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this makes me think of http://www.terrysrubberrollers.com/

fair but id assume the algorithm prioritizes watch time anyway. people might dislike a video but then watch it anyway… guessing youtube is going to opt to keep showing the video.

ive used youtube daily for years and never once looked at or clicked the dislike button (or the like button). seems to work fine for me

same; this is the part I always end up trying to explain to people when talking up Dune. The monolith in 2001 is kind of a similar idea.

Maybe part of the problem is in the first paragraph. Founders/VC types seem to think that being able to make money off of people's usage of your product is the same as "creating value" for those people.

To take an extreme example, if someone says I'll burn down your house if you don't pay me, is value created?

Ok and if an advertising based economy/culture creates a phony demand for something, and then people purchase that something, is value created?

I really came to appreciate this when I got a camera during the pandemic and started walking around looking for things to photograph. I recommend it. Even better maybe if you dispense with the instagram account and the idea of trying to show it to people.

I appreciate that this is a novel non-knee-jerk take on social media but not sure I fully buy it, mostly because the way commerce/the algorithm modifies this “stage” in real time. Art/performance always has and will have some commercial aspect, but it’s usually appears before and after but not during. Maybe the closest analog would be the improvising comedian that takes the set into a direction depending on what people laugh at. But then how do you account for the total opaque interests/influence of the algorithm?

homelessness is a big issue in NYC, it doesn’t seem clear to me that cars have much to do with it, compared to, say, lack of affordable housing. perhaps we could reclaim all the parking space to build more housing

I am biased but why do we even need cars in the city center, or at the very least why should they be convenient? Could there not be a situation where you walk to the edges of the city center to pick up your car and leave from there? There are specific accessibility concerns that certainly need to be accounted for, but the idea that the average driver loses 20 minutes on a trip that should be 5-10 minutes doesn't seem like inherently an issue in this context.

edit-add: biased in the sense that I really dislike cars and live in NYC in large part because you do not need one here

was just thinking the same thing as I watched this video easily explaining one of the apparent objects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_bX9Hx1H0

Tried to second your comment about playing quietly on a very loud amp but looks like it was deleted. So I'll say it here: at some point I tried playing out of a very high headroom amp, fingerstyle, and it completely changed my playing and understanding of the guitar. I "wasted" so many years on small tube amps that break up right away.

but why should it necessarily be that much different? better documentation sure, always. but in my experience Shopify solves ~70% of the cases extremely well and I, having learned some of the quirks, have very little problem filling the gaps. I will say, the app development, to the point of the article, IS a bit annoying hah. But I'm very surprised by all these API complaints. I think the API is very nice; maybe not quite Stripe-level but highly effective.

There are definitely several ways to set up complex Shopify shipping situations. My livelihood is in good part based on it.

This seems almost too simple & good to be true. The counter points in the linked article mention that its too "computationally expensive" to calculate the payments, and the additional management costs could outweigh the benefit to smaller artists... how could that possible be true?

new album of guitar and drum improvisations, bent into post-hoc intentionality, via a lot of editing and samples

https://tunnelspeeches.bandcamp.com/album/tunnel-speeches

i think in part by having more than 2 engines on those flights

I do. I go through stuff and use the star interface to track things I want to focus on. Actually I was slightly annoyed that they made it more hidden on the web interface. Looks like they added it back.

I have to say I have literally never once had the thought that Dropbox is in my way. I have a 3TB pro account which I have setup on my studio computer with full sync to an external drive. I record/work on sessions with sync continually active. Both of those things should be "no no"'s, but it works fine.

I go home and my laptop is smart syncing the recently active sessions only which conserves space on the laptop drive but lets me do some small work on recently active sessions.

It's totally seamless and I cannot recall the last time I was even alerted by Dropbox about anything except that I was hitting my 3TB cap soon.

The only issue I ever had was using it on Windows where it would occasionally create conflicted file copies, which was annoying, but moving to OSX resolved that.

For me, Dropbox is a great product that makes my life/workflow with music production so much easier and convenient. Moving interface things around is at worst annoying but really just trivial. I don't understand why people on HN get so reliably get fired up about UI changes.

are you not just highlighting the fact that there is a First Amendment right but not a broader "free speech" right, which is the very point people are trying to make.

honestly the best solution may be to cultivate other non-programming hobbies so that your time becomes appropriately more precious. unless you're in a high volume or high stakes situation, most of the options give a workable result and to the extent you realize you make mistakes, that learning experience makes the future decisions easier to make. point is, there's probably not a short cut.

dont have AirPods but had over the ear headphones that had similar rattling issues that were just the result of a small hair getting through the mesh and interacting with the driver

same, had a really bad experience with Stitch. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of custom middleware connections between Shopify and Shipstation. InfoPlus is another one that was pretty decent when I used it several years ago.

it seems more likely that people who are invested in not changing anything would look at data uncritically (what is the source of the data? police? do they get to say what is justified use of force?) and conclude nothing needs to change.

i suspect people who feel their life is on the line are considering seriously all methods for making change, including reviewing all available research

note that the article mentions criticism of their work, includes a response, and a note about reassessing certain aspects.

Even if the studies show no clear bias (the article mentions some criticism and a forthcoming reassessment of the data based on that) the problem clearly extends all the way down to the most minor of police interactions where it becomes harder and harder to explain away.

I think theres a certain set of people who hear "no statistical proof of bias, and emotional issues arent real issues"... so while I agree with you, I just want to emphasize the huge space of systematic problems that cause the emotional issue.

your description reminds me of Jane Jacobs in Death & Life of Great American Cities

these comparisons to the flu usually don't seem to factor in transmissibility. seems you cant leave that out of the equation and only look at death rate

in a similar vein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWAntOnrx4

Consider watching First Reformed. Great movie, and relevant.

yes but that’s also what makes it regressive