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  • My dad was like that, but the music he liked was from 1750 to 1830 or so. If there's no cello, he's not interested.

    For me, my favourites are from the funk era. I don't think I knew that kind of music existed until I was in my 20s. Now it's my go-to kind of music.

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  • I can find "new bangers", but there's also a whole lot of "holy shit, the kids have absolutely no taste in music", which I think is a often what the olds think of new music. I think that's the typical drop you see on the graph as people get older.

    OTOH, to me the absolute worst era of music was the popular stuff coming out when I was 5-20 years old or so. That era just sucked. As a kid my general impression was "Holy shit, my peers have absolutely no taste in music". It was only years later that I actually discovered music that was made during that time that I had never heard about. So, I suppose there was some good music back then, but it wasn't the stuff that was on the radio, on TV, in the movies, etc. The best era for music, IMO, was 10-20 years before I was born. And, it isn't even music my parents introduced me to. They had pretty poor taste in music too, and never played that stuff. I only found out about it decades later by exploring music on my own.

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  • I wonder how you could adjust the whole graph based on connections to friends.

    When people are under 10, they don't have that much agency in choosing music. They just listen to whatever their parents listen to, or whatever their parents put on for them. In their teens they start getting to choose music and have a lot of classmates and friends who can be sources for hearing new music. In their early 20s that continues with university and/or first jobs. But, after a while that tails off and people have smaller social circles so they are introduced to fewer new things.

    That could also explain why music from before people were born is somewhat popular. It's something you might have been introduced to by your parents, or possibly by friends in your teens or 20s, or maybe something you discovered on your own later. When you're 40+ you still might have people introducing you to music that existed before you were born, but you're probably not being introduced to the new music very much. And if you are, it's the popular stuff, which often sucks in all eras. Maybe if you have teenaged kids you hear what they like at some point, but that's a small window, and often what they like is the popular gunk.

  • Nice reference.

  • I really hate the way they use the colour in the netting to try to make the fruit look better / fresher. Red netting for oranges to make them look more ripe, onions in brownish netting, limes in green netting, garlic in white netting.

    I'd pay more for neutral / translucent netting that's more honest. Or, maybe we can just get rid of the plastic entirely and use paper or something.

  • Suuuuure they are. No accounting gimmicks at all! Just suddenly profitable via magic right before they go public.

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  • Sure, it might seem like a sprint compared to a Waterfall project where it's a marathon, where there might be months between points where you check in with the plan and try to figure out if the software is ready to ship yet.

    I still just object to the word "sprint". Any job where you're sprinting over and over, week after week, where that's the main thing you're doing, you're doing something wrong.

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  • What makes it so annoying to me is that a sprint implies putting in maximum effort for a short time. The pace of a sprint is unsustainable over more than a few seconds.

    If you say you did "sprints" for over a year... no you didn't. Either you sprinted for a little bit and then had to walk for a while because you'd used up all your energy. Or, you jogged at a sustainable pace for a year and just called it a sprint.

  • Well, that and "is she intentionally mispronouncing my name? What might that mean? Let me browse 1 billion galactipedia entries about this behaviour"

  • I don't care how people pronounce it. I just insist that it's a non-count noun.

    Too many people say things like "these data" when they'd never actually say "this datum". Most people, if they ever talk about individual items from a dataset will say "this piece of data". That's how you talk about an uncountable item: this grain of sand, this drop of water, this slice of bread, this cup of tea, etc.

  • They make it up in volume.

    (Volume being how loudly they shout about how it's going to change the world and dupe more people into investing.)

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  • Yeah, it worked.

  • What's funnier is that typically the AI providers lose money on every query their customers make. So, this may have cost some company $500m to Anthropic, but it cost Anthropic a whole lot more than that.

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  • On that subject, does anybody hate the term "Sprint" as much as I do?

    "Sprints" are extremely quick events that last tens of seconds and are done at most once a day, but more often (in competition) a few times a month, or a few times in a day every few months.

    You don't sprint for a full week every week. That's a marathon, maybe an ultra-marathon.

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  • Especially when they're called "standups" but everybody sits down because they typically last an hour or so.

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  • Tag it how?

  • Last.fm is now independent

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  • I remember using it back when it was called "Audioscrobbler". I think the "scrobbler" part stuck around somehow?

  • The demo would be a lot more impressive if the questions you were asking weren't longer than the extremely simple SQL queries it generates.