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Where are these quotes pulled from? His autobiography? Something else?

Of course, modern controllers exist that offer many more literal bells and whistles...

Anyone have a favorite 'modern controller' for those of us who no longer have a PowerMate?

Someone turned me onto this podcast several months ago and, after a few episodes, my takeaway was they seem to be against every book they review. I couldn't find a single book they actually liked.

This I've read is made worse because as it has grown in features and capabilities in the 25+ years it has been available the interface has become kind of disjoint.

It's impossible to exaggerate how true this is. I often say "BiaB is the best worst software - or should that be 'worst best software'? - I've ever used." A toolbar that crams dozens of tiny icons, almost no visual hierarchy, dated visual style, waaaay too many dialogs (dialogs within dialogs!), zero discoverability, inconsistent labeling, basic features missing...I could go on. To add insult to injury, I'm using the Mac version and it looks/feels like a port, not a native app.

I like the direction Apple is taking with their digital audio workstation, Logic Pro X. While not overtly AI, they've been introducing intelligent musical features starting with their Drummer feature several years before AI became commonplace.

My partner and I have been through this cycle. Something happens, she interprets it a certain, very specific, way and then has an adverse emotional reaction.

In the early days of our relationship I would try to explain to her why her emotion doesn't 'make sense'. That just made things worse. Much worse. When she helped me understand that she needed me to validate that what she was feeling was legitimate - based on her interpretation of the events - she was able to let go and consider other interpretations.

Note that this "letting go" almost never happened in the moment, but only after the emotions abated and she had time to process the entire situation. We're talking hours, not minutes.

Me too. For that I highly recommend the Tree Napper from Bearaby.

https://bearaby.com/collections/weighted-blankets

I picked up a collection of several hundred of his 4-part chorales. I like to flip through the pages and pick one seemingly at random and play it. While some hit me harder than others, nearly all of them express this "simplicity to depth" ratio.

My latest favorite: Oh God, Hear My Sighs: https://soundcloud.com/nick66/oh-god-hear-my-sighs-bach

The important terms here are "provision" and "without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional".

Both of these, separately and taken together, indicate that the terms apply to how the output of ChatGPT is used, not a change to its output altogether.

"Uncovering transformative connections between algebraic combinatorics and problems in other areas of math and physics."

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/lauren-k-will...

I'd rather it be stored neatly in canisters underground than floating up into the atmosphere.

What serendipity! The latest episode of "Philosophize This!" is titled "The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han".[0] I'd never heard of him before. Apparently his book "The Burnout Society" is recommended reading.

[0]https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jdvGsEdrpEEjMBJG5oRaH?si=g...

"If technology can be perfected to manage medicine, navigation, education, and even design, what then becomes of work? The specter is not merely unemployment—it’s meaninglessness."

Only if one's identity is defined by their work.

Israel didn't take any actions until Oct 13. What actions 'from the first days' are you referring to?

One of Hinge's marketing messages is something along the line of "The app you're meant to delete."

It makes me recoil that I replaced my partner with simulacrum of her.

I've been in situations like the one you describe but this was not that. It's not about attractiveness. A good analogy is that you can sate your sweet tooth by eating certain fruits. But if you start binging candy bars and ice cream, suddenly that pineapple you used to love no longer does the job.

Not the parent, but for me, porn served as a kind of supernormal stimulus. It became difficult to become aroused with my partner when I had a practically infinite variety of virtual women to choose from, doing an infinite variety of things. Quitting porn was one of the best things I did for my sex life.

Many things in life are traumatic. Me leaving the Catholic church was traumatic for my parents. My years-long girlfriend cheating on me was traumatic for me.

Does trauma for the 1% outweigh the benefits of the 99%?

What kind of breathwork did you do?

I'd not heard that Feynman quote before, so thanks for sharing; I love it.

I'd include writing, art-, and music-making in that category.

Looking at the first few questions from the survey, this seems geared specifically to work-oriented book clubs. I.e., book clubs in a professional context. FWIW, I was hoping for/expecting one that was free of those associations. It might be worth spelling that out more explicitly on the landing page.

That doesn't solve parent's (and my) problem.

I have collections of tabs in different windows and I assign those windows to different spaces. Every time I reboot Chrome all windows are assigned to whichever space is active when I launch Chrome.

I seem to recall that Chrome used to remember these assignments, so maybe it's not a macOS problem, but rather a Chrome problem...?

I don't know that people say 'jazz is dead', but it's certainly a shell of its former self. Wanna make a living playing jazz in 2025? The odds are stacked, massively, against you. Wanna earn enough to buy food for your dog? The odds are slightly better.

If you enjoy this style of writing - TFA's, not D Brown's - then check out The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest[0].

Here's a sample:

"Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago."

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2019

Per the below, seems it's not available to many yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913575

I was raised Catholic but no longer practice. Many Christians don't believe they choose Christianity. They believe they are 'called by Christ' to serve.

So, I think the analogy, at least for those people, holds.

I don't think this gets mentioned enough. Rush Limbaugh was the result of the doctrine's abolition. You can draw a straight line from Limbaugh to Fox News, et al.

https://imightbewrong.substack.com/

It's not focused on tech, but occasionally touches on policy issues that are tech-adjacent. It's a refreshing, often insightful, and usually very funny take on current events. The author is a former writer for the HBO show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver".

Yeah, I was going to comment that doing volunteer work in some form could go a long way towards curing what ills him. Surprised that that wasn't even mentioned in TFA.

"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" was always a favorite episode of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEpaq332pmI (just a snippet of the intro, with Serling's iconic introduction)

Just tried this with an interpersonal situation I'm going through. The default seems to be Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT-4o. I got the results I've come to expect from those two, with the latter better at non-programming kinds of prompts.

The app presented the option of prompting additional models, including Gemini Flash 2.0, one I'd never used before. It gave the best response and was surprisingly good.

Curious to know how Chorus is paying for the compute, as I was expecting to have to use my own API keys.