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If you don't know how much you are already aware of the acoustic environment you are constantly surrounded by, try going into an anechoic room. It's disorienting and mildly unpleasant when the sound goes away.

I have no direct knowledge, but Google is known to penalize duplicate pages. Without the lead in, one bread recipe is pretty much the same page as 1,000 others.

Both. Everything around ai is moving incredibly fast.

Dodo is a recent extinction, so probably easier to do (like mammoth and tiger) and reasonably well know. It makes sense.

Criticizing is easy: what would you pick that is better?

That's not a good regex. The cat part is harder than the dog part.

you regex will match the whole line up to cat.

The industry has come up with a few phrases for this

"Free as in beer" you get something, you don't have to pay. "Free as in speech" you have the rights to do things, like modify source code.

and later

"Free as in puppies" As in you get it for free, but it's gonna cost you later. Most open source software is like this, you get it, but have to invest is using/mastering/maintaining it. Of course, you have to invest like this in paid, software as well.

> I think chatGPt is mostly a toy people will get bored with.

I think that would be correct, if ChatGPT doesn't continue to improve.

Given the rate of progress so far, most of us are expecting that there will be much more progress, and it will continue to add more value. This is where it becomes foundational.

Or Skynet :-)

Because they will give you your money back. That's one thing they are good about.

Edit: even if the fault is not theirs.

I hot plugged printers for decodes. No one turned off the computer to unplug or plug-in the printer.

I got locked out of an account and it would not allow me to recover the account, even though it had a recovery email on file. They didn't think that was enough to prove I owned the account.

What's the purpose of a recovery account, if you can't recover with it?

Fair disclosure: I'm not sure why I lost access to the account, but I had been planning on changing the password. There's a non-zero chance this was self inflicted. But it should have been recoverable.

Another strategy I've seen was to again, destroy all but one asteroid, and then accelerate full speed vertically, and wait for saucers and pick them off, while being a fast moving target the saucers were not great at hitting.

Unfortunately, after this strategy became popular, Atari released updated ROMs, with much better targeting from the small saucers, and the strategy stopped working. I suspect this also invalidated the corner strategy.

thanks for the suggestion!

Because Facebook is simple. Any one can update it, and it doesn't go down, and it doesn't cost anything.

I've many times seen web presences fail for small organizations, when the only person that understands the web set up leaves. With Facebook, that doesn't happen.

I'm sure there are services such as you describe, and probably many restaurants use them, and it's not obvious. But Facebook is the default.

Apple does not get it.

When they put a trackpad on their wireless keyboards, then I'll believe they get it.

Can't put a wireless keyboard AND a trackpad on your lap, so literally every Apple wireless keyboard ever is useless to me.

The trackpad is an afterthought for Apple.

I'd go so far as to say the majority of the people who consume it, do it to excess.

How many hours a week are you on social media, and how does that compare with the benefits you get?

Yeah, Reddit is one of those social media sites I've stopped using.

A great choice in my part.

Not gonna click through to see if he understands he's still posting on a social media site.

Many good answers already. I'd add "maybe it's a bit like cars, which also now all look alike". Cars look alike because they all share functional requirements.

Websites need to collect and convert users, somehow. You can use styles that are known to work, or you can go off and create something new that might fail. Unless your company's product is user interfaces, the choice is obvious.

A key thing about promotions is to write it from the perspective and for the benefit of the reader.

I'm very interested in book promotion strategies. This article has nothing. It's about the author, the authors coworkers and their books. Nothing at all on actually promoting your books.

If you want people to read your work, it has to benefit them. If it doesn't, it won't get read or shared.

And all of the problems he talks about with the pizza are the result of this process applied to the pizza itself, not the box. Ingredient quality has plummeted, and the amount of sugar added is unbelievable. Some chain pizzas smell more like donuts that pizza.

It's regional. Most of the country does _not_ call pizza a pie.

> you have to think of the results, not the source

You can. But it's equally valid to look at the source and say "this should have been replaced long ago"

Which is really has, except for tiny markets.

No reason it can't be improved on drastically.

> still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm.

That's the scary part. He spends years building a channel and it can be wiped out in a day. He needs to diversify. Sponsorships/ads won't help, they'd die with the channel.

I'm not in this space, but maybe patreon? Does onlyfans do non-porn? Vimeo?

How does one minimize risk to this $150k/year revenue stream?

$90 is not much for all that. As an employee, that's pretty good, but as someone who probably had to invest thousands of hours before he knew if he'd see any revenue, that's a pretty meager return!

It would be interesting to see his revenue graphed over time. Pretty sure he didn't make 12k/mo for the first few years. Which means he's making more Than that, now.

I'd bet his ad revenue is higher than normal. Lego sounds like a perfect subject for ad supported.

Inexpensive (somewhat), easy to buy on line, always another kit to buy.

Take 3blue1brown. Fantastic content, but what ads relate? (Probably Lego, but that might just be me).

It would also be interesting to see what his per hour is, after expenses.

I'm pretty sure those videos take a LONG time to make.

The problem with "Fair" is people tend to disagree on what is fair.

Dawkins makes it clear here, that he is using the terms to explain to people who don't understand science: https://richarddawkins.net/2015/11/is-it-a-theory-is-it-a-la...

"Scientific fact" is a term used by people who don't understand science.

What I'm excited about is having a plan for learning in 2023.

I've been spending 15 minutes a day on 3blue1brown, and backing that up with khan academy.

I've worked through the NLP Demystified course, posted recently on hacker news, the same way.

Also learning Spanish on Duolingo.

For most of my life, I've done one thing at a time, obsessively. This year I'm going for the slow and steady approach.

eBay's got plenty of them. With or without the phone.