tomdell

6 ms·

1.
by tomdell 2y ago
Industrialization relied heavily upon raw materials generated cheaply with slavery - cotton picked in the American South was exported and was a necessity to fuel the industrialization of textile production in England, for example. There is
2.
by tomdell 2y ago
I would be surprised if Suno is very disruptive to the music industry. It has extremely impressive output for a music generator, and it is very fun to play with - but people will always want to hear something new, and something real. I don&
3.
by tomdell 2y ago
You're right! The company is very openly continuing layoffs for the next 2 years, so I don't have much faith in the team I was moved to sticking around for much longer. I fixed up my resume and started applying elsewhere the week
4.
by tomdell 2y ago
I spent the past two and a half years building prototype features for a large internal application. One month ago, the CFO decided that as a part of organizational restructuring, the company will no longer invest in the application. New dev
5.
by tomdell 2y ago
It seems like Starbucks and a lot of other fast food chains are chasing short-term profits at the expense of long-term viability. A quick check shows Starbucks' gross profit has gone up 12% each year in the past 2 years - that's p
6.
by tomdell 3y ago
My support is first-hand experience and major disappointment buying and reading his most popular book - Deep Work. It was a borderline insulting read in its lukewarm repackaging of common sense wisdom and other people's original resear
7.
by tomdell 3y ago
Do yourself a favor and don't buy any books by Cal Newport. They're glorified blog posts with a bunch of overblown common sense rebranded with marketable terminology. Read Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi if you want something simi
8.
by tomdell 3y ago
Definitely similar in a lot of ways (going against the current, similar design language), but there are a couple of key differences to the point I wouldn't say Tesla is the Apple of cars - Apple typically productizes mature technology
9.
OpenAI Sora's Output – Similarities to Stock Footage(twitter.com)
3 points by tomdell 3y ago|0 comments
10.
by tomdell 3y ago
Compared to prior work, it's great. On it's own, I don't agree with describing it as high-quality.
11.
by tomdell 3y ago
An impressive technical achievement, yes - but the presentation/marketing of this is absurd. The generated videos are aesthetically horrendous. I don't know what kind of mental gymnastics are going on that they can confidently des
12.
by tomdell 3y ago
They set out without any ability to do what they claimed to do and lied about it to investors, customers, and the press. A 3D model outsourcing shop isn't going to raise a lot of investment money compared to an "AI" startup.
13.
by tomdell 3y ago
Some are happy for now because they largely aren't accounting for the deferred costs that are being pushed down the road - once you account for wear & tear on the car and associated maintenance and eventual new car purchases, their
14.
by tomdell 3y ago
I definitely still feel sadness and anxiety over the feeling that I'm wasting my life on something I don't care about, but it feels more manageable for me than the earth-shattering feeling of having nothing but one thing and that
15.
by tomdell 3y ago
As someone who tried the music-or-nothing approach for several years after college and two years in ended up with semi-regular panic attacks, persistent existential dread, and crippling anxiety over finances, I can't recommend getting
16.
by tomdell 3y ago
I was prescribed Adderall as a child and was made to take it twice daily for many years. I had serious problems sleeping due to it and turned from an outgoing and popular student to a solitary and angry child. It isn't good for the dev
17.
by tomdell 3y ago
Organization in maintenance mode for decades looks for new short-sighted ways to save money that will ultimately cripple the company further. A tale as old as time!
18.
by tomdell 4y ago
I strongly disagree that companies mandating RTO are doing so to improve their bottom line - it seems like it's largely done out of a sense of tradition, to placate management's anxieties, or to justify sunk costs in office real e
19.
by tomdell 4y ago
"narrator" is a fitting username since you're narrating your own subjective reality. I don't think making disturbing sexual content with AI image generators is going to be viewed the same way as free love.
20.
by tomdell 4y ago
There are tons of relatively cheap music libraries with human-composed and human-produced music that is vastly higher quality than MusicLM's output - they are used for documentaries/commercials/low-budget projects and are loa
21.
by tomdell 4y ago
A lot of tech coverage is just fawning hagiography rather than societally useful critical journalism, and a lot of people involved in tech seem to prefer it that way judging by their public words and actions - "don't question me -
22.
by tomdell 4y ago
Deep Work by Cal Newport is near the top of that list - I have to warn anyone who might buy it that it is an incredibly disappointing and derivative book written with all the rigor of a BuzzFeed list. Read Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in
23.
by tomdell 4y ago
"The largest investments in music are the acquisition of old publishing catalogs, while almost nothing is spent developing new artists." While music companies are certainly spending big on old publishing catalogs, the second state
24.
by tomdell 4y ago
https://archive.ph/rD4cX
25.
by tomdell 4y ago
YC is delegitimizing itself by funding crypto startups at all. Textbook example of a solution in search of a problem.
26.
by tomdell 4y ago
This hasn't been my experience at all. Plenty of social connection and discussion of personal lives in my team meetings, just less with coworkers who aren't on the same team. I'm doing better cognitively and emotionally worki
27.
by tomdell 5y ago
Link for those who care: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/16/macron... Cmd/ctrl+f "colonial penetration" for a brief overview of the subject. Not sure why so many people
28.
by tomdell 5y ago
Locals should have been better compensated, more taxes should have been paid to the local government, costs related to environmental cleanup should be paid for by Areva. The business that went on there was fundamentally extractive and unfai
29.
by tomdell 5y ago
Extract value and leave the locals alone to deal with the consequences - how progressive.
30.
by tomdell 5y ago
I advise anyone not in the know to look into France's historical control of uranium mining in Niger. France's nuclear industry has long been fueled by a highly unequal neocolonial relationship with their former colony.

More ›