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Of course you get down voted.So many delusional people on this forum that believe themselves to be experts in all domains because they get well paid to write javascript.

We will just forget that von Neumann advocated for nuclear first strike based on game theory.

Without irony, I actually find the South China Morning Post probably the most unbiased, straight on US news.

It also acts as a filter for important US events since they aren't motivated to put out 24/7 bullshit like US based news.

Major US news organizations, be it right or left leaning are just complete trash. Not much higher standards than the National Enquirer at the grocery check out line.

I can't blame the news organizations though since news/politics have become a type of dominate team sport for entertainment in the US in the last decade. Really only second in popularity to the NFL.

I think part of the problem is that people have the wrong mental models currently.

I am a non-software engineer and I fully expect someday to be a professional "vibe coder". It will be within a domain though and not a generalist like a real software engineer.

I think "vibe coding" in this context will have a type of relationship to software engineering the way excel has a relationship to the professional mathematician.

The knocks on "vibe coding" by software engineers are like a mathematician shitting on Excel for not being able to do symbolic manipulation.

It is not wrong but missing the forest for the trees.

To me, it is just obviously wrong. Reality is not reasonable and it is actually unreasonable that we would even expect reality to be reasonable.

Our reason is a highly flawed instrument that we have pushed far past what it was designed for.

We have done an amazing job though as these social machines that live in various collective social delusions.

Seeing these collective delusions and the unreasonableness of reality is exactly the point of taking psychedelics.

Forget LSD, ask anyone who has taken salvia divinorum to describe how unreasonable reality can be lol.

Crying of Lot 49 is wonderful and I am not really a big fiction fan.

I will have to give Vineland and Inherent Vice a shot. Gravity's Rainbow is just a lost cause for me with the size let alone the content.

I find this perspective just incredibly dull.

As if the measure of interesting is the attention of trash, click bait journalists.

To me, it is why most people and places have become increasingly dull and monotone over my lifetime.

It is like we have developed a society of dull, shitty stage actors, constantly trying to perform 24/7 but there is no audience other than all the other shitty stage actors.

They would certainly go for more than that. Ross didn't paint anything I find even remotely interesting but for $1k, I would buy 20 or 30 Bob Ross paintings right now and sit on them too.

I can't imagine them selling for much less than $20k a painting with a name that everyone knows.

I am full remote for a very small, non-software business but I think even for us we are probably losing productivity vs the office.

I think child care is a big driver but no one can come out and say this.

I am more productive remote but I wouldn't be if I was also baby sitting a 5 year old while working. A big reason I am more productive is living alone and not being distracted.

A company can't demand a remote worker pay for child care so the kid isn't at home like in an office.

I also think my increase in productivity doesn't offset the office slackers who are doing basically nothing at home. I think the office can squeeze some productivity out of the slackers while it is a lost cause remote.

In the aggregate, I think for most companies it has to be a net loss of productivity to be 100% remote.

While it is a huge increase in my general well being and happiness, the highly productive workers are going to be highly productive either way and not that much more productive remote. It is everyone else that causes remote to not work as well at the margin. Then if a competitor does RTO, the company almost has to hedge and RTO as well.

He was basically a complete loser during his lifetime is my understanding.

I believe part of his clothing was because he was totally broke. A broke surrealist eccentric alcoholic who's music was largely rejected for being overly simplistic during his lifetime is the picture I get of him.

I would also add Satie's Nocturnes are just as good and just as beautiful.

Zappa listed his influences on Freak Out. I love Satie but don't really hear him in Zappa's music.

Pamela Zarubica, Art Laboe, Hal Zeiger, Jim Guercio, Henry Vestine, Alice Stewart, Lillian Rudolph, Mark Cheka, Herb Cohen, Tom Wilson, Fyllis, Lucille, Jack Tillar, Don Cerveris, Vic Mortenson, Terry Kirkman, Frankie Lee Simms, Sonny Boy Williamson, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Little Walter, Maurice Ravel, Joe Polly, Don & Dewey, Lee Zagon, Steve Mann, Skip Diamond, Silvestre Revueltas, Arnold Schoenberg, Joe Perrino, Jerry Hillberg, Donna #1, Donna #2, Loeb & Leopold, Sacco & Vanzetti, Gene & Eunice, Robert Craft, Carl Greenhouse, Dave Aerni, Bob Keene, Nick Venet, Jim Economides, Alvis Haba, Leo Ornstein, Elvis Presley, Barry McGuire, Don Julian, Tiny Tim, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Scheckley, Randy De Wees, Dick Barber, Eberhard Kronhausen, Yves Tanguy, Lenny Bruce, Ravi Shankar, Chatur Lal, N.C. Mullick, Jules Feiffer, The Bokelmans, Floyd, Ernie Tosi, Shirley Eiler, Mr. Ballard, Brian Epstein, David Crosby, Herman Rudin, Joe De Santis, Bruce Gordon, Frank DeCova, Roland Kirk, Wolfman Jack, Snuff Garrett, Molly Bee, Ernie Freeman, Lew Irwin, Fred C. Dobbs, John Tasker Howard, Cecil Forsythe, Charles Brown, James Joyce, George Di Carl, Diane Baker, Melvin Belli, Bulent Arel, Maurice Kagel, Leonard Allen, Dr. Brossman, Jerry Murnane, Uncle Ed, The Hypnotist, Animal Huxley, Salvador Dali, Vincent Persichetti, Carol, Sabicas, Charles Middleton, Lance Reardon, Sabu, J. Arthur Rank, Luigi Nono, Sylvia Brigham, Steffie, Avedis Zildjian, Little Arthur Matthews, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bill Stulla, Rosemarie De Camp, Bobby Jamieson, B. Mitchell Reed, Cordy, Ruthie, Joyce, Jesse Kaye, Phil Spector, Evy, Lynn Johnson, Pete, Leonard Gorrzyca, Don Vliet, Pepper, Lauren, Charles Mingus, Pierre Boulez, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Willie Dixon, Guitar Slim, Edgar Varese, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmer Valentine, Phil Tanzini, John Beck, Mario, Bob Reiner, Eric Dolphy, Bram Stoker, Cecil Taylor, Bill Evans, Johnny Otis, Preston Love, Slim Harpo, Karl Kohn, Bob Narciso, Johnny Guitar Watson, Tim Sullivan, Sonny Tufts, John Wayne, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Junior Madeo, Jeff Harris, Bobby Atler, Daddy-O Curtis Crump, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joe Huston, Chuck Higgins, Big Jay McNeely, Jim Sherwood, Sandy Schwanekamp, Nadine Reyes, Kaye Sherman, Donald Woods, Richard Berry, Huggy Boy, Vernon Greene, Hunter Hancock, Willie Mae Thornton, Lightnin’ Slim, Roger Huntington Sessions, Charles Ives, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Terry Wimberly, Johnny Franklin, Teddy Bunn, Jeepers, Paul Buff.

Avril 14th is absolutely lovely but I think even Richard would probably say it is a Satie ripoff.