achenet

29 ms·

211.
by achenet 2y ago
... 3 ? maybe? I'm working on it (:
212.
by achenet 2y ago
I don't have any firsthand experience in this subject, so I could be wrong. However, from my limited understanding of the YT algorithm, it rewards consistency. If you make at least one new video every week, and each video is "well
213.
by achenet 2y ago
"and why do you want more money?" "because it'll make me happy" "why not just buy this lovely [painting/poem/record] instead, it'll directly give you joy"
214.
by achenet 2y ago
this may be an overly optimistic take, but I'd argue that much like with software (indeed, we can consider software to be art, especially if we look at video games), the really good stuff tends to need very little marketing because it
215.
by achenet 2y ago
when I was like 21 I read a piece of advice by Anna Wintour to aspiring couturiers - get a day job. I have a day job as a programmer, it's pretty chill, lets me make music. And write code for more "artsy" stuff in my spare ti
216.
by achenet 2y ago
The internet exists. For a while I had a website where I put my music, with a Stripe button for donations. Now, I didn't make as much money as T.Swift, but I chalk that up my music being not quite as polished (still working on getting
217.
by achenet 2y ago
> (how do you make $ from ads with LLMs?) I asked Google Gemini: Tailored Ads: Create highly personalized ads based on this data, increasing the likelihood of clicks and conversions. Could probably also have a version that goes something
218.
by achenet 2y ago
This is very clever. In gold rush, shell shovels. In computing power rush, sell energy.
219.
by achenet 2y ago
In a way, that is in alignment with their founding goal of organizing human knowledge. An ad is just a piece of data (eg Bob is selling shovels for $10 + shipping), with the additional metadata that someone really wants you to see it (eg Bo
220.
by achenet 2y ago
anything involving an interface with the physical world. For example, running a lemonade stand. You'd need thousands, if not millions of dollars to build a robot machine with a computerized brain capable of doing what a 6 year old chil
221.
by achenet 2y ago
often writing the witty complaint yourself can be not only more effective, but more emotionally satisfying.
222.
by achenet 2y ago
I vote we ban alcohol next :DDDDD
223.
by achenet 2y ago
Mediterranean (or at least the GP's family, which they say is Mediterranean).
224.
by achenet 2y ago
that's a good point. Ban advertising for gambling, tax the hell out of gambling companies... possibly create some sort of regulation for actual gamblers, i.e. check their ID against a national database everytime they bet to ensure they
225.
Bugs Found in CUPS(thestack.technology)
9 points by achenet 2y ago|1 comments
226.
by achenet 2y ago
I found Dawn of Everything to be very accessible, personally.
227.
by achenet 2y ago
I actually wrote a novella over the summer, using the "just write a bit every day and then go live your life method". It works quite well ^^
228.
by achenet 2y ago
er... you're not really following the logic of the parent comment. Parent comment asked, should people who can't work from home be paid more? Which seems like a specific case of the more general "we should pay people more if
229.
by achenet 2y ago
what if you study Mexican drug cartels, and you find that they have a certain method of communication that enables them to communicate more efficiently. You copy this communication in your non-profit organization that feeds starving childre
230.
by achenet 2y ago
> prostitution is still degrading and dangerous for those practicing it, especially for the women; degrading: no. I've met prostitutes who very much like their work and find it empowering dangerous: ...yes, because it's illegal
231.
by achenet 2y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Lyon, France Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Golang, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux, FreeBSD I'm an experienced Go developer, working mainly on the backend. I've done a fair amount of work on lar
232.
by achenet 2y ago
France also helped out a bit during the American Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War (look at the combattants section)
233.
by achenet 2y ago
dear friend, thank you, your response made me laugh out loud <3
234.
by achenet 2y ago
eh... Germany, Netherlands, even France... Switzerland probably... all those places you'll have bright young hardworking people from Spain or Portugal or Tunisia moving there, getting tech jobs, and finding financial/material succ
235.
by achenet 2y ago
> Even France where many of those values originated has an ethnic nationalist core which denies integration to those who are not ethnically French. disagree with this as a French person. That "ethnic nationalist core" is the Fr
236.
by achenet 2y ago
errr... okay I'm Jewish, and I think you're over-simplifiying when you say > Anyone who says 'anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism' is antisemitic For example, you can find here: https://tsedek.fr/ a
237.
by achenet 2y ago
French Jew here. I agree that our social, educational and cultural institutions are doing an absolutely atrocious job of integrating immigrant populations. Despite that, I find that most people I know from the Maghreb are actually quite wel
238.
by achenet 2y ago
this is good. We have internet and open source software, no reason not to have open source research. actually, making a github for peer review research papers would actually be pretty cool. this is also relevant, similar thing happening in
239.
by achenet 2y ago
That's actually a very interesting point of view. It's also interesting that you bring the Japanese into this. While they certainly to care a lot about producing high quality work, they also have one of the world's highest su
240.
by achenet 2y ago
you can be very hard working on things that aren't your day job. As I'm writing these words, an aspiring musician is probably sleepwalking through his day job because he was up all night practicing his music. Or Paul Graham, when

More ›