waiseristy

Break the cycle how? Every time one of these threads come up I suggest buying a domestic full size 90’s truck instead and nobody gives a shit. The only things that gain traction in these threads is people shitting on their cultural enemies. Because Truck People bad!!

Maybe you can help break the cycle by looking at the huge used truck market we already have

These HN threads about trucks are amazing. It’s like watching the same movie over and over again

* Kei trucks are the coolest. Big gubment is making it so we can’t register them due to protectionism!

* Chicken tax chicken tax chicken tax

* Big trucks cause more crashes because reasons!

* Trucks are just lifestyle vehicles and nobody actually needs or uses them

Over and over and over again

They already have the form factor, it’s called a Toyota Tacoma and Ford Ranger. They are bigger than Kei trucks because they have actual safety features.

> You can do the job of a $50,000 pickup using a machine that is half the size of a Honda Civic

No you can’t

The author mentions not wanting a Ranger or Tacoma, but I still think those are better options especially considering the drivers position…

Even better is a 80’s/90’s full size 2 door pickup. Same size as a modern Tacoma/Ranger, but with payloads comparable to todays F250’s. Throw in working AC, airbags, and a wealth of cheap replacement parts and it’s a no-brainer

Threads was on the front page for an entire day or two. A sizable percentage of the entire lifetime of the App.

Twitter and Musks other ill-adventures will continue to dominate HN though. Zuckerberg is not part of the HN in-crowd and will draw about as much water as his other services.

Had this same thought. Our own eyeballs distort how we see the world.

Lemme modify the writers words for you to more accurately describe the phenomena : “I suspect it’s easier to teach a good waitress to be a writer than an intellectual to be a good waiter.”

Being excellent at balancing a stressful, fast paced, work environment applies to many jobs. But being excellent at being an “intellectual” whatever the hell that even means (writers? Programmers?), does not really apply to very many jobs.

You could also replace the phrase “hold accountable” with “micromanage” and be just as accurate.

If you hire slackers, be prepared to be amazed at how much work they’ll do to bypass your micromanaging. It’s a race to the bottom

By entire industry I mean web developers, which is a cohort that usually has more non-traditional educations and tends to think in a async mental model.

What you explained happens in Germany is pretty par for the course in the US as well for CS degrees. But even then, why the hell are we throwing a book of data structures at students? You don’t give an apprentice framer a nail gun and say “go at it!”. They’ll destroy everything. You give them a hammer and educate them when they start to complain of smashed thumbs

Great for solving the typical problems encountered in a web browser.

But a real fucked up mental model to bake into an entire industry’s worth of developers

C++, OOP, and whatever crazy async shit is going on in JS ruined the conceptual model of “code” for going on 2 generations of programmers.

We do students a disservice teaching them how to “code” first. And not instead how to solve problems with code

Otherwise known as “your CS degree has shockingly little to do with this god forsaken login page we’re designing”

I’ve had so many long conversations with early-mid career developers that the stupid code being written will have a shelf life about as long as a head of lettuce. And that the “best” solution is typically the simplest, shortest, and can be written the quickest.

> For wheat and soybean crops, in terms of yield the median negative impacts are fully compensated, and rice crops recoup up to 90 percent and maize up to 60 percent of their losses.

That’s quite a buried lede. At best it evens out all the bad effects

I honestly don’t know how to reconcile our worldviews here, and I envy your optimism. But “just wingin it” isn’t what brings about good change. Those with curious and analytical eyes should see that our actions vis a vis climate change and other things have consequences. Good or bad, who really knows. But why are we committing ourselves before knowing?

Seems pretty dumb