I maintain/increase my level of satisfaction while giving less of myself to a company that simply doesn't care?

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:44:12 +0000

This is a good point. I have a backup strategy that includes cloud and offline HDDs, but at some point, when I'm not around to keep it all running, it'll probably just be family getting them off my laptop.

I should probably look at writing to bluray at some point.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:32:59 +0000

I thought that was a strange approach, too - I'd have thought it'd be far quicker to cull post-scanning. Plus, then you have the whole catalog digitized in case someone else wants to come along and make different editorial choices later on.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:24:01 +0000

I take a ton of photos. I cull probably 80%. The remaining ones are all pretty good/interesting/meaningful. I end up with maybe 1000 for a year, then pick maybe 100 of those to make into a photo book for the year, which is what the kids actually look at.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

turbojet1321 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:31:50 +0000

The best solution I've come up with is jpgs in a yyyy/mm folder structure + EXIF metadata. I know it's not your ideal, but it'll be supported and platform agnostic for the forseeable future, and there are plenty of apps that can search metdata tags.

That said - I used to rigorously tag photos for the event, place, and people in them, but it's just too much work. Some tooling around batch and auto tagging would be great, so long as it wrote back to the original image EXIF.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "AI isn't going to kill the software industry"

turbojet1321 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:37:22 +0000

That's like asking "is there a building industry" just because every industry uses buildings. Every (well, most) industries use software; but the production of that software is itself an industry.

New comment by turbojet1321 in "Results of "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark published"

turbojet1321 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:22:39 +0000

> I'm curious why you are confident they would be more intelligent than a modern toddler?

Because we have intellectual artefacts from that time that show us. Artefacts that underlay much of modern society, and that in many respects still hold up, even though we've built upon them for 20 generations.