I have no interest interacting with someone who is going to get into how great the slide ruler is and how kids these days need to learn the slide ruler. When I was younger I thought this type of person was highly admirable but now older and wiser I see how full of shit they are.

There is also a marketing problem in that everyone thinks they have to do the same thing to stand out but if you are doing the same thing as everyone else then you are doing the opposite of standing out.

At one point in my career when I was struggling to get interviews, I gave up and decided the jobs available to me are the ones my friends can help me get. You will amaze yourself with how much more effort you put into your network when you take the internet posting jobs off the table.

There is also much to be said for being able to program but doing something else besides pure software engineer.

How to build it, the labor, the design, the marketing and the capital? Thats where you come in!

Classic Sacha Baron Cohen joke.

Harry Partch - 2 Studies on Ancient Greek Scales is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6IinoChSVA

There is also an acquired taste for non-standard tunings like the taste for beer. Some beers though are just bad.

The best recommendations are from humans who love music and you also share their taste in music.

Once every few years an amazing recommendation bubbles to the surface on Youtube for me but compared to a music lover's top 100 for a certain year? It isn't even close.

There is no reason you need algorithmic efficiency in this domain. 1000 recommendations might even be objectively less enjoyable than 10 recommendations since it will cause you to not explore any single recommendation all that much. Most of my favorite albums were not 1st listen instant favorites. Actually, quite the opposite.

A great album to me is also going to be out of sample and not in the training data of what I have liked in the past. That is a large part of its greatness.

That is probably priming the hiring manager to look for things on the CV they feel would also be outdated and then they are on to the next person.

I would honestly say no website would be better than this current version.

That is going to frame everything about the person as "outdated" and little surprise no one is hiring them.

Jim Wendler really summed up fitness to me. How to do a deadlift? According to Jim, the weight is on the ground and you pick it up.

Not even in the same ballpark. Even when things are wrong in Sora it seems like the imagery is still very crisp. If I watched these videos for 5 minutes I know I would get a headache.

Then there are these incredible 10mg THC infused lemonades that are amazing.

On the other hand, the novelty of legal weed only lasted about 4 months for me. Because the store was there and there was this selection I never had access to before I wanted to try different things and was smoking more than I would have normally. At the end of the day though it is all still just weed. It is fun for me but only once a month at most now.

I also don't know a single person that didn't smoke weed because it was illegal and now they do because they can go to the store and purchase it legally.

I think that the polling has doubled for users because people can answer the poll honestly when weed is legal. The idea that weed being illegal is keeping 50% of the potential weed smoking population from smoking is utterly preposterous.

If anything, what is interesting is how many people who would never try weed when it was illegal, will still never try it when it is legal. They may say it is because it is illegal or they don't want to smoke but you can't sell them on 10mg legal lemonaid either.

The system this builds though on a multi-decade scale is total insanity.

I don't see how it is possible that there is anything resembling what we would call a free and open society in 50 years.

We love to romanticize the path not taken too. If I look at the mistakes I have made in my life, if I could go back and change them I would still just end up making different mistakes on a different path.

Some of those alternate paths would have been a dead end too, literally. We take the value of the path that was chosen is one that means you are alive to read this on 4/28/24 completely for granted.

Just someone who either has nothing to do with music or does but has an absolutely obnoxious personality that will point out some meaningless detail in the specification.

It is just mind blowing that my 1997 Korg Prophecy and 10 year old Waldorf Blofeld are all linked up to my brand new computer using the latest version of Abelton live with a midi interface that I don't even remember when I got it but its old too.

I would love to rent a Tesla exactly as mentioned but waiting 30 minutes at the start or the end is just unacceptable to me.

I would need to be given a pretty good discount on the rental to even consider it.

The problem to me is we are holding LLMs to a standard of usefulness from science fiction and not reality.

A new, giant set of encyclopedias has enormous utility but we wouldn't hold it against the encyclopedias that they aren't doing the thinking for us or 100% omniscient.

I also think in the sense of how a church in 1500 was not a relic of the past the way we view a church from 1500 today. I would say a church from 1500 was much closer to what the churches in this article would have been in 1500.

Of course, there is a real issue that while I find these amazingly beautiful I would never go to one because I am not the least bit Christian or religious.

A bubble in this context has the connotation of ignorance of what is outside the bubble.

For most sports, the best seat is at home on your couch watching on your giant tv.

For most sports, the reason to not sit at home watching on your giant TV is to have social interactions with other people at the event.

Ultimately, useful products don't need all this philosophizing that VR always seems to entail. The whole premise of VR goggles is kind of stupid.

The free world that evolved after WW2 is simply not compatible with the internet.