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Betteridge's Law is dead, long live Betteridge's Law

The word 'Infotainment' makes me want to barf.

There beneath the blue suburban skies...

It's a planeatarium

I enjoyed that. I have no mug shots (yet) and I suppose that reduces the odds that anyone might write about me in 100 years.

I also did one of the hikes to the CO river in the 90s with 3 friends when we were in college. We got off to a late start so jogged down a good deal of the way (dumb). We carried a 1 gallon water jug each (not even close to enough). We had no extra clothing (dumb). Two of us (me being one) made it out that day. The other two didn't. A group of smart hikers with water filters and iodine tablets found them belly up on the path in the direct sunlight. I'm certain they would have died if the hikers didn't give them tablets, water and emergency blankets. Man we were dumb.

Chickens are not dumb, check out:

https://thehumaneleague.org/article/are-chickens-smart https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5306232/

Isn't that what humans do too? We mimic noises we've heard before and we associate meaning to the noises. Parrots can do that. Our quaker parrot would bite you, then say 'not supposed to bite'. He clearly associated some kind of meaning to that phrase.

Or Pueblo, Salida and Buena Vista CO

I canceled my espn/disney+ account. I hope lots of people are doing that too.

Haha, fine! I messed it up 2x.

Dammit, I messed it all up. I meant Harry Mudd from Star Trek, as most correctly guessed.

I got all excited until I realized Harvey Mudd isn't Henry Mudd. This project would have had a lot more cred, in my book, if it were the latter.

> 81% of developers agreed that AI increases their productivity

I've had a few AI generated PRs come my way and the code-review process is, shall we say, not fun. It takes me a lot more time to review these PRs, there is way more back-and-forth between me and the 'developer', and it takes much more time to get the PR merged. That's not saying anything about the increased difficulty in modifying this code in the future.

I have a feeling these claims of being more productive don't account for the entire development cycle.

Go green

According to The End of Everything (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52767659-the-end-of-ever...) decay is only one of the ways it all ends. Unfortunately most (all?) the other ways happen way earlier.

Shoot, I was expecting to see a hacked blue light special.

A German equatorial telescope mount. Right now I'm learning to make gears. After building the hardware I'd like to write the firmware/software for tracking stars and planets. This will be a long term project for sure.

Yes, I do and I am and I still love doing it.

When I was 14 or so I took a long bus ride downtown to buy The Wall on vinyl. The ride back home was torture, gazing at that beautiful art work and not being able to listen.

I'm a lefty and I played right handed guitar growing up. I never got very good at strumming and picking. Five years ago I switched to left-handed guitars and I think I'm much better than I ever was as a righty. Picking the strings well, to me, is the most difficult part of playing a guitar.

Travesty is another one, thanks to sports announcers.

My vote goes to “Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right V. Wrong’”

Thanks! You inspired my to order 'Berklee Guitar Theory'. Next up: 'finding someone to play with' (which has proven difficult so far).

I've been practicing guitar pretty hard for 4 years. Certainly not 8 hours a day since I have a job and wife, but at least 1 or 2 every day. I feel like maybe I'm not practicing the right things.

When you were playing guitar 8 hours a day, do you remember what you were doing for those 8 hours? Learning new songs? Practicing scales? Transcribing songs? I know all those things are important, but I'm still trying to figure out what I should really be spending my practice time doing.

I think my goal is just to be able to play with friends for fun, no gigs or anything like that, and sound decent, rhythm or lead. And maybe write a few songs.

  select artist, sum(plays) from plays where last_played > '2023-01.01' group by artist order by sum(plays) desc limit 20;
  ┌───────────────────────────────┬────────────┐
  │            artist             │ sum(plays) │
  │            varchar            │   int128   │
  ├───────────────────────────────┼────────────┤
  │ Mush                          │         97 │
  │ Waylon Jennings               │         83 │
  │ The Klittens                  │         82 │
  │ Widowspeak                    │         80 │
  │ Glyders                       │         71 │
  │ Big Thief                     │         69 │
  │ Duke Ellington                │         66 │
  │ Wet Leg                       │         59 │
  │ Bachelor, Jay Som & Palehound │         54 │
  │ Spencer Cullum                │         51 │
  │ Thee Oh Sees                  │         51 │
  │ abracadabra                   │         49 │
  │ The Beatles                   │         48 │
  │ PACKS                         │         44 │
  │ Pozi                          │         43 │
  │ Miles Davis                   │         38 │
  │ Sorry                         │         37 │
  │ Thievery Corporation          │         34 │
  │ Daniel Rossen                 │         32 │
  │ Melin Melyn                   │         31 │
  ├───────────────────────────────┴────────────┤
  │ 20 rows                          2 columns │
  └────────────────────────────────────────────┘

It's interesting to add 'last played' to the smart playlist.

  select genre, sum(plays) from plays group by genre order by sum(plays) desc limit 40;
  ┌─────────────────────┬────────────┐
  │        genre        │ sum(plays) │
  │       varchar       │   int128   │
  ├─────────────────────┼────────────┤
  │ Jazz                │       5754 │
  │ Rock                │       5149 │
  │ Alternative         │       1511 │
  │ Hip Hop/Rap         │        986 │
  │ Pop                 │        811 │
  │ Alternative & Punk  │        725 │
  │ Electronic          │        713 │
  │ Reggae              │        670 │
  │ Country             │        612 │
  │ Holiday             │        581 │
  │ Folk                │        553 │
  │ Classical           │        433 │
  │ R&B                 │        359 │
  │ World               │        334 │
  │                     │        303 │
  │ Electronica/Dance   │        302 │
  │ Singer/Songwriter   │        275 │
  │ R&B/Soul            │        242 │
  │ Metal               │        119 │
  │ Psychedelic         │        111 │
  │ Blues               │        110 │
  │ Contemporary Folk   │         74 │
  │ Indie Rock          │         65 │
  │ Fusion              │         58 │
  │ Soundtrack          │         47 │
  │ Indie Pop           │         40 │
  │ Easy Listening      │         34 │
  │ Dance               │         20 │
  │ Alternative Folk    │         20 │
  │ Punk                │         20 │
  │ rock                │         20 │
  │ Downtempo           │         18 │
  │ Electronica         │         18 │
  │ Contemporary Jazz   │         13 │
  │ Hip-Hop/Rap         │         10 │
  │ Indian Classical    │          9 │
  │ Traditional Country │          7 │
  │ New Age             │          7 │
  │ Alternative Country │          6 │
  │ Opera               │          5 │
  ├─────────────────────┴────────────┤
  │ 40 rows                2 columns │
  └──────────────────────────────────┘

I don't know if I trust Apple Music's accounting, but I'm a jazz fan too.

  select artist, sum(plays) from plays group by artist order by sum(plays) desc limit 40;
  ┌───────────────────────────────┬────────────┐
  │            artist             │ sum(plays) │
  │            varchar            │   int128   │
  ├───────────────────────────────┼────────────┤
  │ The Beatles                   │       2402 │
  │ Bob Dylan                     │        683 │
  │ Pink Floyd                    │        595 │
  │ Miles Davis                   │        580 │
  │ Duke Ellington                │        443 │
  │ Kenny Burrell                 │        339 │
  │ Vince Guaraldi                │        311 │
  │ Nightmares On Wax             │        297 │
  │ Rodriguez                     │        269 │
  │ Vince Guaraldi Trio           │        269 │
  │ John Lennon                   │        268 │
  │ Creedence Clearwater Revival  │        258 │
  │ Sonny Rollins                 │        223 │
  │ Bill Evans                    │        212 │
  │ Burning Spear                 │        210 │
  │ De La Soul                    │        201 │
  │                               │        201 │
  │ Radiohead                     │        194 │
  │ A Tribe Called Quest          │        190 │
  │ Led Zeppelin                  │        189 │
  │ Brad Mehldau                  │        188 │
  │ Martin Denny                  │        188 │
  │ Bob Marley                    │        178 │
  │ Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan │        161 │
  │ Charles Mingus                │        158 │
  │ Waylon Jennings               │        157 │
  │ Levi Clay                     │        149 │
  │ Marvin Gaye                   │        144 │
  │ Digable Planets               │        142 │
  │ Grateful Dead                 │        142 │
  │ John Coltrane                 │        137 │
  │ The Smiths                    │        136 │
  │ George Harrison               │        132 │
  │ Dimitri From Paris            │        124 │
  │ Dave Brubeck Quartet          │        121 │
  │ Cannonball Adderley           │        117 │
  │ Thievery Corporation          │        115 │
  │ Tommy Flanagan                │        112 │
  │ The B-52's                    │        109 │
  │ Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  │        109 │
  ├───────────────────────────────┴────────────┤
  │ 40 rows                          2 columns │
  └────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Guess I'm a Beatles fan!

Neat, l learned something new. Now it’s time to query the tsv with the other new thing I learned about last week via hacker news: duckdb.

I'm firmly in the 'gear' quadrant of beer brewing. I build a really cool automatic brewery (wrote my own software, welded a 3 tier frame, had a stainless insulated mash tun welded for me (my welding skills are not good enough for that)). All I have to do is add the grains and hops and suck the wort out with a march pump at the end. Everything else is automatic.

I haven't used it in 4 years. I think I just enjoyed building it more than I enjoy using it.