is it really so hard to look at a couple xpaths in chrome? insane that people actually use an llm when trying to do this for real. were headed where automakers are now- just put in idiot lights, no one knows how to work on any parts anymore. suit yourself i guess

the "david brooks" of business strikes again. simple, digestible "wisdom" that goes down easy, but is ultimately self congratulatory and too general to be meaningful. reading these posts is exactly the "fake work" paul grahm wrote about avoiding :P

on the flip side, improvised instrumental music (which has relatively no market or fame) is kind of the opposite- the top dogs basically stay there their whole life. but thats in terms of status, not money, which is mosty nonexistent.

Yes, I am reading James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue which tells the biographical story of the main players on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. It is almost shocking, even though I knew, how impoverished these musicians were even though they were widely acknowledged to be at the top of the art form. Miles did ok financially but most of his peers did not. And yet people still listen to Kind of Blue 70 years later (and hardly anyone listens to modern jazz).

Top jam bands do quite well, but most are not played on the radio. Phish, Dave Matthews, Dead and Company. Up-and-comers Billy Strings and Goose appear to be following the pattern. But like many things content-wise, the outliers get the majority of the money. These are the outliers.

If all you have is "status", but no one knows who you are and most people don't care either (no market or fame) that's a very small consolation.

i think the respect of your peers is one of the best rewards

it points out the inherrent bullshit to the current arrangement

i draw the line at people claiming to be experts in something they have only done for a year

this mindset only makes sense when the mission of the company is noble and appreciated by the greater community. otherwise you are a fool for having this attitude

i think it depends how you quantify it. seems like there are many other species that might have things worked out better than we do

one big humblebrag

you absolutely can recycle some plastics. hdpe, ldpe, eps to name a few. doesnt mean they are good, or we should keep using them. but you are wrong in general

There is a difference between can theoretically and can practically. That’s why we landfill or burn >90% of plastics.

https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...

you said it doesnt work- so i pointed out it does in fact work, in the literal sense. if you were implying that it doesnt work economically, then its more complicated. look at some of the eu, they successfully recycle a lot more thanks to more regulation and perhaps subsidies. so, it could work better here in america, if there were more laws as well as incentives. i run a eps (styrofoam) recycling facility btw.

unles you have decades of domain expertise, chances are you are going to fail at analysing music in a meaningful way. stop thinking you can just waltz into this subject

How many decades of domain expertise in music do you suggest one acquire before just waltzing into the subject?

At least five years of ballroom dancing, and preferably five years of tap or ballet.

three and a half.

Damnit. Given your pedigree I had you in the pool for 4 1/4

Although this might be true, it's pretty irrelevant if the kind of music you're analyzing didn't exist a few decades ago.

can you give an example of such music?

Modern bachata music didn't exist until 1994, so there's that.