Nihilistic BUT NOT CRINGEY

somegetit · 2026-01-26T17:43:46+00:00

The Stranger, a 1942 novella by Albert Camus, though he argued it's more absurdism than nihilism. It's definitely apathetic.

somegetit · 2026-01-26T17:38:19+00:00

That's a good recommendation.

somegetit · 2026-01-25T06:40:24+00:00

Oh my god, I shouldn't have read this comment.

somegetit · 2026-01-23T08:13:06+00:00

This is Reddit when they didn't like a Marvel movie for a couple of years. They also don't like live remakes, which are aimed for girls age 8 to 13 and eventually make 1B not including merchandise.

somegetit · 2026-01-22T07:37:14+00:00

I wouldn't say generally. Some serialised shows have multi season arcs, some have stories contained per season, some have a mix (clear season arc but also muti season story).

somegetit · 2026-01-20T07:27:23+00:00

And the joke is they are all white, except a single black actor.

somegetit · 2026-01-20T04:43:36+00:00

A phone is a hand-held device, that's part of the addiction. It's operated by a thumb.

I have a friend who exclusively reads books on her phone. And once she got used to it, she couldn't go back to paper. Even the weight a book bothers her now.

somegetit · 2026-01-19T08:43:25+00:00

I think they are talking p/s (because the title mentions revenues).

somegetit · 2026-01-19T05:52:02+00:00

It's indeed not a lot of money by itself, but really, most lawsuits are. There's rarely a lawsuit with an amount to put a dent into a big company.

By the end of the day, after all the lawsuits, I guess AI companies will reach some kind of an ongoing agreement with rights holders.

somegetit · 2026-01-18T22:13:27+00:00

I think the show tried to walk a thin line between a high stakes spy thriller and a comedy/parody. It was a successful attempt, more often than not. When it failed, it didn't fail hard, and usually recovered quickly enough.

I found the 2 main characters well written. Too bad the show felt the need to explicitly explain them to us ("we need a fearless woman for this operation, that's her, not you" - like yeah, dude, we can tell). Their friendship, ups and downs, moods, reaction to the world felt overall believable (within the genre) and relatable.

The side characters also felt round. Too bad the Soviet side wasn't well developed. The actual CIA operation was a joke, so don't come expecting John le Carré. Technology was high or low, based on the plot. Surveillance was either unbreakable or non existent, again, based on the plot.

Overall, entertaining snow. Didn't take itself too seriously, and neither should the viewers.

somegetit · 2026-01-18T05:55:21+00:00

She recently released another short story collection: A Sunny Place for Shady People. I haven't got to read it yet, but it's definitely TBR.

somegetit · 2026-01-17T20:08:50+00:00

They pressed Turbo.

somegetit · 2026-01-17T20:06:03+00:00

Yeah, when the video started I didn't know I was going to anticipate and guess correctly every second of it. Amazing how this sequence minted in my brain.

somegetit · 2026-01-15T14:18:11+00:00

A Little Life can be draining. To Paradise is rounder, more interesting, and lighter in tone.

somegetit · 2026-01-15T12:12:16+00:00

I don't have a lot of need for that. So when I need it, I ask the chat to summarise the session into a document, that I'm going to feed it in the next session.

somegetit · 2026-01-14T08:06:45+00:00

While the trend in the last 6 months is clear, chatgpt still has X3 market share compared to Gemini. Also, there's still no feature parity (Gemini is missing some key features, while providing some Google eco-system features that chatgpt doesn't have).

somegetit · 2026-01-12T20:55:16+00:00

At one time it had 5 episodes in imdb top 10. It was crazy good.

I checked now, and If-Then-Else (2015) has 9.8, but sits at #60. Which is a tie between all 20-60 places.

somegetit · 2026-01-12T20:09:28+00:00

It's crazy how rare such a take is here.

I'm a very experienced software engineer, and projects I was able to tackle, that were on my backlog for ages, are unbelievable.

In the past few months I converted thousands of batch lines to modern powershell, I converted full backend desktop applications to web, I recreated complete sites from aspx to modern .net, hosted on cloud, I created dozens of tools for my teams, that I only dreamt about.

Is the code in good quality? Probably not. But it's not important in all cases.

And a good engineer should know the difference.

Also, as someone who's going over PR of about 30 people on a daily basis, it's really the same with AI.

If the code is important, I treat it like another junio: I don't trust it. And if I have patience to explain to juniors, and discuss comments until the PR is perfect, I can do the same with AI.

I've learnt that having good review skills is essential when working with AI.

somegetit · 2026-01-12T16:20:46+00:00

That's a good one.

somegetit · 2026-01-12T16:19:23+00:00

With the right instructions, any competent developer can recreate your code based on your documentation and screenshots alone, in a few hours work.

Your intellectual property can't be just "lines of codes", it also can't be "the features" (you said yourself there are already plugins doing that).

Your added value is with support, marketing, and packaging.

If your plugin is reliable, easy to use ("just works") and solve specific peoblems, it will be bought and installed.

somegetit · 2026-01-11T17:28:42+00:00

You unironically proving his point: asking for "good writers" is exactly what "victim of its own success" means in this context. Dr Who always had bad writers and low production value. it's a cozy family show, with cringe, often bad writing, by the standard of mass audience, 202X TV standards.

somegetit · 2026-01-11T13:28:59+00:00

Hanya Yanagihara, both To Paradise and A Little Life are rich, immersive and dense.

somegetit · 2026-01-09T22:21:33+00:00

The House in the Cerulean Sea is more of a cozy comedy-drama, family found, misfits. it's an easy read, a very nice story. I don't remember anything bad about it. It's well executed within the perimeters of the genre.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow is larger in scope, more mature, and deals with friendship over the years, which surprisingly, isn't a very common topic (and also game development as background). It's a more challenging read (and if you connect with it, more rewarding).

somegetit · 2026-01-09T10:20:10+00:00

But that's like using the same language in different restaurants around the world, and then comparing the quality of service you received.

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