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tantivy commented on The Power of Poetry: Why Everyone Should Write domofutu.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/domofutu

anonnon · 7 months ago

In the era of LLMs, it's difficult to think of an art form with a worse risk-to-reward ratio for pursuing--even if just as a hobby--than poetry. I know that sounds philistine to some, but even if the quality of LLM spam isn't up to par with what you can produce, how many people can tell the difference? I wish we lived in an alternate timeline where AI was automating drug discovery or protein folding faster than it was art, but sadly, that's not the case.

tantivy · 7 months ago

None of the best or most famous poets of the last two centuries ever made a living off of their poetry. That's not why anyone does it.

tantivy commented on US house prices in 1950 vs. 2024, accounting for inflation brilliantmaps.com/us-hous... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

deadbabe · 9 months ago

People don’t have the right to simply live in highly desirable areas for very cheap.

It is time for people to accept that if they want affordable housing they should look at some lesser developed areas in the country. Otherwise it’s pay to play.

tantivy · 9 months ago

What happens in society when every city is filled with the retired rich and zero actual workers?

tantivy commented on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail mcc-berlin.net/en/news/in... · Posted by u/mpweiher

ggernov · a year ago

The reason nobody uses public transit in America is it's always packed with transients or dangerous people.

I took public transit all the time living in Melbourne since it was clean and silent nearly 98% of the time. Same in the Netherlands.

tantivy · a year ago

Hundreds of thousands of people use public transit daily in America. Long headways, poor coverage, and lackluster maintenance budgets are a much more important problem than what you're describing.

tantivy commented on Fun with Go Iterators xnacly.me/posts/2024/fun-... · Posted by u/xnacly

pragma_x · a year ago

I absolutely love it when we can take advantage of Go's type system and add additional traits and behaviors to existing types like this.

That said, I noticed something odd here. In order for a module like this to really shine, I think all these operations need to be functionally pure. Right now, some of these mutate the iterator's `iter` method mid-stream, which is about as side-effect-ful as you can get.

```

func (i Iterator[V]) Map(f func(V) V) Iterator[V] {

cpy := i.iter

i.iter = func(yield func(V) bool) {

  for v := range cpy {

   v = f(v)

   if !yield(v) {

    return

   }

  }

 }

 return i

} ```

Unless I'm misreading that, `i.iter` has new behavior after this call. A better way would be to return a new _iterator_ with the custom iter behavior instead.

``` func (i Iterator[V]) Map(f func(V) V) Iterator[V] {

        // create a fresh iterator around a custom closure (NewIterator() is hypothetical in this case)

 return NewIterator(func(yield func(V) bool) {

  for v := range i.iter {

   v = f(v)

   if !yield(v) {

    return

   }

  }

 })

} ```

tantivy · a year ago

This flagged for me right away too. I would be badly surprised if a Map-style chained method mutated the memory of the receiver.

tantivy commented on Show HN: Visahacks.in – you don't always need a visa visahacks.in/... · Posted by u/raivatshah

paxys · a year ago

I have been on your site for <60 seconds and have already been blasted with 4 fullscreen popups asking me to subscribe to your newsletter. No thanks.

tantivy · a year ago

Instant cmd-w from me as well. Our civilization must stop doing this

tantivy commented on Poets' Odd Jobs poets.org/text/poets-odd-... · Posted by u/alekq

dr_dshiv · a year ago

“While [Langston] Hughes was working at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., he saw poet Vachel Lindsay dining in the restaurant. Hughes slipped three poems under Lindsay’s plate, including his now-famous “The Weary Blues.” Impressed, Lindsay called for the busboy and asked who wrote the poems, and Hughes responded that he did. Lindsay read Hughes’s poems at a public performance that night and introduced him to publishers. The next day, a local newspaper ran an article about the “Negro busboy poet,” and reporters and diners flocked to meet him. The next year, Hughes published his first book of poetry, The Weary Blues.”

tantivy · a year ago

Vachel Lindsay himself took a couple of long-distance walking tours where he eschewed carrying money and would knock on strangers' doors each night to offer his poetry in exchange for food and shelter. His book about one of these tours is fascinating, it was a very different time in America: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67947

tantivy commented on Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses standardebooks.org/ebooks... · Posted by u/robin_reala

kstrauser · a year ago

I've harbored a wholly unsupported, yet persistent, notion that no one really likes Ulysses, but that it's become an "emperor has no clothes" situation, where those who decide which books are "great" picked it on a lark, and dared others to say they didn't like it, knowing that none would lest they appear as the rube who couldn't appreciate great literature, resulting in a lineage of thinkers who encountered the beast, read it in horror, then told their colleagues about how much they loved it because obviously it's the brilliantest work of English, all while secretly hoping they weren't grilled too closely about it.

tantivy · a year ago

I love Ulysses because of what it says about growing into middle age, facing irresolvable insecurities about yourself, and the solace against these that you can find in friendship—the way you can feel your soul sing when you find someone who wants to understand you. It's a very beautiful and humanistic book. I'm sorry that you weren't able to connect with it.

tantivy commented on Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses standardebooks.org/ebooks... · Posted by u/robin_reala

ramijames · a year ago

I'm so grateful that this is being done. Many free ebooks are high-quality content in a low-quality format.

tantivy · a year ago

Many paid ebooks are in a low-quality format too. I've bought Kindle books from real, well-known publishing houses that had obviously not had a single proofreader go through after their OCR. A motivated volunteer would've done so much better.

tantivy commented on US office owners face $117B wall of debt repayments ft.com/content/4ed9e5b0-f... · Posted by u/belter

tantivy · 2 years ago

Sorry, got nothin on me

tantivy commented on Ryuichi Sakamoto has died clashmusic.com/news/ryuic... · Posted by u/mellosouls

hungryforcodes · 2 years ago

Though we ourselves are by definition part of the universe and thus nature.

tantivy · 2 years ago

“Nature” and “natural” are normative terms that commonly distinguish the world altered and created by humans from the world that isn’t altered or created by humans. It’s clear in context that Sakamoto is using the term accurately in a normative sense, not making a semantic error.