scottious

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by scottious 6d ago
A better way to think about it is that all letters in the musical alphabet are represented in a musical scale. Some are sharp or flat D major: D E F♯ G A B C♯ D minor: D E F G A B♭ C Db major: D♭ E♭ F G♭ A♭ B♭ C Db minor: D♭ E♭ F♭ G♭ A♭ B♭
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by scottious 20d ago
I'm genuinely surprised that you don't know lots of people who enjoy living in a city for its own sake and not only because something is keeping them there. Well, nice to meet you, I'm a city dweller who works from home and c
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by scottious 20d ago
"do people really like cities? I am not so sure" Just look at real estate prices in New York, SF, Boston, etc. Yes, people REALLY like cities. Even the wealthiest people who can afford anything still choose cities
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by scottious 20d ago
"If there is no longer a reason for people to live close together, decentralization is the most likely outcome." Umm what? Humans are social animals and many people LIKE living in cities in close proximity to other people and clo
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by scottious 23d ago
My 10 year old brain was blown when I discovered the Buddy Holly music video on the Windows 95 CD. I just couldn't comprehend the idea of a music video being played on a computer. Felt like magic. Such different times.
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by scottious 29d ago
I wouldn't say social media is just "filling a void". I feel like it's more accurate to say that social media is exploiting weaknesses in the human brain for profit and causing harm to individuals and society as a whole
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by scottious 29d ago
That kind of algorithm doesn't show you anything besides the messages in your inbox. It's never making a decision to show you X instead of Y, it's just deciding the ordering in which you see them. Modern social media is choo
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by scottious 1mo ago
The whole "running destroys your knees" thing is a very persistent myth. Running can cause temporary knee injuries, especially in beginners. In the long run it actually strengthens your knees. There has been quite a lot of rese
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by scottious 1mo ago
I actually do run every day. I've only missed about 4 days so far this year. Anyway, 3 days of running per week is certainly better than 0.
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by scottious 1mo ago
I'm not saying we should ban stuff. I'm saying that we could enact policies that encourage better habits by default. For example, we don't have to build car-dependent suburbia. Car-dependency is a choice we made. We'v
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by scottious 1mo ago
For those who are inclined, I recommend running instead (even if you think you aren't a runner) My body has been completely transformed from 15 years of running. I'm 5'7" and 135 pounds at age 41. My face looks thin, I
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by scottious 1mo ago
It is a bit crazy that everybody seems to agree that diet and exercise are important, and yet it seems like society is hell bent on making those things very hard to do well. I went to the mall recently (big mistake) and I had to get lunch a
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by scottious 2mo ago
Exercise really is a wonder drug. The best of the best! If only doctors could prescribe it and have people adhere to the prescription. If only American culture weren't so car-centric and our daily lives involved some natural amount of
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by scottious 2mo ago
It's not that simple. Owning a home is not just a better version of renting. It's a whole different thing with pros and cons. Your mortgage is the lowest amount you'll pay. On top of that you have to manage the upkeep of t
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by scottious 3mo ago
I agree that there are some quirks to music theory but ultimately I think it's a very good system that was been refined over hundreds of years. As for your point about A->B being a larger interval than B->C. There are two half-s
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by scottious 3mo ago
the job description of a junior engineer can change. junior engineers can use AI to make themselves more productive too
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by scottious 4mo ago
Fair point. I don't know the answer to that question but we definitely live in one of the worst timelines right now.
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by scottious 4mo ago
I understand and sympathize with the motivation here... but not all software engineering is bad. The best job I've ever had was working on cancer research as a software engineer. Brilliant biologists need engineers to help them run t
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by scottious 4mo ago
I agree. This is one reason why I want gas prices to go to $10/gallon. It will hurt, but maybe we'll start having some serious conversations about our awful transportation system and city design
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by scottious 4mo ago
Cycling is great for many reasons, but I feel that the biggest boost to my well-being was giving up driving.
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by scottious 4mo ago
The vibe I get is that he's saying "you poors are just jealous of the billionaires who are smarter and richer than you, so you want to take it away from them" The comparison to _literal super heroes_ from comic books definite
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by scottious 4mo ago
But I'm not arguing for stopping the internet or stopping cars from existing. I think both of those things have great applications that shouldn't be ignored. All I'm saying is that many technologies are a double-edged sword.
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by scottious 4mo ago
cars are not exactly a success story. Both of your examples (cars and internet) are things that had some great applications but also have been mis-used or over-used. cars: people now live completely car-dependent lives and drive way too mu
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by scottious 4mo ago
I saw a comment by an anonymous Meta engineer who said that it's difficult to leave when you see $2m worth of unvested stock sitting in your account. How many years would you be miserable for $2m? Many people can be easily seduced by
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by scottious 4mo ago
I don't know... I might have said the same thing about email/text/phone spam but it has only proliferated to the point where it's a constant stream of garbage. Email, text, and phone calls are almost completely useless
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by scottious 4mo ago
> “The mere fact that the conference is happening is already a success,” said Claudio Angelo, senior policy adviser at Brazil’s Climate Observatory, a network of environmental, civil society and academic groups The bar has been set so lo
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by scottious 5mo ago
I miss the optimism too. What drew me to tech was how it felt like we were trying to make people's lives better. These days, it feels like tech is primarily interested in extracting value from us. I guess this is nothing new. Profit
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by scottious 5mo ago
It's frustrating that it's hard to know what's going to be good quality. I bought a base layer years ago that basically fell apart after 1 month. It was like it was made of tissue paper. I bought a different one that has be
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by scottious 6mo ago
I feel like a lot of the ideas are over-attributed to him. Tesla already existed, electric cars aren't really a revolutionary idea. He's a hype man and he does the hype stuff well. Cybertruck was a pretty unmitigated disaster.
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by scottious 6mo ago
> Hype can drown out valid criticism It's funny you mention that because I remember at the time of HyperLoop somebody said "what about just ... trains?" and we all scoffed at it as if trains were some outdated technology L

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