MrGando

You're right. I think there's several regulators on it, but no one has forced them to rephrase the statement.

They stopped calling it fully self driving a little while ago in part due to a lot of pretty bad press and some good journalistic research.

I think you're somewhat making an argument that the "means" are justified if the end is noble. I think the whole discussion revolts around the several issues with that "system" or "philosophy" here in the Valley.

I personally don't think it's the right way to do things. Big fraud, small lies (fraud), it's all pretty bad.

And you have to provide those schemes in your App's plist as well if I recall correctly. Gated pretty hard.

Obscure ad-tech companies would love to get those installed apps like they were aggressively doing (Facebook & Twitter too) about 5 years ago.

That's definitely not true. Source: my wife is French and from Paris, I lived in France etc. Paris is AMAZING to eat, in every single tier. And that doesn't mean you'll be eating French cuisine everywhere. Asian food is incredible in Paris, so is Moroccan for instance. It's a deep city though, if you do "shallow dining" you'll eat garbage, like in pretty much every single major western city.

I think LA is still deeper and more interesting foodwise than SF. NYC is above all by a good margin though

Manhattan is also better by the way. The sole fact that they have the way more interesting wine lists everywhere is already half of the battle won.

> My impression is that Los Angeles is the world’s best food city, and it’s not close. I have a galaxy-brained theory about why this is. Restaurants decline when they sell prestige, rather than food. (This is why Manhattan is often not a good place to eat.)

Stops reading and closes the window. Seriously, what the hell. LA is a great place to eat, but for the love of G... Paris? Tokyo? NYC also kicks LA's ass to the ground regarding food. I know my food, LA's great, but come on.

> You could reduce the number of State variables using one or more shared state objects and access via environment at certain points in the view hierarchy.

Just a personal opinion here, but those shared state objects and SwiftUI + glorified singletons really hurts every time I see it. It's so prevalent in online tutorials like Ray Wenderlich and the such.

Honestly, it's hard to avoid and can be done but requires a significant effort. I was hoping for Apple to come up with a more elegant solution during WWDC 21 but so far I haven't seen anything to improve this situation.

Did you look at the file? Yes, comparatively using a non-declarative approach would render much simpler code. Perhaps the author is not writing SwiftUI proficiently? Having used SwiftUI myself I would argue that this is not the case.

This file is insane: https://github.com/zzanehip/The-OldOS-Project/blob/master/Ol...

I hate to say it but SwiftUI is tricky to write for very complex user interface...the one in that file is a nightmare imo.

Hey,

I would say that it's a mix, and now things have been formalized a lot in the realm of Jazz (that's a whole subject on its own).

I would say that classical training can definitely help a lot from an interpretation standpoint, there are many technical and harmonic concepts that definitely hold. Some classical repertoire probably helps more and has more parallels to Jazz too.

Something that I have to emphasize though, is that you can be quite proficient at playing classical piano and also have a not very sophisticated harmonic understanding ("interpreter v/s composer"), that understanding is required if you're doing Jazz.

Some examples of non-classically trained Jazz pianists that are incredibly relevant: Thelonius Monk, Art Tatum.

On the other hand, many important Jazz Pianists had extremely relevant classical training. Jarrett being one of the greats and I would mention Brad Mehldau as someone who's extremely influenced by classical as well, and who's still alive and expanding the language of Jazz.

Regarding the "training methods", I would say that the classical training methods are problematic if they're tried to be applied to learning jazz. The successful student will have to adapt and drop a lot of them to learn improvisation, which in the end is the essence of the jazz language.

That's exactly it. I have to say that the highest-level classical performers reach that level, but through different means. Not the improvisational part, but harmonically, understanding what the voices are doing in a counterpoint Bach passage for example.

In classical you're an interpreter, and that's very challenging.

In Jazz, you're an interpreter of an improvisation, which is like composing in real-time. I also have to point out that the great classical composers did improvise a lot, and that trend was lost with time but is documented if you research Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin for instance.

Just wanted to add my two cents here. This is great advice for classical piano (or any other instrument) practice. It does not apply to Jazz Piano playing at all though, in Jazz you should avoid falling into the trap of repetition. Playing slowly and clean, yes, repetition? Not so much.

I do use FB on a daily basis, mostly to stay in touch with friends in different countries. I haven't had facebook's app installed in my phone in over 4 years. I only use the website. It's full of dark patterns to make you install the app... but it's functional enough for me.

There's tons of examples. Check Yardbird Suite by Charlie Parker in the RB, you'll also find a lot of mistakes :)

The real book is actually full of egregious mistakes and philosophically speaking is quite questionable. There’s a significant body of great Jazz musicians (eg: Yotam Silberstein) who avoid the book at all costs. My teacher -who’s part of Yotam’s quintet- is also very careful with the book and tries to avoid it.

Chile has 6 paid months of leave for the mother (it's a law, not subject to the employer).

Favorite Piano Player :). As a jazz aficionado I've tried to learn a lot of tricks from Bill. Genius.

No.

If Parler was deemed illegal (eg: it was ruled by law that it's facilitating terrorism), then YES.

If they are violating Amazon Terms of Service / Apple's Terms of Service, then YES (TOS is a bit of a grey area, but assuming that things are clear enough, those should be enforced). One can argue about a monopolic market position, at which case it's the role of the Government to solve the issue and regulate (in a theoretically speaking, well functioning capitalistic framework).

The DX7 is indeed super important. The E. Piano preset is in like all the 80s cheesy ballads ever... but not only those. It was also used in Jazz (fusion) quite a bit. Hell, Chick Corea was a fan of the Synth (listen Electric City), also George Duke.

Even the big brands these days have sampled the DX E. piano, because if you're a live performer it's quite likely that you'll need it if you're playing anything from the 80s in your repertoire (https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libraries/nord-sample-li...).

The DX 7 E.Piano is not a great "E.Piano Sound", but it has a life of its own... :)

Source: Been playing Piano for 27 years and started on Synths ~22 yrs ago... first synth was an FM Korg X5D :)

Steve Lukather from Toto actually played the whole album and he's alive. Please do check him out as well, brilliant player that played at least a riff in every single important album produced in LA during the late 70s and 80s ;).

Eddie was the man though, sad times.

> Our company was founded in Silicon Valley. But we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.

I mean, looking at their line of work and what they're doing with technologies such as image-recognition, and the contracts they seem to be getting, I agree. Anecdotally, whenever they come up in conversation here in the Bay people seem to not like them very much.

Just to clarify, I was stating the situations in France and Spain are very different to the one the US is going through. Should have been more clear in my previous comment.

They are having difficulties for very different reasons.

To further reinforce your point. Many countries around the world have been trying to attract people to compensate for these issues and are struggling (Japan, Australia, New Zealand).

no it's back. It will probably be gone again if things keep spiraling out of control, but child-care is back in France.

Steely Dan is quite a lot more than just a rock band. It was more like a pop band with formidable song-writing. Both founders were very well versed in the tradition of Jazz and the harmonic development that you can find on a ton of steely dan's songs is way, way beyond what you'll find on traditional rock legend bands (Beatles, Zeppelin, etc.)

One of the most important bands of all time regarding where they took song-writing as well. So yeah, not forgotten at all... also one of the most impactful and relevant North American bands (one that you'll be taught stuff from if you take a good Modern Song Writing program in a serious institution :) )