I'd thought of the money one, hadn't thought about the possible signaling of "weird" beliefs.
The third point seems a little silly at first, but reflecting on my own musings on whether to go full Signal-only or not I guess I can imagine someone being iMessage only same as some people are Signal-only.
Care to expand? I have some gripes with them myself, but I haven't demanded enough of their stuff to find technical issues yet. My problems are of the "oscilloscope is pestering me about windows updates" and "service manuals suck" variety.
The comment I responded to made the statement that OAI behaved like the sea witch who literally stole someone's voice. That is not the case here, since Scarlett still has her voice and OAI only (allegedly?) copied it. Whether OAI violated copyright law is a different matter, but steal her voice they did not.
Yet another vote for Kagi. When I was on the free plan it felt like a secret weapon that I pulled out for tough searches. Happy to pay for it now. Now, they do have a similar AI summary feature, but it actually links the sources it used to come to its answer so you can check its work. You can turn it off too. I've also found Kagi staff to be fairly quick about bug fixes, though I've only reported one bug.
Kagi. They actually have a filter setting to only show forum results. They have one for the "smallweb" as well. Also a "smallweb" landing page designed to help you discover niche creators like you mentioned. Here: https://kagi.com/smallweb/
I don't think that's quite the same. Are they going out and hiring impersonators of the actors who declined the role or digitally enhancing the substitute to look like them? That seems closer to what happened here.
I found this after the recent music vs lyric discussion prompted me to dig into how Dead Can Dance's music is described. I said glossolalia in the other thread, but it seems the singer disagrees.
I'm a music person, when I'm approaching new (to me) music I'm highly focused on how the melodies, harmonies, rhythms, textures, etc. fit into a coherent narrative/whole and the lyrics don't factor in at all, though the voice as an instrument does. I think an interesting type of music perhaps on the border of the "music vs. lyric" line is glossolalia, such as Dead Can Dance, where what the voices are vocalizing is usually gibberish/nonsense chosen strictly for its musical qualities. From that particular artist, I can recommend The Serpent's Egg and Spleen and Ideal as excellent albums.
What I remember hearing when I took it was that it is the first introduction to proofs for a lot of people. It's not on the level of some higher-division undergraduate math courses that weed out people who are good at arithmetic vs good at math, but it's the first course that starts to lean in that direction.
> They refuse to show you the map beyond a postage-stamp area in the immediate vicinity. Making it utterly impossible to get your bearings and make good decisions.
I didn't realize this until I started using a Thomas Guide in the past year, and then it hit me like a bag of bricks. It's so much easier to (re)orient myself with a properly sized and detailed map. Not to mention I don't have to fiddle with Google Maps to coax it into showing me street names. I don't think Google Maps is very good at actually being a map.
Indeed. I've heard that certain acoustic guitar makers are starting do certain types of scientific analyses of the wood they buy for the guitar body to ascertain how it will behave, I wonder if there is any work being done in the violin community to quantify the behavior of their instruments. If anyone knows of an equivalent of Zollner's Physics of the Electric Guitar[0] for violins please share!
Yes, though at the time I believe it was static (no ads) so I was just left wondering why they felt the need to put up a TV screen showing what I'd see through the glass. It may have obscured whether something was in stock, but I forget.
One time my phone was getting terrible reception in the restaurant, and couldn't download the way-too-big menu file. I ask the server for a paper menu, and apparently they'd went all-in on paper-free, so no menu for me. Instead, the server had to present their iPad to me so I could see all the software buttons for the items I could choose from as they scrolled through. Ridiculous. The next time I went they had paper menus.
I just dealt with this the other day. One of my favorite restaurants kept the menu "books" but when you opened it up it just had a QR code. Tease... So I went to the counter and asked for a paper menu, which they provided. While my friends are struggling to figure out the online ordering system, I ordered directly through the waiter. All seems to be well and I'm feeling smug. Then my friend comments that they can't figure out why there is another item on their order, an item that just happens to coincide with what I ordered. facepalm So I ask the server to put it on a separate tab, to which they responded "I already did." Ok... So we'll have to figure this out later. After I eat, I walk up to the counter since I don't expect to receive a paper bill from the server as everything seems to be online now. I ask to pay for my meal, and they say they don't have any such item open on the tab. facepalm I walk back to table, and later my friend and I go back to the counter so they can show the staff that my item is on their tab. We can't figure it out with the staff, so we decide I'll just pay my friend for my portion. Except my friend's tab is already closed apparently and my item wasn't on it? Gah... Third time's the charm, I ask the server for my check, which they bring out. It has a QR code to pay online, no chance I'm messing with that. I walk to the counter, present the bill, and the server is able to ring up my tab. Way too much hassle associated with just ordering and paying for food. I suppose next time I know all the dance moves required for things to go smoothly, but I came to eat, not dance. Grrr....
Started with the metropolitan myself, and it's definitely a good pen. I do want to add though that over time and after a few drops the snap-on cap of my pen fit less snug, and eventually the pen started dropping out of the cap and into my shirt when I had it clipped to my collar. So once that cap gets loose maybe be careful about what shirts you wear it on. That said, even after lawn-darting into the carpet nib first, my metro still writes great and I keep it around as a non-clip pen.
Prompted by comments foreshadowing the end of search engines being useful, I wonder if we'll see a return to pre-search engine practices given that in the hypothetical we would come full loop from low signal to noise back to low signal to noise.