alt Hacker NewsThis was always the case. People obsessing over keyboards, window managers, emacs setups... always optimizing around the edges of the problem, but this is all taking an incredible amount of their time versus working on real problems.
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songodongo • last Friday at 12:45 PM
Same thing happens in music production. If only I had this guitar, or that synth, or these plugins…
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sehansen • last Friday at 3:05 PM
It's the four hobbies all over again: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html
atakan_gurkan • last Friday at 8:04 AM
Yes, this happens quite often. So often that I wonder if it is among the symptoms of some psychiatric or neurological disorder.
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Yes, the thing they realize much later in life is that perhaps they enjoyed the act of gardening (curating your tools, workflows, etc) much more than farming (being downright focused and productive on the task at hand).
Sadly gardening doesn’t pay the bills!