Comment by ferrouswheel

12 hours ago

We need a new unglamorous tech, massaging floating point quants by hand in a hex editor.

At least there's still plenty of places for real nerds to be nerds. HN, hanging around in IRC, Eternal September, among other places. Finding myself more and more drifting away from "mainstream" internet stuff, and as a result I'm finding a lot more engaging and thought-provoking things and am overall happier as a result.

  • any examples? Even HN became too business focus. Very little software engineering.