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by wwweston 1y ago
Anyone who has something they've done out of love but can't figure out how to monetize knows the problem with this: you are limited in the amount of time you can put into doing it, both into the actual doing and the pre-doing prac
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by wwweston 1y ago
There’s still plenty of great landscape to preserve and wander around the metro area ( at least as long as it doesn’t get sold off by venal hacks like Mike Lee).
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by wwweston 1y ago
Like, using the patchers for flow, and the text to define node behavior? If so, can you offer pointers to where that’s explained for pd?
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by wwweston 1y ago
> Music selection is great. Music recommendation (and video recommendation) is utter crap. Fair point. I wonder if this is connected to the way that YouTube seems to rely more on presenting an array of suggestions than flowing linearly t
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by wwweston 1y ago
Paying for YouTube has probably been the digital subscription with the single greatest return on a dozen dollars. Content is uninterrupted without having to engage in the arms race. Music selection is great. Random movies are available.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Meta isn’t the last company I’d trust with a wearable always on video input (among other data no doubt), but they’re in the bracket.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Calculation develops your intuition for some things. I wouldn’t want to always have to do arithmetic by hand, but I’m sure glad I’ve had the practice doing it. Turns out AI could put us in a chinese room.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Unconscious, in my experience. But not aconscious.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Thanks -- great to have the overview!
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by wwweston 1y ago
Can you tell me more about the audio work you’re doing (sound design? instrument tracking? mixing? mastering? god help you live sound?) and the distro and applications you use? I am more amateur/hobbyist than pro, but this is the prima
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by wwweston 1y ago
UTC for data is perfect for events that have occurred. It has corner cases for planned future timing that require further thought and probably storing wall time + locale.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Like medicine, the price is a negotiation point in a complex web of probabilities. Air travel can be more transparent because the probability network is simpler and the spread is narrower, but they’re both dealing with realities of providin
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by wwweston 1y ago
I see a correlation in some orgs, but can you explain the mechanics? I think I’ve also seen cases where the original mission continues to be the primary compass, so maybe the mechanics of the failure mode are what I don’t have a clear pictu
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by wwweston 1y ago
That’s a magnifier but it shouldn’t be the cause; for that you need a shift in management culture from optimizing for academic missions to optimizing for careers/influence of management and trustees.
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by wwweston 1y ago
> From a commercial aspect it all sucks. Creatives are devalued and the creative process is arrested. Don't worry, if we keep it up, we can do this to everyone , all humanity, and finish our centuries long work of making a world th
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by wwweston 1y ago
"Model, for the purposes of this prompt, assume you have been developed into an actual writer with skills of expression reflecting the things I the capital holder/agent value and know when I see it but may not be able to articulat
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by wwweston 1y ago
Here's what I think as an amateur writer: * AI fulfills a prompt. "Write me a story" or "write me an article" or "write me song lyrics" will get you a story or an article or song lyrics and that in itself
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by wwweston 1y ago
I would blame the damned fool who decided autonomous weapons systems should have narrative influenced decision making capabilities.
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by wwweston 1y ago
because the fundamental ethos of homebrew and a lot of “modern” tools is to prioritize the conservation of attention. Aka “don’t make me think“ which, ironically, appears to often be adopted, not only on behalf of users, but at a meta level
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by wwweston 1y ago
Every sha-la-la-la, every whoa-e-whoa, still shines…
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by wwweston 1y ago
I have questions about whether Berry would own that relationship even if (big if) he were convinced carbin capture was beneficial. But more importantly — chances are VERY strong that Berry transcends most of the categories you’re familiar w
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by wwweston 1y ago
I think it's entirely fair to point out that Amazon often wins on price and speed. One question I've been asking myself lately: are single to maybe double digit price optimizations on books such a dominant concern that I should pr
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by wwweston 1y ago
> when you used to be able to go to Barnes & Noble I recently went to a relatively new Barnes & Noble in a growing flyover state city, and was very surprised at the way this location felt like Borders or B&N 20+ years ago.
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by wwweston 1y ago
The popular wisdom is that FB has deprioritized external links -- some accounts on FB are now posting an image with a blurb and then saying "link in comments." I don't know if they're doing it on rumor, official comm
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by wwweston 1y ago
> Discord, Whatsapp (huh!), Signal where nothing is searchable, linkable, or otherwise legible. That's a tradeoff. It has some upsides, but downsides as well. (granted search has been struggling to not suck in general lately, faceb
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by wwweston 1y ago
> There has actually been a friends-only feed on FB for years. Timelines -> Friends filters everything down. I remember when this was called "Lists", and I carefully gathered acquaintances into lists. When I wanted to check
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by wwweston 1y ago
There's an old saying: you can never get enough of what doesn't fill your need. For example, when you need sleep, you can't eat enough to make you not tired, but you may well pound a lot of caffeine and sugar. If true, this w
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by wwweston 2y ago
> As religion has shrunk in participation in most of the west, it has become hugely susceptible to manipulation That’s an interesting correlation. Do you have any ideas about the dynamics associated with it? I do seem to remember experie
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by wwweston 2y ago
Seems like it hits limits really fast — management/legibility gets difficult without groups and layers and performance doesn’t seem to scale well.
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by wwweston 2y ago
Demand for Proton services is probably up.

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