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by saaaaaam 3y ago
I… wh…? oh no! Escoffier was NOTHING. D:
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Meanwhile, back over here in Europe where we are clearly in the dark ages of culinary-tech if we want something sweet and buttery we have a brioche with confiture and butter. Or a scone with jam and clotted cream. Or a Swedish cinnamon bun.
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Valiant attempt but I remain pretty sure that cups as a measurement are insanity! Also… butter with honey mixed in?? Is this also American?
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
See, I had no idea about that because we just don’t use cups here. But as I pointed out elsewhere it’s not about liquids - the thing that confuses me with cups is solids because 50g of butter = 50g of flour but 1 cup of butter does not equa
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
So hold on… butter is sold in sticks, marked in tablespoons, collected in boxes and split into cups? This is great work, you’re a creature after my own heart! This thing about cups is that 50g of flour = 50g of butter but 1 cup of flour doe
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Because a pint is a defined measure, but a cup is just… random. Should I use a big cup or a little cup? A teacup? A coffee cup? What about that giant mug from can measure butter in cups but also flour, and oil and water. I can pour 50ml of
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
British recipes use ml. You’d rarely see a pint in a British recipe unless ir was quite old. American recipes use pints and - even more insane - cups. British distance is measured in miles unless it’s a short distance under half a mile in w
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
A lot of what I see from him is outright clickbait, or is such an over-simplification and elision of complex arguments as to be misleading, or is just incorrect opinion dressed up as fact. I know he is well regarded as a jazz critic but tha
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
How to get attention in the music business if you’re a third rate commentator: rail against whatever is obvious, and use big statements that mean nothing but people can get behind. That’s much easier than working out the nuance of the busin
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
It’s a weirdly specific analogy referencing Tom Lehrer. I’m not poisoning pigeons :) https://youtu.be/yhuMLpdnOjY
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
The trick here is that they aren’t just driving fake streams. They are burying the fake streams in amongst legit streams. I’m still a little sceptical of this article’s claims, but there is absolutely a problem with fake streams/stream
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Genuinely curious who your customers are and what the price point is. The market clearly isn’t me because I hated your landing page and copy within 20 seconds. Not a criticism, I have products where I wrote copy in a way that hits an audien
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
I wonder how much that exact context - at a club, coffee shop, travelling, walking by a store - is part of what makes us fall in love with songs. I can remember the exact open air bar in Lisbon that I first heard a favourite song, the exact
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
You may have a valid point! However thinking again about what I actually meant (vs how I expressed it) it’s probably clearer if I edit to “the institutions of science are generally fairly good (with some notable outlier exceptions) at self
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
This is a little like examining a very small public park, poisoning a pigeon[^1] and worrying that you’ve wiped out an entire species. I think we should have a certain amount of trust in actual scientists that when conducting a very small s
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
One of my favourite bits of comedy is from Paul Tonksinon, an English comedian who is originally from Yorkshire. For non-English audiences, Yorkshiremen are considered very bluff and no-nonsense - the antithesis of “fancy”. Plain speaking i
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
As my piano teacher used to say, “what did the piano do to you to make you hit it quite so hard?” This is known as the “Moonlight” sonata not the “thunder and timpani” sonata. It’s a great demo but the dynamic range of your piano robot is h
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Does ChatGPT always start articles with “in the rapidly evolving landscape of X”? Surely if you’re posting an article promoting miraculous AI tech you should human edit the article summary so that it’s not really obviously drafted by AI.
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Convert last remaining streaming hold outs - Apple has high quality audio as standard, vs Spotify who still haven't implemented it even as a premium feature. The other high quality audio streaming platforms are probably too far away fr
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Interesting. We were just expected to learn it or work it out!
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
I more meant that the typical demographics of consumers around classical music probably make it a premium market, sorry, I was using shorthand. That said - because most classical streaming services are really bad there's still a very a
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
It's a big niche and a premium niche. The beauty of classical music is that (by and large) you don't need to pay out publishing royalties. And, of course, if you own the master recordings, you don't need to pay out recording
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
I'm curious about why you've added what I assume are stress marks in the Latin. I studied it (admittedly, a while back) all my way through school and have never once seen this used, including in this poem. In no way a criticism of
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Fair use in US copyright law allows for this with parameters. If your presentation was a work related presentation for a business then although you'd probably get away with it, you would probably not be covered by the provisions of fai
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Yes, it is, but I think you've misunderstood my point. You give four examples that you say contest my statement that "if you want to consume copyright protected content you need - unless the copyright owner allows you - to make so
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Exactly right. Thank you for spelling it out!
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Under US copyright law, but not in other territories.
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
It’s a slightly strange article because it assumes that an equivalent of “reading” which it posits is permitted under copyright is somehow free. It’s not. If you want to consume copyright protected content you need - unless the copyright ow
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
No, easy! Laso or jelo laso. Loje laso walo = mauve I guess.
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by saaaaaam 3y ago
Not to be pernickety, but I did say “a lot of” not “all of”… And in the context of this conversation which was about clickbait on the guardian I felt it was a contextually valid observation. I’m sorry you didn’t find it helpful.

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