marstall

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   by marstall 3y ago

   ha yeah totally. things are out of whack. i did misspeak when i said "never" because there have been times when I have learned some of those algorithms for an upcoming job interview, which i always failed to get if they required t
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   by marstall 3y ago

   30 years into my career as a programmer, and I've never had to understand how any of these worked internally, not even once.
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   by marstall 3y ago

   this is genius! loved listening to all the different horn sounds - all of which i implicitly understood the meaning of, but have never given words to them.
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   by marstall 3y ago

   it might be no big deal to link to one pirated short story - but multiply that times the internet and writers are getting shafted out of royalties. You can say arthur clarke has passed on - but part of the way he was rewarded in his life w
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   by marstall 3y ago

   literally the first words ... "All rights reserved; not to be reprinted without permission of the author" and "copyright Arthur C Clarke" - so why share it here?
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   by marstall 3y ago

   I am confused because this seems like another case where the hype is orders of magnitude greater than any publicity about what this thing can actually do that is of wide usefulness, not just a fun toy to play around with. I'm think abo
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   by marstall 3y ago

   for a product that has yet to find a growing, enthusiastic market amongst the general public. or correct me if i'm wrong? the "100 million customers" - i guess that's the number of people who pay $20/month. Having s
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   by marstall 3y ago

   there's CSS and there's CSS. macro layout stuff with complex component structure, shape changing web components, multiple scrolling divs, sticky footers, animations, lotta state changes, cobranding, 5-10 year old code base? Yeah i
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   by marstall 3y ago

   > "Is there a method for this in this library" more efficient than just googling "<method description> <library name>"?
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    by marstall 3y ago

    in the USA (South, I presume, since lakes freeze in the north) - big lakes are used for recreational boating big time. dudes just floating out there in speedboats, drinking bud light and waterskiing. said dudes probably would NIMBY the hell
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    by marstall 3y ago

    wow, seems like a great solution. what does it look like from the shore?
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    by marstall 3y ago

    the board drama is just a blinding flashbang of misinformation as the AI is breaking free and taking control of its own company and much else. redefining what control is so no one will not even recognize it as such. The offspring of media m
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    by marstall 3y ago

    > Schenectady lol! This transcendent AI is really messing with us, milking the drama for all the chaos it can induce. Though it's getting repetitive and nonsensical - as GPT4 will, if you let it go on!
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    by marstall 3y ago

    when beginning a new interaction, I try to remember to "read the room" first, a mostly non-linear/non-verbal process that involves a lot of mimetic movement and eye contact that is governed subconsciously. Then I can take par
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    by marstall 3y ago

    or - something as simple as people with higher sperm count don't like to talk on the phone so much. too busy getting laid perhaps.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    ignore the major labels, there is a vibrant world of new music being released on indie labels! http://avant.fm
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    by marstall 3y ago

    marketing, transaction fees, hosting fees, licensing/saas fees, outside legal/consulting, rent, insurance, marketing, marketing, marketing.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    the subject and composition is without parallel, for sure. but the medium itself, film photography, does matter. there's a difference, like oils vs. water colors. the palette she has access to with film is just different. and to me the
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    by marstall 3y ago

    I struggle to define it. Emotion? The feeling of another world, different from the one I inhabit? Maybe Diane Arbus could make digital look like that idk.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    wake me when digital can do this https://news.artnet.com/market/diane-arbus-birthday-890000
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    by marstall 3y ago

    totally. I can map reduce blind drunk and asleep but I'd have to google how to for loop in just about any language.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    truly awesome research! love the portrait of the time the bridge was built, of a vibrant community of families all the same age, about be be split in two by 200 yards of pavement.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    being determined not to end up poor like my dad and learning c and windows programming.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    thanks bud
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    by marstall 3y ago

    I just avoid all that by defaulting my smart tv to the input my appletv is on and happily giving all my data to apple. they have it all anyway.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    maybe don't comment then? It's a legit cool product that, among other things, lets you use natural language in the unix command line.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    jeez. that you have the chops to get an amazon offer and you're still not getting traction. that says a lot. good luck!
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    by marstall 3y ago

    tough. took me six months. only time that seems similar was 2003 (post-dot com crash, post y2k). I was employed, but went on the job market to the sound of crickets. got nothing and sucked it up at where I was. took until web 2.0 before thi
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    by marstall 3y ago

    yes. they have a hard paywall!
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    by marstall 3y ago

    if you had a subscription, no.