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by fipar 3y ago
noob here too, but I wanted to share what I found in one of the descriptions (“The bedroom”, which I chose while skimming through the thumbnails after reading your comment): “The rules of perspective seem not to have been accurately applied
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by fipar 3y ago
I’m part of the responses you’re not interested in but since it’s Ask HN … :) I’ve been fully remote for 14 years and there’s nothing that would make me go back to an office. That’s not to say my experience has been without its bad moments
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by fipar 3y ago
Reminds me of the scene from movie Aeroplane where the flight attendant announces all that's wrong with the flight, and nobody bats an eye. Then as she's almost done, she adds that they've ran out of coffee, and then panic en
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Somerton Man(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by fipar 3y ago|0 comments
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The World Soundscape Project(sfu.ca)
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by fipar 3y ago
> Nintendo has done some sort of mass psychology that allows them to have sub 30fps with no complaints, I was born too early to see this reviewed in business schools, but we are starting to see a bit of the innerworkings of how Nintendo
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by fipar 3y ago
> I'm simplifying here, but how is mining a dozen rare-earth materials, making a handful of integrated circuits, casting a flawless LCD panel, pick and placing circuit boards, winding coils for magnetic speakers, molding a case out
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by fipar 3y ago
In Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Pirsig (or perhaps one should say Phaedrus, his former self from before he got electroshock therapy) stumbles upon arete while trying to define quality. I found his two books very interesting an
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by fipar 4y ago
About not killing someone if you ride after drinking, Obviously it is ver difficult for a bike to directly kill someone other than the rider (as opposed to a car, where this is very easy), but a drunk cyclist can still hurt other people dir
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by fipar 4y ago
For 3 and 4, this seems to make it possible: https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2017/01/03/Find-stuf... I, for one, will now go down this rabbit hole ...
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by fipar 4y ago
I don't know about the first two because those aren't a use case for me, but for 3, you want helm-org-rifle-agenda-files, and for 4, I don't know about something org-specific, but you can use emacs' search commands after
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by fipar 4y ago
For org, you want this: https://orgmode.org/manual/Search-view.html If you want to search only on headings, helm-org-rifle-agenda-files is what you need.
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by fipar 4y ago
I understand what you meant better now, and I agree with your position. In particular: > Today it's the artists but tomorrow it could be IT workers. Companies are pyramids and the room at the top is finite. A healthy economy is not
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by fipar 4y ago
As you elaborated elsewhere: > Honestly this whole "adapt" thing is a load of nonsense parroted by people who aren't immediately under threat and have nothing to fear. Who is going to adapt at 30/40/50 years old?
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by fipar 4y ago
You’re not wrong, but when we replace a factory line job that person also goes through their own little hell, and they probably don’t even have the possibility of going back to college and taking more debt. If anything, if it is true that A
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by fipar 4y ago
Yeah, forget responding to prompts, I want to see A”I” respond to pages to troubleshoot its prompt-generated software. “The machine stops” will seem optimistic in hindsight!
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by fipar 4y ago
Thanks for that reference, it reminded me of Rainforest[0], which IIRC I found out about on the “Ohm: Early gurus of electronic music” album (one of the few physical CDs I have kept along with its packaging, it actually belongs to my daught
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by fipar 4y ago
I don’t know what type of role you’re looking for but I have hired for database-related roles in the past (I’m an IC now) and will be happy to review your resume and maybe suggest a couple of places for you to try if applicable, just contac
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by fipar 4y ago
What you say is not remote jobs, it’s working remotely for an office-based company. I don’t know if that will disappear completely but from what you say that seems to be the case. But remote jobs for remote companies have always been a thi
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by fipar 4y ago
Do you mean this?: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/01/turn-by-turntables-how-... It showed up on HN some time ago.
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by fipar 4y ago
This, so much. I learned to type on a typewriter. I sadly don’t remember the brand or model as I was a kid, but in my house, we used it /kind of/ as one would use a printer now. We did not type stuff from scratch there. Too expens
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by fipar 4y ago
The ZAMM reference is spot on to me. The moment I used to get an interruption (typically an incoming call, but not only that), what happened to me was just what Pirsig describe of the gumption leaving you like air from a baloon, psssst. I e
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by fipar 4y ago
Yeah, he's working in an intense context-switching environment. Also, since he's a very senior team member he gets interrupted frequently for escalations or just for short help requests. The context-switching is what killed me wh
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by fipar 4y ago
> Another approach I use is "write it down". In this sense, I add to bookmarks (here I am a diehard fan of Pinboard), but NOT with the intention of "read it later", but "if I want to find it again, I know where i
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by fipar 4y ago
Kinda like WFH, this varies a lot from people to people. Well, I don't know about the damage part, but definitely, for some of us, intense multitasking leads to cognitive decline (it was reversed for me hence why I said "I don&#x2
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by fipar 4y ago
I guess it also means the often-copied interview process isn’t that good at predicting worker performance.
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by fipar 4y ago
Though beautiful (to some of us anyway) and sometimes also fast, most Alfas back then were notoriously lemon-y. I don't know if this is global, but at least in Uruguay in the 80s (and perhaps earlier too) there was a saying that an Alf
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by fipar 4y ago
Yup, it seems that was a Vox Continental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Continental
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by fipar 4y ago
Yes! Adding to what you said, Wendy Carlos has an interesting writeup on her MIDI "Wurlitzer": https://www.wendycarlos.com/wurlynew/ , and the "Historical Roots" section mentions the use in silent mo
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The organ as a wind instrument(yamaha.com)
68 points by fipar 4y ago|105 comments

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