time dilation
Re:The skill that never goes obsolete
by Curiositry on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:21PM
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Based on the timestamps, it could only be. But this story, timestamps notwithstanding, was submitted by suprisetalk ~2 days ago.
Then it was placed in news.ycombinator.com/pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43176091), and got two comments; credit_guy's comment was one of them.
Then, today, it hit the frontpage.
Notice that if you mouse over "9 hours ago" on the story it shows the timestamp 2025-02-25. 9 hours ago was not 2025-02-25. If you mouse over the "7 hours ago" on credit_guy's comment, the timestamp shows 2025-02-26. One day after it was submitted, two days before it made the frontpage.
I think you're right in some cases, and that I could probably go in the direction of getting it right the first time.
But the way I see it, anytime I'm doing something new or innovative, I'm doing something I don't know how to do. And doing things I don't know how to do takes trial and error. In other words, it's a troubleshooting problem.
Often it's about fixing bugs, but I think troubleshooting skill is equally useful for creating new things, where you are solving for something.