benburton

Today New Zealand has lost a national treasure.

Haere atu rā ki te okiokinga.

This proposed economic model creates a dystopian situation: whoever has the most capital has the right of first refusal to consume art.

Current primary and secondary ticketing markets are not ideal, but this proposition disenfranchises whole market segments from consuming art as experience based on economic factors. That's bad for art, it's bad for artists, and it's bad for consumers.

I love writing documentation, and I love teaching people how to solve problems. At my day job I've written a lot of the organization's most trafficked explanations and how-to guides for understanding our codebase and engineering principles.

The other week an engineer in another group fed all of my documents, and all of our codebase, into an LLM. They were able to ask it questions, and get immediate answers that were by and large better than the guidance I would have been able to provide in between my other responsibilities.

As much as I love writing and explaining, I think we're sadly past the point that it needs to be done by humans. I have always considered documentation to be an imperfect, point in time, reflection of a codebase. When an LLM can read and synthesize all of code and immediately respond with up to date information... what's the point in writing documentation anymore?

My first thought too. Glad there are other indie rock folks poking around!

As someone who works in the music industry, this Snoop Dogg streaming thing is an obvious straw man. I genuinely hope people stop using it as evidence of, well, anything.

For that low of a payout on 1 billion streams, you'd have to (as you said) have a lot of people on your split sheet so your royalty percentage is very low or have a terrible deal on percentage with your label, distributor, or both.

Snoop Dogg isn't living off Bic lighter endorsements. He definitely makes a lot of money on music.

FlexPats?

Unrelated to the content of this post... this looks to be hosted on Notion. Is that a reasonable option for a personal blog? I do a lot of writing in Notion for work and I would love to transition into something more public. I don't really want to mess around with Jekyll, Medium, or Substack. Public Notion feels sort of compelling.

Thank you. I thought I was going crazy.

I struggled with linear algebra in college, in part because my professor had a tenuous grasp of the English language. Strang's book was our textbook, and I did a bit of digging and found the OCW lectures. I stopped going to class, and instead would spend the time at the library to watch Strang's lectures and take notes.

I was one of the very few students to ace the class, and I will be forever grateful.

I never met Bob Lee, but I was a huge fan. Google Guice was exceptionally useful for non-Spring-based dependency injection in the early 00s. I don't know if Bob had his hands in the Google Collections API, but that in combination with Guice really made Java engineering in the JDK 6 days much more bearable.

What a devastating, senseless tragedy.

What's your proposal to enforce restrictions against this behavior?

You wrote an entire sentence that has literally nothing to do with the ticket resale market and how scalping is related.

A secondary ticketing market enables scalping. There are legitimate reasons for the resale market to exist. If you think that the existence and dynamics of a resale market are unrelated to scalping... I would encourage you to look into critical reasoning courses which are perhaps available at your local community college at a low cost.

How do you propose we eliminate scalping, while preserving the secondary market? Go ahead, I'm waiting. Literally all ticketing companies are waiting for your profound insight.

Waiting on the response here because there will not be one.

This issue isn't as cut and dry as simply banning scalping. I spend most of my discretionary income on music... merchandise, vinyl, concert tickets. At any given point in time I have tickets to about 7-8 performances in the future. Sometimes life gets in the way, and I simply cannot attend an event. In those situations, I have a very legitimate reason to want to sell concert tickets, and I do. Sometimes I will end up selling for under what I paid, other times I will make a small profit, more rarely I will say fuck it and just give the tickets away on social media to friends or coworkers. In the long term, this generally nets me out at zero in terms of gaining/losing money on ticket purchases.

My point, I guess, is that there's a legitimate, healthy reason for a resale market. Throwing the ticketing resale market out with the scalper bathwater is a myopic solution.

NYC checking in! Surely there are enough of us to put together a meetup?

Correctly but also incorrectly.

If I recall correctly, the primary method of "punting" was to send an instant message with a bunch of unclosed HTML tags, which the client's renderer wouldn't be able to handle and would crash the AOL application.

Looked interesting. Thought I would take a deep dive. README references a video behind a subscription paywall? I'm out.

I think we can all sleep easy that the terrifyingly smart rich people made the right call on how to handle their own exposure.

My personal Venn diagram of "terrifyingly smart people" and "people involved with cryptocurrency" is a null set.

Never use Upwork? Got it. Thanks.

I'd love to give this a read from someone with a lot of experience in the source material, but given a $50 pricetag for a book I don't need to read I'm not into it. Who are your editors?

Docker Desktop doesn't let you decide whether you want updates or not, unless you pay them

This made me uninstall Docker Desktop.

This is my favorite thing I've read today.

most car makers can't design a good UI if they tried, because they are just so incredibly bad at designing software.

Interface as a secondary concern to any other business function is historically a budget race-to-the-bottom.

Just let Apple and Google design and implement everything with CarPlay/Android Automotive.

Hiring for a junior dev position, and being disappointed seeing a Github repository filled with homework assignments? Ok.

I think the question is actually "what is this company trying to sell you?"

Ah of course!

const add = ({ a, b }) => a + b; const _add = ({ a, b }) => b + a;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Imagine being so socially inept that you write a manifesto to dictate how others greet you.