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by adamc 4y ago
Having been on the other end of it... the reality is harsh. People say they want to know, but in fact... they mostly don't. The reality of it is hard to deal with. It can go on and on. People have a lot of misconceptions, sometimes for
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by adamc 4y ago
It's unethical to offer a "lifetime" license you do not plan to support.
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by adamc 4y ago
I have a very negative reaction to sites that require an email to get something of unknown value. Automatic no.
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by adamc 4y ago
I asked for recommendations in a recent thread, and was pointed at "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed", which was pretty good (although not remotely as well-written as "The Soul of a New Machine"), a
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by adamc 4y ago
I read this recently and loved it, certainly one of the better books I've read in the last decade. I will re-read it at some point, which isn't true of most books I read these days.
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by adamc 4y ago
It's more an essay than an opinion, a thought-experiment as much as an experience. But I think it's an interesting question.
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Can We Love Our Children Unconditionally?(nytimes.com)
4 points by adamc 4y ago|1 comments
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by adamc 4y ago
I don't think London is cheap, American wages or not.
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by adamc 4y ago
Unlikely in the foreseeable term, not because the world loves dollars, but because there are few good alternatives. Euros are probably the best alternative, but studies have suggested that the US is a better place for holding assets. See, f
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by adamc 4y ago
Have we no drones to eliminate troublesome Saudis? Reality is that we have lots of tools to address bad actors. There are always consequences, true enough. But it isn't like we haven't used them. In this case, we probably won&#x27
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by adamc 4y ago
Legally, I am not qualified to comment. But as a citizen of the US, this makes me very, very angry.
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by adamc 4y ago
I listen to a lot of music across a lot of eras, and I'm not particularly fond of the 70s or early 80s ( my era). I agree that "in my day" is a thing, but the criticism is accurate anyway. I think vocal harmonies affect peop
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by adamc 4y ago
Yes, except that I think people relate to voices differently than other instruments; maybe our brains lock onto human voices in a special way. So harmonies that are sung still have a different effect.
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by adamc 4y ago
Sure. But there are lots and lots of Beatles songs (for example) that shift keys in the main verse, often very early in the song (and often several times). Key changes used to be something most bands handled easily, and the best songwriters
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by adamc 4y ago
Movable frets made of gut both allow for better tuning and require more tuning.
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by adamc 4y ago
I don't disagree, but I think it's also a question of imposing a culture. Twitter didn't have that culture, and Musk came in and acted in a very adversarial manner. None of those people came to Twitter to work for Musk under
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by adamc 4y ago
Trying to comprehend the idea that "key changes are cliche". No. Maybe certain patterns are cliche, but there are so many interesting things you can do with key changes that the remark is just silly. But it isn't just key cha
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by adamc 4y ago
I don't think it's just a fashion thing. There is a real outcome of this: the music is simpler and less interesting. Modulation isn't the only missing ingredient, though. Quantization and click tracks and pitch-correction and
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by adamc 4y ago
The formatting of that article is a bit hard to read. People have been pointing out how little modulation there is in modern pop music for a while. Combined with click-tracks, pitch-correction and sampling, there is just less variation in m
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by adamc 4y ago
They do, but publishers have been tightening the screws on libraries too.
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by adamc 4y ago
I dunno about that. I listen to book, podcasts, music... and my mind often wanders. Often I have to go back 10 minutes to pick up the last section I was paying attention to (if I care -- books, yes, podcasts, maybe, music no).
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by adamc 4y ago
This is true. On one of my routes, I will pass a corner and think "this is where I finished the Lord of the Rings" (the most recent time). My mind now associates places with sections of audiobooks. So you are not alone. I don&#x27
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by adamc 4y ago
I think a major reason might be that a precondition for globalism has been the US Navy patrolling the high seas and making shipping safe and reliable. As the US retreats from that, the reality will be that many countries cannot guarantee th
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by adamc 4y ago
Kindness was definitely in the post though -- the whole point of the closing was to be kind to those facing adverse circumstances.
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by adamc 4y ago
Agree with the advice. If nothing else, be kind and respectful of people facing adversity.
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by adamc 4y ago
There are lots of reasons to think the PRC is about to hit a very rough patch as globalism shrinks.
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by adamc 4y ago
DirectStorage is an attempt to address that, no?
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by adamc 4y ago
Loved this. Thank you for sharing.
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by adamc 4y ago
You may eventually have other commitments (e.g., wife and children) that make that somewhat impractical. It's important to guard your career.
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by adamc 4y ago
"The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy" covers this, and a lot more: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Zoologists-Guide-to-the-Galax...

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