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Re: What happened to the first cryogenically frozen hu...
In case it's insightful, I've correspondingly never understood the common contentment with death. The world is an incredible place, and there's so much to experience and do. If I had the time there's hundreds of careers I could spend a lifetime in each trying to develop mastery. I think I could live a thousand lives with the people I care about and not be done. I've had to choose one life, and it's a nice one, but if it wasn't for some limit forced upon me, if it was really my choice, then there's a lot more I'd like to do.
I suspect in hundreds or thousands of years we'll look back at age-related death culturally the same way we look at infant mortality during the medieval ages: commonly accepted as part of life at the time, but unnecessary and completely solvable in retrospective.
I think fear is the wrong word per-say. If it's something I can't change, that's fine. But if there's an avenue to change it, even if unlikely, why not try?
chrisfosterelli, 13 hours ago
In case it's insightful, I've correspondingly never understood the common contentment with death. The world is an incredible place, and there's so much to experience and do. If I had the time there's hundreds of careers I could spend a lifetime in each trying to develop mastery. I think I could live a thousand lives with the people I care about and not be done. I've had to choose one life, and it's a nice one, but if it wasn't for some limit forced upon me, if it was really my choice, then there's a lot more I'd like to do.
I suspect in hundreds or thousands of years we'll look back at age-related death culturally the same way we look at infant mortality during the medieval ages: commonly accepted as part of life at the time, but unnecessary and completely solvable in retrospective.
I think fear is the wrong word per-say. If it's something I can't change, that's fine. But if there's an avenue to change it, even if unlikely, why not try?
chrisfosterelli, 13 hours ago
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Re: Microservices are a big ball of mud
Don’t you find it weird that everybody else is either over or underengineering, but you, you engineer things exactly the right amount?
I bet when you’re driving, you also tend to notice that everyone else is either an idiot driving way too slow in the middle lane or a maniac speeding past you. Nobody else drives as well as you do.
It must be exhausting for these people to live in a world surrounded by strawmen, while they alone have achieved perfection. Which they will detail how they do in a later blogpost.
jameshart, 1 hour ago
Don’t you find it weird that everybody else is either over or underengineering, but you, you engineer things exactly the right amount?
I bet when you’re driving, you also tend to notice that everyone else is either an idiot driving way too slow in the middle lane or a maniac speeding past you. Nobody else drives as well as you do.
It must be exhausting for these people to live in a world surrounded by strawmen, while they alone have achieved perfection. Which they will detail how they do in a later blogpost.
jameshart, 1 hour ago
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