madmountaingoat

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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
I believe you have to listen to the experts on the topic, consider their biases and motivation, contrast the varying viewpoints, compare the philosophical or scientific foundations of the arguments against your researched world view, and ei
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
This is a great point. As companies get bigger you can find HR actually codifies the behavior as part of their efforts to reduce unconscious bias in the hiring process. So you end up with developers, who know this is a flawed system, perpet
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Hazing is exactly what it is. It's a club and if you want to join the club you're going to have to go through the rituals. I hate participating in the charade but I do it with as much humanity and compassion as I can muster.
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Music as an art form is simply not that important to a lot of people. It's more a mood drug. And you're right about the algorithms. In general, the algorithms are judged by the amount of listening that occurs because of them. It&
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
I'm pretty sure you encounter in in science fiction as well, where some bug like alien has a carapace or a soldier has some armored exo-skeleton described by the word. Though I cannot think of any specific examples.
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
While there's certainly darkness here it clearly shows Frost was not all doom and gloom. Even a very cynical reading would be hard pressed to discount the positivity of the small act and the feelings of connection it engendered.
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
I suspect FAANGs got infected by these idea by hiring from more conservative institutions driven by their financial bottom-line. I've never worked at FAANGs but I've seen that arc at other companies as they scale. Practices that
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
Not to be a downer, but one perspective is that there is no meaning to be found and any purpose is yours to define. Both Stoic and Absurdist thinkers have written from this angle. I'm not an expert, but realizing there have been smar
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
Correct, two people: the victim and the criminal. Going back to your example, a victim who gets mugged after choosing to walk down a dark alley is still the victim. They do not share responsibility or fault for the crime. They share respons
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
And I'm pointing out that responsibility and blame are not the same things and that conflating the terms leads to positions that are hard to defend. A person may be responsible for their own actions but not to blame for someone else&#x
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
I prefer to think of art as anything made by man. Using this definition I can cherish a poorly crafted thing made by a friend, a child's scribble, a well crafted gear or an antique bronze from thousands of years ago as art. And that me
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
To my laymen brain this seems very similar to Lee Cronin's Assembly theory. Curious to understand more about the difference.
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
Sparkey is simple and super fast. If you use them like Spotify frequently does, where a pipeline creates a new daily copy, hydrating them to the nodes that need access becomes the bigger issue for using them.
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
Not contradicting you, just adding the context that there was BASIC compilers that could speed things up significantly. Not sure of the cost or the the relative performance, but it was fast enough to build commercial products with.
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
I think mourning is more than just tragedy. It's recognition of loss. And the tradition of black things around death has seemed more a sign or respect than as indication of some tragic underpinnings. But I actually don't know the
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
> does NOT remotely justify the additional cost... The recommendation system is amazing and totally worth an additional cost to me. > You paid $10-20 one time and the music was durably yours forever. I'm old enough to have re pur
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
Questionable ethics by the author as well. It's fine to believe Kissinger is a war criminal and to call him such, but to omit that he never actually was convicted as such and to draw direct comparison to someone who was legally convic
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
Listen deeper, listen more and you will help artists more than cancelling your subscription. I don't know what artists at the new cutoff were making but its not a living wage, and I doubt it's even beer money. The unknown artists
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by madmountaingoat 3y ago
Contrary to what many have said I think Ruby's popularity started to rise a bit before Rails. It got an earlier bump from being talked about in the 1999 Andrew Hunt and David Thomas book The Pragmatic Programmer. As for why it beat ou