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-* 2024  [49/49]                                                       :@blog:
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+* 2024  [51/51]                                                       :@blog:
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@@ -107,6 +108,90 @@ It's impossible, while my Windows 95 was gloriously ugly.
 - folks clap happily
 
 
+
+** DONE Sports ruin everything 
+CLOSED: [2024-07-14 Sun 19:06]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: sports
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract One short word to ruin everything
+:END:
+
+
+#+begin_quote
+George: If it's not about sports, I find it very hard to concentrate.
+
+Jerry: You're not very bright, are you?
+
+George: No I'm not. I would like to be, but I'm not.
+
+-- Seinfeld, S06E05 - The Couch
+#+end_quote
+
+
+If there is one word I absolutely despise, it's /sport/.
+If it's sports, then I'm out.
+
+It's not that I dislike physical activity.
+I find it boring, dull, and depressing — but I don't hate it.
+It's what we need to do, not to die to young.
+
+But sports?
+Adding sports to anything worsens it.
+Be it running, kicking a soccer ball, chess, or computer games.
+If you add competition, scores, the idea that someone is /better/ at it, it all falls apart.
+
+When I was a kid, it was always the same.
+We were having a great time, just goofing around.
+"OK, now it's for real. Zero to zero, you start".
+And boom, just like that.
+All enjoyment is gone.
+
+I think there are three types of people here:
+- those who hate competition
+- those who can still appreciate the fun ignoring the competition
+- those who live for the competition.
+
+Coincidentally, this is very much correlates with how much I will hate being around such a person.
+
+And sports read their ugly heads out of everything, not only /games/.
+We've got competitive cooking, programming, excel.
+I find no joy in such things.
+
+I love programming, but I would never do it to be /better/ at it than someone else.
+I liked multiplayer games which were focused on having fun (think late 1999), but nowadays you need to specialize at them to have any fun.
+Damn you, e-sports!
+
+So yeah.
+Sports ruin everything for me.
+
+** DONE Even bionic implants are being abandoned by companies
+CLOSED: [2024-07-09 Tue 22:22]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: bioninc-impalant-abandoned
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract Tech world is trying to be the absolute worst
+:END:
+
+Just when I thought tech can't get any worse, companies are abandoning working implants.
+
+#+begin_quote
+ … Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt.
+ While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case.
+ “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.”
+#+end_quote
+
+Long story short: we have working vision-implants (of which I didn't know until today).
+They were implanted into patients with varying success, but they mostly improve patient's life quality.
+
+And then the company loosing financing.
+
+Let that sink in: at the same time bullshitting generators are dawning in cash, actual marvels of technology are dawning in debt.
+We have remarkable technology, but VCs ruin it, again.
+I mostly react with sadness to such stories, but not this time.
+This time I finished the article with real anger.
+I'm reading of the single coolest piece of tech in *ages*, and then it'd all horror and the worst aspects of capitalism.
+
+[[https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete][Read the full article on IEEE]].
+
 ** DONE Computing happy
 CLOSED: [2024-07-08 Mon 23:24]
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diff --git a/content/blog/2024/bioninc-impalant-abandoned.md b/content/blog/2024/bioninc-impalant-abandoned.md
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+title = "Even bionic implants are being abandoned by companies"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-07-09T22:22:00+02:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2002
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+abstract = "Tech world is trying to be the absolute worst"
++++
+
+Just when I thought tech can't get any worse, companies are abandoning working implants.
+
+> … Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt.
+> While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case.
+> “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.”
+
+Long story short: we have working vision-implants (of which I didn't know until today).
+They were implanted into patients with varying success, but they mostly improve patient's life quality.
+
+And then the company loosing financing.
+
+Let that sink in: at the same time bullshitting generators are dawning in cash, actual marvels of technology are dawning in debt.
+We have remarkable technology, but VCs ruin it, again.
+I mostly react with sadness to such stories, but not this time.
+This time I finished the article with real anger.
+I'm reading of the single coolest piece of tech in **ages**, and then it'd all horror and the worst aspects of capitalism.
+
+[Read the full article on IEEE](https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete).
diff --git a/content/blog/2024/sports.md b/content/blog/2024/sports.md
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++++
+title = "Sports ruin everything"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-07-14T19:06:00+02:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2002
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+abstract = "One short word to ruin everything"
++++
+
+> George: If it's not about sports, I find it very hard to concentrate.
+>
+> Jerry: You're not very bright, are you?
+>
+> George: No I'm not. I would like to be, but I'm not.
+>
+> -- Seinfeld, S06E05 - The Couch
+
+If there is one word I absolutely despise, it's _sport_.
+If it's sports, then I'm out.
+
+It's not that I dislike physical activity.
+I find it boring, dull, and depressing — but I don't hate it.
+It's what we need to do, not to die to young.
+
+But sports?
+Adding sports to anything worsens it.
+Be it running, kicking a soccer ball, chess, or computer games.
+If you add competition, scores, the idea that someone is _better_ at it, it all falls apart.
+
+When I was a kid, it was always the same.
+We were having a great time, just goofing around.
+"OK, now it's for real. Zero to zero, you start".
+And boom, just like that.
+All enjoyment is gone.
+
+I think there are three types of people here:
+
+-   those who hate competition
+-   those who can still appreciate the fun ignoring the competition
+-   those who live for the competition.
+
+Coincidentally, this is very much correlates with how much I will hate being around such a person.
+
+And sports read their ugly heads out of everything, not only _games_.
+We've got competitive cooking, programming, excel.
+I find no joy in such things.
+
+I love programming, but I would never do it to be _better_ at it than someone else.
+I liked multiplayer games which were focused on having fun (think late 1999), but nowadays you need to specialize at them to have any fun.
+Damn you, e-sports!
+
+So yeah.
+Sports ruin everything for me.