It is a gimmick, and it seems like you bought it, hook, line and sinker...but it wasn't always a gimmick. At some point, vinyl was the standard. It has lost that position since, but to not admit that these record producers are capitalizing on nostalgia (both real and fabricated) is folly. You can easily have some 'me and my music' time with superior digital mediums without the need to get up every ~16 minutes and deal with a mechanical limitation that can break immersion. It's fine to like a gimmick, but don't dismiss a reasoned explanation of why vinyl is not superior just because you got sold on something the rest of us left behind.
> ... without the need to get up every ~16 minutes and deal with a mechanical limitation that can break immersion.
I'm pretty sure bayindirh wants to do exactly that. Whether it breaks their immersion, or even what immersion means to them, is completely subjective. For them, it's intentionally tactile.
> It is a gimmick, and it seems like you bought it, hook, line and sinker...
Well, I started listening music with open reel tapes, cassette players, vinyl and CD at the same time. So, vinyl is not something I discovered recently.
Same here. In fact, I still repair record players, cassette decks and 8-track units as a hobby. That said, I'm not about to sit here and say the modern vinyl thing is anything but a gimmick. As I said further in my reply, it's fine to like the gimmick, but let's not sit here and pretend something is somehow being kept alive or pure by particiating in it. Vinyl had its time, and that time has passed. There are better ways to listen, now.
>the author puts in the most thought and energy are about human interactions
During my reading, I thought this was the point. I'm not sure the stories were trying to be in any specific genre, maybe genre-adjacent at best, but the author wanted to focus on what happens to the human and humanity with all this advanced, arguably fantastic tech.
The story has some rather clear political biases that a lot of people don’t like, and I can’t help but think a lot of the criticism of the series comes from that. The most tyrannical human characters in the book impose their tyrannies for the sake of collectivism, and collectivist authoritarianism comes very close to dooming humanity more than once. I can imagine people who have collectivist political outlooks not liking it at all.
I don’t see anybody criticising those aspects, though. When people criticise the science or the plot or the characterisation, why not take them at their word?
Education is always expensive, in every country, because it takes time. US-Universities are just exceptional expensive for whatever reasons. But time is something that this technology can remove for this cases, so I would say it still remains an economical problem.
Though, the ability to use the technology might come down to a social problem. Because it still needs a certain level of education and competence to use the technology. Just significant less than visiting a university for a whole decade or so.
Thanks for linking Featherwiki. I've used Tiddlywiki, and it's good to see other entries in this space (wikis as a single HTML file).
Featherwiki's 55KB size is quite small compared to Tiddlywiki's 2MB. That said, the size difference alone may not be sufficient reason to switch away from Tiddlywiki.
This article hits close to home, but there is one crucial component missing; free time. For the most part, I'm at my laptop or mobile about half of my primary work day, and take regular breaks from actual work to check out HN or any other gathering of techheads I follow. Here's where the data collection happens, mostly, as another commenter mentioned, projects I was to try or have been inspired by, skills to brush up on, etc.
There's this odd notion of "saving for someday" that kindles hope of some rainy weekend where I suddenly have 48 hours all to myself, and to focus on making again. That's what drives the data collection.
Yes, I resonate with this a lot. It’s one thing to have time to capture information but a whole other thing to have the time to extract the essence out of it. I still haven’t figured out an answer yet though.
It's interesting that people don't have the patients to vet or even start to question the veracity of their information sources. I think this part of the "how do you expert?" problem is the one that needs to be more carefully examined and solved. We can probably come up with 10 different ways for our algos and AIs to present "experts," but is everyone going to trust those methods? Not likely, so we fall back to the problem of "my expert is better than your expert" regardless of the talent pool or selection process. So, how do we solve that? Would people make better choices if the were given better options, or does human irrationality always win, in the end?
Everything is a concern. It's not often that humanity gets it right the first time, so the trick is to be ready to make changes when new verifiable data comes to light.
Thank you for saying that. I personally always found it confusing that people at some point simply say 'I am done learning anything new' as if their current model of the world is already perfect. I might understand there is a physical memory limit, but I sincerely doubt it is even scratched for most people.
I understand the evolutionary underpinnings for it ( 'what I did got me this far did it not?' ), but it is still not a great excuse for a conscious being.
It's not as if it's a hard limit, and you become incapable of absorbing additional facts beyond a certain point. If anything, the human mind seems best adapted to ongoing learning, as it seems to store (and discard) information in terms of relational strength.
> people at some point simply say 'I am done learning anything new'
Yeah, it's not good to do that, but how is that related?
The "evolutionary underpinnings" are a sound rationale, not an excuse. Not for completely eschewing new information but being conservative in making changes.
What opened things up for you? I suffer from allergies, and have a slightly deviated septum, and I've tried so many sprays (caused dependency), breathing strips (falls off in the night), and even 3D printed a small cradle that would force my nose to open wider as I slept, which proved to be nothing short of annoying. I'm always open to trying new methods.
What kind of sprays - Afrin type (oxymetazoline)? The dependency on those can be pretty awful. My ENT prescribed Azelastine, an antihistamine nasal spray that has worked wonders for me. It appears to raise the threshold for allergic reactions which can include swelling of the nasal passages. I knew I needed it in the Spring but I've found that if I don't use it daily I snore really badly, so I think that general house dust is causing some trouble. My wife is much happier now that I'm using it again.
Yep, Afrin and the like. They open things up nicely, for a time, then I have to keep using it or I spend a week feeling extremely blocked before returning to my baseline of annoyingly blocked.
I have not heard of Azelstine, and will bring that up to my doctor, thanks!
I use to use sprays but at some point just stopped, because they were nor really helping. For some years I just accepted that my nose does not work properly. There were always some moments were I could use my nose but then it would get blocked. It was only after I read a book (Breath by John Nestor) that I started really trying. And it really worked! I wouldn't say that it will work for everyone, since I have no data and this is not my field, but many things from the book make sense and it is worth a try.
I had the surgery to have my deviated septum fixed and it was a good decision. First, I could breathe through my nose. Another huge benefit, though, was that all those sinus infections that couldn't drain kept turning into ear infections -- that just stopped.
The recovery from the surgery wasn't too bad for getting back to work -- I think I missed two days and the weekend. But the healing process gave me incredible headaches for about two months which went away entirely. Mine was badly deviated, though.
your body naturally dilates your entire respiratory system in response to oxygen demand - and not by a trivial amount.
As someone who has a suspected less than perfect septum, and experiences allergies from time to time, I have gone from simply noticing the dilation effect to actively pursuing it as a remedy.
Which is to say, if I stay the night somewhere with indoor cats, I alleviate the symptoms by going for a run …
CPAP is nice, but it can be a pain in the ass ; 9 months in I'm still struggling to use it consistently, with heavily deviated septum, allergies, seasonal sniffing. When I can consistently keep the mask on (nose) without feeling like I'm drowning, for at least a week, I get quite the refreshed feeling. Quite rare though... Tried all possible machine tunings, products, herbs, massages, activities... Still not there yet. And the surgeon isn't convinced I'll get better sleep even with deviated septum surgery, says he'd need to correct stuff 'behind' too. There's the 'mouth and nose' mask option but that leaks far more and is even more harder to sleep with...
Seems if you breathe from your mouth when you grow up, your tongue isn't parked up, pushing on your palate, and your jaw and face bones don't grow up correctly and it's very hard to correct as an adult. I get bone and articulation pains with the CPAP machine, since my tongue is now parked correctly it pushes hard...
Get your kids looked at. It's all hereditary for me (deviated septum) and I regret no-one telling me to get it looked at seriously when younger.
I had that surgery, more than once, and I have trouble breathing when I sleep. I'm finding it hard to get a CPAP (I'm abroad in a non-English speaking nation so that's probably a factor). Have you tried taping your mouth closed? If you're definitely safe using the CPAP then you might try it, that's my plan.
Aside from that, I've found yoga and meditation that uses the breath as an object helps with my breath quality when awake, and recently I'm trying hot/cold contrasts (a hot bath and cold shower) as outlined in this Huberman Lab podcast[1]. I've noticed that my sinuses are clearer afterwards. That could be the steam or another reason, it is hard work though!
> I regret no-one telling me to get it looked at seriously when younger.
Me too, I had terrible advice, from medical professionals too. They didn't seem to care so I'm heartened by the recent findings which, even though they scare the hell out of me because it underlines all the problems I face and most likely will face, those walking behind us may have an easier road.
Oh getting a CPAP was a breeze here in France and I didn't/don't have to pay a cent, neither for diagnosis nor for renting the machine nor the quite serious tech support and follow-up. So, while the rest of the French health system seems to be collapsing, this still works.
And it's (IMO) clever, since it's such a game changer for most of the people I met who use it, many costly ailments disappear. It's probably a winner for overall productivity and a great reducer of sick days and late-life healthcare.
Naturally, this and a CPAP are in consideration, but getting to that point is profoundly difficult without health insurance in the US. I am seeking solutions for relief in the meantime.
