That age group is pretty large, though. So many people had walk-mans in the 80s and 90s. I'd also venture to say most people who would go to a rave probably like music enough to own headphones.
I do agree though, the useage of Spotify as a given is annoying. Especially since everyone will never be perfectly synced up. I remember silent raves, back a decade ago, would use a FM transmitter mixed with cheapo portable fm receivers.
interestingly, if you still have an audio jack on your cellphone, attaching wired headphones to them allows you to use the phone as an FM receiver (with the proper app). Wire on the headphones acts like an antenna.
I dunno. I've seen management be sketchy on transparency before. But when it comes to people's money getting into their hands, I've actually never had management do the "whoops, it will be there next week" thing. It's always been straight forward with what happened and with expectations. Which makes sense, as you said, people won't show up if they don't get there money.
It's all circumstantial anyway. I don't think it's fair to call this a case of a "typical startup". Although it's definitely a stereotype of startups.
I mean personally the company assuming liability means A LOT more to me than how much the system can do. It's one thing to say your system can drive down a slick and curvy mountain road, and another thing to say you'll cover all liability if the car drives itself off the mountain. It's easy to write software the runs most of the time. This is our lives that we're talking about.
I disagree with his opinion too, but he's not lying. The majority of the world has and still does hold those opinions. The world is still very anti-LGBT outside of the western culture bubble. And even in countries that are westernized, they are often still anti-LGBT even if their governments and media are pushing people not to be.
It's a very sad state of affairs. I mean, just 16 years ago I was marching for the right for gay people to get married in the US. We've come a long way but there is a long way to go.
I've read on the /r/gamedev subreddit of people succeeding with even just doing cold-call emails to popular twitch streamers. Someone recently posted a breakdown of how many streamers played their game after he sent out emails, and he seemed to get around 5% turnaround.
It used to be a content recommendation system for a chinese media company. We monitored peoples movements through their phone and gave marketers a really easy way to directly target people. It's sort of rampant now, but years ago it felt like it was a dangerous step in the wrong direction.
But recently I found out that an algorithm that I was a crucial part in building ended up doing some real bad things. I don't really want to talk about it directly because I'm not sure I really want to be implicated.
The point is, I feel terrible. I played a role in negatively impacting a lot of peoples lives. Sure, I wasn't the only one who built it. Nor did I play a part in what it turned into, or made any decisions about how it should be used. I just built a thing.
But I think we as programmers, tend to look fondly on our systems that we develop. They are sort of like our children (in a very loose sense). I spent years thinking back to building it, and being filled with joy. Now I see what it's done, what I helped create, where it ended up.
I just feel sick. I talked to a peer who helped on it about it. They also feel the same. Just terrible. Burnt out. Ready to switch careers entirely.
I think I might be able to continue in this field, make the right decisions, and think through the true impact of what I'm building before I commit to it.
But then again, I think back at all of the work I've done in my career, and all of it was exploitative to people at least in some sense. I'm not sure you can profit without exploitation in tech, it might be inherent (I realize that's a negative statement. I'm in a mood).
So I'm thinking I may just switch into a career I can feel good about, unless I can find a job or project that will allow me to be ethical.
We really need to come together as a community and stand up for ethics. Every day a programmer out there is faced with an ethical dilemma, one that will probably get them fired if they don't comply. Plus, that won't even matter, because they will just get someone else to do it anyway. There's not a good way to save your source of income while also doing the right thing.
An NFT solution to ticketing seems like it would be trivial given how NFTs operate already. One ticket could be verifiably owned by one person. If that person wanted to resell the ticket, there could be restrictions on how much they could sell it for. If bots can't make a profit there's no use in buying out all the tickets. It would also decentralize the space. Sure you need a marketplace for the NFT tickets, but that could easily be a open source software suite that the venues themselves host. Gas price will probably be a lot less than ticketmaster fees.
Honestly it seems like the biggest problems here are that Ticketmaster in particular has a huge sway in the current venue and artist market, having contracts that require an artist or venue to exclusively use their ticketing system.
It's like telling me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids xD.
I have my 8 year old sons internet pretty much locked down at this point, but people still end up skirting around the rules of sites like youtube when publishing content towards kids. Automatic filtering is one of the only ways to prevent newly published content geared towards children from being malicious. The alternative, human curation, even if done by method of reporting a video, is time consuming and expensive.
Also, you know, doctor recommended medication. And not just the "weed doctors" do it either, my conservative neurologist even told me to smoke THC heavy marijuana.
I smoke every day. It absolutely impacts my work and social life, as without it I'm a painful ball of irritation that would have to be on opiates to get anything done.
Actually consumer saftey in e-bikes seems to be higher in China than in the US. Radpower bikes go up to 32km/h, while ebikes in china are legally limited to 25km/h. There's further restrictions on the weight and battery life, along with some other stuff I can't read because I don't speak Chinese. https://www.sjgrand.cn/how-legally-drive-ebike-china/
I've done this method a lot. Honestly scraping Google Reviews was the most difficult in terms of complexity. This was like 6 or 7 years ago. You would get back these huge nested arrays that mostly had 0s in them. Occasionally a value would be set and that's what I would go with. I'm assuming their internal tools were obfuscated and/or using protobuf. But it certainly took me back to the good ol' days hexediting games in order to make your own cheat codes.
Another difficulty I faced were sites that relied on the previous UI state to pass the API call. You'd have to emulate "real" browsing by requesting the subsequent pages and get the ID number. Still much faster than emulating the whole browser via Selenium.
Honestly, it was the small sites that actually proved more troublesome. The ones that had an actual admin reading logs. They would ban our whole IP Block, then ban our whole proxy IP Block. Once I implemented TOR functionality into our scraper for a particularly valuable but small site and they blocked that too. This site ended up implementing ludicrous rate limiting that had normal users waiting for 2-3 seconds between requests, all because we were scraping their data. I kid you not, by the time we gave up trying, this Section-8 rental site for a small city had vastly more protections in place than Zillow and Apartments.com combined.
This story was originally published in 1955, the night he met Einstein didn't happen then. I didn't see an exact date but he did say "When I was a young man" so I assume it would have been quite a bit before 1955.
I know you are probably kidding about the 50 neurons, but Red Junglefowl (what chickens are derived from) are working with 221 million neurons. Which isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, but more than double the amount compared to a quail and about the same as a parrotlet or a brown rat.
And honestly, I'd find meaningful answers from Terry's RNG to be more indicative of a ghost in the machine than from a GPT clone. That is to say, not that meaningful, but at least it wasn't designed to mimic meaning via statistical inference.