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Post by andrewzah »

songeater wrote: post #744
andrewzah wrote: post #739

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Music is about discipline. "Talent" is more or less a multiplier, but is useless without discipline in the first place. Needing "talent" (to be very good at it) is a myth. You don't have to be the best in the world to be very good at something. There is no secret. It just takes time and work to get good at an instrument or producing. edit: clarity

I mostly agree with you, but with some changes (applies not just to music but any other field). Discipline is the multiplier on talent, not the other way round. "Talent" is most definitely not a myth - to take it to an egregious example, no amount of discipline would ever make me play center in the NBA or piano in Carnegie Hall. But... that's ok.

I should specify there's a difference of being in the top percentage of people in a field, and just being very good at that field. With sports, physical attributes are more important but even if you're not gonna be in the NBA you can still be quite good, etc.

I don't see music as really competitive in that sense though because everyone has different tastes. Once you put in the time and work to learn to produce or play an instrument, it then comes down to creativity and networking really.

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Post by fraetor »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #70

I built a website to help me track my Apple Fitness+ workouts. Specifically, I needed several features that Apple doesn't offer today: - A chronological history of the workouts I've completed. - Notes and like/dislike tracking on the workouts I've completed. - Real search capabilities to let me find particular types of workouts (e.g. filter to yoga workouts and search for "pigeon") And, if people actually use it, the…

Wodscribe is a danish startup doing something similiar.

They use AI to determine what workouts you do, with logging and other features.

https://wodscribe.com/

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Post by ss108 »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #216
ss108 wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

^^ this Would add: prestige law and government jobs; trying to be an actor; working at Amazon; working as a chef/cook at most restaurants, esp fancy ones--the list is quite long of "passion jobs" that pay poorly and involve all sorts of abuse people wouldn't put up with at other jobs.

working at Amazon is a passion job?

Yeah I guess that label isn't accurate for Amazon (and a lot of other bigtech jobs) and prestige law, which are more about social status, etc.

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Post by jwang1020 »

iljya wrote: post #471

Creating paper nautical maps. NOAA has stopped updating 15% of all their nautical charts and will discontinue the rest by Jan. 2025. The proposed replacement for the beautiful maps they produce now is "print electronic maps yourself". Unfortunately the electronic charts are only usable with an interactive interface which paper is not, to say nothing about their aesthetic qualities. There are data errors too in the ne…

This sounds like a perfect intersection of a few interests of mine so would be super interested in learning more. What type of help are you looking for?

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Post by songeater »

andrewzah wrote: post #761
songeater wrote: post #744

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mostly agree with you, but with some changes (applies not just to music but any other field). Discipline is the multiplier on talent, not the other way round. "Talent" is most definitely not a myth - to take it to an egregious example, no amount of discipline would ever make me play center in the NBA or piano in Carnegie Hall. But... that's ok.

I should specify there's a difference of being in the top percentage of people in a field, and just being very good at that field. With sports, physical attributes are more important but even if you're not gonna be in the NBA you can still be quite good, etc. I don't see music as really competitive in that sense though because everyone has different tastes. Once you put in the time and work to learn to produce or pla…

Again, I mostly do agree with you, especially as you get to more creative fields. I think what I would rephrase as is: given my genetic makeup, discipline is more likely to yield benefits using openAI Jukebox rather than guitar or piano.

On this topic, if you have not already, one of the best movies I have seen in last couple years: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11423784/ (is on netflix in the US).

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Post by rohit89 »

setgree wrote: post #740

I’m 53,000 words into a Harry Potter fanfic that fixed some issues I had with the seventh book. Basically, I object to how little the main characters ‘play to win.’ Example: Team Voldemort taboos his name, so that if you say it, his goons show up to arrest you. So everyone tries to stop saying his name. But here’s another idea. One person says his name while another hides nearby. After saying the name, the first pers…

One thing that bothered me a lot in that book was the trio hiding out in the wilderness scrounging for food. They could do magic! How hard was it to sneak into a muggle supermarket and steal some food?! Or lie low at some pre-arranged safe houses? Could have had Dobby bring supplies.

I don't know how effective Taboo ambush tactics would be in the long run but not finishing off death eaters and letting them respawn was definitely a bad move tactically. Should have atleast dumped them all in a fidelius charmed warehouse or something in a Stunned state.

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Post by jublime_dev »

I've been working on a job search tool (job application tracker + job boards aggregator) for my personal job search - Jublime: https://jublime.com

It is supposed to replace a clunky spreadsheet I normally use for my job search. But I ended up working on it more and more.

https://jublime.com

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Post by sebastianconcpt »

1. Circa 2014 I've created Mapless [1], a Smalltalk persistence framework to remove the Object Relational Impedance Mismatch problem by design so I can quickly prototype or (modify) maintain the persisted objects without caring about mapping. After being abandoned, it suddenly became a life saver. Now it's going for production with humongous load.

2. I'm discretely working in Lobster [2] because I don't like current Smalltalk IDEs and I want one with a native look and feel. So far I have implemented Transcript, Workspace, Inspector, REPL and partially a Class Hierarchy Browser.

[1] https://github.com/sebastianconcept/Mapless [2] https://github.com/sebastianconcept/lobster

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Post by abcanthur »

screenbreakout wrote: post #435

I bought some land over 10 years ago, it's about 2 hectares, water runs through it and I wanted to make a garden, so I started digging, would sleep on site for a couple of weeks then return to civilization... eventually I planted it with fruit trees and comfrey and stuff and just left it to it's own devices... there's an inverted swastika like you see on some churches in india, an @, and a bunch of other motifs.. at…

Wow! Can you post some non-satellite pictures? Is willow the primary plant making all those shapes? Or have you done significant earth moving too?
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