WhompingWindows

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by WhompingWindows 6d ago
I have a BA in Music Theory, I think maybe you should consider again. First off, Jazz relies on the same fundamentals and extends them, everything from Classical music is somewhat relevant in Jazz. So if it's only Jazz theory exclusive
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by WhompingWindows 7d ago
Probably won't happen for many years, they need quite a lot of power to use the current AV tech.
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by WhompingWindows 21d ago
They probably didn't read it. The Parent comment suggests Bill is saying AI is wildly powerful, more precisely Parent comment is implying Bill has ulterior motives because AI isn't that powerful yet as he fear-mongers. The actual
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by WhompingWindows 24d ago
His writing was overrated: It's that simple. People now see his blog posts for what they are: decent blog posts.
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by WhompingWindows 25d ago
Counterpoint: To become a better writer, write as much as you can. Reading gives you a flavor, a taste, a style, it allows you to occupy the thoughts of another human. But getting your thoughts written down? That's writing, not reading
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by WhompingWindows 3mo ago
Do you eat meat? Do you use a car and create carbon emissions? That's destroying ecosystems all around the world, and yet here we are doing nothing about it. Ticks aren't even the base of the pyramid, as others have stated, they&#
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by WhompingWindows 3mo ago
Reading a dozen comments here, the AI seems to blow peoples mind most often in domains they're less familiar with. Repairing furnaces, HVAC, towing hitches, camper van interfaces, printer debugging. It wasn't the user's caree
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by WhompingWindows 4mo ago
Silver bulletin is like it - probably a lot of similar methods given it's also Nate Silver making the models.
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
Your revisionist history isn't on point for US slavery. Industrialization actually increased slavery in the South. Demand for cheap cotton came from English and then American industrialization. A machine, a product of industrialization
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
Parent didn't mention either capacity or utilization? The article itself is mentioning generation. Not sure where you're getting what you're responding to?
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
The author seems more about authenticity than boring-ness. And using the label boring vs bored, it comes to a similar outcome. If I say, that guy is boring, he's inauthentic/poser/wanna-be, in my opinion I've failed that
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
Boredom is actually a good thing to experience. Modern life seeks to devour every morsel of our attention. Are you able to sit motionless looking at a tree for 3 minutes? Can you read a book for an hour? Can you focus intensely on a work pr
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
You said it yourself: he was primarily a professor, not an artist. His position being a "luxury" is another argument. Anyway, He taught languages to brilliant students and created a highly respected translation of Beowulf. LoTR, S
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
If everyone chose to eat veggie burgers and seitan steaks instead of using beef, the climate's trajectory would immediately improve. For all the responsibility of industry, many individual world citizens could, and many have, changed t
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
Whether or not the posts are fake on this particular project, the mere concept that we could have thousands of AI bots using climate-changing energy to have bot conversations is mind blowing. AI is an insanely interesting area, and things l
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
It's not just numbers or speed. It's the shape of the population pyramid. Around the world except Africa, populations are aging. This means less taxes will come in, less workers of prime age, much more healthcare and elder care wi
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
It's actually not a good trade at all, you need a balanced population pyramid if you want a functional economy in the future. The housing stock is behind due to financial crisis in 2007, as well as lots of other factors, and population
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
If someone sees the world around them getting worse, I think it's pretty logical to not bring a child into that society.
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
What a bizarre comment. Who cares about their genetic line? Are you evolution itself? Do you have stakes in making sure your genes make it to the future?
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by WhompingWindows 7mo ago
You're not alone, Kraig911. It's very hard to be a parent in modern society. My wife and I's friends have basically vanished from our lives, they have zero initiative or interest in coming over to see the kids or help in any
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by WhompingWindows 8mo ago
This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Massive kudos to you. I am forwarding to all NYers I know. It gives me chills to relive specific places, though I'm far from the city now.
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by WhompingWindows 1y ago
Sorry, you think it's impossible to hurt Trump? Are you forgetting the bullet that passed an inch from his brain? A crazy person with a gun can change history in a second, and it would've been a terrible violent occurrence through
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by WhompingWindows 2y ago
Actual healthcare programmer here. Healthcare tech is not designed to employ more people, as stated by another comment. Healthcare tech is in fact designed conservatively by its nature, because lives are on the line. This tech needs to be o
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by WhompingWindows 2y ago
Look up Cal Newport's Deep Work book, he's writing one now Deep Life that you'll probably want to get as it will deal with this very subject. The idea of working and playing at the same time is a bit fantastical. It's tr
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by WhompingWindows 2y ago
Non-sequitur. You want to be crushed to death in 900 F heat on Venus? Or frozen in no atmosphere on Mars? I doubt many people reading the journal Nature would view "the wild" and "wilderness" as referring an extreme envi
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by WhompingWindows 2y ago
Let's investigate that claim. Does OF physically and emotionally abuse its creators? Does it perpetuate human trafficking? Does OF create drug addiction and use that to control its creators? Does OF force its creators to have sexual co
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
What does TIBCO do? Well, I know their product WebFocus, curious if anyone else here uses it. It's basically an online platform for making charts, dashboards, scheduling data extracts for clients, etc. I'm in the healthcare domain
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
What a low effort comment - as if burgers and cheese and big ole pieces of meat didn't exist before plastics? HN's comments are supposed to make the conversation more interesting and more engaging.
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Plagiarizing aka Parent Comment just made an Open Source "library". What's wrong with using those??
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by WhompingWindows 4y ago
Maybe there's a distribution of talent and skill in orgs, and it's nearly impossible to see if your new business partner will be great or terrible unless you have expertise in what they do...which you most likely don't if you

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