I am a heavy user of spotify and their "station/radio" feature. Like a song? Go to it's song-station and explorer other songs like it.
It's this kind of discovery that keeps me using Spotify.
I think Bandcamp is neat just for having users' purchases be default public, so I can click on user profiles of people who bought an album and see what other albums they bought. Admittedly I don't discover much this way but I do like the Bandcamp weekly radio shows. Probably the highest density of finding new artists was back when I listened to XLR8R podcasts... Wow I just went to see if they were still around only to find they shut down like last week
I'm a Qobuz subscriber now but the auto playlists let me down more often than not, totally changing up the genre of whatever album just finished. Hard to beat their drm free lossless catalog tho. I think nowadays my primary method of discovering new music is Shazaming tunes in hip thrift stores whenever I visit LA or NYC
In Apple Music I look forward to the playlist of 100% new (to you?) songs that it offers every Friday. The Discovery station is usually good too, but I find more keepers from the Friday playlist than others usually.
Bandcamp is definitely the best for finding completely new artists and genres though, for me at least. Something about their featured “New and Notable” posts makes me willing to just try a new genre or artist, much more readily than other services. And I strongly agree on your point about user profiles being public. The “what’s your favorite song on this album” and “why do you love this album” text fields that you can see all over are full of comments that are just wonderful.
FWIW, other services like Apple Music and Amazon music (I’m sure others as well) also have similar “station” like features, where you can play a station for a given song/album.
Apple Music will also recommend songs at the bottom of your playlists that it thinks fit in, which I find is another great way to discover music.
I think the play-a-station method of music discovery has been around for a long time. If I remember correctly, even old iTunes used to have Genius(?) which played similar songs from your library.
As bad as climate change is, it will never make Earth harder to live on than Mars. Even the most egregious runaway scenario feedback loops won't make the planet unlivable.
It might be extremely uncomfortable. Billions of people might die. Civilization could collapse utterly.
But it's still going to have more oxygen, better temperatures, and more resources than Mars.
There can be good reasons to go to Mars, but a "backup planet" just isn't really a good one. If all we care about is the survival of the human race, it's really not in jeopardy. Certainly not from climate change, and not even from a war, asteroid, or pandemic.
Please don't give any credence to Musk. He's a pathological liar and schemer and cares negatively about the environment and about people for that matter.
The early conquistadors were horrible people as well and they brought about epochal change.
I'm not supportive of any billionaire much less the ones actively corrupting democracies. But that doesn't mean that they won't cause historical things to happen.
I feel like many of the points are complaining about the parsing side of JSON. Not the format itself.
You can argue that a format is useless when "everyone" parses it "wrong" but no specification on this earth is free of that.
Using a lot of json in our API space and it working fine (so far) leads me to think that OP complains about something that does not fit their use-case.
Firing people for choosing something that does not fit "your" use-case seems like a wild take.
It is indeed a play on the saying “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”. What wasn’t explained, though, is the meaning behind the expression. It’s an expression used to mock use of the bandwagon fallacy and a general lack of critical thought in the decision process.
If you’re responsible for choosing a vendor, the easy out is to pick one of the largest vendors available: if it’s what everyone else is doing, then you can waive away any personal accountability for any resulting failures by claiming that “it’s what everyone else is doing, so it must have been the right choice, and therefore the failure that occurred must have been inherent to the problem domain, rather than something that could have been avoided if I personally chose better”.
The phrase now gets used to mock such bandwagon behaviors: a CTO completely unfamiliar with Kubernetes, yet choosing it “because everyone else is using it”; an engineer picking a serialization format based on popularity while never having read the spec; etc.
The article isn’t suggesting that anyone actually be fired. It is, however, critical of people choosing JSON due to familiarity/popularity, without any critical thought involved in choice (and bandwagon fallacy does not count as critical thought).
Sure. But then they added "maybe they should be". Yeah, it's a clickbait title not backed up by the content, but I think it's fair to criticize the words the author chose to write.
Depends on the type of immortality. If we can fight typical aging processes, then a big part of the problem you state would go away.
Old brains don't learn and think as fast as young ones do, this has purely to do with ageing and cell/dna defects over time.
Old people are not hyped by AI and new tech, because most of them don't understand them and i think this has much to do with the reason stated.
Not to say there is not a possible psychological problem for us when living forever, it just cannot be researched right now because, you know, we tend to die.
Let alone the implications.. insurance, prison sentences, housing, population and control of it...
You could also argue that old people are not hyped by AI and new tech because they have been through so many hype cycles, and seen so much in general, that they know that things come and go, and tech advances, but the really important things in life never change
So not lack of understanding, more that they see through the hype
If you want to use powertoys run, i highly recommend the plugin for everything here. [1]
Everything [2] is an indexer that will make finding your local files super fast.
If you couple those two, you have a launcher that is able to find all files on your drive very fast (and launch applications of course).
Good suggestion! I long didn't use Everything out of SSD wear concerns, adding yet another indexer to Windows.
Then got the idea that you can of course simply disable Windows Search Indexer service, and Windows gracefully accepts that. Sure, a few integrated search methods like in Explorer or Start Menu stop working or as efficiently but Windows will then tell you when, and you just adapt to using Everything instead.
So I did, and it's just SO much more efficient at both keeping the index updated and finding my files thanks to being MFT based rather than walking through the file system.
>I long didn't use Everything out of SSD wear concerns
How grounded in reality are your SSD wear concerns? I feel like most people are overly paranoid and have unfounded FUD about that.
I use my SSD like a loaner (constantly installing new games and downloading new linux ISOs to try out in VMs) and after 2 years of heavy use it had IIRC ~98% life remaining in SMART statistics. I bought another second hand corporate laptop used for 4 years and the SSD SMART reports a remaining life of 97%.
So unless you want to leave your SSD as inheritance to your grandkids, I don't see the point of hypermiling your SSD to increase longevity. It's a wearable part, it's gonna die eventually no matter how much you baby it, so I might as well use it to the max to get my money's worth, otherwise what's the point? It's not like it's gonna increase in value over time the less you use it like Pokémon cards.
I would be more concerned with a small SSD with limited available storage... But I've generally just treated SSD/NVME like yourself and not really worried about it.
I did experience a bug in the first gen Intel SSD that one day it showed up as an 8mb drive, didn't know of the fix for it until well later, and it was so small (64gb) that I just swapped it for a larger/cheaper drive by that time.
I also experienced some issues with another drive I replaced a few months ago, that turned out to be an issue with RAM. Again, swapped the 2tb drive for 4tb as I wanted more storage as well.
Other than these, I haven't worn out a drive yet. I have decade old SSDs from an old home server from 12 years ago currently running in RPi boxes via usb-sata adapters.
FYI the Everything alpha 1.5 (dont quote me on that ) I believe uses the Master File Tree (MFT) and absolutely blows stable branch Everything out of the water
It seems the sibling commenters don't know about the DisableSearchBoxSuggestions registry option, which I highly recommend keyboard users of Windows to set up on every system they work with.
When the setting is applied the start menu will go back to the old behavior where results appear instantly and always point to your local machine. I'm sure dedicated launchers can do an even better job for deep searches, but personally I've never found myself particularly slowed down by the built-in behavior after disabling that borked web search functionality.
For me is 10X faster and it finds what I need. For example if I search for "power" it shows powerautomate (why??) , powerpoint, powershell in this order. No powertoys. Also if I dont have internet it takes ages before it shows somethig in search. Yea it's much more usefull.
Komorebi is quite good, although it has it quirks with some applications that spawn child processes.
Make sure to make yourself familiar with application specific configs, there's already a whole community-driven config for that [1]. But all in all it's very beginner friendly, since it does enable you to float windows still (and pause komorebi).
This is worthy of some sources, no? People on HN, technology professionals, might hate office. But we're not majority and I've never seen researched/polled numbers about hating office...
I doubt that there are any reputable sources you could find that aren't shaped by bias (of MS or competitors). However, I have worked in a non-IT related job for years and about 90% of complaints about software we use would fit into one of two buckets
1.) Microsoft Office
2.) SAP
I know this is merely an anecdote, but it aligns with my personal experience + with the experiences of friends and family
Where i work the only way to get a noticeable jump in salary is promotion. I call this "horizontal scaling" of salaries.
I believe the "vertical scaling" of salaries would be a better fit. Some already have it in tariffs, most of the time there are tough limits to what you can earn as "simple developer/project manager/sales clerk".
So yes, probably promotions are not the right action often, but the other options need to be improved.
edit: i lacked the explanation of vertical scaling:
rising salary in the job you are currently doing and building expertise and experience. Opposed to being horizontally moved to a whole different job where your expertise is probably worse.
There are still issues with density not working well with some angular Material controls. This forced us to do some hacky css stuff. Some of the github issues have been open a long time now...
Been a Windows Main my whole life. Bought the steam deck a year ago and it was awesome. Bought a new pc couple of weeks ago and installed linux mint. Few minor issues, resolved in net 2hours. Since then it has been a breeze.
Developing, gaming, even running Windows apps is no problem anymore.
Are there any alternatives to that?