DradisPing
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DradisPing
9d ago
From https://paulgraham.com/taste.html
Line drawings are in fact the most difficult visual medium, because they demand near perfection. In math terms, they are a closed-form solution; lesser artists literally solve the same problems by successive approximation. One of the reasons kids give up drawing at ten or so is that they decide to start drawing like grownups, and one of the first things they try is a line drawing of a face. Smack!
To get good at drawing you have to happily suck at it for years. There are a lot of things like this. Drawing is a special case because we tend to not be aware of how much time someone spent practicing.
DradisPing
10d ago
The chronological or purchase order make a lot more sense to me. The only issue I can see is that I might not remember buying some of them.
DradisPing
10d ago
So I've been getting an ad on Xitter for a tiny bookshelf with a whole lot of fake books you can organize. Then you can dump it out and organize them again.
This blew my mind because it never occurred to me that this was an activity people enjoy.
I just assumed that people who alphabetized their CDs (dating myself here) just never did the math on how often they actually search for a random CD by name.
Does anyone good stories about seeing a product that made them realize their failures at modelling the minds of others?
DradisPing
17d ago
Antibiotics are interesting because bacteria do develop resistance to them, however that resistance fades over time.
So it's possible that penicillin was discovered multiple times but abandoned when it mysteriously stopped working.
DradisPing
23d ago
I don't think he's actually particularly pissed at Harvard specifically. It's really the combination of a few things.
- It's the most sacred institution to DC people.
- If anti-Trumpism has a Westpoint, it's Harvard Kennedy School
- Harvard administrators are unbelievably arrogant and will be unable to present a sympathetic defence in public
- The Trump base has zero sympathy for Harvard and love to see them get put in place
- Harvard isn't what it used to be at the administrative level. Claudine Gay isn't up to the standards of Harvard 30 years ago
- Harvard admin doesn't seem to grasp that a lot of their behaviour over the past few decades is explicitly illegal and they only got away with it because the feds were on side. There's no case law protecting them.
- As the most prestigious school they make an obvious target for all of Trumpism's issues with academia.
DradisPing
25d ago
Also the market. They can use early robots in Disney's films and parks until they are ready for the home market.
DradisPing
25d ago
There's a strong bias in the US around not viewing white on white conflict through an ethnic lens. The differences in geography, religion, and ancestry would be enough to label the conflict as ethnic if it were to happen in a different country.
Red tribers already see DC as more of a colonial occupier than their elite.
Also the US civil war is seen as the template for a civil war. But that was a war of secession, specific regions had military organizations and used them to try to separate from the national government.
Proper civil wars (an attempt to change the government) are more of a sliding scale of actions by locals.
It'd be more of smaller scale disruptions followed by either an attempt for the feds to regain legitimacy or a brutal crackdown.
It's early so things are still confusing, but there are reports that he was in 11A. That's right by the emergency exit. He opened it and jumped out before the crash.
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