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Oddly, I get emails for everything except gasoline purchases. I'm afraid to contact support because in the extremely unlikely event that it gets forwarded to the correct people, the attempted fix would break something in my workflow.
Another option is that he saw the trajectory of the company culture and wanted out.
Wow, I thought that Intuit would have gone for a little more subtlety.
Really? This might be the laziest thing I've read on HN. 30 seconds of Googling (DuckDuckGoing?)
https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39358054/best-s... (and tons of other lists like this)
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19341.Best_Science_Ficti... (etc...)
Yes, searching on Amazon might not be the best discovery method anymore, but there are also institutions that curate.
Suppose that P1 passes on their first move (which is a valid move). Then P2 has a winning path of play in which they put down the first stone. But P1 could have made that move and then they would be on the winning path.
But there's no chance I would want it on my development machine. Even something as simple as installing a python package that isn't in the main repo doesn't have a straightforward solution. There are half a dozen different approaches people take, almost none of them well documented. And most of them involve writing 50 lines of esoteric nix, your own derivation, or a complicated flake (which everyone says to use, but there isn't good documentation). Maybe it is great for those on the inside, but from the outside it looks like a disaster. And that's the last thing I want to deal with when I need a package installed to get my work done.
The closest I've found is the Perixx PERIBOARD which I have not yet tried in person. If anyone has other suggestions, it would be much appreciated.
Other have pointed out the spurious correlation issue, but there's also the difficulty of viewing growth data on a linear scale. Switching to a logarithmic scale makes 2004 a less obvious inflection point between no growth and rapid growth.
I have a series of "mixtape" mp3 files and I'd like to generate a list of the songs within the one long file. I'm aware of musicbrainz, but is there anything that works on a single file with multiple songs? Perhaps my best bet is to generate 10 second long files sampled every two minutes, then run the fingerprinting on those individual files?
This revealed a potential showstopper for me. Each RAW file that I worked on created a 100 MB sidecar file. I think this is just an image preview though. I could delete the sidecar file and my edits were preserved.
It helps people separate the visual form of something from its literal interpretation as an object. Good photographs are often not just a documentation of an object, but a nice visual composition that is also compelling when viewed upside-down or on its side. Being able to set aside the label of an object and focus on the visual elements helps create these compositions.
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“No,” I said, “I don’t think we give it away free. I think you pay us for it, and then you give it away free, as a gift to people. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?”
Tim Cook raised an eyebrow. “You mean we pay for the album and then just distribute it?”
I said, “Yeah, like when Netflix buys the movie and gives it away to subscribers.”
Tim looked at me as if I was explaining the alphabet to an English professor. “But we’re not a subscription organisation.”
“Not yet,” I said. “Let ours be the first.”
Tim was not convinced. “There’s something not right about giving your art away for free,” he said. “And this is just to people who like U2?”
“Well,” I replied, “I think we should give it away to everybody. I mean, it’s their choice whether they want to listen to it.”
See what just happened? You might call it vaunting ambition. Or vaulting. Critics might accuse me of overreach. It is.
If just getting our music to people who like our music was the idea, that was a good idea. But if the idea was getting our music to people who might not have had a remote interest in our music, maybe there might be some pushback. But what was the worst that could happen? It would be like junk mail. Wouldn’t it? Like taking our bottle of milk and leaving it on the doorstep of every house in the neighbourhood.
Not. Quite. True.
On 9 September 2014, we didn’t just put our bottle of milk at the door but in every fridge in every house in town. In some cases we poured it on to the good people’s cornflakes. And some people like to pour their own milk. And others are lactose intolerant.
I take full responsibility. Not Guy O, not Edge, not Adam, not Larry, not Tim Cook, not Eddy Cue. I’d thought if we could just put our music within reach of people, they might choose to reach out toward it. Not quite. As one social media wisecracker put it, “Woke up this morning to find Bono in my kitchen, drinking my coffee, wearing my dressing gown, reading my paper.” Or, less kind, “The free U2 album is overpriced.” Mea culpa.
At first I thought this was just an internet squall. We were Santa Claus and we’d knocked a few bricks out as we went down the chimney with our bag of songs. But quite quickly we realised we’d bumped into a serious discussion about the access of big tech to our lives. The part of me that will always be punk rock thought this was exactly what the Clash would do. Subversive. But subversive is hard to claim when you’re working with a company that’s about to be the biggest on Earth.
https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMc2201761/suppl_fi...
If only there were an entire profession and legal system that has been asking and answering questions like this for hundreds of years.
I know programmers want to believe otherwise, but common law can't be boiled down to single line "if statements."