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How timely! I started reading The Magic Mountain in the fall…and I am still reading it. Unfortunately, there is a spoiler in this article, but I am close to finishing it.

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I've made a game out of my Discover Weekly and Release Radar playlists, seeing how good I am at detecting the AI stuff. "Bad music" comes from both machines, and humans.

The real fraud Spotify hasn't done enough to address is when these AI-generated albums show up under real artist profiles https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/spotify-criticiz...

Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents.

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“What’s the worst that can happen?”

As a parent of a daughter who loves baseball more than anything else, we are letting her passion guide her, even though it is a remote possibility she will become the professional baseball player she wants to be. The opportunities that are opening up for her, and the life skills and lessons she is learning wouldn't have the same impact if we were trying to steer her in a direction that wasn't of her choosing. The lesson she has learned early, and one I wish I had learned earlier, is if the worst thing that can happen is someone will say "no" then there is no reason not to try.

You and I may have crossed paths a few times (grew up around there in the mid 80s-90s)--Salt Creek beach was our go-to. I had no idea what Clark Foam did until I was much older (I wasn't that into surfing), but the 'Clark Foam' name on the brick wall on the corner is one of those indelible childhood memories.

If the title of the article was instead, "Tesla video promoting self-driving was scripted, engineer testifies," this article is probably mostly ignored. Take a loaded term like "scripted," which some interpret as "faked," and here we are. Of course the video was staged, the engineers were asked to make a video showing it's capabilities. The only part worth arguing over is if someone could interpret Elon's tweet as meaning I could jump in a Tesla and have it do all of those things without me needing to do anything.

The short answer is they don’t know. FTX’s current management is having to rebuild customer accounts by hand because they don’t trust the books https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-says-it-has-located-more-th...

When I explain to people what I love about baseball, it’s that I know what is supposed to happen. It’s when what isn’t supposed to happen happens that makes it exciting. It’s the same with these questions. We know the question but it’s the response s, in particular from younger players (like collegiate athletes), that make the questions still worth asking and journalistically relevant, even if sometimes they come off as rehearsed.

‘Martino Unstrung’ is a documentary about him and talks a lot about what he was like leading up to and after the aneurysm was discovered. A great look into one of the giants of jazz guitar but also fascinating to learn the things he could remember and what he couldn’t, personality changes, etc.

My wife and I took birthing classes, read a few books, etc. but nothing prepared me for the moment my first child was delivered. It was an almost indescribable experience where everything just…changed.

Patience. Remember you are both on the parenting journey together, but mothers and fathers will do things differently.

Take care of your partner. Postpartum depression is a very real concern and is difficult with new mothers already wondering if they are “doing it right.” She especially will get no shortage of advice. You and she know what’s best for your baby. And if you have a question, don’t hesitate to call your pediatrician or even the maternity ward.

As someone else said, make time for you and your partner. If you have family nearby, take advantage of that support system however you can. We moved away from all of our family and friends when we had two very young children, so if you are in a similar situation my first note about patience is even more important.

Finally, the cliché that kids grow up too fast is very true so enjoy the journey, embrace the mistakes. You only get to hold them for so long.

I've told at least 5 or 6 companies that wanted to white-board me to suck it. It's honestly insulting that I'm forced to white-board when I have two books with my name on them (published by Apress), contributions to Golang (small commits, but they still got me in the AUTHORS file), and OSS projects with hundreds of stars on GitHub

That is all commendable but none of that tells me if I can work with you. When I interview candidates I use whiteboarding as a collaborative opportunity to see how the interviewee thinks. I treat it as a similar experience when I am the one being interviewed, which is why I have never understood the hostility toward whiteboarding. How else in the limited window of time that is the interview can I learn as much about the people I would be working with?

Unless something changed in the 30 years since I learned to drive--in California-- the "California Rolling Stop" is a pejorative and is not at all legal. In California, and every other US state, a stop sign means come to a full and complete stop.

Someone already beat you to it https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/nyc-man-sells-fart-for-85-cash...

Or making sure they are using literals instead of variables, and using gotos: https://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/12/12050...

What made it click for me analyzing music, in particular rock songs like 'Gloria.' That song very strongly identifies E major as the tonic, but the D and A chords are not in E, they are diatonic to A major. To say it is in A major would mean the song's tonic would be A, but since it is E major it is more correct to say the song is in E Mixolydian.

Adam Neely recently did a great analysis of 'Hey Joe' that goes pretty deep into this stuff https://youtu.be/DVvmALPu5TU

If you want to go further down the rabbit hole of symmetrical scales, checkout Olivier Messiaen's modes of limited transposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_of_limited_transposition. For a given set of pitches within an octave there are a limited number of times those pitches can be transposed before you wind up with the same set of pitches. And the modes in that scale must also be fewer in number than the number of pitches in the scale, meaning at least two modes of the scale must have the same interval spelling. The simplest example is the whole tone scale. Up a half step I get the same set of pitches, another half step and I get the same pitches I started with, so it is 'limited' to one transposition. And there is only one mode of the whole tone scale, since no matter where I start I always have the same set of intervals.

My first exposure to Chick was also through Spain, playing bass in high school. My friend and I decided we wanted to start a jazz band and found some charts for Spain, however it was a watered down arrangement with the rhythms...let's just say not as interesting as the original. Imagine my surprise when I finally heard the original recording. That is where I trace the beginning of my love for jazz and 30+ years later, he is still my biggest musical influence. I count my blessings I was able to see him perform many times in many different settings.

According to the WSJ article I read, states have the privilege of petitioning the court directly. Anyone else attempting to file a similar suit faces years of filings, appeals, and then the Supreme Court actually deciding to hear the case, so highly unlikely.

...is not a realistic concern given that a driver can easily override Autopilot at any time by using the steering wheel or brakes and should always be prepared to do so

This seems too dismissive on Tesla's part. If I am looking to add this option, and I am expected to be just as vigilant with Autopilot engaged as with it not engaged, why bother?

So, who is going to go after the lawyers and the exorbitant fees they will surely extract from this lawsuit?

Colorado as well: https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/finance_etc/2015/09/...

You do realize in that $15-$20k is all of the other employees' pay for that day?

The flaw here is in thinking just because you find an inspector on your own that makes a difference in incentives. Who do you think the inspector has the most incentive to impress? The buyer whom they most likely will never see again or the agent who can potentially provide more and more clients?

Disclosure: my spouse is a home inspector

It's a bit extreme outright dismiss an inspector just because they are recommended by your own agent (there is no reason whatsoever to even ask the selling agent for such advice). After all, you've hired them for their expertise and advice, and they see and know a lot more home inspectors than you. Of course, look at the recommended inspectors and do your own homework, like anything else. But if you can't trust your agent to recommend an inspection I question why you are working with them in the first place.

I'm not really interested in having capital tied up in real-estate....I want to live in my house and not be kicked out by a third party owner, but I don't want my assets tied up in it....I want to sell shares of my house.

This article would be more compelling if he explored (or at least mentioned) the existing mechanisms for leveraging his home's value (e.g. cash out refinance and HELOCs) and why they don't meet his needs. Instead, he wants to sell fractional ownership and control of his home?

The problem they were trying to solve isn't clearly stated, it just seems like they wanted to come up with something they could call 'microservices' in the front end. It reads like something out of the 90s when the 'Design Patterns' book came out and many were blindly implementing the patterns, just to see if they could.

Can't stress training enough. If your company offers training take advantage of it. If it does not you have to consider if they take your success as a manager seriously, and if you are willing to invest a lot of your own time and energy into bettering yourself while being responsible for other people. I had a bit of training but also was fortunate to have worked for great managers I considered my mentors and found that to be an invaluable resource to fall back on.

It isn't clear exactly what your role entails, but in my opinion it is pretty much impossible to be a great manager and continue in a role as a technical contributor. To me that's more a technical lead than a manager, so if you still like writing code you need to think about that long and hard. Your #1 responsibility is the success of your team and they need to know you are there for them 100%, and not busy buried in code. There are times when you may be able to get your hands dirty but you can be nowhere near the critical path of the project.

You also have to remember you are not only managing your direct reports but who you report to and whomever is relying on your team. In my case, I reported to a VP but I also had to work laterally with other development managers, and in particular project managers that weren't always technical. Just like as an individual contributor you need to maintain a healthy relationship with those you work with directly because you need to balance what they need and want from your team with what your team needs and wants.

That being said, I lasted in management for a little over a year, mostly because the role evolved and due to some changes at the top where I didn't feel I was enabled to be an effective manager. Still, I found the experience invaluable as it gave me more insight into how to better work with people of all stripes. Like any role, technical or otherwise, you have to constantly evaluate what you are getting out of it, if you enjoy it, and if you want to continue bettering yourself in the craft.

closecallsports.com. While the site is heavy on umpire ejections there are many, highly-detailed discussions about interesting calls. Here's one about what is and isn't batter-runner interference http://www.closecallsports.com/2017/07/case-play-2017-8-batt...