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Re: Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?

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Post by maerF0x0 »

earthling8118 wrote: post #33

I don't entirely disagree with you but I've experienced differently. In software, for example, I have seen precisely the opposite: there's been a lack of long term decision making. Instead of saving developer time overall there's a push to write it even if it is bad. Then it goes into production immediately and it becomes very difficult to get it fixed correctly

We agree with eachother. My point was the lack of longterm thinking. Not that projects have to be delayed but much but 10% today can have a compounding ROI for 2-5yrs (or however long that system lives) .

I noticed this on gitprime btw. My code churn rate was waaaay below my peers. So basically if I merged a line of code to main, it tended to not need updating for years.

Re: Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?

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Post by Rastonbury »

paulpauper wrote: post #15

I think availability bias and confirmation bias may play a role in things seeming worse. Incidences of violence, unrest that in the past would have gone unreported, unnoticed is made obvious and immediate on social media. Social media makes it easier to compare one's social status to someone else.

Yeah probably a result of "doom scrolling" and the modern news cycle. The general crappiness of service is driven by inflation and worker shortages, companies need to do more with less, standards of quality will drop as a result

But yes, judging by OPs posts, people being noisy, landlords and subscriptions, anyone can pick out negative stuff they see. The big ones others would say are the ukraine conflict and polarization of society politically

Re: Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?

#104

Post by keiferski »

Zircom wrote: post #67
PessimalDecimal wrote: post #25

> People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained. > Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I've noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly danger…

>being a grown-ass adult in pajamas out in public I'm with you about all the other things but people wearing whatever clothes they want to affects you in literally no way shape or form.

A society is made up of people. The way people act, dress, talk, or do anything else has a pretty direct impact on other people in that society. Unless your definition of society is an extremely disconnected one, comprised of alienated individuals that have no interaction with each other, yes, it does affect other people.

Re: Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?

#105

Post by Reason077 »

Well sure, civilization may be in decline, climate change is going to get worse, etc.

But not everything is getting worse: there are still some things to be thankful for! Look at phones and laptops from 10, or even 5 years ago. Many of them are so bad by today’s standards I wonder how we ever put up with them. I bet in 5 years time these things will be even better still!

Re: Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?

#108

Post by maerF0x0 »

ryan93 wrote: post #70
Heston wrote: post #24

How do you expect a society that thrives on the exploitation and murder of other life forms to have peace and joy? There's a spiritual crisis happening right now and if you don't change the way you treat other life, yours will continue to get worse.

Talking about animals? That has always been a thing

without bringing veganism into it. I think they have a point about Homo Sapiens too.

Re: Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?

#109

Post by Tool_of_Society »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #101
earthling8118 wrote: post #33

I don't entirely disagree with you but I've experienced differently. In software, for example, I have seen precisely the opposite: there's been a lack of long term decision making. Instead of saving developer time overall there's a push to write it even if it is bad. Then it goes into production immediately and it becomes very difficult to get it fixed correctly

We agree with eachother. My point was the lack of longterm thinking. Not that projects have to be delayed but much but 10% today can have a compounding ROI for 2-5yrs (or however long that system lives) . I noticed this on gitprime btw. My code churn rate was waaaay below my peers. So basically if I merged a line of code to main, it tended to not need updating for years.

Gotta satisfy the stockholders and all they care about is the earnings in the next quarter...

Re: Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?

#110

Post by 77pt77 »

> Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. ... >it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they're not the ones to solve

This has been going on forever and it's anything but software specific.

You're just getting old.

Things have always been like this.

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