newman8r

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things I like: GNU/Linux, sdr, ham radio, battery tech, agriculture, off-gridding, fishing, camping/hiking/bouldering/overlanding, kayaking, surfski, EDM parties in the desert, 3d printing, spelunking, fermenting foods, pizzamaking, smoking meat and making jerky, tea/coffee, psychedelics, gold prospecting, knot-tying, truth-telling, ukulele-playing, lifelong self improvement, road tripping, etc. Pacific Crest Trail Class of 2024... thinking about how weird the universe is. Working on something special.

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Comment · 2 months ago

I assume AI assistants would be able to prevent a lot of this

Comment · 9 months ago

I think just because you've studied something for years doesn't mean you're good at it. I've interviewed plenty curious hackers with no degree who are miles ahead of CS people with degrees.

Of course that's just anecdotal and may be the exception. And there's plenty of CS grads who have been passionate about the space their entire lives.

I studied Spanish for 3 years in high school, coasted by. I'm a complete beginner though. Nowadays I have a bit more curiosity in learning it again, and I'd probably make more progress in a few months than I did in all those years.

Comment · 9 months ago

Yeah that's my opinion on the matter. Lots of unskilled people have creative thoughts right this moment, and want a way to express them, and share them - they just lack the skills to do so, and aren't able to dedicate the time to become a skilled musician.

Comment · 9 months ago

Disagree. Producing electronic music with a DAW still takes considerable skill. I've used all of those and open source alternatives as well.

Comment · 9 months ago

I feel like I appreciate good music and I've been into the underground DnB scene in LA for a while.

> nobody cares about your individual consumption choices

Not sure if I agree though - mentioning that I use gen AI for any use case can cause some very hostile reactions.

Comment · 9 months ago

Agreed, I'm just pondering the general attitude around the space rather than bandcamp itself

Comment · 9 months ago

If I have an exact idea of what I want something to sound like, and I'm able to use an automated system to create that, is that creative expression? Obviously AI isn't entirely capable of that, but eventually with BCI devices it might be.

I've spent many hours learning to play guitar and ukulele but I'm really not very good, and probably never will be - but I can hear the music in my head I want to create. I'm not interested in monetary gain at all, just being able to hear it for real and maybe share it with some people.

Comment · 10 months ago

They recently changed the max results per page from 100 to 10 and they're suing serpapi. They've basically killed their google newspaper archive.

Not happy with google.

And it's become clear to me how little of the open web, and top 100k sites they've fully indexed, I used to have a lot more faith in them.

Comment · 10 months ago

reminds me of trip reports from people trying Salvia Divinorum - there's even a name for these tiny people, 'Smelves'

Comment · 10 months ago

I got the reference, it's just the 'not technically alive' part that I was calling out

Comment · 10 months ago

It claims a banana isn't technically living, but a banana has living cells so I'm not sure how accurate that is. I'm not sure when they're all considered 'dead' after harvesting though - maybe some wiggle room there.

Comment · 11 months ago

> Web 1.0 was full of weirdos doing cool weird stuff for the pure joy of discovery. That's the ethos we need back, and it's not incompatible with AI.

True. And to some extent, I've seen more 'useless but fun' projects in the last year because they can be done in an afternoon rather than a week. We need more of that.

Comment · 11 months ago

> And we wouldn't show respect to the latter person either.

Not respect as a carpenter, but perhaps respect as a businessperson or visionary.