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I'd assume that "delight" here means making work easier and doing what you need done. Delays/shininess are the opposite of what I'd call delight.

This is great for personal projects, but at work chances are someone will have completely rewritten/refactored/rearchitected everything I'd built up a good mental model of next time I blinked.

I read that as "the business caring about what the spec says will never change" rather than "the spec will never change".

I'm still an amateur and always had problems with this, got some advice from an experienced jazz pianist I know. His suggestions were roughly to:

1. Start by transcribing the root note that you hear

2. Go back and see if each chord sounds major or minor - most of the time that will give you a major/minor third

3. Go back and play the 5th, and see if it sounds right - most of the time it'll be there

4. Don't worry about 7ths/9ths yet, they'll come, but give them a go

5. Once you've got a few chords, try and figure out the key, and that will help figure out others

So he was basically suggesting to transcribe by each note's function in a chord, starting with most -> least important. It still needs some music theory of course, but doesn't need you to listen to an entire complex chord at once.

Yeah, I wasn't disputing the car analogy, more the benefits. If I'm using GPT to benefit myself (e.g. working on a side project), that's great and saves me time to do other things. If I'm using it to benefit my employer, I won't save any time, they'll fill it with other things to do, or expect me to be X times as productive in the same time.

The problem is that when it's for work, the company now knows you have access to a car, so sends you on 20x the trips. You have no more quality time, and your physical health suffers from lack of exercise.

I don't mind either personally, but I've had a few occasions where such things have caused issues with engineers that didn't have English as a 1st language.

A fair bit of time was wasted on trying to understand some joke/pun code and variable names, and on another occasion, spending the best part of a day working on something because they took some sarcasm in code/comments literally.

I've found it really varies by audiobook.

Same as you, I found some I absolutely hated, especially where they added background music, sound effects, etc. - I just want the book, not a production.

Others I found that a good narrator really added to the experience, especially when they were good at changing voices/accents for different characters speaking. I found that made it a lot easier to track what was going on or who was speaking, especially in books with a large number of characters.

It probably depends on the type of club/event.

Back in the day, there were rave/dance type clubs which were all about the dancing. They'd typically have focused genres of music, well known or regular DJs, etc.

Then there were more generic nightclubs (usually in University towns) which were where people went to either get drunk or hook up. Those would typically not focus much on music (usually playing crowd pleasers, 50s/60s/70s/80s/ tunes etc.), and instead bringing people in with cheap drinks offers, foam parties, fancy dress nights, etc.

For sure, stuff like implants, cosmetic dentistry, braces, crowns etc. still cost a non-trivial amount (though hopefully most are once in a lifetime things).

It's pretty similar in the UK for private dentistry, x-rays ~£10-30, hygienist/scale/polish ~£50-120, filling ~£70-150, root canal/extraction ~£120-300.

Dentist salaries seem to range between £70-200k depending on experience, specialty, etc.

Whenever I've had this for a hobby, it's always been when I've had more time to think about the hobby than do the hobby.

So this happened more when I had long commutes, so plenty of time to read about new gear, discuss gear on forums, think about gear, etc.

When my commuting ended, I had more time to do things, and the lack of engagement with new things coming out mostly put a stop to it.

I've been looking at these recently for a project.

nng looks promising, but the guide from zmq seemed like a killer feature. It describes all sorts of high level patterns, gotchas, etc.

For nng I mostly found API documentation, which made me a bit more cautious (though to be fair, I've not tried it yet).