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Similar but for the emacs users https://github.com/dakra/speed-type

I'm in NY and this was happening for me. I'd be 10-15 characters down and get a stream of red. One thing that was sort of annoying is that because it's using a custom text box (or something) when I control-w to kill the previous word for an error, nothing happens. I tried option-delete as well but no luck.

The act of aspiration necessarily includes being willing to be a different person by the time you accomplish the goal you are aspiring to.

Typical is 60-90k but 100k is pretty standard for SFF

If you think being a parent is as physically grueling as combat then I'd suggest you either meet some parents or get into some fights because you have a serious misunderstanding of one or the other.

In any case, outside of the extremes there really isn't much physical difference between 40s and 20s unless you have health issues or you don't exercise. I'm 45 and lift about what I did when I was 25. My cardio is better (boxing, muay thai) and I don't need as much sleep as I used to when I was a kid. You don't want to step in the ring with a guy in his 20s/30s because your reaction times are ~80-150ms slower but that has very little impact on your ability to change a diaper.

Step outside, touch some grass, and meet people in the real world.

How old do you think 40 is? My god. Have you ever met someone in their 40s? Are you a child?

Yup, that's pretty much exactly it. As for our regulations, Fish and Game determines when to open a region for a specific fishery, in the example we're using, it's purse seining, as you've correctly gathered.

The decision to open or close is made based on "escapement" numbers, i.e. the estimated number of fish who have made it back up their origin river to spawn. In the case of hatcheries, that's easy to determine, but they've been using a sonar system named Bendix since the 70s or so to figure out the rivers.

there are a lot more marine mammals than there used to be. They're eating a ton of hatchery fish according to (many) anecdotal accounts. I also overheard a few Fish and Game guys putting forward that theory regarding the very bad returns during the Prince William Sound seine fishery.

I'd never seen so many otters, seals, and orcas as I had in my return trip. With a lot more predators, it's a stretch to think that could be contributing.

So while environmental contamination is never a bad bet, I'd be surprised if that's all it was.

The people who say stuff like "overfishing" in regard to Alaskan fisheries (some of the best managed in the world) have no idea what they're talking about.

Fucken English enough for ya?

I was back home in Alaska recently after a very long time (10 years, before that 15) hadn't been back much. the amount of marine mammals back in PWS is bonkers. I do know that they've been scooping up hatchery fry like crazy. I mean, hide a hatchery from a bunch of whales, right? At least that seemed to be a theory on the recent shittiness of the seine season, who knows. I haven't fished in 25 years.

I had been focused on work through my 20s and had always wanted to write. Shifted gears in my 30s and have developed myself as a writer. It wasn't without cost, of course.

If you want to give more time to developing yourself as a writer or musician or artist, there's time. You can shift gears, you just have to understand the tradeoffs because just like neglecting social life and artistic development led to those parts of yourself being underdeveloped, so will shifting gears in your thirties in regards to your career.

If you don't throw yourself full-bore into those new pursuits, you can still pick them up as hobbies, choose modest projects, and split the difference.

Generally I agree with you, but Nate Silver has yet to perform poorly.

This is the "it's easy to steal so it's okay" argument, which I addressed up thread in a sibling comment about the dynamics of IP on the internet.

Yes, the conditions are as they are. Literature by dint of being pure text is probably in deep shit, but that's not what we're talking about—we're talking about whether the wide scale tragedy of the commons that is zero-friction IP theft is on balance, a bad thing.

If it's not possible to make a living at a vocation, all you will get is amateur participants. Even the most talented will have to find other things to do with their time in order to support themselves.

Contrary to the above sibling comment, amateurs do not often produce better art than professionals—promising amateurs learn their craft as professionals and tend to produce their best work mid-career. This conflicts with the lay understanding of creative endeavors, of course.

You've proven my point for me, thanks.

I'm being pretty good faith about this, I just don't appreciate people who can't read.

The theoretical benefits to society from distributing people's IP for free is that people who otherwise couldn't afford the money for a book or song or piece of software are able to use it.

Of course, it becomes impossible to support yourself as an indie producer of (software/music/literature/etc) in a world where your work can be taken for free. That reduces the number of people who can participate in the creation of that sort of thing to hobbyists and large businesses that are capable of protecting their IP through other avenues.

Getting rid of intellectual property rights is a short sighted exercise and all you end up doing once you've run through the trove of contemporary and historical IP is impoverishing the world to a much greater degree by destroying incentives for creators to create new things.

The only solutions that I've heard defenders come up with is some version of <hand waving> "it doesn't matter, people will still produce art" Yeah, people will produce, but like 1/10th what they could if they can't make a living off it or aren't trust funders.

Current copyright is life of the author + 70, which is too long. Still, even in that situation, those who wouldn't otherwise have access to those books will eventually get it for free as works enter public domain. If you want to argue that we should drastically reduce the length of copyright, I'd agree with you. But pretending that IP theft doesn't matter is naive.

lol

I stand by my statement.

Your entire argument boils down to the idea that musicians shouldn't own distribution rights to their work and that sass software licenses should be free. It's a stupid position to hold that falls apart immediately.

So yes, either you're under thirty and haven't thought it through or your ability to reason about this stuff is limited.

Ah, then you’re a moron or a child.

"Taking food off the table" was a metaphor. Your statement makes even less sense if you weren't referencing that. You're saying, in effect, that zero marginal cost items are not property. That's a radical position that I would be surprised if you actually endorse after you think about it.

1. Taking food off someone's table was a metaphor.

2. If you're making the argument that theft is limited to tangible things, well, you're entitled to that belief, but generally the consensus is that intangible property is still property. Money is property.

3. If you're making the argument that zero marginal cost items are not private property, that's an extremely radical position that I doubt you actually endorse after thinking about the incentives in a society where that was the dominant view.

The most legitimate argument for large scale copyright theft is eminent domain style seizure on the grounds that it benefits society. I would even endorse a weak version of that argument in narrow, well defined instances. And do. Copyright should expire, and it should definitely be harder to extend. And it should be possible to seize copyright from estates where the creator is no longer living, in certain circumstances, or at least expand fair usage in some graded manner.

That's not what's being argued about though, what people in this thread, and what people who steal music and software used to believe was that those products weren't really property and so they could take them. It's flimsy justification for bad behavior.

begging the metaphor is one approach when attempting to defend an indefensible position

Exactly. The form of the novel is tied to text and text is fundamentally east to distribute because it is information. The problem is structurally tough.

Just like Spotify solved it good and hard for musicians?

Of course the author is losing something, someone stole his intellectual property and distributed it for free. It's not your responsibility to put food onto someone's table, but it is your responsibility not to steal it. Immoral acts do not become moral because they are easy to commit.

It’s amazing the lengths people go to justify self serving bullshit. The apologetics in this thread are no different than the ones made 20 years ago for stealing music and software. Indie software only escaped because the sass model made piracy hard. Music is in terrible shape and its only saving grace is that it’s also a performance medium.

If piracy makes it so that it doesn’t make much sense to produce novels, it’s the world that’s poorer. Justifying that because it happens or because it’s easy is nothing more than the naturalistic fallacy.

Memories of being 10 and writing a C64 program to generate D&D character stats and generally dumb stuff like handling dice roles and random encounters. Felt like magic.

I've read a few of Gary Marcus' posts and I like him. My position is much more that the capabilities of current models are good enough for a lot uses. I certainly don't think language models are "real intelligence" or that we're anywhere near achieving that, just that excellent search and mashup engines (current language models) are proving to be extremely useful.

The conspicuously missing tech in the rundown he gave is ML, which actually seems to be meeting up to a lot of the hype and I think will be pretty revolutionary, though not as revolutionary as a lot of the enthusiasts believe.

Even if ML models hit an unexpected scaling problem, they're still very very useful. Extremely disruptive, too. Then again, it could be ages before we figure out how to put them to the best use.

I bet you could raise your rate quite a bit. I'm 20y exp mostly typescript and front ends these days but very much a polyglot background and I run up and down the stack all the time. I charge $225, which tbh I feel is low for my level of expertise. I'm based in NYC but that shouldn't matter as much these days.

It's a shame that you can't do a multi part poll. I'd love to know people's rates _and_ their years of experience, language, industry, etc.

Computer science is a branch of math, but programming is not. People frequently confuse the two. The difference between using mathematical constructs to inform your engineering and discovering new mathematical constructs is fundamental and the practices do not intersect much at all.