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I was going to reply that zooming in on pictures is a path that leads only to madness, but you’re right; that is messed up.

GP said they own a M4/3 camera, which is mirrorless.

For a simple example, any music that “grooves” (makes you want to tap your feet) tends to not be perfectly sub-divided into 4 beats. Different players in the same band may be intentionally (and/or subconsciously) hitting their notes on different parts of the beat to increase this effect. In this type of scenario there really isn’t any substitution for practice and “feel”, a metronome would never get you there.

In terms of piano, GP may have been referring to rubato, or holding notes for longer/shorter than notated for artistic effect.

But then who would deliver the ads?? /s

I completely agree, but with the arts as my object of fixation. I could never live the swanky life I lead without my current job, but damn I would have been a good potter. Luckily, there is still time...

I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to be “active” on LinkedIn in the same way we are pressured in an abstract sense to be on Facebook, it would lose all utility for me.

For better or worse I index the opposite way. My CV is a markdown doc wrapped in the absolute minimum html/js to render it as a web page. If viewed as text it is perfectly readable sans a single line of css gobldeygook, if viewed as a web page it’s also perfectly readable.

Amazon gives loans to sellers; they have more info on their suppliers’ businesses than a bank could ever dream of.

Ageeed. Also seeing as LED bulbs are ~10x more efficient per lumen than incandescent, people are not installing 10x as much brightness in their homes

To bolster your other response: in college chemistry classes are split into two kinds: “organic chemistry”, and “everything else”. But he term “organic” in this context means “compounds with carbon atoms”. There are so many ways that carbon bonds to other atoms, and in such complex configurations that there are classes reserved for this single element. And as undergrads will tell you, these are the hard classes!

With apple mucic 100% of the money goes to the label. The label then has a contract with the artist for how much online sales get sent their way. This contract may be very complicated so it isn’t necessarily “I pay $1, artist gets $.20”. Artists and labels will have different agreements with each streaming service for how many plays equal one “download”, from ~10 to ~1000.

Explaining is usually more difficult than understanding, as well.

This is the exact same reason that it always seems like you are in “the slow lane” in congested traffic. You spend considerably more time going slow than going fast, and while your lane is slow you have to watch all the other sporadically fast lanes go by.

It is funny in a sense because TBL really invented the 'internet' as people know it, Vint Cerf just created that pesky TCP/IP thing nerds talk about.

I would guess that in 50 years people will look at current tech trends in the same way. “They had to have known the apps and content were being created to induce maximal stress and addictive behavior!”

I assumed they meant “natural” (I.e. ineffective) solutions.