jrowen

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by jrowen 1y ago
Insecurity is often (always?) the driver of achievement. Some sort of deep-seated pathology is basically required to build the empires they have.
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by jrowen 1y ago
Well that is interesting, but I was referring to the wording of the phrase "chasm of possibilities." A chasm is not something I would metaphorically associate with "great potential." A chasm is usually a bad thing, its a
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by jrowen 1y ago
I'm intrigued by the notion of a chasm of possibilities. Can you explain further?
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by jrowen 2y ago
Read a bit on Fermi estimation, I'm not quite sure exactly what the "method" is in contrast to a less accurate method, it's basically just getting people to think in terms of dimensional analysis? This passage from the W
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by jrowen 2y ago
This jives with my general reaction to the post, which was that the added complexity and difficulty of reasoning about the ranges actually made me feel less confident in the result of their example calculation. I liked the $50 result, you
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by jrowen 2y ago
All they're really observing is that there are no such things as "strengths" and "weaknesses" I don't think that's totally accurate, the article is very clear about the "duality" and "two
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by jrowen 2y ago
I will also say that I don't hate vinyl records or people that like to DJ with them, I get why it's cool, I think it has a place. What I do take issue with is any kind of vinyl elitism or snobbism, because it's just so backwa
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by jrowen 2y ago
You seem really intent on not listening to what I'm saying. What do you think my arguments are? I have mentioned the wear and tear of records, lugging them around, and the physical state of the mechanical hardware of the player. This
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by jrowen 2y ago
I've often felt that coding is more akin to writing than anything. Any given statement is perhaps mathematical but at the higher level you're more authoring a program according to humanistic needs and thought patterns rather than
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by jrowen 2y ago
You can claim that CDJs are more reliable all you want but I call FUD on your claims of vinyl. Both as a DJ, event organiser and paying punter. Ok, that's fair, it's not that crazy or anything. But it is more difficult to get ri
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by jrowen 2y ago
Ok, my bad. I just didn't feel like it meaningfully countered anything I've argued. It is true that there is a culture of vinyl DJs and nights out there, and I'm not really commenting on their relative skill level. I have no
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by jrowen 2y ago
Cool thanks for stopping by, I'm happy for you really, not sure what point you're trying to make.
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by jrowen 2y ago
One of the commonly extolled virtues of playing vinyl is that you're "just playing records." As in, not using any fancy effects and tricks. For a lot of people, this is enough, and it's mostly about your music collection
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by jrowen 2y ago
Yeah that's fair, you guys are talking about the experience of the DJ. I'm talking about the experience of the listener. In the chaotic environment of a club or festival, there are too many ways that playing vinyl on turntables ca
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by jrowen 2y ago
It’s only a huge hassle now because most DJs don’t spin vinyl so a special effort has to be made for them. If you're standing in front of an empty table before a show at an actual venue with money and stakes on the line, and the hypo
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by jrowen 2y ago
I'll give you that I was being overly harsh or generalizing too broadly, perhaps with the hope that someone would challenge that. The points you make about DJs are valid but irrelevant to the hardware. If "all else is equal,"
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by jrowen 2y ago
That's a sad commentary on today's DJs then. Not really, you just have a lot more information and tools at your disposal. It's going to be a better performance. In no other area of endeavor is anyone expected to limit thems
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by jrowen 2y ago
Using a tool to beat match has always been considered "cheating", but it is obvious why it is a tool. I guess in the same way that using a higher-level language than Assembly is "cheating." I'm not sure if you&#x2
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by jrowen 2y ago
Why would people who are so comfortable, whose job was to me a lifelong goal, want to do exactly what I worked so hard to move away from? The difference is doing it out of necessity vs. doing it out of choice. Nobody fetishizes being work
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by jrowen 2y ago
At the end of the day, it's tough to live in a place like SF or NYC. A lot of people get weeded out. In my experience with living in SF, the people I know who continue to live there do so because they genuinely love it and wouldn'
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by jrowen 2y ago
As someone who has not read a book in years and often jokes that they may never will again, I think the most valuable thing about capital-R reading is improving and expanding your vocabulary. Rereading sentences, stopping to look up words,
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by jrowen 2y ago
Well, that also democratized publishing. For better or worse. Anyone can have a voice now that can spread without needing access from (human) gatekeepers or mastering arcane incantations. Starting from when there were like 4 TV channels, I
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by jrowen 2y ago
I think the indie web hasn't taken off because it's...indie...and it's competing with businesses that spend lots of money on growth. This will always be the case. You have to jump into the melee if you want the eyeballs, or j
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by jrowen 2y ago
It also happens to be where a lot of regular people are. Unlike whichever turbonerds-only alternative you're likely to suggest. This tech savvy team, to their benefit, might also be culture savvy.
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by jrowen 2y ago
Yeah I think this is targeting Facebook Events (which they seem like they've been trying to kill off anyway) and Partiful more than calendar meetings/appointments.
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by jrowen 2y ago
Or, depending on who you conversed with at the forum... How do we disprove the null hypothesis that this is a part of human nature and there have always been and will always be people that state their opinions as fact to be more persuasive,
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by jrowen 2y ago
I agreed. Based on some of the early comments I went in expecting the article to be a little more purely "woke" but I found it to be well-written and well-researched, and it does make some interesting points. On the whole though I
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by jrowen 2y ago
Sorry, I guess that was rude, I don't know anything about it, just a snap judgment of the landing page.
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by jrowen 2y ago
Agreed, and even "setting us back" any amount of time is still insanely far from the complete collapse and loss of society and language and it's all totally unrecoverable and we have to start over .... are people really this
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by jrowen 2y ago
For certain definitions of "conceivable" that all involve massive amounts of handwaving to get from big disaster to literally every human that speaks language died somehow and the handful left just can't put any of the pie

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