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I was going to reply that zooming in on pictures is a path that leads only to madness, but you’re right; that is messed up.

GP said they own a M4/3 camera, which is mirrorless.

For a simple example, any music that “grooves” (makes you want to tap your feet) tends to not be perfectly sub-divided into 4 beats. Different players in the same band may be inten…

But then who would deliver the ads?? /s I completely agree, but with the arts as my object of fixation. I could never live the swanky life I lead without my current job, but damn I…

I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to …

For better or worse I index the opposite way. My CV is a markdown doc wrapped in the absolute minimum html/js to render it as a web page. If viewed as text it is perfectly readable…

Amazon gives loans to sellers; they have more info on their suppliers’ businesses than a bank could ever dream of.

Ageeed. Also seeing as LED bulbs are ~10x more efficient per lumen than incandescent, people are not installing 10x as much brightness in their homes

To bolster your other response: in college chemistry classes are split into two kinds: “organic chemistry”, and “everything else”. But he term “organic” in this context means “comp…

With apple mucic 100% of the money goes to the label. The label then has a contract with the artist for how much online sales get sent their way. This contract may be very complica…

Explaining is usually more difficult than understanding, as well.

This is the exact same reason that it always seems like you are in “the slow lane” in congested traffic. You spend considerably more time going slow than going fast, and while your…

It is funny in a sense because TBL really invented the 'internet' as people know it, Vint Cerf just created that pesky TCP/IP thing nerds talk about.

I would guess that in 50 years people will look at current tech trends in the same way. “They had to have known the apps and content were being created to induce maximal stress and…

I assumed they meant “natural” (I.e. ineffective) solutions.

I found bedbugs to be more mentally exhausting than anything. I have never felt more sure that I might have a mental breakdown than when I had bedbugs. They are almost impossible t…

For totally unrelated tinfoil-hat reasons I started using fastmail yesterday. Now I feel very vindicated in my choice, but it makes me wonder; since Gmail is so pervasive, will thi…

I was unaware that zizek called this form of consumerism neoliberalism. I was only aware of the economic definition of the term relating to Keynesian economics and deregulation and…

Nit: neoliberalism means different things depending on context, but it really doesn’t mean “new-fangled leftism”.

I think it is reasonable to expect storage to jump dramatically at such a time that we begin storing “3D” data. Not that everything in VR will be voxels or anything, but even if th…

Yes they do, and the math works out. About 8k people work in their two belltown towers alone.

One way of thinking of legislation is to encourage/discourage behavior indirectly. Think how putting a ridiculous tax on cigarettes makes people less likely to want to use them. In…

You can be a homeowner and also not be a misanthrope at the same time. The min/max attitude of tech workers has always disgusted me in his regard. Edit: I don’t retract my statemen…

I remember reading an interview with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. He mentions how glad he was that he never joined the singer/songwriter scene because leaning picking and rhyhhm …

The partially examined life podcast has three whole episodes dedicated to William James’s theories of the mind and the self, for anyone looking for more.