I'm still an amateur and always had problems with this, got some advice from an experienced jazz pianist I know. His suggestions were roughly to:
1. Start by transcribing the root note that you hear
2. Go back and see if each chord sounds major or minor - most of the time that will give you a major/minor third
3. Go back and play the 5th, and see if it sounds right - most of the time it'll be there
4. Don't worry about 7ths/9ths yet, they'll come, but give them a go
5. Once you've got a few chords, try and figure out the key, and that will help figure out others
So he was basically suggesting to transcribe by each note's function in a chord, starting with most -> least important. It still needs some music theory of course, but doesn't need you to listen to an entire complex chord at once.
Faktory was a big influence/inpiration for Ocypod[0], a job queuing system I wrote a few years back (similarly language agnostic). Much appreciated for making it all open source.
Yeah, I wasn't disputing the car analogy, more the benefits. If I'm using GPT to benefit myself (e.g. working on a side project), that's great and saves me time to do other things. If I'm using it to benefit my employer, I won't save any time, they'll fill it with other things to do, or expect me to be X times as productive in the same time.
The problem is that when it's for work, the company now knows you have access to a car, so sends you on 20x the trips. You have no more quality time, and your physical health suffers from lack of exercise.
No because for things I care about a lot, and want to ensure long term support/service/updates (e.g. password manager, email host). Having a subscription model also means I generally know the cost of keeping up to date (no being surprised by a new $359 version to shell out for at some arbitrary point in time).
Yes for three main reasons.
First being that it feels like it doesn't scale with the amount of software that's trying to use that model. Sure I can easily afford a couple of $20/month subscriptions, but 20 of those? Not a chance.
Second is that its a bad fit for software that I value but only very occasionally use. In such cases it feels like I'm paying way above the odds for the amount of time I use the software.
Third is that I actually find it stressful to have to remember and manage subscriptions for everything. I have to spend time figuring out whether it's still worth paying, check to see if rates have changed, worry about getting locked into another year's worth of contract, etc. With a one-off app purchase it's done and takes zero mental bandwidth in future.
The game I wish existed almost used to exist, as a play by mail game.
It was a swords'n'sorcery style adventure with a big open world, in which you had a party of adventurers.
Every week you'd fill in a card with what 10-20 actions you wanted to take (go exploring/questing, pray to gods, hire people, buy equipment, etc.), and post off your form.
Then you'd receive a printout with the results of your actions the following week.
I'd love a modern online version of this, i.e. something that limits you to taking a few actions a day or every few days, but with a serious amount of depth underneath it, many players, living worlds, etc.
The thing I remember most is looking forward to receiving many pages of printouts each week with all sorts of neat details and descriptions of everything that happened and the world around me.
The pacing and fact that it was text-based made me pay a lot more attention to everything that I would for a graphically based game.