Maybe it's because I started as a chemist, where you look at patents all the time, but yes I've absolutely looked at patents for inspiration, to figure out how things work, to attack certain problems, etc.
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I think (and hope) it'll track a similar trajectory to 3d printing:
1. Expensive systems only approachable to large corporations
2. Lower-cost but affordable as a business expense to cottage industry
3. Affordable to hobbyists, but requiring domain expertise to operate
4. COTS plug and play solutions for the wide audience
Right now we are at (1) with the huge scale LLMs, but scaled models are runnable by hobbyists (2-3) and we are at (4) when it comes to things like image generation and music splitting.
Though I do want to clarify
> The systemization of everything (through what you call "radical self-expression") is creating a bunch of pseudo-intellectual naval gazing
That's not my term, it's a burner term, and has nothing to do with systematization. The Ten Principles are a set of descriptive (not proscriptive) observations about what makes a Burn different from other festival-like gatherings [0].
> fundamentally a simple topic. Authentic people are honest people. You can often tell right away who is lying and who is not. The computer in your head has hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to help you with that.
This is probably the neurospicy rearing it's head. I understand what you mean about "fundamentally a simple topic". But in a lot of ways, it's not simple. To a first order approximation, yes "honesty about who you are" is tantamount to authenticity. Because for most folks, "who you are" is a fairly fixed concept, so being honest (or dishonest) about it is straightforward. But I don't think having a fixed concept of self is a universal experience. For me, (when I'm at my full potential) I'm able to select and deselect attributes of myself to express.
Tl;dr - "masking" making defining "authenticity" challenging for neurodivergent folks.
Regional burns are espoused to celebrate "radical self-expression" , and unlike the Big Burn, their smaller size seems to promote authenticity to a greater degree. But even there, people are doing bits or acting out a persona or even just socially experimenting.
Authenticity itself is nebulous. But even taking that into account, there are definitely more harmful and less harmful facades. We pay actors and performers to be inauthentic. But we consider influencer "fake".
Point is, I don't think "authenticity" is the main metric we actually care about. Inauthenticity can be lots of fun for all parties. It's the motivations of the act. It's the second-order authenticity. An actor is authentic in their inauthenticity: there's no hiding that they are putting on an act. But we dislike influencers and the like because while they are (often obviously) inauthentic, they try to hide that fact under a facade trying to make it seem like it's their "real expression".
As a counterpoint, take a youtuber I really enjoy, Ryan McBeth. He does OSINT mostly military-themed current events vids and blogs. I'm sure the Ryan in front of the camera is different than the Ryan I'd meet at the bar: more polished, calculated in choice of words, presenting self in the best light, because that's what we all do in the limelight. But he totally lampshades his sponsored bits: "let me take a few moments to pay the bills". That's the second-order authenticity. Doing a paid sponsor bit is ipso facto inauthentic - it's not something you'd do without the influence of money. But lampshading it tips his hand and humanizes him. Or does it? <vsauce theme> Maybe he's saying that because his shtick is "down to earth authentic guy" and that's what that character would say? (I doubt it, but it's a fun hypothetical).
Famously, "All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players" - Shakespeare
It'd be especially useful if they could run on regular jet fuel, then turboprops/jets and pistons could use the same fuel infra.
It does feel like it's a very early 20th century technique. Nowadays we have so many tools which would be less feasible for calculators (the people) and more feasible for software.
I DJ both electronic formats as well as "general pop hits" nights. People may not consciously tell, but you take a well know track, and speed it up 3-5% (which also increases the pitch, unless you enable pitch-time stretch correction), and it injects a noticeable amount of energy into the dancefloor.
It's also just a social/"conformal" thing. Tempo regions serve as a kind of Schelling point for styles and energy levels. So if you have a given sub-style or vibe, you are likely to produce music in that style and speed, so it can readily mix in the same context.
Again, all of these micro-genres listed still fall under the aegis of "psytrance" and djs can and often do mix across boundaries and pitch stuff up/down as a part of their art. It's really about self-association and capturing specific vibes, vs exclusion or genre-policing.
IRs like LLVMIR and various bytecodes. Well, those don't map to the hardware 1:1, not even close. So IR must be HLL.
Sure Asm has to be architecture specific, but even then we are getting pretty good at transpilation. And those codes get translated to opcodes anyways on most modern chips.
Basically, unless you are assembling on an ancient system or embedded processor, you aren't writing in a "low level language". Very few folks nowadays do this, so the term "LLL" doesn't occupy much mindshare in semantic space. That leads folks to populate it with what they perceive as low level - the lowest language on the abstraction tree they are likely to encounter - C.
This divide is only going to expand so I say we just accept the definition of low level language has shifted, and call anything where it does closely match... something else, I don't have a good term. Maybe "hardware level language".
I don't think folks so much "shoe horn async where it is unnecessary" as the red/blue problem causes async code in most languages to spread.
Or by "async" do you just mean concurrent code? I'm reading "async" to mean lightweight coroutines or similar.
https://www.npr.org/2004/02/24/1697475/the-not-so-random-coi...
You do see high quality mics and signal conditioning on the higher end systems, usually north of $250. And even then, it feels like that's a knock-on of paying for more headphone quality.
> apparent contradiction
I don't understand what you mean. Where's the contradiction? OP saying "never take an ultimatum" isn't absolute - there's an implied "in your best interest" there. If a cop tells you "freeze or I'll shoot!" do you ignore that ultimatum? Of course not, context matters. Obviously an H1B trying to support a family is going to most likely choose to comply with the ultimatum in the best interest of their quality of life. It's just unfortunate they have far less negotiation room.