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Time and risk of comments/docs becoming outdated and doing more harm than good.

I'm impartial in this discussion but that's usually how the counter argument goes.

It's relatively easy. macOS is easier to set up than Linux, but it will always depend on your specific needs and environment.

E.g.: I go a little bit overboard for the average macOS user:

- custom system- and app-specific keyboard mappings (ultra-modifier on caps-lock; custom tabbing-key-modifier) via Karabiner Elements

- custom trackpad mappings via BetterTouchTool

- custom Time Machine schedule and backup logic; you can vibe-code your install script once and re-use it in the future; just make it idempotent

- custom quake-like Terminal via iTerm

- shell customizations

- custom Alfred workflows

- etc.

If all you need is just a sensible package manager and the terminal to get started, just set up Time Machine with default settings, Homebrew, your shell, and optionally iTerm2, and you're good to go. Other noteworthy power-user tools:

- Hammerspoon

- Syncthing / Resilio Sync

- Arq. Naturally, the usual backup tools also run on macOS: Borg, Kopia, etc.

- Affinity suite for image processing

- Keyshape for animations on web, mobile, etc.

It's important to differentiate between tail-recursive functions and non-tail-recursive functions. Compilers will often convert tail-recursive functions into their iterative counterparts. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call

In contrast, non-tail-recursive functions will make the call stack grow with each call.

Okay, I'll bite.

1. What is your definition of 'professional tools'?

2. What does Apple need to do to make Macs 'real' professional tools?

It's a cancelable 2-months trial. A lot of HN users already integrated ChatGPT into their fault workflow and daily life and it makes only sense to give a potentially better competitor a try considering how easy it is to jump between ChatGPT and Gemini.

I'm also not a lawyer but AFAIK it often boils down to intent. You could argue that he tried to deceive someone with it.

Samsung improved it's update process (and probably pipeline?) dramatically in the past years[1] and the software became much better and more polished.

I received the Android 13 update in November and less than two weeks later another security update. This indicates to me that they roll out updates as fast as possible. Normally I get the monthly security update in the first half of the month.

EDIT: I should probably mention that I usually only buy Samsung's flagships but the midrange device are getting the same treatment AFAIK.

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/02/22/samsung-solidifies-...

This is the equivalent of telling people “why are you working at a job, why don’t you work on hobby projects instead”

This is literally what people do sometimes. I released two decently successful freemium apps and get regularly one-liners in reviews and e-mails like this:

- 3/5* Good app! Please make it free.

- 1/5* Bad app! Feature XYZ costs money and I won't buy PRO [~4USD] just for it.

- 1/5* Make it fully free and I will give you 5 stars!

- Please send me your source code.

HN posts and comments aren't that impudent but it's unfortunately often the same lack of perspective. You'll read here walls of text about how the web nowadays sucks because of ads and tracking without any consideration of the fact that publishers rely on this form of monetization. The most popular "solution" here is just blocking ads via pi-hole etc. and creates a good example for the tragedy of the commons[1]. It becomes an arms race between ad-blockers and ad-providers and makes everything even worse. This makes the appeal to stop using medium even more ironic. Medium is at least trying to create a sustainable online publishing platform that doesn't need classical online ads to survive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

I suspect that the illusion/gif is ambiguous because it's made of just two repeating frames. A "smooth" version of it with more frames would reveal the real direction of the train.

Count me in! When is our next meeting? Joke aside, I also don't like this binary distinction because I find myself on both sides of the scale. Reading the comments here makes me think that there's probably a lot of unnecessary tribalism (we vs them), confirmation bias and overgeneralization that makes discussing this topic harder than it already is.

What does it mean to you to be extroverted or what kind of benefits do you want to achieve by emulating this trait(s)?

Personally, I really don't like this differentiation between introverts and extroverts because I don't see where I fit in on this scale. Reducing so many hard to define traits like empathy, compassion, charisma, social competence, emotional intelligence, etc. and all kind of personal experiences and habits to a single binary label doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Are you an introvert if you don't like to be around most people in your current environment but can't stop talking for hours when you're around people that you actually like?

Do you become introvert after an unfortunate series of events, which create serious trust issues and result in you staying at home more often instead of constantly going out like in the past?

Are you an extrovert when you can't be alone because then you will experiences constant FOMO, can't stop yourself from ruminating or need constant approvement from others and socializing whenever you can is your only coping mechanism.

Are you a real extrovert if you get along really good with a lot of strangers on a daily basis as part of your job but prefer to spend most of your free time alone reading, painting etc.?

Sometimes it looks almost like a self-fullfilling-prophecy when someone labels themself this way.

Yes, you can find it at chrome://settings/searchEngines

I differentiate between "Flow" and "Mindfulness". Mindfulness can help you to achieve Flow much easier but that's more a side-effect.

IMHO:

-> Mindfulness is "constant emotional self-awareness". It's a skill that enables you to being aware of your emotions and state of mind while experiencing your day to day life. This sounds ridiculous until you realize that most people aren't aware of how emotions influence their rational decision-making. We can easily see how others become temporary irrational for emotional reasons but somehow we also try to denial that the same happens to us on a regular basis. A mindful person is in a way constantly calling theirself out in their mind (e.g. "I'm currently overenthusiastic/angry/anxious/etc. because of ...")

-> I think of "Flow" as a state of mind. It can be achieved by doing something that creates a positive feedback loop with challenges and achievements. This series of challenges can be of physical/cognitive/etc. nature but needs to be always of the right difficulty level. Too hard tasks will make you feel overwhelmed while easy tasks create boredom. Both extremes will make you lose your focus and/or motivation and that's where mindfulness can be helpful. Once you become aware of the problem, you can adjust the difficulty level by adjusting the difficulty with better goal-setting and other productivity tricks. Hit the sweet spot multiple times in a row and you achieve Flow.

1. I'm sorry if you misunderstood me and think that I'm downplaying his work in this field. But I'm also kindly asking you to not just argue with appeal to authority [1].

2. Why do you think that I rule out that I'm not biased? If you read my other comment [2], I actually want to finish this book someday to challenge my assumptions and because his critique seemed reasonable! Unfortunately this book seems to paint an incomplete picture of my reality. The economy in my country should be totally unstable because of its regulations according to his views in this book but that's not the case. I want to understand the whole picture and this book falls short of doing it.

3. Why do you think that I'm generally in favor of regulations? It's simply not all black and white.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24041550

I know in some European countries and his claims seemed to clash with what I knew.

To be precisely, I would say his conclusions and the lack of other perspectives clashes with what I know about economy in European countries because I see how his reasoning makes sense in a vacuum.

I wouldn't dismiss the book just because of that, but it did make the lecture rather difficult because it was challenging my assumptions and knowledge quite strongly. I guess that's good :-)

Exactly. I want to finish it someday for that exact reason.

I like Ha-Joon Chang's "Economics: The User's Guide" as an introduction to economics. It's understandable, it has plenty of references and is written in a pleasant tone.

Thanks!

Am I the only one here who thinks that "Basic Economics" is overrated? I loved the first chapters but I didn't finish it because of his obvious bias against regulations. While I enjoyed his analyses of failed regulations, the book makes it seem like there're no successful market regulation laws in place and every attempt is doomed to be short-sighted like all his examples. This [1] review on Amazon from someone else expresses my concerns in more detail.

Can someone recommend me an alternative book, that at least tries to be a little bit more well-balanced? I'll probably finish this book for the conservative perspective anyway but it doesn't seem like a good starting point despite its name.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/gp/customer-reviews/RTG2TIDQB6AJI/ref=...