Middle class is shrinking; people in tighter economic situations can't afford hobbies?
Readit NewsAssuming that well-tempered would be the primary alternative here, does it enable one to differentiate between keys? Asking as someone with very little experience / knowledge of music theory.
It's an interesting history, better explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament but in short, prior tuning systems were more mathematically correct, but an instrument would be tuned for a particular key and playing in other keys would sound (to us, anyway) like the instrument was out of tune.
Seems possible from the technical side, but not so sure about the money part. if I'm following you correctly, XYZ.com would have shown an ad on their site and received, say 1 cent. With your service running, you visit XYZ.com, ad is replaced by a white box, and they receive, let's say 2 cents? If so, seems like efficient microtransactions will be a challenge.
There's a way to work in such an environment and not go crazy, but it will take time to get used to it. Think of it system with big asynchronous methods. You need to arrange your work to put in the slow running requests early, then focus on other things while waiting.
bigtech commented on Ask HN: What's your use case for iPads/Android pads? · Posted by u/markus_zhang
My nicer one is in the living room for end of the day games and such, but my older one is an always-on weather display.
I see agile as the problem here. Before agile, I would essentially 'own' pieces of the code, so I was committed to making it maintainable. Now, it's all just pieces and parts, and I'm not responsible for nearly as much, which make me fungible, and in general is dispiriting.
As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority.
bigtech commented on Restaurant menu tricks (2020) bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/marc__1
I would have though SAG-AFTRA require all on-screen talent to be paid.
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I do wish NVIDIA would release a new Shield already, as that would probably solve my problems, but the last one they released is like five years old at this point.
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