The big draw for me is the curation, articles, scene reports, bandcamp weekly, all nicely and simply integrated with a way to listen to what you're reading about on the platform. Recommendations from humans as opposed to the Spotify algorithms. There's a lot of music on the internet, Bandcamp's offering for me is helping me to find some of it that I can connect with.
I didn't pick up disdain or displeasure from your original message, and I didn't feel bad for you. I felt good for you! I thought "here's someone like me, who's making a decent living in a nice job, but who has a good sense of perspective and isn't getting caught up in the inane irrelevant trivialities of the tech workplace that are ultimately utterly meaningless."
You can make a living doing something you enjoy without having to buy into every single aspect of a corporate workplace and without tangling up your identity with your job. Some of us work to live, and are happy doing that. It's not a failure to be not totally consumed with your career.
To be fair to Raj (the guy who had just accidentally killed a bull), from his perspective "the bull is dead" is a very important part of the story.
It's maybe a question of perspective. His ability to consider his parents' perspective might have been somewhat limited by the fact that he was 17, it was late at night and he'd just been in a car crash which resulted in the death of a bull.
I think he did a great job and it's a great story. Glad to hear he's ok, he's lucky! RIP the bull though :(
I didn't mean to criticize the kid, although I can see how it came out as such.
I'm criticizing the dads ability to showcase a great example of the "right information in the right detail without going into unnecessary explanations."
And I think a big part of the authors choice of example is exactly because it is "tantalizing" - it piques your curiosity because there isn't enough information to make sense of the situation.
I've been doing this with my kids. It's been so enjoyable, we're all getting a lot of joy out of it. My youngest became obsessed with Totoro when she was 4 and I think I enjoy it more every time we watch it.
Waiting a while before I show them spirited away, Ponyo spooked her first time round, but a year later and she loved it. There's a lot to process in some of them for small kiddos, so like most everyone else says, those two are probably the best ones to start with.
Would you mind explaining? It does read a little differently to the version we rattled off growing up in holy catholic Ireland. I didn't know there was a remix out there
Ah yes, thanks. Us papists go straight to "amen" and a mic drop after "evil". That doxology (in a slightly different form) is familiar too, but it's used somewhere else.
The version we learned also refers to "trespasses" and "those who trespass against us" instead of "debtors" and "creditors". The latter sounds a bit ...
commercial? Definitely think it sounds better having enemies who've "trespassed against us".
> Us papists go straight to "amen" and a mic drop after "evil". That doxology (in a slightly different form) is familiar too, but it's used somewhere else.
“Somewhere else” being... almost immediately after the Lord's Prayer, but with the priest saying the Embolism (“Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior, Jesus Christ”) in between.
> As I understand it, it was added in a book of prayers that was popular amongst protestants. It's not in the bible.
Its in some but not other Greek texts of Matthew, notably, IIRC, the Textus Receptus that was the base for the Luther Bible. It is now generally viewed as an interpolation and excluded (except as a footnote) from most modern translations, but that was (obviously) not always the case for Protestants.
It’s worth noting that what is “in the Bible” isn’t always a simple question, since it’s not like each book has a complete, authenticated, original text accessible.
Many years ago a friend of mine proposed a theory of his (I use the word "theory" in the loosest possible sense here, more student dorm than lab) that sounded a lot like this. In his version, most of everything is shit. Most music is shit, most movies are shit, most pizzas are shit. Only a minority of any given thing is actually of high quality.
I haven't seen much over the years to convince me that he or you are wrong
Based on a couple of his best known stories that I read when I was pretty young, I revered him as an author.
But a few years ago, I found out that his short stories had been collected in a multi-volume series, and I started reading them.
I was pretty crestfallen; I don't use the term "cringey" much, but that's how I would describe a lot of them. I intended to read the whole series, but haven't and probably won't.
Not all of them were terrible, but the famous short stories he wrote were presumably famous because they stood apart.
Also he seems to have flirted with Dianetics in its early days, even basing some of his fiction on it.
So, I guess when you look deeper, he himself proved the law. On an individual basis, you have to produce a lot of crap to generate a masterwork.
Yes, it does kind of prove the point, but you wouldn't really confirm it if you perceive an author, a genre, a category, whatever, through some sort of filtering mechanism.
I think you can turn this saying around and consider that if 90% of something does not appear to be crap, and you want to understand its true nature, and maybe find some things others have missed, you need to go to the raw data source.
I didn't end up thinking his short stories were as good as I expected, but I did feel like I understood the person better. And even maybe human nature, or how authors progress, a little better.
Another daily Harmonic user of a few years standing here. I tried a good few HN clients until I clicked with Harmonic and never looked back. I find it to be one of those rare apps that works so well and unobtrusively that you hardly notice it until it dawns on you how good it is. Great work, thanks for making and open-sourcing it!
Always good to hear from the day 1 OG:s :) I also went through the ritual of trying almost all available HN clients back in 2020 and being unhappy and Harmonic was the result. I'm glad it worked out the same way for you!
