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by dhosek 4mo ago
A true story: literally hours after posting this, I was with my kids at Barnes and Noble and they had records and CDs for sale by the cash register and my daughter asked what they were and when I explained it to my kids, they were skeptical
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by dhosek 4mo ago
well sure, they could have named it .lost+found instead of lost+found, but you’re overestimating the value of hiding it.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I think it’s more akin to the Recovered Items (or something like that) folder that shows up in your home directory sometimes (but maybe not anymore?)
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by dhosek 5mo ago
You greatly overestimate the capabilities of computers of the era that this originated in. Major limitations of disk space, speed and addressability combined with limited CPU power and RAM mean that your hypothetical, “it could have been do
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by dhosek 5mo ago
This is just one of many reasons why my current job is likely to be my last. I feel like so much of modern life is just irredeemably broken right now.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I remember someone talking about their $100 box cutter and thinking, huh? I just use my keys.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
There used to be places where you could make your own one-of-a-kind record: pretty much direct microphone to vinyl¹ which I’m guessing this essentially is. But that said, I kind of feel like most of Teenage Engineering is more stunt than pr
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by dhosek 5mo ago
From what I know about record manufacturing, creating the lacquer master would involve adjusting the angle of the groove to allow for two concentric grooves to be laid, along with some care in creating that master. But once it’s done, the m
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by dhosek 5mo ago
So there’s two ways you make money from any mutual fund: the first is that the value of the shares can go up (that’s called capital growth). The second is through dividends and distributions. Dividends will be higher with a bond fund than s
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by dhosek 5mo ago
My greatest moment of this was being able to find a quote in a 500-page book I had read 8 years earlier in about 2 minutes thanks to the physical memory of my first encounter with that text.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
It’s not merely that—I’ve found that reading a book on a technical topic is a faster route to understanding than trying to learn it from random webpages spewed forth by the google.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I was more of a collector as a younger person than I am now (as evidenced by my 2000-volume personal library). I generally only sought out first editions by authors that I really loved (Graham Greene being the primary exemplar). Most of the
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by dhosek 5mo ago
As a bit of anecdata, my kids show a slight preference for physical books over ebooks, although they’re happy enough to listen to digital audio books. They have literally no experience with physical media for music but have at least encount
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Hmm, I’m thinking that for this to work best, it really should be some sort of round medium, a disk or a cylinder of some sort. I think disks might be best because then you could engrave the music on both sides of the disk and more easily s
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by dhosek 5mo ago
That’s been something I’ve started doing. The nice part of the bond chunk of my investment portfolio is the current income aspect of it, with monthly dividends that give an annualized return of a touch under 4% on top of the capital growth.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I think a more accurate way to phrase this is that potential jurors in Seattle have grown to believe etc. How does that happen? Television. They see the police pulling up surveillance videos or using high tech lab technologies on television
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by dhosek 5mo ago
It varies on the country. In Mexico, it’s not uncommon for landlords to want rent paid in cash (which can be a challenge in that one has to safely transfer tens of thousands of pesos from the bank to the landlord on a regular basis in a cou
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Breaking Bad was another show that addressed some of the issues with Walt buying a car wash as a way to try to launder the drug money although the problem was that there was too much money (thus the 55-gallon drums of cash buried in the des
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Which then raises the idea that young earth creationism posits a God who would create a world that intentionally misleads people about its age. And yet if you ask many a young earth creationist about the dome in the heavens separating the w
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Arg, that’s what I get for typing on my phone
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I zimbra used an existing nonsense word poem by Hugo Ball which predates this by quite a bit. I’m drawing a blank on the 60s or 70s pop song which had fake non English lyrics in some part of it. Amusingly in this context, the French lyrics
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by dhosek 5mo ago
A minor grammar nit. Its commend whoever decided to follow protocol, not whomever. You choose the case of who(m)ever based on its function in the dependent clause not the clause’s function in the sentence.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
It’s more a rhetorical thing than a reality. The appeal to me of raising chickens for eggs is not having to slaughter them,¹ but reality is much uglier than that, of course. ⸻ 1. Back in the 00s, I would buy our weekly supply of eggs from a
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Living off savings/investments and not having to do things because they will generate money.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Not to mention that with AI, the pleasure is going out of it, at least for me. I enjoy the crafting of code at least as much if not more than the actual results of the code. For almost 20 years, I’ve been declaring myself ready to leave tec
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by dhosek 5mo ago
you just got me to go to https://www.herbiehancock.com/tour/ and https://roncarterjazz.com/pages/ron-carter-performance-sched... They’re playing together at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I have to admit, I was a little surprised to discover that Rollins was still alive. You tend to assume that giants like him are all in the distant past, not still walking the earth.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
You don’t need an llm to do this.
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by dhosek 5mo ago
Yeah, why bother updating the diagrams but then do long s throughout?
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by dhosek 5mo ago
I sometimes think that my mental model of a computer is still an Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM leads to my writing better code.

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