noizejoy

>> Painting out these movie mistakes as part of a restoration is wrong.

> It's really not the equivalent though. I don't see anything wrong with fixing a license plate or removing a reflection or a modern-day wristwatch.

I think it depends on the primary objective of the restoration. If I’m trying to preserve history, I shouldn’t fix errors. If I’m trying to make a (by implication derivative) work that maximizes enjoyability for (new) audiences, then it’s ok to fix.

e.g. a long time ago, I once transferred vinyl recordings of an extremely amateur community musical group to CD.

After thinking long and hard, I decided to fix recording technology flaws (a bad hum) and vinyl degradation flaws (crackles, dust, etc). But I didn’t fix any of the musical performance flaws.

Bottom line: I decided to respect the history of the performance, and disrespect the history of the recording and playback technology/medium.

> … find other life and hopefully it doesn't lead to conflict.

… well, that would be a first.

> ... looked cool, but from a biomechanical perspective were inefficient to pedal. They were pretty tiring to pedal a significant distance.

You simply had to take a few longer breaks when going on longer distance trips to re-charge your muscles. ;-)

> The one anomaly bucking that trend are all of these K-pop groups that are very popular and viral right now.

I’d argue, that those aren’t bands in the same intuitive sense as The Beatles or Radiohead, but manufactured brands owned by producers, who hire the “band members” as employees. This concept has been around the music business for a long time. From The Monkeys to Milli Vanilli to Spice Girls and many more.

Also: Many so called bands were effectively solo artists operating under a brand name. Sometimes with very long term employees (band members) sometimes only for a limited run of projects (albums and/or tours). From ELO to NIN and countless others.

And then there is “Yes”.

> Software development is a social activity, especially with relatively high-visibility projects like Asahi, and it comes with just as usual burden of social troubles as any other kind of social activity.

Yes.

> The only way to do that is to never collaborate with anyone else.

Not necessarily. You can also treat project politics and social skills like any other technical skills that you need on your team like network engineering or database optimization.

If you can find trusted collaborators with those social and political skills, you can make a lot of things happen without necessarily being very good at it yourself.

Team building has a lot of parallels with building a full stack technology. Or building a sports team.

> I think calling this art is a stretch, as they usually aren’t the author.

So I guess in your worldview a concert violinist also doesn’t make art, when they are playing a Mozart composition?

Price increases due to multiple factors from higher interest rates to trade wars, etc. are tempering the financial enthusiasm of customers to buy at the higher end, maybe?

> IMO they are disproportionate.

Typing the three letters in “IMO” is most certainly easier than doing/documenting complex financial analysis.