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by gffrd 3y ago
Echo Nest! That's right. Did I over-attribute the above to Paul? I didn't realize he wasn't a founder.
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by gffrd 3y ago
Yes! It was "Infinite Jukebox," created by Paul Lamere … it was awesome because it would analyse a track, then visualize its "components" and you could watch as the new "infinite" track looped back on itself an
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by gffrd 3y ago
I didn’t say I wasn’t one of ‘em …
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by gffrd 3y ago
> in Washington Ah, Washington drivers! Paying no attention at all until someone nears their space, then all of a sudden VERY attentive and territorial yet unwilling to be actually aggressive, so instead just kind of interfering. Highway
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by gffrd 3y ago
Yeah, “don’t beat children” seems like a pretty good thing to have advanced as law. So the argument against is “that’s for me to decide!” and “some people are beaten and turn out fine!”?
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by gffrd 3y ago
Why is it annoying? The feedback is immediate and highly discoverable. The Lock Screen on your phone has totally different criteria (ease, muscle memory) than a toy that uses the same metaphor (fun/challenging) Also: isn’t it more fun
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by gffrd 3y ago
Woah, really? That many people believe the future is so without hope?? As in "I think the world will such a bad place to be a human being, that not being a human at all would be preferable"? That's a lot of fear and fragility
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by gffrd 3y ago
> Why wouldn't you want tie your identity to something like that? Because conflating _need for purpose_ and _need to pay rent_ can be tricky business: they don’t always join neatly. Happy they do for you!
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by gffrd 3y ago
I want to add: I 100% agree about the points on "unlimited amount of things that could be done" and "unstructured urgency." I'm not sure if this has been found to be an effective leadership/management tactic …
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by gffrd 3y ago
This glosses over the fact that jobs are a central piece—if not _the_ central piece—of many people's identities in the States. We've lost religion and communities as things that define and provide structure and purpose, leaving us
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by gffrd 3y ago
… but they like saving money more than they hate it.
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by gffrd 3y ago
Try some Belgian butter if you can get your hands on it. It's less widely available French, but its excellent and doesn't carry a Francophile premium … Also, ghee! Also cultured butter! So many great butter and butter-adjacent pro
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by gffrd 3y ago
American butter mostly tastes like salt and hardened milkfat … which is pretty ho-hum. I suspect most Americans use butter for the salinity rather than the flavor. I further suspect that people butter their grilled cheese not for flavor, bu
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by gffrd 3y ago
Well this is pretty damn cool. I always assumed "self cleaning" was a bit of myth and mystique amongst denim-heads, attributable to the density of weave and the "patina" denim can get that makes it effective at resisting
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by gffrd 3y ago
Right, I guess it's really "nice little effortless profit!" This is why gift cards / loyalty balances are just crazy to me. For a little convenience, you turn money into feudal coinage that only ever goes down in value:
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by gffrd 3y ago
Related: "The sea was never blue" by Maria Michela Sassi for aeon: https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-gre...
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by gffrd 3y ago
The article didn’t answer the question we all now need an answer to: How did the fire-cooked eggs taste??
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by gffrd 3y ago
What a nice little interest-free loan for them!
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by gffrd 3y ago
Edward Tufte would like a word …
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by gffrd 4y ago
Could, but likely won't: if the things you have to do regularly spill beyond the boundary of time set to do them, you're not deciding how to approach the things you have to do correctly. Enforcing a constraint for the 90% scenario
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by gffrd 4y ago
You could always ask Chat GPT to summarize them for ya …
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by gffrd 4y ago
The other day, I was taking a call on my iPhone, over the earpiece, in my office suite's lobby. The connection was rock solid, and then out of nowhere the audio just disappeared, without warning … but the call didn't drop. A few s
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by gffrd 4y ago
Good luck with the rest of your afternoon …
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by gffrd 4y ago
As taken from the cover page of the July, 2018 edition of AARP Weekly.
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by gffrd 4y ago
> A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this Just pin it to GMT and call it good.
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by gffrd 4y ago
For some reason I find it really funny that there are Dominos in the Czech Republic …
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by gffrd 4y ago
You're only there because instead of quantifying work, boss worries about whether or not employees are looking at watches.
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by gffrd 4y ago
Checkered tablecloths!! For some reason, that really got me. Am I the only one surprised at how pleasant the crew quarters look? I realize I had an image of utter starkness/rudiment in my head: stainless steel everything, yadda yadda.
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by gffrd 4y ago
Seconded! While I lament the number of bookstores and music shops that have gone away, and that boom times are unlikely to come again (and birth wide variety) … what remains are generally purposeful, well-cared-for, well-appreciated places.
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by gffrd 4y ago
I've observed the same in manufacturing … and fitness trackers a la FitBit. There's initial value from training yourself on what something looks/feels like … but diminishing returns after that. Whether there is more value to

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