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That's a terrible analogy:)

It is more like you wanting to build a bed out of wood so you hire a carpenter and watch them and ask questions about every step and maybe help a bit at the end.

I find it amazing to learn new programming things

Google realized this a long time ago; there is no ad-free paid version of Google Search.

well there is also no 200$/month Google Search subscription

Clicks Communicator 7 months ago

where do you see it is a coworking space? looks to me like a normal office building

either way it is a physical address, I was just responding to the invalid claim above

Tangential but did not see it mentioned: Calibri must have been the Microsoft Word default at some point, at least in some parts of the world, because seeing it makes me think this is a Word document by a person that did not change the default font.

Some said it was a sign of a continued rise of Reagan and Thatcher style individualism. Cultural critic Allan Bloom deemed the Walkman "a nonstop... masturbational fantasy” in his 1987 book ‘The Closing of the American Mind.’ Neo-Luddite John Zerzan saw the Walkman as part of a modern trend that encouraged a "protective sort of withdrawal from social connections" and Thomas Lipscomb, chief of the Center for the Digital Future, equated it with the euphoric drug "soma," from Huxley's Brave New World, creating, as he put it, "an airtight bubble of sound" that was nothing but a "sensory depressant." In other words it all felt ‘a bit blackmirror’ as one might say today. (A collection of quotes collected in this 1999 Reason Magazine article)

not sure about the masturbational fantasy but the rest seems fairly spot on as a critique?

I stumbled upon this when visualizing music. It is very interesting how everything is kind of non linear, like you mention. I had to increase low frequencies and then I got stuck trying to bucket frequencies. It seems humans have different fidelity for different ranges of frequencies

As someone who did a PhD ending 4y ago and joined a industry research lab, I can relate to this a lot, I think this is very much spot on

a lot of these PhD’s hired back then were therefore asked to and free to do research; that is, they chose what they want to work on and they publish what they want to publish. it was just like an academic research position however with 2-5x better compensation as well as external visibility and without teaching duties,

exactly!

such process standardization is however antithetical to scientific research. we do not need a constant and frequent stream of creative and disruptive innovations but incremental and stable improvements based on standardized processes.

A lot of the early wave AI folks struggle with this. They wanna keep pushing wild research ideas but the industry needs slow incremental stuff, focused on serving

Recently discovered that on long flights, ear plugs (that just block noise, no music!) and a kindle is way more enjoyable for me. Less headache. Can’t imagine having a vision pro on a 10h flight