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My Dad was an ROV technician for a brief period in the early 2000s, he got made redundant in early 2002 just after 9/11, and the dot com bubble bursting. On his last of the only two trips he made, he was based in Recife in northern Brazil. The ship was just there, on call, ready to respond to any breakages. My Mum, sister, and I were lucky enough to be flown out to Brazil for Christmas 2001, and it's something I'll n…
I think I would love the article but the presentation makes it necessary hard to enjoy.
Do read it. It's a well written and also very affecting insight into the lives of people doing essential work under difficult conditions.
I stopped after the first 3 slides, since the information density is too low and the animation too slow.
> the information density is too low You failed the marshmallow test [1]. There is a traditional, long-form article that presents a rewarding read. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...
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It’s not a random article. It’s been upvoted to the HN front page. > if JumpCrisscross explicitly told the reader that there would be a guaranteed mind-blowing insight payoff at the end I literally said it’s “a rewarding read.”
> It’s not a random article. It’s been upvoted to the HN front page. Time is precious, and I choose not to waste mine on the unnecessarily slow consumption of annoyingly-formatted articles. I came across this hypothesis recently: "A lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI, it’s just nice to consume high-quality internet content without ads or whacky custom formatting."[0] [0] https://x.com/maiab/status/1…
It's also longer than 160 characters, so no matter how it's presented it would still be a waste of time innit?
I stopped after the first 3 slides, since the information density is too low and the animation too slow.
> the information density is too low You failed the marshmallow test [1]. There is a traditional, long-form article that presents a rewarding read. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...
I closed the page at "from banks to government to TikTok", of all the glorious applications of a world wide network, the most glaring is teenagers making dance videos.
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Marshmallow test assumes the payoff exists and is worth it. Does it? Is it? IDK and I don't want to waste time finding out. I'm far more interested in information-dense sources that let me find out if I want to know what it's offering. That's why journal articles have abstracts.
> Does it? Is it? IDK and I don't want to waste time finding out This is what goes through the toddlers’ heads too! Gauging credibility is inextricably entangled with patience and Kahmeman’s System 2 thinking [1][2]. If this were a random article, sure, you shouldn’t trust. But it’s not. It’s on HN ’s front page. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730121/ [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_F…
I guess I am biased to like the article including it's presentation, since I spent 6 years as a technical diver fixing underwater hydraulics and electrical systems, but at much shallower depths than the undersea cables. A buddy of mine is an ROV operator for pipe-laying ships. Cool stuff, big stuff, and lots of crazy stuff involved (seeing weird, unidentifiable living creatures quickly and blurrily cross in front of…
This also describes me pretty well. I was trained as a merchant ship's deck officer but opted to not go to sea as a career. Instead, I've spent my career building embedded systems. Every so often, I build a desktop app or a web application, but it lacks the satisfaction of being able to touch the hardware and actually watch my code affect something in the physical world.
I think I would love the article but the presentation makes it necessary hard to enjoy.
I actually loved the presentation of it, kudos to whichever team collaborated on it!
I read the article over 3 devices and scrolling can get pretty buggy.
I guess I am biased to like the article including it's presentation, since I spent 6 years as a technical diver fixing underwater hydraulics and electrical systems, but at much shallower depths than the undersea cables. A buddy of mine is an ROV operator for pipe-laying ships. Cool stuff, big stuff, and lots of crazy stuff involved (seeing weird, unidentifiable living creatures quickly and blurrily cross in front of…
What sort of shows were these that you worked on as a technical diver? Is this a Seaworld-type of situation? But not sure why they would need underwater lifts.