sarks_nz

Distribution of art (particularly digital) is a recent phenomenon. Prior to that, art in human history was one-off. Are we just going back to that time?

Similarly with music, prior to recording tech, live performance was where it was at.

You could look at the digital era as a weird blip in art history.

Yep. They forget there are all sorts of "families" and some are very dysfunctional.

I did Kyokushin karate to Shodan. The board we broke were solid pine boards. They are definitely not "cut". My technique was a little off, and I wrecked my knuckles for months. They ended up permanently moved.

So maybe all karate isn't equal.

My only advice is (to quote Arnold Schwarzenegger) is to be useful. To yourself, your wife, family, pets, friends, job (people), hobby groups, community.

Produce things/knowledge using your skills (present and future skills) that others need/want but can't produce for themselves.

"Having kids is the greatest thing you will ever do" is a binary "True" in a probabilistic world, so almost guaranteed to be wrong for a large number of cases.

Having kids is not for everyone, and even for those people who have them, as probabilities dictate, might be the worst thing you will ever do and everything in between.

This is my experience too. I hadn't been rejected from a job since starting work in the late 90s. Significant experience from coding (which I still do) to startup exec level. Multiple "it came down to you and one other" situations.

Jobs are in short supply, applicants are numerous. Most interviews are also with managers 10 years younger than I am which may be a compounding factor. That's not an issue for me, but I think it's easier for them to hire someone of a similar age.

I just got "Slay the Spire", a deck-building, casual, rogue-like and it's awesome. Can play a little or a lot at a sitting :-)

+1

I love Siri with Apple Maps in New Zealand /s

Me: "Siri, give me directions to vaguely ethnic sounding café" where café is about 2km away.

Siri: "Getting directions to other cafe in London/Europe/Tajikistan".

So theres no line of code that says "If found location if >2000kms away with no direct land route and/or crosses multiple continents, it might not be the right one"

Google Maps and voice works pretty flawlessly.

"Let’s go to bed and try again tomorrow" sounds like the epitome of being human to me. My new mantra.

In New Zealand, Apple Maps is the worst kind of useless, especially when paired with Siri. The Dumb and Dumber of the tech world.

If I ask directions for a cafe within a 5km radius, either of these scenarios will occur: 1. Siri won't understand. Eg: Shelly Bay Bakery -> Directions to Shelly Bay. 2. Siri will understand and direct me to a cafe approximately 10,000 kms away, and then refuse to find me a suitable route.

Google Maps just works.

Long time laptop user. 2012 macbooks were solid. Just worked, never thought about them much.

The 2017-18 macbook pros (touchbar) were complete rubbish. Everything was rubbish. Keyboards. Heat. Battery. Processors.

The M1s are gods gift to developers. By far the best laptop I've used, and I don't see how anyone else can catch up

I found microservices had the benefit of increasing release cadence and decreasing merge conflicts.

Are there complications? Sure. Are they manageable? Relatively easily with correct tooling. Do microservices (with container management) allow you better use of your expensive cloud resources? That was our experience, and a primary motivator.

I also feel they increase developer autonomy, which is very valuable IMO.