I read the qntm book in Dec. TIL: there's a whole, rad backstory here.
This scene is really arresting, which is how they get you. I kind of coasted through the book on this big idea.
The rest of the book felt like this scene playing out over and over on a bigger scale, with higher stakes, with roles switched around. It's hard to move a plot with this theme.
The book did a commendable job.But I was ready for it to be over when it was over.
This chart shows that the rate of year-over-year, month-by-month change is worse than 2020.
But the number of tech jobs has grown by 12% since April of 2020 (2.34M vs. 2.63M). Heck, there are more tech jobs today than at the beginning of 2022 (2.61M), even.
Job market sucks, trend is bad, but post title is a misnomer for what this chart shows.
(Numbers based on a quick grab BLS.gov data of CES6054151101 (Custom Computer Programming Services) + CES5051800001 (Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing & Web Hosting) + CES6054151201 (Computer Systems Design Services)---couldn't find other ones quickly and gave up :))
> English has a contrast between kinds of clause in which one kind has the standard correspondence between grammatical subject and semantic roles (when a verb denotes an action, the subject standardly corresponds to the agent), and the other switches those roles around.
I've tried to read this sentence so many times. That parenthetical is a doozy.
The sentence isn't that unnatural when you realize that it's full of standard linguistic terms, such as "clause", "subject", "semantic roles", "action", and "agent".
Pick a random sentence from discussion on tax laws or building an npm package, and they will sound just as ridiculous (or even pompous) to outsiders.
Same with Ezra Kline's "Abundance" vs. John Green's "An Abundance of Katherines." But I kinda like swapping in John Green—"Everything is Tuberculosis" was a good read for me this year.
XMonad is an an amazing window manager (WM) made by a bunch of nerds who care a whole lot about a niche problem. Software by caring nerds is my favorite software as a user.
I really hope it makes the jump to Wayland. I've used XMonad for more than a decade and it's still my favorite WM.
XMonad really let me forget about managing windows---I never have to resize a window or remember where I put a window. XMonad handles the arranging and resizing and floating for me. There's a nice layout for small screens that will zoom your active window[0]. You can cobble your desktop together into whatever makes you happiest: Active corners. ScratchPads. So much in XMonad Contrib[1].
Since I'm not the right person to help with porting to Wayland, I'm giving money via the GitHub sponsorship page[2].
I check in on discourse from time to time: progress looks slow. The person/people they need are hard to come by.
Poker hands would pretty cool for encoding things that you have to recognize quickly; e.g., key fingerprints. If there are 2.5M unique hands then encoding 256 bits of information requires 12(ish) poker hands.
I am a subscriber to Hearing Things, so I knew the context going in. But I thought the second sentence made it clear they were music journalists and not artists.
Hearing Things publishes playlists as music reviews—text, that is. And the playlists are available on all music streaming platforms.
But this blog announced that their playlists will no longer be on Spotify due to Spotify's continuing enshitification—I found no reductive moralism, only an interesting bad review.
This scene is really arresting, which is how they get you. I kind of coasted through the book on this big idea.
The rest of the book felt like this scene playing out over and over on a bigger scale, with higher stakes, with roles switched around. It's hard to move a plot with this theme.
The book did a commendable job.But I was ready for it to be over when it was over.
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