I sometimes say I’ve got a mind like a rock… it takes a long time to get things in there, but once they are there, they aren’t going anywhere. Another way to look at it is that there is a difference between max speed and max distance. I am very patient, and I will keep learning something to the point of mastery , but have little use for quickly acquired, disposable information and skills. As a learner, I will not go as fast as most, but I will be able to go further.

It is also helpful in teaching situations. When you have learned something slowly, it can make you more able to teach it to someone else.

There is a popular book called Thinking, Fast and Slow, which examines this in more detail.

For the immediate future, Europeans are personally and politically invested in digital sovereignty. The best way to get ahead quickly is to invest in open source projects. For the time being, interests seem to be aligned in favor of FOSS.

Of course, you are right. It can’t last forever.

Is this OC?

Got it. So a foreign militia in Lebanon is the proper government of Lebanon, a foreign militia in Yemen is the proper government of Lebanon. We see what you are doing here.

Suggesting that the Houthi Iranian regional militia is “Yemen” is either astoundingly ignorant or truly unhinged.

Europe is increasingly funding projects through NGOs and government foundations. If FOSS software is a public good, then we should devote public funds to it.

Some projects offer paid hosting for those who can’t or don’t wasn’t to self-host. Some (particularly mobile apps) push a paid version to stores to subsidize those using FOSS sources to download.

just ask chatgpt to check in the couch cushions

I believe that should be Generals Lee. Like Attorneys General

Guilty confession: I will sometimes just grab my things and start over at another station. It may be rude, but I imagine it’s not any more work to cancel the whole transaction rather than edit a single item.

And increasingly, AI cameras.

Taste the rainbow?

If I accidentally put something in the bag before it scans, it catches it immediately, but if it double scans the barcode, it can’t tell it overcharged and the employee has to cancel it 🤔

Mozart had a sister who was also a genius composer, but was forced to quit her training to be more “marriageable.”

As long as we’re doing pyramids, Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the Great pyramid of Giza.

Edit: someone beat me to it. Here’s another one. If you take the timeline of the Bible literally, the Israelites did not build a single pyramid. They would have been hundreds of years too late (and the Bible never references pyramids, just that the Israelite slaves built cities).

Gottem

I’ve been using Tenacity for a while now. Audacity has become problematic. But honestly, I don’t do too much audio editing. Just some clipping and noise removal.

Obviously, you just buy the house and get the free pizza, and then immediately return the house.

I use navidrome. You could set it up with individual accounts and use any Subsonic compatible player. I’m not sure what you mean by specific time periods, so I’m not sure about that.

It has a very serviceable web app, and lots of front end clients. I like Tempus on Android, and Strawberry on PC.

I’ve found that navidrome is just more stable and usable than other server apps. Yes, you could do it through Home Assistant or Jellyfin or NextCloud, but those apps are not purpose-built for music. Just my 2 cents.

I’ve heard it said that a master is just someone who has made every possible mistake.