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I was going to reply that zooming in on pictures is a path that leads only to madness, but you’re right; that is messed up.

GP said they own a M4/3 camera, which is mirrorless.

For a simple example, any music that “grooves” (makes you want to tap your feet) tends to not be perfectly sub-divided into 4 beats. Different players in the same band may be intentionally (and/or subconsciously) hitting their notes on different parts of the beat to increase this effect. In this type of scenario there really isn’t any substitution for practice and “feel”, a metronome would never get you there.

In terms of piano, GP may have been referring to rubato, or holding notes for longer/shorter than notated for artistic effect.

But then who would deliver the ads?? /s

I completely agree, but with the arts as my object of fixation. I could never live the swanky life I lead without my current job, but damn I would have been a good potter. Luckily, there is still time...

I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to be “active” on LinkedIn in the same way we are pressured in an abstract sense to be on Facebook, it would lose all utility for me.

For better or worse I index the opposite way. My CV is a markdown doc wrapped in the absolute minimum html/js to render it as a web page. If viewed as text it is perfectly readable sans a single line of css gobldeygook, if viewed as a web page it’s also perfectly readable.

Amazon gives loans to sellers; they have more info on their suppliers’ businesses than a bank could ever dream of.

Ageeed. Also seeing as LED bulbs are ~10x more efficient per lumen than incandescent, people are not installing 10x as much brightness in their homes

To bolster your other response: in college chemistry classes are split into two kinds: “organic chemistry”, and “everything else”. But he term “organic” in this context means “compounds with carbon atoms”. There are so many ways that carbon bonds to other atoms, and in such complex configurations that there are classes reserved for this single element. And as undergrads will tell you, these are the hard classes!

With apple mucic 100% of the money goes to the label. The label then has a contract with the artist for how much online sales get sent their way. This contract may be very complicated so it isn’t necessarily “I pay $1, artist gets $.20”. Artists and labels will have different agreements with each streaming service for how many plays equal one “download”, from ~10 to ~1000.

Explaining is usually more difficult than understanding, as well.

This is the exact same reason that it always seems like you are in “the slow lane” in congested traffic. You spend considerably more time going slow than going fast, and while your lane is slow you have to watch all the other sporadically fast lanes go by.

It is funny in a sense because TBL really invented the 'internet' as people know it, Vint Cerf just created that pesky TCP/IP thing nerds talk about.

I would guess that in 50 years people will look at current tech trends in the same way. “They had to have known the apps and content were being created to induce maximal stress and addictive behavior!”

I assumed they meant “natural” (I.e. ineffective) solutions.

I found bedbugs to be more mentally exhausting than anything. I have never felt more sure that I might have a mental breakdown than when I had bedbugs. They are almost impossible to find, they invade your personal space only when you are asleep, and they are very difficult to get rid of. It made me feel unsafe in my own apartment.

For totally unrelated tinfoil-hat reasons I started using fastmail yesterday. Now I feel very vindicated in my choice, but it makes me wonder; since Gmail is so pervasive, will this action by them end up f-ing up email for everyone, the same way that many sites claim to only work on Chrome?

I was unaware that zizek called this form of consumerism neoliberalism. I was only aware of the economic definition of the term relating to Keynesian economics and deregulation and the like. The reason I piped up is because that definition is really more in line with American right-wing policies (although Democrats seem to have little issue getting on board...)

Nit: neoliberalism means different things depending on context, but it really doesn’t mean “new-fangled leftism”.

I think it is reasonable to expect storage to jump dramatically at such a time that we begin storing “3D” data. Not that everything in VR will be voxels or anything, but even if the fractal dimension of our future data is 2.5 it would obliterate our current needs for storage. /speculation

Yes they do, and the math works out. About 8k people work in their two belltown towers alone.

One way of thinking of legislation is to encourage/discourage behavior indirectly. Think how putting a ridiculous tax on cigarettes makes people less likely to want to use them. In this sense, the German government (and greater EU) may be completely fine in implementing these laws to discourage the presence of these types of companies operating in their jurisdiction. After all, it is hard to argue that social media as currently implemented (by large, foreign, data-hungry companies) is an inalienable right, and much easier to argue that it is a net drain on society.

You can be a homeowner and also not be a misanthrope at the same time. The min/max attitude of tech workers has always disgusted me in his regard.

Edit: I don’t retract my statement, but at the time of posting this my parent comment only contained the first paragraph. I agree with most points brought up

I remember reading an interview with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. He mentions how glad he was that he never joined the singer/songwriter scene because leaning picking and rhyhhm guitar gave him the facility to play whatever he wanted.

Edit: here he expresses some of the same sentiment https://youtu.be/OG__SwkV3wg

The partially examined life podcast has three whole episodes dedicated to William James’s theories of the mind and the self, for anyone looking for more.

What community is this?

Yes, you can mute an echo and it will glow red.

You should tell that to the majoroty of (my Seattle) Lyft drivers that bought a Prius just so it could be their primary form of employment. From my personal experience it is only in the Bay Area that people use ride share as a supplemental income.

It is also very different to have a high bar for your self vs for other people. Most people that would self-label as 'perfectionist' are referencing their own behavior, even if it happens to be masking procrastination or indecision. However, I find that this character trait is almost orthogonal to having high standards for others' work, which can instead be code for arrogance or impatience.

Put another way; Seinfield was about how people react to a breakdown in social conventions, and really small ones at that. The types of things that happen in Seinfield were the types of things you would go home and talk to your spouse about. "Someone at work today was standing really close to me!" "I was driving through an exit ramp and two cars tried to merge into the same space!" etc.