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I will keep recommending Hillel Wayne's crossover project whenever this "Software engineering vs 'real' engineering" discussion pops up. https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/crossover-…

If all I have todo is ask the thing what I want, where is all the great new software? Why isn't everyone running fully bespoke operating systems by now? While I agree with the sent…

I recently used it to watch "Revolution of our times", a documentary about the 2019 Hong Kong protests. As far as I could tell, this is the only legal way to stream the movie.

I don't understand. It's not like the far left is Volkswagen's fan club?

The television, the atom bomb, the cigarette rolling machine, and penicillin are also "just tools". They nevertheless changed our world entirely, for better or worse. If you ascrib…

It irritates me a bit that many comments on HN are like a Yelp review of the linked article instead of adding to the discussion of their comments. Maybe you see HN primarily as a c…

DFW = David Foster Wallace

But there are other platforms out there (especially for books) that people will prefer if they make it easier to find high-quality content. I’m with the poster you replied to; it w…

What gives you that idea? Of course we can build enough windmills and other renewables.

Murakami wrote a non-fiction book about the Sarin attacks and the Aum cult, Underworld. I’m not sure if it’s accurate (he’s a fiction writer, afterall) but it’s very fascinating an…

You should read this: https://hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/

Do you mean a _low_ signal-to-noise ratio?

If you haven’t already, you should read the crossover project by Hillel Wayne in which he interviewed a bunch of engineers that became software engineers. It’s really good. https:/…

WFPB = Whole Foods / Plant-Based

For people interested in the comparison between “real” engineers and software engineers (as in this thread), Hillel Wayne wrote an outstanding series of blog posts summarizing a bu…

Could you share a link or give the name of the study, so that I can read it?

Perhaps the ones falling prey to fake news and disinformation are not doubting enough or their doubting is one-sided. What they lack is the doubt in their own thinking and believin…

Entering "1984" yields "books similar to 1984 by Michael Dean". Entering "Nineteen Eighty-Four" gives me "Book picks similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Matthew Dunster". When I sea…

I found "Search User Interfaces" by Marti Hearst very informative. It's available online for free: https://searchuserinterfaces.com/

Debugging python processes running in containers unfortunately requires a bit of setup in VS Code (no idea about Emacs).

Whenever I see someone saying something like "just a tool" with regard to technology, I always want to recommend a thorough read of Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media" ("The M…