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Re: Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

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Post by mrkeen »

I'm grateful for all the academics/researchers who figure things so that we craftsmen don't have to. I can feel smart about having a basic understanding of Paxos, Hindley-Milner, Lambda calculus, etc. But there's no way I would have ever invented/discovered them, let alone prove their properties or formalise them.

We (in industry) only have the possibility of saying things like "don't bother with a degree, just do a bootcamp or teach yourself" because of all the heavy lifting that researchers have done.

Re: Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

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Post by rdegges »

baobaba wrote: post #36

A small neighbourhood bakery with a large diesel generator in Lviv that stayed open every day since the war in Ukraine started. Even during complete power blackouts they stayed open, brewed coffee, baked croissants, and let everyone charge their devices. Nowadays it's overrun with programmers like me as it's a reliable source of power and internet. My small Bluetti EB70 that lets me take hot showers when Russians lau…

Hang in there, buddy.

Re: Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

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Post by mikewarot »

I'm not appreciative enough, but I'm grateful for the warm technological blanket into which I was born and have lived. There are so many things that would have killed me 100 or 1000 years ago, that I and my family haven't had to deal with.

I'm grateful for this community, for DanG and the others who keep it moderated and running.

I'm grateful for the internet, and BBSs before that, and Printing, writing, language, all of the tech...sooooo much tech.

Re: Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

CrypticShift wrote: post #47

I'm grateful for being able to be (genuinely) grateful. Seriously. Every time I see people who could not help themselves being so thankless/unmindful/ungrateful, I'm grateful for being able to be in a grateful state of mind and Act accordingly.

"If you can't find joy in snow, you have less joy, but still the same amount of snow" - meme my wife saw today. Whether or not you're grateful doesn't change your circumstances, but it does change how you feel about your circumstances.

I'm a "glass half empty" person. I find it easier to complain than to be thankful. I need to work on that...

Re: Ask HN: What are you grateful for?

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Post by CrypticShift »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #48
CrypticShift wrote: post #47

I'm grateful for being able to be (genuinely) grateful. Seriously. Every time I see people who could not help themselves being so thankless/unmindful/ungrateful, I'm grateful for being able to be in a grateful state of mind and Act accordingly.

"If you can't find joy in snow, you have less joy, but still the same amount of snow" - meme my wife saw today. Whether or not you're grateful doesn't change your circumstances, but it does change how you feel about your circumstances. I'm a "glass half empty" person. I find it easier to complain than to be thankful. I need to work on that...

You can still be gratefull for being able to be mindfull of your (slips of) "ungratefulness" (and seeing the need to work on it)

Mindfulness is key.

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