madmountaingoat

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by madmountaingoat 4mo ago
Seems reasonable to me. The article doesn't say to trust the LLM blindly, as many early commenters seem to think, instead it suggests an evolution to a set of practices that provide similar guardrails at a faster cadence. The argument
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by madmountaingoat 5mo ago
For guitar I followed Justin up into his intermediate level stuff but then switched to in person lesson and they made a big difference for me. I think I got lucky with my first teacher though, as I've not really gelled with teachers I
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by madmountaingoat 8mo ago
One side of my brain agrees that's a dumb way to judge anyone but then when I think about the accepted filtering mechanism they really aren't any better or any worse. You cannot interview everyone and ultimately you're lookin
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by madmountaingoat 9mo ago
I don't think you're wrong so much as you've tread into some semantic muddy water. What did the OP mean by 'inevitable', 'political' or 'everything'?. A lot hangs on the meaning. I lot of words
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by madmountaingoat 11mo ago
I've had them. They're fine. But this is overselling the variety angle. The meat eater equivalence of forage like this would be game animals. In my experience and extrapolating, the taste difference between game and farm animals i
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by madmountaingoat 11mo ago
I think most actually know and don't think it's all that much different from what other have done for decades. I'm not saying they are correct to think it, just that they do think it. They think it's refreshing that th
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by madmountaingoat 11mo ago
I believe it was always more myth than fact. There's always been rough edges in Apple products line. If anything its more an indication of where the real focus is now. And it's not iOS.
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by madmountaingoat 11mo ago
The standard screen was 80 by 25. There were two addresses you needed to know 0xb000 for monochrome displays and 0xb800 for color. For monochrome you could just blast characters/attributes to the address and everything looked great.
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by madmountaingoat 1y ago
I believe the pedantry label was sufficient acknowledgment of fact, while also pointing out that in the context of the larger conversation we are really talking about whether his leadership decisions led to success.
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by madmountaingoat 1y ago
I hope this was more of a philosophical musing than career advice. I've not worked at every big company, but I have worked at a few. I agree that in the context of a big companies, "done" is a metric; and career success at
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by madmountaingoat 1y ago
Spotify has not viewed itself as a music company for longer than that. It's a platform for audio. And, while there are still music first people at the company, they are not in the power positions that they used to be. The transition
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by madmountaingoat 1y ago
In those early days the Spotify user experience needed to try and differentiate and put up barriers to being copied. Later it suffered from being purely metric driven and tracking things like user-engagement thinking it's a proxy for h
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by madmountaingoat 1y ago
I think this specific quote from the article deals with this situation. > U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel on Tuesday that U.S. copyright law "requires all work to be authored in the first
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
The different mindsets exist, but I agree these are bad words to differentiate them. Back when I started in software in the 80s a common expression was: there are two types of programmers, nerds and hippies. The distinction falling along si
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Of course no one needs an app to do any of this, but the general idea of getting out and touching a tree, climbing a snowbank, going out without a coat or hat for a few minutes when it's freezing are all the sorts of things that keep m
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Turbo Pascal wasn't just a good tool, it was a pioneer in how it was marketed and priced. It was relatively affordable, only $49, at a time when tools generally cost in the hundreds. And they ran monthly ads in nearly every computer ma
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Magical realism. The edges of any "genre" is going to be very fuzzy.
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
It's all solid advice but that exchange in #5 that the author found delightful, drives me bonkers. If you talk to the people on your team like that, you're not being helpful, you're being an a-hole. I realize its just making
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
I do not dispute that Spotify creates "perfect fit content" tracks. What I will dispute is that, artists with generic bios and AI sounding tracks, are always Spotify tools.
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
There has only been one company I've worked for where 'learnings' was used extensively. It was Swedish. Not sure if that is relevant.
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Planetfall.
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
I believe the article misses the point of the saying. It's not really about failing but rather about committing yourself to the objective. If you know in your heart you gave something everything you had, and you still fail, well that
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
If someone asked for a dinosaur fossil and you showed them a small winged thing embedded in a rock they likely would be confused too. Wind the clock back 65 million years to before the Cretaceous extinction event. The first bird like dinos
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Not the clade of 'terrible lizards'. Paleontology accepts the cladistic view and so should a popular science article.
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Back in the 1800s when the name Dinosaur was coined no one suspected their connection to birds. The point has never been that the word, in most peoples minds, doesn't conjures up pictures of t-rex and triceratops. There's no argum
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
It would however help to not perpetuate the misconceptions that all dinosaurs were killed at the end of the Cretaceous.
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
Bait and switch? Idiots? We are just saying we expect more from science communicators. Adding "non-avian" before the word "dinosaurs" wouldn't have made the article inaccessible to folks who haven't internali
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
The audience of Ars isn't "general" and the usage wasn't colloquial. The article is about evolution and the pressures that caused the adaptation. It would have been nice if the author had demonstrated a bit more knowled
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
This glosses over the real crimes. 103 Chordates, 12 Arthropods, 3 Molluscs, 3 Cnidarians and 1 Annelid. That leaves 27 phylum unaccounted for at all.
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by madmountaingoat 2y ago
I don't work at Spotify anymore and I didn't work on the tech I'm describing, but I picked up a bit about what was going on while there. First, there is/was no single algorithm, but the core ideas driving a lot of recomm

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