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

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Post by georgebcrawford »

trianglem wrote: post #676
ddek wrote: post #155

The Wire. I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes. I think it helped that I quite quickly saw it as a morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show. With that mindset, the possibly-underwhelming finale of S1 is much more effectiv…

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.

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

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Post by kortex »

st1x7 wrote: post #418
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.

> Rust Man, so many features and the syntax is so heavily annotated and the subjective feeling that everything you interact with is some vaguely defined overcomplicated computer science concept ("what you get back from this function is not a vector but an immutable future-closure-trait-promise-with-sprinkles, you must be familiar with those already"). Not a critcism towards the language, I'm sure that it would make m…

> It doesn't seem like a language that you can just dip your toes in, you need to go deep to see the benefits.

It really is. Hence why I list it as living up to the hype, you really have to buy in to it to "get" the hype.

There needs to be a corpus of different skill levels of Rust programs to study, not just intro snippets.

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

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Post by _jcrossley »

implements wrote: post #405
paulnechifor wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started watching The Wire recently expecting a very dry show that's difficult to understand but I found it gripping from the start. The characters felt real and the world very fucked up and interesting. Season 2 was good, but I didn't understand why they kept the drug dealers plot on ice. It seemed like filler. By season 3 it turned into every other TV show where characters are just tools used to express a story ra…

Season 4 is arguably the best bit of television drama, ever - it’s a masterpiece.

Agreed, 4 is my favorite. Then maybe 2,1,3,5. Enormous fan here

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

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Post by albertgoeswoof »

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…

It sounds great- but do you trust google not to shut it down, increase the price or embed a bunch of ads everywhere?

You can’t take the games out (or resell them) so it’s a hard sell for me.

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

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Post by chrisfinne »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #478
mtberatwork wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. LeBron is definitely the best of his era but he's not touching Jordan in terms of greatest player of all time, even if he does pull off two more championships. During the 90s, Jordan was as close to a demi-god in the sports world as you could get.

The Greatest Of All Time isn't Jordan; it's Bill Russell. 11 championships - nearly twice what Jordan has.

I knew someone would know the real answer!

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

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Post by chrisfinne »

apengwin wrote: post #3

LeBron James was touted as the Next Great Hope for basketball, was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at age 17, and his high school games were televised on ESPN. Since then he's won 4 NBA championships, opened a school in his hometown, and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.

Not even close to Bill Russell.

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

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Post by drosan »

izacus wrote: post #283
cowmix wrote: post #204

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Yeah, it like someone went two years into the future and brought back this chip. As a Chromebook fan (and I used one as my daily driver), it seems like Apple has out-Chromebooked all Chromebooks with the M1 MBA. Unless AMD or Qualcomm pulls a rabbit out of their collective hats in the next 6 months, the MBA will be my next laptop.

You can usually buy 2-3 Chromebooks for the same price point, how are those two even comparable?

New Macbook Air outperforms 2019 macbook pro with i7 and 16gb ram easily. Judging not by benchmarks but with just plain work and usage :)

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

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Post by syockit »

cercatrova wrote: post #702
impish19 wrote: post #606

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You don't really own the games however, it relinquishes user control. If that's fine to you then sure, but I don't want to play games as a service, I just want to play them on my own hardware with minimal latency.

People used to go to the arcade parlour to play coin-op games. In one perspective, that was also games-as-a-service.

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

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Post by halvo »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #763
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…

I just went down a rabbit hole of streaming for a couple of hours. I tried out Stadia, Moonlight, and GeForce Now. I want is a service that: * Lets me play my existing library of games (what I own on Steam, Origin, Battle.net) * Has League of Legends * Streams in 1440p 144fps I haven't found anything that does this.

Moonlight will do this except for 144hz, trick is to 'stream' your entire desktop[1], allowing you to access any game/launcher regardless if nvidia detects a game or not.

[1] https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setu...

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