kashunstva

Personally, while I understand the importance of discovery both for artists and for many listeners, it’s not at all how I listen to music. I know what work I want to hear, by what artist or ensemble and I want that exact thing. It’s not that I’m not open to other interpretations; it’s just in the moment that I want to listen, it’s a particular thing. That my ripped CD collection is such an infinitesimal representation of all that’s out there is a feature for me, not a bug. And the problem of ephemerality on some of these platforms is yet another problem.

I simply won’t install anything that doesn’t support a local API. Happy to pay for the hardware; but if your plan is to monetize it via cloud services somehow, or just assume planned obsolescence, I’m not your customer.

Yes.

Uber should present itself differently, then, to users and should clearly warn them that they may be subject to capricious and potentially negligent actions by those with whom it contracts to drive. I suspect that the average user doesn’t make a distinction between Uber and driver, and possibly assume that drivers are trained to act in a safe manner.

The driver was acting on behalf of Uber and was found to have acted in a negligent manner. Whose fault was this, if not Uber’s? If not $40M, what should this young woman’s life be valued at?

> So Flock and the local governments are acting responsibly here. The police officer is not and should be reprimanded.

Who is responsible for ensuring that agents of the government in jurisdictions that host Flock cameras adhere to proper procedures, if not the local governments themselves? Who is designing access systems that permit random text in lieu of actual case numbers that can be verified in real time and properly gate the system? If Flock and the IT departments of local governments cannot provide proper locks against this sort of random surveillance then the cameras should be removed.

The details of course matter; but the overarching principle put on stark display here is that if you don’t meet stabilized approach criteria (on-speed, on-glidepath, minimal necessary flight control deflections) at the 1000 ft AGL gate, go around. Yes grey areas exist but this approach never became stabilized. The whole approach was a missed opportunity to go around.

I am a pilot; and although I don’t fly large transport category aircraft, this sort of procedural discipline makes all the difference no matter what you fly.

As a Canadian living in Canada, I see “Lake Ontario.” in Apple Maps. All good. No idea what Google shows because I don’t knowingly use Google products. But I do see the ridiculous “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” I don’t care what Apple shows inside of U.S. borders but dragging the rest of the world into the clown show is unnecessary.

Although I haven’t much thought through the details, I wonder if these disputed names could be subject to user preference. Basically, a pre-MAGA and MAGA setting.

> Today classical music is filled with people who want to pretend to be superior to pop musicians because they keep their repertoire confined to academically acceptable areas.

What an incredibly cynical take. I’ve done several chamber music collaborations with a violist who also plays pop music gigs on keyboards.

There are arrogant pricks in classical music. And in software engineering and every other discipline. Personality is orthogonal to field of interest.

Anyway you complain that classical musicians look down on pop music while you yourself do the same about modern composers.

> every major scale has a parallel minor scale with the same key signature.

Actually the parallel minor does not share the key signature with the major; it is simply the minor with the same tonic.

The _relative_ minor shares the key signature with its major; and its tonic pitch is a minor third lower.

Time for Apple to bring another 24K gold desk thingy to the Oval Office.

Is there a legal requirement that non-governmental entities source their mapping data from official U.S. government sources?

The person responsible for the GNIS corruption and the leadership of Google are in essence conjoined twins. The tech oligarchs are not going to make decisions based on interests that aren’t aligned directly with their personal enrichment; and the GNIS Corrupter-in-Chief wields such personal interests rather effectively.

Surely you would admit that this Administration’s approach to immigration has been both chaotic and cruel. The workers who were given status in the United States expected a predictable process, not one that changes weekly based on the unserious personal whims of a bored, ill-informed and vindictive man. In any case, the prioritization of citizens’ wellbeing writ large is demonstrably _not_ a feature of this Administration’s agenda.

Really? My spouse and I lived in Canada on work permits and were not required to leave in order to achieve PR status; nor to achieve citizenship status.

I feel like I’m missing something here - a lot, actually. What is this?

It’s reasonably clear to anyone paying attention that Trump has been systematically engaging in various flavours of corruption. Prosecuting the man for illegal activities isn’t predicated on his party losing an election; it would be a matter of law. If you cannot support upholding the law because of some fear that MAGA would revolt, then the downfall you predict isn’t a remote event, it’s already here.

As practically anyone who has worked in even the smallest organization knows, much of the success depends on doing boring things well, efficiently and predictably. The U.S. Federal government has lost the interest and depth of competence to carry out the boring stuff, while focusing much of its attention on pointless vanity projects. It’s no surprise that logistics is suffering when the top leadership has zero experience (or even interest) in it.

Terrible tool for drawing possibly; but among musicians they are widely considered the standard for marking scores. There’s always a Blackwing on my stand.

If it’s Louisiana, it’s not a “swamp”; it’s a bayou.

I spent summers at my grandparents in southern Louisiana, a lot of it poking around in places described in TFA; but never heard it called a swamp back there. We were on the bayou.

The author’s critique of the thesis that PKM tools lack evidence of impact in global knowledge is certainly interesting. But there is a fundamental problem that I state plainly as: what responsibility do I or any user have to this nebulous corpus of total circulating knowledge, anyway? I use Obsidian to organize knowledge around things that are personally interesting to me. That’s the “personal” part of PKM. I feel zero obligation to contribute that to some larger public corpus. I may do so at my discretion, of course. But holding PKM systems to such a high (and impossible to assess) standard is a mistake. I routinely play with my dogs; but what evidence is there that it makes the world a better place by some objective measure?

> how do I find such notes when I don't exactly remeber what they were about

I can't claim to have solved that; but I do have a personal rule about notes. I don't create a note unless (1) I'm willing to endow it with at least some metadata, and (2) I'm willing to manually link it to another note so that I've at least dropped one breadcrumb.

Oh. It wasn’t because the authoritarian leader was involved somehow in drug trafficking and needed kidnapping? Or was that a distraction from the distraction?

Or the previous one may have been the last one for a while.

> 99% of the never cared to understand biology before they started Medical school. They are only in for the $$$ and status

This is a very cynical take on the subject and I can’t imagine it’s backed by any data. As a retired medical doctor, my observation differs; idealism and curiosity appear to me far more common among medical trainees than you give credit. I spent my entire career in teaching hospitals. I do despise the ostentatious display of amassed wealth among some doctors; but wouldn’t take a general message about the profession from that.

> how fast to slow down (which requires deciding how much to press the peddle)

Homophone trap; it’s “pedal”

> These new tariff's explicitly violate CUSMA/USMCA, which Trump personally signed.

Just like in 2017, Trudeau and Trump agreed to support the expeditious completion of the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Trump 1.0 even listed it as a priority infrastructure project. But Trump 2.0 has held up the opening of the bridge for months based on profound misunderstandings of how the project was funded and completed. And of course the influence of the Moroun family.

The repeated capriciousness of this U.S. administration is undoing any sense of trust and cooperation. Everything to Trump is an all-or-nothing battle to be won. In 80 years on this earth, the man has not learned that mutual benefit is a thing.

I don’t understand what Infantino gets out of this relationship. He gives Trump a made-up “FIFA Peace Prize,” poses at every turn for photos with him and now meddles in game calls. I see what Trump is getting out of the deal. What about Infantino? Is adjacency to power, no matter how corrupt and incompetent that valuable?

Whether the call was in error or not, the casual and fawning relationship between Infantino and Trump will forever cast a shadow over this World Cup. If Trump was already worried about the hostile reception that would await him should he attend a match, he can now be certain of it.

> I have a problem that I take any learning way too seriously, such that it would require deliberate focused practice. Sometimes it kills all the fun, and sometimes I give up just because it takes too much energy

This is a common trait of perfectionists. I have long forgotten the source, but someone once wrote that “Perfectionists have a special ability to turn the voluntary into the obligatory.” I, too, find this in voluntary pursuits.