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You're devaluing your own labor and perpetual storage costs for eternally maintaining your own library, and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from. With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage, and then I can access anything I want from any device I want. I don't have to store new music anywhere, or pull it down to other devices.

It also ignores multiple aspects of discoverability. If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made. Or the algorithms can suggest new things similar to other things I like.

I don't use Spotify, but only because I watch enough youtube that I view youtube music as "free" with youtube premium. But if that weren't the case, I'd still consider streaming to be a pretty good deal to avoid the perpetual hassle.
Well if the actual hEDS prevalence is a lot higher than that then it would upset a lot of your other numbers.

The presumed prevalence of hEDS used to be 1/50K, then 1/15K, then 1/5K (you are here) and now more recent research has it 1/500 (post 2019). So I don’t take much stock in presumed prevalence given the history of it. What are the odds that they got it wrong all those other times yet completely right this time.

The problem with first presuming this prevalence and then designing diagnostics around it is that of course the measured prevalence using these diagnostics will match the prior assumptions.

I’m of the view that it’s ~1/50 (2%) depending on ethnicity and that >90% of these are rather mild and very difficult to detect yet still show up as comorbidities. I currently don’t have the evidence I would like for this theory, I do have enough for my own beliefs. Until I get my hands on enough relevant WGSs I will not have definitive proof.
Have they fixed the incredibly slow queries on indexed columns?

https://www.lukas-barth.net/blog/sqlite-duckdb-benchmark/
As someone who grew up in Argentina, the idea that the US has seen anything close to 100% inflation is very funny to me.
Invest and innovate but not paying the artists more. Their innovation should be covered, how much innovation is there and their investment should pay off.
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This is why I stopped going to major retailers for certain kinds of goods. There's no point when the answer is often "we don't stock that, but we can order it online for you."

If I wanted to order online, I would have ordered online in the first place, but I don't. Ordering online is more hassle, often more expensive, and I don't get the item immediately. And if I'm going to order a thing online, I'm going to order it directly from the manufacturer, not through some retail company's website.

A store telling me to order it online is exactly the same as the store telling me not to buy it from them.

But if retailers hate when people buy using a laptop, then they'll be OK with me. I don't have a laptop anymore. I replaced it with a tower.
FreeCAD isn't perfect obviously (but neither IMO is the situation with any 'gratis' tier of commercial CAD). You pays your no money and you takes your complicated choice.

Rules for FreeCAD fillet and chamfers:

- In OpenCascade, dress-up operations like fillets and chamfers unfortunately can't wholly consume existing edges; this explains almost all the reasons why they fail.

- So if it's only dress-up, presentational stuff, do it last, or as late as you can in any given part

- If a fillet or chamfer is structural or fundamental, consider adding it to the sketch (there are constraint-preserving fillet tools, and now in 0.22-dev/future 1.0 the same is true for chamfers)

- If you need to fillet or chamfer generated geometry, consider how you might add it/cut it out with sweeps or grooves.

This is a bit of a pain, but it's nowhere near as much of a pain as trying to do them in OpenSCAD!
Show me an SoC that can play Cyberpunk max settings at 4K with RTX features enabled, let alone 8K. dGPU aren't going anywhere for a long while.
My view is that Intel is trying to do market segmentation. Want AVX512? You need to buy the "pro" lineup of CPUs...
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Obviously, you shouldn't pirate, but...

You can build a nice little collection on your phone/laptop that's offline first (offline only), won't track you, doesn't have a horrendous UI (vanilla music on android > spotify).

Also, yes, you're saving hundreds every year.

Maybe you can use that money to buy some merch or tickets to a show. That will give more to the artists you listen to than the pennies spotify cough up.
It doesn't make sense to assume 4% annual increase, unless you're assuming it will outpace inflation by 4%. Just ignore the inflation and do everything in "todays" dollars, and then you'll get an answer that actually makes sense to you. Right now you've assumed inflation in the calculation, but then got a result that is pretty meaningless, because $13,700 today doesn't mean what it will mean in 40 years.
Yes but from your web page about it, Fil-C does things like allocate all local variables on the heap and runs code 50x slower. Bounds checks+GC don't impose such a high level of overhead.
Tools like Fusion360 and FreeCAD have python scripting. You can definitely programmatically create entire models. But, because Fusion360 and FreeCAD are both parametric, you can also just define a number of parameters as global variables and then reference them in dimensions (with formulas). For KiCAD, I just export to STEP files (Fusion 360 has integrated physical and electrical design, but I found Fusion 360's electrical/PCB design to be worse than KiCAD).
> but off handwriting is slowing you down

I'm literally using a new solution that avoids slowdown (either typing, or dictating)
Yeah, me too. I'm constantly going down unheard paths. For me it's Youtube Music, but my life would be considerably less enjoyable if I had to weigh the cost of buying every CD I listen to. I also wouldn't have discovered a ton of music for groups whose albums I have since purchased. Without it I would have never discovered 90% of the artists I now love.
Not enough people realise you can spin up a cheap Hetzner instance, install Navidrome and use that as very functional Spotify-like experience. Bring in your music you've got on a USB, Bandcamp and others in one place.

Then you get to pick a player that works best for you, I use Feishin which you'll find familiar if you're a Spotify user.

I know I'm pulling a Dropbox with "just spin up Navidrome" but if you've got an afternoon to get it going, you can save yourself a lot of cash with price hikes to pay for AI DJs.

https://github.com/jeffvli/feishin
It's responsible to do the calculation, but for those who have diverse and curious tastes in music, it often won't add up in favor of buying over streaming. I spent a lot more purchasing music before streaming became widely available than I have in the decade+ since.

Of course, if you're open to supplementing an owned archive with ad-supported streaming for discovery, special listens, etc then the math changes again. But you're usually inviting lower quality streams, less control over what you hear, and all the annoyance of interstitial ads.
Didn't the Malthusian cycle result in labour shortages continously? What about the roman empire (byzantanian) after plagues?
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This doesn't really reflect the way a lot of people listen to Spotify.

It's like the radio. Yes, there are some classics you always go back to but there's also a constant stream of new music entering the mix as other music exits it. Not to mention the underavailability of music on a service like Bandcamp. What % of the top Spotify tracks can actually be bought there?

Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Spotify. But streaming music ushered in a new way for people to interact with music. I personally think it's worse but clearly plenty of people disagree. And I think we wear rose tinted glasses when looking at the past. I’m old enough that I actually did buy albums back in the day, I have a great memory of running out to get Radiohead’s Kid A then sitting in my room listening to it in its entirety. But if I were to actually take stock of how many of those albums I still listen to today… I can’t even remember a load of them. There were a bunch of misses on there that I’d probably have been better off not buying.
> Flexbox is simpler and covers most use cases.

CSS Grid was the first specification for page layout using rows and columns (grids) since the creation of the web. Everything else prior was a compromise.

Flexbox is for laying out rows or columns; while you can do some limited page layout, that's not what it's designed for. Just like tables and floats weren't designed for page layout either.

Another way to grok this: CSS Grid is for two dimensional layout and Flexbox is for one dimensional layout.

Flexbox and CSS Grid were designed to work together, each doing what it was designed to do.
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It’s for people who are interested in science but aren't formally educated in that field. For the people who are trained in that field, they might read the actual primary papers or review articles with 150 sources, and scoff at all the gell-mann amnesia they see daily in the popular press.
Spotify is one of those foundational utilities I will be fine to spend every month for the rest of my life. Like water and power.
> I've just never been able to get the hang of mouse controls, even in Fusion 360

I can relate to this -- I would consider myself 3D-clumsy. But learning the various navigation tools in FreeCAD (numbered views, the navigation cube, the new orient-to-face option) has helped me a lot.

And I think fundamentally not being so intimidated by the rest of the package means it's more worth persevering with that stuff.

(Also FreeCAD's trackpad+keyboard gestures are basically usable)

> Obviously to each their own. I do wish that code-based CAD is better but I'm not a mechanical engineer, just an enthusiast with a 3D printer.

Indeed. It's fabulous that we have choices in open source CAD, open source slicers, open source printers. It's just wild to me -- it actually makes me emotional -- that I can make some of the things I want from my thoughts at such low cost.

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It’s the same logic as saying, “I played russian roulette 5 times, I will win the 6th time as well”.

Without an understanding of why it worked in the past, there is statistically no reason to believe it will work again.

Also, you can read human history as a record of societal collapse. Sure they recovered, it took sometimes hundreds of years for the history we know of. Since we talking climate and it may take hundreds if not thousands of years to stabilise again, one could argue, this is the scale of collapse we’re looking at. Humans could very well survive, but I wouldn’t call returning to the stone age something we should strive for…
Spotify is in the class of products with the least control over how much something should cost.

They don't own any of the music they resell.

They have no alternative supplier of the same products.
More so the economics have to work out, the author points multiple times to profitability and ROI.

Is it profitable to invest trillions of dollars into... Asteroid mining? Vs cheaply mining the earth?

Maybe when there's so little to mine here and rocket fuel is virtually free...
>You're devaluing your own labor and perpetual storage costs for eternally maintaining your own library, and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from. With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage, and then I can access anything I want from any device I want. I don't have to store new music anywhere, or pull it down to other devices.

The value of my labor and storage efforts are worth both the control I have over my collection and my ability to ensure that I will keep what I want for as long as I want to.

>It also ignores multiple aspects of discoverability. If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made.

I can easily do this with any number of already-existing tools, including Bandcamp.
That’s a weird way to say the developer decided to provide it for free
Yarr, the streaming services are encouraging us to become pirates again
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"Nah the build quality is great but I just can't handle a functioning notification system that doesn't come with spam"
Which leads to another interesting question: are we going to sync up UTC and TAI, or do we just have to live with a completely arbitrary several-second offset for all eternity?
I predict the scanning will be worked around by all parties except for the ones who really don't need to be scanned.
Unfortunately the spotify music discovery is so good that I can't imagine leaving the platform :/
the feeling that you are the "man" and will hit the jackpot with a startup is a hell of a feeling.
Does anyone have a recommendation on a tool to transfer my saved albums and playlists from Spotity to Apple Music?
First and foremost, follow the specific HN guidelines for Show HN postings (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html).

Don't write your explanatory posting(s) in your Show HN thread in a way that looks like trashy advertising. If it is something you personally built, surely there is some interesting background about why you you were inspired to create it or the way that it was constructed that can be shared. If your Show HN looks like merely an ad, it will be treated like merely an ad.
Thank you!! Vexlio has no learning curve - it's literally so easy to use that I haven't had to read ANYTHING in order to get accustomed to doing what I need to do. I simply open the program and the UI is so intuitive that literally you will simply have no issues figuring out what you need to do to accomplish what you want to accomplish. When it comes to books: what are you interested in? Math / physics books or more general stuff? My favorite book of all time is 'Crime and Punishment' - it literally shows you how Dostoevsky thinks and puts you inside of his mind - not many books can do this.
It strikes me that if you have different classes of people working on a problem then it doesn't necessarily matter what's more efficient on a per-person basis initially because some people will not be doing the work anyway.

For example, buying a power sander for 10 hours labour cost when you could just have sanded the table down in less than 10 hours manually.

It's not like there were infinite quantities of slaves or lower class workers, at some point someone is going to explore the idea of automation purely out of interest.

For what it's worth this is why I believe that inequality and some level of wealth at the top is useful and necessary. You want a class of people who can just sort of mess about as they see fit. Otherwise everyone is just scrambling to meet basic needs.
I find myself contemplating this more and more now, especially as my interest in discovering new music has declined significantly as I enter middle age. My biggest concern would be replicating the cloud aspect of streaming music. Is there a good solution for having access to my library on all my devices as well as my sonos system?
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A broad genre of music, yes. I have all sorts of styles I've purchased from Bandcamp: Harpsichord suites, Breakcore, Video Game themed music, remixes, I've purchased a few major-label items from Beatport as well, all drm-free.

It's out there if you look, especially if you're looking outside of mainstream, radio-played artists.
Spotify is the only subscription I pay for and it's getting harder to justify. I listen to smaller artists that don't get much income from Spotify anyway. Perhaps I should continue buying their music on Bandcamp and get rid of Spotify altogether.
It's that dystopia where everyone is given artificial handicaps to achieve total equality in all things.

In this case, you're handicapping the smarter student by depriving them of the AI the dumber student gets.

If the whole point of exams is to test competence, the test becomes totally useless.
Not loading for me unfortunately.

Edit: nevermind, just took a while.
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The longer you use Spotify, the less able you will be to do without Spotify. We can only guess what that will do with prices.

FWIW, today, at $12 per month, the service is trivially cheap and unsustainable. A coffee costs 5 bucks.

Complaining about price increases when a product is dirt cheap makes no sense. The price most people are willing to pay is much higher IMHO.
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> Declarative DSLs are great when your problem is simple, but don't scale.

Can you define "don't scale"? I keep hearing that but I feel like I've made relatively complex models with declarative DSLs and from a "writing code" perspective I do think they scale perfectly fine. I'll grant that performance gets a little bad, generally I end up having greatly reduce the face number when I'm working and bump it up when doing a final render.
Ah, I thought it was it's own thing. Oh well. I do think we're due for a commercial desktop Linux distro. Yes I think it should be paid. Something needs to take the place of Windows that isn't tied to specific hardware (MacOS) because Windows is getting unusable.
The most recent inflation reading in the US is 3.4%. "Inflation alignment" would put Spotify Premium at $11.36 not $11.99, Duo at $15.50 not $16.99, and Family at $17.57 not $19.99.
I was told by a Canadian anglophone that the French Catholic tradition was strict about cursing, so what happened over generations was that actual Church words turned into the cussing words.. the example given was the French word of "Tabernacle" if you say it with loud outrage by itself, it is definitely cussing..
"catch some on toilet paper"

Have you ever tried to catch something behind yourself, or under yourself in a high squatting position? Something your body has some deep learning about not touching? Seems like labs would get a better response with putting some used TP in a bag.
As disappointed as I am by modern levels of space funding, I think everyone underestimates just quite how hard “produce a closed sustainable ecosystem that lasts two years” is.

If we wanted to spread out, that would be very high on our research priorities and I don’t think right now we have any idea how hard it actually is.
Part of the reason I use Deezer, it focuses on Music (for the most part). I can also upload my purchases from Bandcamp.