I know cost is a factor, but isn’t this the sort of thing where you can contact more than one?

Thanks for the suggestion. I did check with them, unfortunately it didn’t work, I think because our window wasn’t in their line of sight. Guy said he’d talked to other people in my building before.

Oh good to know. We moved before the date on that document though.

God bless em.

Fiber of course is preferable, but requires a lot of knowledge and up front investment to lay. In Philadelphia there’s a WISP - wireless internet service provider - that has their equipment up on a tower and can service a particular neighborhood: https://phillywisper.net/

I was ready to use them but our apartment building had made a fucking exclusive agreement with Comcast. If we lived in a normal house at that same address we could have got FIOS or PhillyWisper.

You know it’s not strictly auto completing sentences that previously existed, right? It’s using words that it anticipates should follow others. I’ve had it suggest code libraries that don’t exist, and you’ll hear about people going to the library to ask for books that haven’t been written but supposedly by real authors, and it sounds like something they would write.

Tab music notation is super common, and although it wasn’t supported by this particular service before, you could see where it might be the sort of request people make, and so chatgpt combined the two.

Even mass produced things require skill and sophistication. Pop music is more like a mass produced iphone than a mass produced frisbee.

Sure the lyrics aren’t saying something important or the singer isn’t the same person as the songwriter, but a lot of hours went into it. The average person on the street could not create a comparable song to what you hear on the radio without significant effort.

It’s not exactly slop if the pigs eat it is it /s

I get what you’re saying, if people don’t detect ai music it must not be so bad. But in the original usage of slop, pigs don’t care, but humans wouldn’t eat the food. Same here, just because some people don’t mind doesn’t mean others can’t easily discern the difference

You could also make the argument that pigs would prefer better food if it was an option, but they have no choice, they’re only given access to slop.

I get not liking it, and there are some real clunkers, but I think you’re dramatically underestimating the amount of craft and expertise that goes into some pop music.

I pay attention to that stuff. Would it be better if more people shopped thoughtfully? Sure. But it’s not “nobody” and if manufacturers know that such and such a metric impacts sales by even 5% then they’ll probably try to improve it. Even if they don’t try to improve it, it means I personally can buy in a more informed way.

Skill issue

I bought a size of pizza from a food truck in DC and it was so bad I threw it away. Which is saying a lot for pizza

This headline reads like a threat

If the person can do the work, why the deception? Is this like overemployed on steroids?

Tickets are primarily inbound right? Do you deal much with tasks that are generated by you or your team, rather than coming from somewhere external?

Your symbol system is interesting. When I used to keep written to do lists I just had dots/bullets for each item, and would make a larger square around the items which took priority. What does investigation mean to you in this context?

That’s an interesting philosophy. You haven’t had people annoyed that you didn’t follow up on something they’ve asked about? I guess my memory at least isn’t good enough to track everything I need to do. Or maybe I could remember but feels like more work/risk than having an external system. I also primarily deal with customer facing stuff so maybe I’d feel different than if I was only dealing with coworkers.

Thanks for sharing. Interesting, the idea of a big list and then a “doing today list” lines up with a “time management for dummies” book I found in a drawer at one of my first jobs. For a while I was using that system but written by hand.

Not the OP, but mastodon is open source and not corporately controlled. That seems pretty important when whoever controls the platform can make decisions about what content is surfaced to a user. If I’m the government or a politician I want to make sure I have a direct line to my constituents.

I use both these days, I don’t think the user interface is particularly confusing for mastodon, but I think what bluesky has over it is you don’t have to choose a server, and the types of users and stuff they’re posting on bluesky has a certain appeal. (For example all the funny accounts I used to follow on twitter went to bluesky)

Very cool. Thanks for the link!

I’ve been reading “The Power Broker” where among other things, Bob Moses was building highways in New York and refused to even consider extending the right of way 15 meters to allow for future public transit projects. Glad to hear they’re (unsurprisingly) doing it right with the highway plus rail lines.

I’d like to implant a pigeon brain into a human body