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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by thijsvandien » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:20 AM UTC

BoorishBears wrote: post #819

petters wrote: post #782

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That's interesting. My dentist said electric or not didn't matter when I asked.

I went electric because with proper brushing habits electric vs manual matters less. You're supposed to be making tons of small circular strokes and reaching every surface and taking the right amount of time... but it's easy to mess that up subtly. A lot of people make wide strokes for example or are unable to get the large head of the toothbrush in the corners of their teeth or use too much pressure... That's why I…

Which specific one is it that you use?

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by bloodorange » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:26 AM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #317

Venice lives up to the hype. It’s got everything you’ll hate about overrun tourist cities, but it’s also everything they promise.

Spectacular! What a beautiful city! Truly a man made treasure.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by jonathankoren » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:26 AM UTC

bananabiscuit wrote: post #711

cercatrova wrote: post #693

Interesting that people are substituting the hard question (what has been hyped and has lived up to it) with the easier question (what is good and has stood the test of time) and answering that instead, a form of attribute substitution bias [0]. My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvi…

Interesting, I would never have guessed Mr Robot was planned out start to finish. I loved the first season, but by the middle of the third season it felt very much like a show where the writers had no idea where to take the plot next, haven’t watched anymore since.

When I read about season 5, I didn’t interpret it to mean that the entire show was planned out, just that the ending was.

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Post by samaxe » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:35 AM UTC

impish19 wrote: post #606

actf wrote: post #520

Stadia, the initial reviews were actually pretty bad, but I'm blown away by how good it is. There's something undeniably cool about playing cyberpunk on a macbook air with full graphical detail, and then switching over to play on my TV exactly where I left off. The latency is virtually imperceptible to me, and I love that I don't need a 50 GB download just to try out a new game. Everytime I use it I'm honestly impres…

Came here to say the exact same thing. I can't stop talking to everyone and their brother about it. It feels like a clear leap into the future. For the uninitiated, here are some highlights of what it enables you to do: - You can go to a friend's apartment with a Chromecast and just start playing games YOU own like CyberPunk & Assasins Creed within seconds on their TV (assuming they have a controller or you brought y…

> start playing games YOU own

Except YOU don’t own them, google does, which exactly why I would never get stadia.

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Post by slg » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:39 AM UTC

bananabiscuit wrote: post #711

cercatrova wrote: post #693

Interesting that people are substituting the hard question (what has been hyped and has lived up to it) with the easier question (what is good and has stood the test of time) and answering that instead, a form of attribute substitution bias [0]. My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvi…

Interesting, I would never have guessed Mr Robot was planned out start to finish. I loved the first season, but by the middle of the third season it felt very much like a show where the writers had no idea where to take the plot next, haven’t watched anymore since.

The project started out as a movie and so it is no surprise it had a great start and end but got a little lost in the middle when the idea needed to be stretched out.

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Post by joachim4 » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:43 AM UTC

mFixman wrote: post #460

gramakri wrote: post #319

Lionel Messi. He recently even surpassed most goals for a club. He was touted as maradona successor which is an impossible bar and he has lived up to it. In contrast, not a single "messi" successor is even remotely close to him.

Most importantly, if you ignore a couple of tax evasion issues he seems like an all-right guy. Maradona was a drug addict and wife beater who fathered a dozen unrecognised children and was a horrible person overall. He became a national embarrassment for Argentina ever since he was kicked out of the world cup for doping. In contrast, Messi's positive legacy will hopefully endure for longer.

Maradona was always see as the star of the teams where he played, even when he was young. Plus he came from a poblacion, those ghettos in Argentina where people live with next to nothing. Messi on the other side came from a middle class family, and had his dream of being a professional player broke as a young kid by Newells due to his height problems.

The two has different histories, and should not be compared I think., except on the football side.

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Post by pas » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:44 AM UTC

modernerd wrote: post #295

kortex wrote: post #253

Type hints in python. Structured programming in general. Rust. It took me a long time to get remotely comfortable, but once it starts to click, it's awesome how the structure guides your development. Worth the investment, but don't expect to be able to grok it immediately.

Any resources in particular that helped you grok Rust?

Not OP, but: jonhoo youtube streams

Reading r/rust a lot... asking questions in comments.

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Post by Lewton » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:44 AM UTC

mkl wrote: post #133

soneca wrote: post #46

I saw contrarian opinions, but I believe Avengers: End Game pretty much delivered the insane hype cultivated for 10 years.

Not for me. Too much quantum time travel hand-waving just magically solving problems.

Agreed

Also I was so looking forward to how they were gonna manage to track down antman

Then it’s a rat ex machina

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:46 AM UTC

georgebcrawford wrote: post #841

trianglem wrote: post #676

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The wire is art. I don’t have enough superlatives for it. I’m only sad that something so good and timeless will portray black people so poorly. I don’t mean the art portraying them poorly, I mean their literal state of being.

Surely that's part of its power though? The real-life facts of that existence are tragic of course, but shining a light on the issues is surely a positive thing.

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Post by sircastor » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 1:47 AM UTC

xnx wrote: post #769

Total solar eclipse. Unbelievable. Life changing. Partial is meh. Totality made me cry.

After seeing this in 2017, I had commented to a coworker that it “it wasn’t like changing, but I’d be willing to travel to see one again” to which she replied “that sounds like it is life changing” and I was a people surprised. Watching a total solar eclipse of amazing and I’m so glad I went out of my way to go down and experience it.