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I just trust my accountant will use excel and what they are doing isn't rocket science.

I have no interest interacting with someone who is going to get into how great the slide ruler is and how kids these days need to learn the slide ruler. When I was younger I thought this type of person was highly admirable but now older and wiser I see how full of shit they are.


I am not a dev but there is obviously a supply vs demand problem or you would at least be getting a single interview.

There is also a marketing problem in that everyone thinks they have to do the same thing to stand out but if you are doing the same thing as everyone else then you are doing the opposite of standing out.

At one point in my career when I was struggling to get interviews, I gave up and decided the jobs available to me are the ones my friends can help me get. You will amaze yourself with how much more effort you put into your network when you take the internet posting jobs off the table.

There is also much to be said for being able to program but doing something else besides pure software engineer.


I have an idea for the PlayStation 6.

How to build it, the labor, the design, the marketing and the capital? Thats where you come in!

Classic Sacha Baron Cohen joke.


IMO these are just shitty examples.

Harry Partch - 2 Studies on Ancient Greek Scales is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6IinoChSVA

There is also an acquired taste for non-standard tunings like the taste for beer. Some beers though are just bad.


That's not a fair or relevant comparison. The OP is about ancient Greek music: the choir is singing a song derived from very old sheet music. The link you have is contemporary music inspired by Greek tunings. It's not at all the same thing.


These all largely bullshit IMO.

The best recommendations are from humans who love music and you also share their taste in music.

Once every few years an amazing recommendation bubbles to the surface on Youtube for me but compared to a music lover's top 100 for a certain year? It isn't even close.

There is no reason you need algorithmic efficiency in this domain. 1000 recommendations might even be objectively less enjoyable than 10 recommendations since it will cause you to not explore any single recommendation all that much. Most of my favorite albums were not 1st listen instant favorites. Actually, quite the opposite.

A great album to me is also going to be out of sample and not in the training data of what I have liked in the past. That is a large part of its greatness.


I agree, human recommendations would be the best, but those aren't always available


Totally agree. I just posted above my first impression was exactly 1998 Geocities.

That is probably priming the hiring manager to look for things on the CV they feel would also be outdated and then they are on to the next person.

I would honestly say no website would be better than this current version.


My first impression is that it looks like my Geocities website from 1998 with an even worse color scheme.

That is going to frame everything about the person as "outdated" and little surprise no one is hiring them.


If the economy is bad people seem to enjoy news articles about how things are going to get worse and if the economy is good people seem to enjoy news articles about how things are just about to crash.


You make it up like everything else in fitness, sometimes pretending there is some kind of bad science behind the ideas. Sometimes not.

Jim Wendler really summed up fitness to me. How to do a deadlift? According to Jim, the weight is on the ground and you pick it up.


I am super picky when it comes to art and I think these look like complete shit when compared to what I have seen from Sora.

Not even in the same ballpark. Even when things are wrong in Sora it seems like the imagery is still very crisp. If I watched these videos for 5 minutes I know I would get a headache.


Weren’t the Sora videos heavily edited/post produced? At least so I’ve read, happy to be corrected here.


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