SteveDR's comments

On: Responses to unicycling

[SteveDR]

He’s 33 but thank you for saying so

[LeifCarrotson → SteveDR]

Still counts.

[dtgriscom → SteveDR]

... does that preclude his being in Junior High?

[underdeserver → SteveDR]

r/notopbutok ?

On: Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial ...

[SteveDR]

Would feel similar if they weren’t the absolute worst in terms of privacy. And if they didn’t buy out the best VR commercial tech and tie it to FB. Can’t use the Quest or Raybans headsets without logging in to the panopticon.

[phyrex → SteveDR]

Yes you can

On: I made a website to share rejection letters

[SteveDR]

I applied to some internships to 2 huge consulting firms everyone knows, got denied, and I wasn’t able to fill out able to apply to full time roles with the same email address a year later

On: Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)

[SteveDR]

I believe the parent comment is aware of your first point

On: You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. ...

[SteveDR]

That kind of defeats the point of the metaphor. At that point just say the system is rigged.

[KittenInABox → SteveDR]

It is rigged.

On: VanJS – A no-JSX framework based on vanilla JavaSc...

[SteveDR]

> Look at this as someone completing the exercise to understand reactive frameworks by implementing a toy implementation

I don’t think that’s the intention of the author or the person who posted this or the people who voted it to the top of HN

On: Good times create weak men (2019)

[SteveDR]

What?

On: Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpret...

[SteveDR]

Wouldn’t the spam calls be pretty minimal if they make it known that they will not provide support to non-ASL callers?

On: How too much daydreaming affected me

[SteveDR]

My tool for this kind of problem in my own life has been writing lyrics / poetry. Poetry is nice because you don’t need to close any loops or structure a beginning, middle, and end. You just drop in, spit up some words that convey the core thought, and leave.

On: YouTube, the jewel of the internet

[SteveDR]

I use a second account to watch videos that i think will muck with my recommendations in any way I don’t like. Comedy, political news, music videos, etc… it’s nice to have a separate feed that gets my taste in these things without distracting my main algorithm from focusing on my deeper interests