anticsapp's comments

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

I've been meaning to write a bot that randomly posts the Always Sunny in Philadelphia quote "Because of the implication.." every ten minutes. It might get gummed up a bit with RIP or self-harm threads but I am certain after enough time it would be net karma positive.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Older people have become younger

Now, Tayne I can get into.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Being OK with not being extraordinary

backup as the site is down: https://archive.vn/DGhBi

This tweet bubbled up this weekend and it touched me: https://twitter.com/ambernoelle/status/1297191195584663554

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: College Notebook of Isaac Newton

I believe this is the article: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/495241 I can't get a sci-hub for it though.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

I can't think of a worse name for SEO purposes. You'd have to fight through a well loved and well known space telescope, the astronomer it was named after, and Hubble contact lenses, which has raised ~74MM.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes

Shoot me the YouTube link.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes

Jeff Krulik pioneered this approach in the 80s. Not to diminish what AGNB is doing, but it's almost like The Office to his Spinal Tap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_Parking_Lot

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Debt collector profits soar with people flush and easy to find

Don't quit your day job.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”

As it should be. In aggregate it makes total sense. The distillation to a single user's streams is a distraction from the critique having no merit.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”

I should have been clearer, I used 70% of revenue because that is what Spotify gives to artists. Of course, software can do that as it scale infinitely, retail cannot. I can't tell if 70% is generous or not -- many independent artists think it isn't.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”

Can someone explain why the revenue sharing model is broken on Spotify? A lot of bluecheck indie bands complain about their meager $28 monthly checks. I even saw a performative tweet from a label the other day: https://twitter.com/DonGiovanniRecs/status/12865225202213847...

Let's say I run a bookstore. 70% of my revenue goes to pay workers. A works 32 hours, B works 5 hours, and C works 3 hours.

Is it not fair to give A 80% of the pay pool, since she worked 80% of the hours?

Finally, terrestrial pop radio, independent college radio, and ham radioesque bedroom experimentalists are all on the same platform, the swim lanes have been erased. Everything is flattened, everything is discoverable, yet the sobering truth that few people are streaming their work elicits attacks on Spotify from bands and marginal artists. How is their contempt justified?

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: The History of Usenet and FidoNet

I hope this isn't off topic. I've been interested in perusing Usenet groups from the 80s like rec.music -- I swear ten years ago this was possible. I can't figure out how to do it now. Did the massive load of binaries kill off archival efforts? I can't find a search engine for Usenet anywhere. I'm just interested in plan text conversations.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro

Ackshually, it was $999.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Video Games Are the Future of Education

What's the max time in updates allowed?

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

Are you sure it isn't 76% with all that hard cold data you're using?

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B

I wonder what would happen if I signed up for Doordash as a driver, picked up as many orders as I could in one evening, and just donated the food to the poor and needy? How long until I'm booted and banned as a driver?

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Sizzle Then Fizzle: Buzzy Titles and Borrowing Digitized Books

For those of you interested in donating to archive.org, you should be aware that they recently bought out Bop Street record store in Seattle: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/a-happy-end...

While they might have gotten a good six figure price, that store is known by fellow record dealers to be largely garbage LPs. It is more accumulation than collection. I wouldn't trust them with donation money for whatever flight of fancy they have next.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices

Yes, that's true. Avoid an either/or situation. John Cage said that long ago.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices

Yo that's crazy good, put those as line items on LinkedIn you will have to turn off notifications so many people will be bothering you.

anticsapp | 5 years ago | on: New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

It's almost like they need you to click on random shit to defraud advertisers.