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? you are suggesting that zero musicians are required by society in order for society to function?

the difference is this: music is always changing, and this change is what defines the active cutting edge of the arts, vs the retro/copycat/tribute/covers schlock the masses are ok with. the schlock itself requires constant creativity vampirism and sublimation or I would say sublation of soul spirit and new ideas merely to keep afloat.

those responsible for advancement of musical boundaries rarely are recognized or rewarded in kind, at least since the dawn of the recorded music mafia.

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Hunter S. Thompson

i can promise you that classical theory is not how 99% of flamenco players learned what is essentially an oral tradition folk art.

OTOH, classical guitar, if that is what you are after, is exclusively a repertoire music, you learn it by playing songs. here, get some guitar sheet music and start playing. they include numbers for fret positions above the staff of notes, sometimes, and they often indicate which finger to pluck with on the right hand. you literally can just follow the directions on the box

first of all, stop being an outsider and calling it "spanish guitar" and start listening to decades of recordings made available via the internet.

do you want to learn flamenco techniques? there are a zillion youtube tutorials on rasgueados, on alzapua, on picado, etc.

i find that you can watch the legends and masters directly playing their music, and watch their fingers.

song forms, chords, all can be learned if you know what it is you seek to learn.

i taught myself flamenco guitar to quite a high level of competency during the pandemic, and i can promise you that with a few hours practice a day, and some passion for listening to and discovery of new music, you too can achieve what normal mortals consider to be extremely developed skills, because, truth be told, it's like any human endeavor: you can get competent quickly, but it will take a lifetime to master.

playing a musical instrument is a different modality than verbal wankage and supposition about this or that, aka it's the opposite of an online comment, IMO

yes, constantly. I also don't remember much contextual domain info of a given section of code about 2 weeks into delving into some other part of the same app.

So-called AI makes this worse.

Let me remind you of gyms, now that humans have been saved of much manual activity...

and LLMs are the opposite of automation, the opposite of a human intention amplifier like CAD CAM, or chef puppet ansible terraform whatever, aka non deterministic

said capabilities Hegseth is utterly gutting and undermining.

It's more likely China's next gen aircraft one should be wary of, than their AI. (as previewed in recent Indian Pakistani air engagements)

i really see this so-called AI race as a bullet to be dodged; a bubble to be waited out. it has been relentlessly pushed from on top, and we always find really pushy FOMO as the main driver.

I'm not impressed by non deterministic mechanisms that undo the zero overhead advantages hard won by decades of automation. this is not a CAD tool amplifying and articulating human intentions, but a vague floppy jelly blob of "i wonder what will come out"

which also can be botched

"help" (botch the job)

I have every intention of continuing to avoid LLM usage in any capacity of my job. I actively seek physical exercise and have no intention of outsourcing my mental processes to avoid thought either.

I suspect my capabilities will be more rare in the near future due to the dumbing down caused by extensive LLM usage in every aspect of our trade.

I see this as dodging a sort of bullet.

yes, Kate editor is a classic example. one clicks the report a bug link in-app and immediately gets a login page. no one has time for this sort of thing. it indicates a disinterest in getting bug reports, making people do homework to report one. i switched editors and got back to work.

Dear Author, AI is coming for YOUR job. The doomsday marketing approach is getting rather old, IMO.

i remain unconvinced that anyone needs to "catch up" in any so-called AI race (to the bottom, IMO) dodging a bullet is a thing, as popular as everything AI seems on HN

i tend to see trumps abuse of office as an unprecedented claim to powers a president does not, did not, and should not have.

only partisan blinders would cause one to equate trumps actions with anything from our past.

mark my words, maga is about dismantling the american system and establishing a totalitarian state. obey.

umm Switzerland disagrees with the assessment of the USA being the oldest democratic republic. If we are only speaking of republic, Portugal has been one since the 12th century, albeit there's been 10 or 11 iterations on the constitution, including Salazars so-called New State.

i wonder what all this hype-driven overcapacity will be used for by future generations.

once this bubble pops we are going to have some serious albeit high-latency hardware

fast lookup for internal usage. it's significantly faster than a UUID on every DBMS i have ever seen

i disagree with your assessment. remember, Russias economy is smaller than the Italian economy bigger than Spains.

this war is bankrupting Russia the longer it continues

and so Putin and his drunk lapdop Medvedev should stop sabre rattling with toy sabres.

be careful whom you are advising to back down in fear.

does anyone do due diligence on corporate names before launching? Sakana is a popular slang spelling of sacana, or bastard, in Português. I suppose self modifying code can be considered such, in some circumstances, but willingly pointing this out is probably less than stellar marketing.

...yet

and that last phrase is worthy of chairman mao. anti elitism rapidly turns into anti competence.

in which circles would one be embarrassed to have attended Harvard?

the notion of foisting your narrow-minded vision of reality on 300 million people is sickening.

that is the totalitarianism our forebears fought 2 world wars and a cold war over.

your thinking is worthy of stalin ot mao.

shame be upon such a sorry excuse for thought

what a load of bs. i anticipated a reasonable article at the outset, i even agreed with the thesis statement that changing political mores are resulting in a decline in meritocracy, and i was directly considering Hegseth and Gabbard and RFK as ideological appointments with no competence.

instead, the article purports that diversity iniciatives are to blame, not rash MAGA ideological purges or Trumps random economic policies.

this article is garbage. gtfo

I suspect we will continue to have junior developers, albeit the tasks they are tasked with may change. One big issue is that it is expensive to have senior devs essentially correcting AI slop. Additionally, at current prompt pricing I suspect a junior dev is a better ROI still. A more likely result is increased expenditure due to trying to keep up with the AI hype, not a reduced team size.

I have yet to hear of a productive software development shop successfully reducing staff count due to LLM usage.

UUID is PUBLIC id, use it to look up the bigint numerical id, when necessary.

one should not divulge scale, placement in numerical sequence, etc wtr to integer id, hence ouvlic UUID, which is basically unguessable token

Greed as the only engine of human enterprise turns out to have negative social effects over and over again.

it's not that tv or social media must inherently be evil, but when the motivations for building platforms is mind control and market share, and the entity is a collection of contracts designed to allow exploitation of all and sundry concerned we should probably stop and say, hey Adam, your invisible hand is choking me.

society should own some things, including rail networks, data networks, and large media intended for mass societal conversations.

OTOH they are admittedly using an ORM (Prisma, known for its weight)

the cause of all this? single client ALSA driver model.

coreaudio doesn't need pulse nor jack nor pipewire to allow a single device to be opened by multiple applications.

ALSA additionally specifies every 2 channels as separate 2channel devices, so your 8 channel audio interface looks like 4.

the confusion is added to by device tree overlays such that you may find your pro audio 8 channel device is always seen as a surround setup, replete wirh highpass filtering on the principle pair of outputs, and you don't know why your poor desktop environments sound device doesn't show this...

hubris is more than just a word, evidently. here's a word for you to learn, friend: techne. it's Greek for "hand".

clothed talking apes shouldn't presume to reduce the world to their own limited understanding of it.

it's like thinking you are actually squeezing the sunset when you pinch it in a photo.

ah yes, bonkers subsumed everything he didn't understand and called it macaroni.