If you have a quiet space to work from home in that you aren't in a roommates or family members hair FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL for jobs that will let you work from home.
Working from home introduces an incredible capacity for relatively decent managers to just fuck off and let you get shit done. If your work is getting done it really doesn't matter how you work.
This isn't my depression speaking when I say that people find the way I work repulsive.
My mind jumps around 1000 times a minute, I am constantly switching tasks and tabs, I will spend long periods blobbing out and then snap back to focus and power through a huge amount of work.
I tackle tough problems by taking cracks at them erratically as I am completing other tasks so as not to get stuck in a hyperfocus rabbit hole or let a silly forgotten fact derail everything.
Nobody including my partner who loves me very much actually tolerates me behaving like this for too long, I have to mask it in a million different ways so people can see me as a more normal person and just actually trust that I am getting work done in the best way possible that I can.
This is why work from home jobs are utterly crucial, your boss will only see the quality of your work, not the repulsiveness and laziness indicators your ADHD is constantly signalling to others.
If you run a company that depends on users to create things, and you add a “generate AI garbage” button, you’re telling your users that you hate them and will replace them with a computer the moment that option becomes available.
What if new AI models were introduced as fundamentally an expression of the artists that contributed to building the data set and the engineers who structured it in a way that an AI could be trained?
Like, the AI is obviously bullshitting, but all the artists got together to make a fun bullshit machine but the artists were compensated and had agency.
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You ever tried making impulse responses of your system?
I mean they are static but with a bit of in-depth sampling and use of the samples in a sophisticated impulse response loader with dynamic movement between IR files, you can get some really nice sounds!
Dahon folding bicycles (or at least the old ones, I bought mine used).
They are mediocre but perfectly good bicycles, I mean yes the wheels are too small, they are fairly heavy for their size and you aren't going to feel locked in at high speed like you would with a nice normal road or mountain bike.
On the other hand, they still function as a pretty good bicycle which can be folded up and put in literally any car or taken on mass transit as a carry on without anyone batting an eye.
The advantage of being able to use a dahon/folding bicycle as transportation somewhere with the comfort of knowing that you can get home either by bicycling, taking a bus or having someone give you a ride (without them needing a bike rack or awkwardly asking if you can shove your bicycle in their car) makes the dahon bicycle just categorically superior to normal bicycles as an actual transportation device.
They also make a great extra bicycle for visiting friends that can be stored.
I haven't done much maintenance on mine because it hasn't needed it really, but really the only parts on a dahon that differentiate it from a normal bicycle is the hinge (well hinges technically, the handlebar has a hinge to fold down too) and the smaller wheels.
I suppose extra brake lines and those little brake cap things where the braking mechanism grips the brake line would be useful as it is easy to get the brake lines tangled while folding if you are new to owning one.
As "early adopters" are no longer the focus, EV sales are falling across the U.S., for a wide variety of reasons, many of which are utterly reasonable. The push was too soon, too fast, and the existing transition mandates are now being recognized broadly as being unrealistic.
Wait, aren't camels really well designed though? They can do horse stuff but like... across a literal desert with no water and their eyes are custom designed to deal with brutal sandblasts from sandstorms.
If the race is across a desert, yeah I am 100% picking the camel.
Gotta love how it is STILL a trope that social media, smartphones and technology are destroying our attention spans while simultaneously young people have mostly replaced getting their knowledge from vanishingly brief snippets of talking heads on massive news channels or radio stations with a constellation of media all the way from short tiktok videos to multi-hour youtube essays on gender or politics.
Like the fuck.. some of the most successful youtube creators in terms of cultural impact regularly make 3 hour videos on shit and young people gobble it up like candy.
It is just downright absurd to say social media is destroying our attention spans at this point.
I know I have made this kind of post before but it is just becoming more and more obvious as content creators settle into niches of making multi-hour deep dives into complex topics and the trend shows no signs of stopping.
Didn't mean this as a dunk or something on your comment, the second Dune looks really good based on what people say and I think you are right to point out the interesting and prescient position of AI in Dune.