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Battle.net also used to be great for learning your way around computers. Designed and released my first "game" via Starcraft's Map Editor, first "server" was a Battle.net chat bot hosted in my closet... First peek into how complex software works was map hacking Diablo 2... etc etc.

I learned a ton from Battle.net.

That's... also cherry picking?

I can vouch. Have one at home and use their map as my go to for understanding air quality.

I haven’t had time to play with it yet, but they have an API for the Home Assistant types out there.

Ostracism is how we (humans) enforce social norms.

In this case the community is ostracizing a company known for grifting under a facade of technological advancement. Seems like the system is working.

This unfortunately has happened more than once in NM. The Cerro Grande fire started in similar circumstances and almost burned down LANL.

IIRC they actually had to temporarily displace the radioactive glass from the original Trinity tests as it was in danger from the fire.

“R.I.P Good Times” might work for this particular community too.

+1 for both HKSV and Ubiquiti.

Used to use HKSV, but I’m running a Unifi Protect setup these days. Everything records locally to my NVR with a 30 day retention policy. No cloud. Honestly it’s been more reliable too. Downside is I spend a decent amount of time running Ethernet lines.

UI’s stuff works so well with the Apple ecosystem (mainly thinking ATV and iOS apps) that I haven’t even bothered to bridge the setup into HomeKit yet.

Sarbanes-Oxley would seem to imply that it’s possible to enact new laws that enforce consequences for fraud among top level executives?

In theory at least I guess. Maybe someone else can comment on how it actually works in practice.

> No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip

> For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip

> Considering they exceeded all analyst expectations for revenue and profits in the last quarter, it's safe to say that some of their effort is working.

> The fact that they also decided that 8K out of the 25K+ employees hired during the pandemic were redundant

Kinda odd how you attribute them "beating the street" more to Mathew McConaughey's presence than the work output of 8 thousand employees. Can you elaborate on why this is so clear to you?

My first big tech manager was incredible at this. Took me a few other managers to realize what a specific (and rare!) skill this is, as she made it seem so easy.

I miss working for her.

It's a little old at this point, but I find the Swift Error Handling Rationale design doc to be absolutely fascinating. It cites other language’s error handling paradigms (including Rust) if you're curious:

https://apple-swift.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ErrorHandlingRa...

Yeah it might sound ridiculous but I do this too…

I wrapped the GPT-3 API in a stupid little CLI the other day, just to poke a davinci w/o having to go the browser. I like it.

I find the focus on children’s books to be a little sick. Educating the next generation is not an area to content farm for profit with minimal effort.

I’m honestly curious. What do you see in this worth promoting? Generating low effort (“in 2 hours”) content with ML is not news.

Ski and write music.

What a fantastic comment. Really highlights what a good job KSP does teaching orbital dynamics through practice and RUDs (imo).

Yeah that actually makes a ton of sense. I almost added a flippant addendum to my post along the lines of “unless you’re running 1000 orchestral VSTs at once”.

And sure enough, that is a real workflow! Thanks for the knowledge.

Yeah but what music production workflow needs the power of an “extreme” chip? The M1 Max and Pro (not to mention Ultra) are already practically overkill for the vast majority of musical workflows. Many producers work on plain M1 Airs as when everything has enough functional power, the lack of a fan becomes the most desirable feature.

Something to think about btw: a lot of big companies have a _ton_ of proprietary, internal complexity that is not exposed to the public and therefore cannot be assisted by these general purpose LLM’s.

Seems a bit strange but being a “Company Man” might actually bring a new degree of job security…

I unfortunately agree with the sentiment, and agree it’s quite scary if this is how you bring food home and don’t already have enough (what is enough?) experience.

Fwiw I’m facing this in a hobby where I very much am a “junior”. Currently trying to decide if it’s worth continuing building the skills to create from scratch rather than just leveraging ML and being an “editor”.

I think I’ve decided to continue building the skills. Editing/reviewing is easier if you can create as well and this is a hobby I enjoy after all.

Also there has to be some light at the end of the tunnel right? If we kill the process via which juniors grow, we eventually kill the industry…

Treat ChatGPT like an extremely knowledgeable junior who has read everything on the internet, but simultaneously doesn’t really understand logic.

You can leverage this for your own productivity. Ask your “junior” to generate sample code for an API you don’t quite remember. Ask it to generate some bash scripts you’ve been putting off. Review its output for correctness and go from there.

It’s an incredible productivity boost for a senior doing the integrating. It’s also no replacement for someone with immense domain experience doing the integrating…

Worth noting that the unified memory is shared with the GPU on AS.

Beyond that though, 64gb+ of RAM makes for a great dev machine. :)

Data point of one but my wife and I decided we were done and left earlier this year. Quit my FANG job that wouldn’t support the move, bought a house in a MCOL area and could not be happier.

I’ve even lost some pretty significant weight just getting back to living a non-workaholic lifestyle.

Life is short people. Keep an eye on what’s actually important to you.

Sounds very similar to usage of “da kine” in Hawaiian Creole English (i.e Hawaiian pidgin).

Fun fact: Lightning and thunder are very rare in Hawaii despite (generally) a tremendous amount of storm activity (rain).

In the context of existing music theory that supermode could be considered Eb/Cm.

I’ve been learning a couple pop songs lately that essentially seem to use this supermode by switching between the major and minor on verse/chorus. Seems pretty versatile.

Story time, please :)

This is such a tired and lazy line of thought.

Completely leaving out services , the “secret” projects and incremental improvements in hardware to existing products, in the last decade:

- AirPods - Apple Watch - Apple Sillicon

Each one of these new product verticals would be ten to hundred-billion dollar companies if independent.

I look forward to hearing why none of this is actual innovation and actually quite boring.

Oh wow cool niche question!

Keeping complexity down is going to be the main issue (isn’t it always). Music software can get very complex unfortunately.

Is your daughter set on doing this “in the box” (on computer)? My first thought is that physical equipment might have easier (or at least more satisfying for a child) learning curves.

Hopefully someone can hop in with concrete equipment for mixing or Linux software advice. Mac guy myself.

Quite possibly. Skydiver culture calls for an in-depth, postmortem analysis on basically any incident. So theoretically it’s more than just dumb luck.

But that’s exactly what a control freak would say ;)