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with climate change, the jokes on them


aws and python’s boto3 for me with some elixir at home for fun



I, for one, am glad you are recovering.


Is this related to this recent finding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16237026


so what?


Then why do they exist? They are there to persuade public opinion, right?


They're there to criticize.

A movie about two guys kicking each other in the balls for an entire hour might become very popular with the public. But it's shallow, repetitive, and with no actual redeeming qualities.

The quality of something has only a small influence in its popularity. Critics are there to evaluate quality.


That's a pretty good point - sounds like the movie Jackass, which did pretty well across the board, critics and users alike.


I think this is why remixes exist. For me, I often find the interpretations of others' works sometimes more interesting than the original - this is within music as well as other fields like art in the form of painting/drawing.


I feel like your word "devolved" would be better served by "evolved" :)


Haha, yeah. It has not born much fruit yet, so it still feels like a bit of a loss, except I did learn a lot by doing.


that someone is Brendan Gregg! He's awesome! http://www.brendangregg.com/


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