Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride

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Strong rec dudeinjapan · 2022-02 · on “Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?”

Whenever I find myself feeling like you do right now, I watch this video from Bill Hicks: "It's just a ride" [this video]

Recommends ZenoArrow · 2016-04 · on “The rituals we perform and the games we play”

You're welcome. :-) Thank you for your answer, I think I understand your reasoning a little better. With the example of the mathematician, you can read it a number of different ways, but one of the things I took from it was the difference between a healthy curiosity and an unhealthy curiosity. It sounds to me that you have a healthy curiosity, and enjoy the mental stimulation of exploring the big questions. As long as it remains something you enjoy and you're still open to enjoying other things then you can't really go wrong. If you'd like to find kindred spirits that also enjoy thinking about the big questions, you can find plenty in the world of philosophy. I can recommend The School of Li

Recommends 0xDEAFBEAD · 2025-10 · on “Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?”

>evolved Yes, it evolved. It wasn't designed. >Version numbers? Without version numbers, it has to be backwards-compatible, making it difficult to remove cruft. What would programming be like if all the code you wrote needed to work as IBM mainframe assembly? Tau is a good case study. Everyone seems to agree tau is better than pi. How much adoption has it seen? Is this what "heavy optimization" looks like? It took hundreds of years for Arabic numerals to replace Roman numerals in Europe. A medieval mathematician could have truthfully said: "We've been using Roman numerals for hundreds of years; they work fine." That would've been stockholm syndrome. I get the same sense from your comment. Ta