This lament about the superficiality of publicly oriented endeavors is interesting cause this guy's life is inseparable from meta commentary. "George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), known online by geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur,[1] and software engineer. He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks,[2][3] reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against hi…
I'll leave this here, although it 404s now: http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/
Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you ever saw this guy program you know he's very competent so IMHO that reflects badly on twitter, tbh.
I think the more likely explanation is that he's just not as familiar with frontend web development and react, so he underestimated the difficulty. He was asking for help on Twitter for how to make pills inside of a text field. His failure was caused by a knowledge check rather than a skill check.
> His failure was caused by a knowledge check rather than a skill check.
whats the difference w/r/t programming? in this case I'd argue the knowledge was the skill
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
What public stunts? He jailbroke a console, it's not like he went on a talk show.
dude was cracking iphones for the glory and lulz as much as for practical access reasons lots of folks be working on exploits and jailbreaks who, as a rule, STFU 100% OpSec 100% of the time "the real, scary hitmen aren't the ones bragging about it"
Unlike murder, finding an exploit isn't illegal.
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#174> I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person. I’ve long described dating apps as “distilling an entire person into a few curated photos and a snippet of text”. In all dating app profile advice I’ve ever seen, creativity, personality, and anything against the grain is highly discouraged. No wonder they barely work.
i'd argue against that point to a degree. going against the grain does work, if you know who you're looking for and can send the right signals accordingly
it's that okcupid data about how the highly tattoo'd people tended to get the most negative responses, but also very strong responses from other seriously tat'd people
fly a flag, signal theory, etc.
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#175> Oh god people actually go on a hinge date to axe throwing and think it’s the real world. Hinge dates and axe throwing are not my world. I also didn't go to pop band concerts and meat market bars in the olden times. I don't judge the people who did, at least now I don't.
> Oh god people actually go on a hinge date to axe throwing and think it’s the real world. My experience with dating apps was mostly awful, but then I met my wife on one. Now we’re happily married with 3 kids. Axe throwing is just a business fad like so many before it. This started long before the internet. Pinball arcades, video game arcades, tanning salons, self storage, frozen yogurt. The list goes on and on. Not…
Every trend has a period where it’s new, and you can either enjoy it or ignore it. And a peak where it’s hard to ignore it, but you can opt out and it’s not too annoying. And then there’s the post-peak when it’s no longer new and shiny, the limitations are obvious, and it’s kind of annoying/cringe to be asked to participate in it (as if it’s something new and exciting) because it’s clearly passé.
This goes for dances, food trends, activities, apps, etc.
Some of these cycles are generational, some of them last only weeks or months. It’s just how we are.
These days there’s the added factor that the world has been culturally “flattened” and it’s hard to escape sameness with distance. It’s tough times for the easily bored, you really have to branch out into unusual niches to find anything of interest.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
> think he's god's gift to programming and everyone whose work he disagrees with are losers If he thinks like that (I don’t know him), he needs to limit the scope of what he works on to projects he can accomplish completely on his own.
The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good. Does this mean everything he does or says is right? absolutely not, sometimes its myopic and tunnel-vision induced with a smidgen of good points hidden within. Does he come across as 'off' to some people? a slight god-complex? is he likely hardcore autistic and…
> The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good.
I don’t know the guy, but if what the person replied to is correct about how he views himself and people who disagree with him, it doesn’t matter how good he is. You don’t want to be on a team with that. You don’t want to hire that guy. It’s not worth it. Let him make something on his own and sell it to you. Or let him grow up a bit.
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#177homeboy lived inside of tech-bro-capitalism since he was 19 and is now realizing it's hollow, but hasn't been forced to live outside of that bubble. some kernels of truth but it feels like he doesn't need AI or tattoos, he needs a therapist
Honestly, picking up some shifts at a local coffee shop might help. Or doing some fine arts night classes.
Or if he's lucky enough not to need to worry about money for a while, then spend half a year doing Peace Corps or some sort of voluntourism project. Walk the Camino de Santiago or the Appalachian Trail. Spend a week in the second-largest city of every country in Africa, in reverse alphabetical order. Whatever.
His current situation isn't making him happy. So try something very different for a while, get some perspective, then reassess.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am a similar age to Geohot and I have tried to escape smartphones to a dumb phone. It didn’t work. So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. • Surface parking in my city is all by QR code. Where there are machines, they are broken because no one cares. • Social groups are on iMessage or RCS. RCS is not nearly as backwards compatible with MMS as it seems and you…
>So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. Have you considered using a GNU/Linux phone (Librem 5 or Pinephone)? There is no dependence on a megacorp and QR codes work fine. Some services might redirect you to a web app if you show them such phone.
A committed Windows user who just noted they depend on iMessages probably isn't a great prospect for your proselytizing, anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855086
I've previously tried living out of a PinePhone Pro, and if those web apps require much JS at all they're going to be in for a bad time. By benchmarks and your previous accounts, it sounds like the Librem 5 is only going to be worse from there.
But you nod towards a useful point there at the end. I've found I don't need to present ancient hardware to get some entities to provide web apps or other means, I just say something handwavy about my phone being locked down by my employer's IT policy, neglecting to mention that I'm my employer. Bigger orgs aren't worth bothering with, though. You could show an airline an employee a flip phone and they aren't going to have any flexibility on the matter.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
>So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. Have you considered using a GNU/Linux phone (Librem 5 or Pinephone)? There is no dependence on a megacorp and QR codes work fine. Some services might redirect you to a web app if you show them such phone.
A committed Windows user who just noted they depend on iMessages probably isn't a great prospect for your proselytizing, anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855086 I've previously tried living out of a PinePhone Pro, and if those web apps require much JS at all they're going to be in for a bad time. By benchmarks and your previous accounts, it sounds like the Librem 5 is only going to be worse from there.…
> A committed Windows user who just noted they depend on iMessages probably isn't a great prospect for your proselytizing, anyway
Thank you for your advice, but if you've been following the recent trends, more and more committed Windows users are switching to Linux. Especially among the technical audience that comments on HN. Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548437, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614197, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995030. Concerning the iMessage, there is nothing one can do here: It's a well-designed walled garden. You either embrace it or leave.
Yes, JS-heavy websites are a nightmare for most non-recent hardware. Nobody promised you that you won't have to make any compromises to fight for your freedom though.
> my phone being locked down by my employer's IT policy
This is basically lying, whereas I truly own a legitimate smartphone which they do not support - and they have to respond somehow.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
dude was cracking iphones for the glory and lulz as much as for practical access reasons lots of folks be working on exploits and jailbreaks who, as a rule, STFU 100% OpSec 100% of the time "the real, scary hitmen aren't the ones bragging about it"
Unlike murder, finding an exploit isn't illegal.
tell that to sony, who definitely sued his ass