Great idea. The things available to give parents controlled access to music aren't great. Echo (Dot) + Kids+ seems to be the closest to meh on the speakers--the kids devices like Yoto are too limited (or require downloads) and the other voice speakers are worse than Echo/Alexa/Kids+. Which is mind-boggling because the Echo setup is wildly bad. I was thinking about how to lock an old iPad down to nothing but this app -- will need some time looking at parental controls again. Adding respect for Explicit tags might be a good feature if you don't have it. I have playlists that I'd love to share to them, but 5% of the songs need the radio edit or need to be elided.
Thanks! For locking down the iPad – check out Guided Access (Settings > Accessibility). Locks the device to a single app, you need a PIN to exit. Works great with Muky, that's the main setup I recommend.
For speakers, I just got my daughter the Wonderboom 4 – pairs via Bluetooth, sturdy, sounds good. Combined with an old iPad it's a solid setup.
Explicit tag filtering is a good idea. Right now parents manually curate playlists, so you control what goes in. But auto-filtering based on explicit flags could help. Adding it to the list - thanks for the suggestion!
This. Seems like you could wedge this and a model into a scrappy version of computer use for browsers.
Fwiw, thanks for contributing this. It seems apt for a number of repetitive things I probably do dozens of times a week and don't even notice as cruft anymore.
I'm not sure why there were such hot takes on what this is or isn't. Maybe Big Selenium crisis actors? You made something cool, you shared it w/ world -- that should be the system prompt for people posting about it in my kinder world of things.
Calling this a lifestyle business seems off. I'd wager for most, these are livelihood businesses; lifestyle sounds more of an affectation. Or, more simply, these are small businesses, full stop. We have a working term for these and many political forces claim to be about the. Then again, many or most political forces accomplish much less than they propose.
Indeed. While dr==cr gets you far towards being able to calculate account balances and an entity's aggregate financial position, it's also fairly foundational that you are able calculate the company's position with different counterparties. So knowing that Alice purchased the book from Foo Booksellers, but maybe hasn't settled with FooBooks yet is super relevant.
The company's accountant may care about balances and reconciling them back to things like the existence of said book, a receipt for payment or a bank transaction indicating settlement happened. At a big enough company, the accounts payables nerds may come along and be focused on making sure the full process procuring and paying has happened correctly, including record-keeping, tax compliance, and the actual movement of funds.
When you start to scale how all of these processes are executed and recorded, it's dense enough that it still surprises me many years later.
Well said. It's actually not complicated or arbitrary. It also works effectively in practice over the gdp of the known universe. If you are savvy enough to be interested in and understand the different computing approaches to double-entry bookkeeping, one can assume the whole DR/CR concept isn't beyond you.
Q. How well--perhaps on a scale of 1 to 10--does this essay follow its own recommendations? Is it a great essay by its own standards?
A. The essay "The Best Essay" does follow many of its own recommendations, but it also falls short in a few areas. Let's evaluate the essay based on the 10 rules it sets out for writing great essays.
Important topic with surprising insights: 8/10. The topic of what makes a great essay is important for writers, and the author provides some surprising insights, such as the idea that the best essay would be about a groundbreaking scientific or technological discovery.
Compelling question: 7/10. The essay starts with the question of what the best essay would be like, which is interesting but not as compelling as it could be.
Thinking out loud and refining: 9/10. The author does an excellent job of thinking out loud and refining their ideas throughout the essay.
Recursive process: 8/10. The essay follows a recursive process, with responses generating further questions and exploration.
Cutting content: 6/10. While the author mentions cutting a 17-paragraph subtree, it's unclear how much unnecessary content remains in the essay.
Following novelty and generality: 7/10. The essay explores novel ideas but could have delved deeper into some of the more interesting tangents.
Writing about interesting topics: 9/10. The author is clearly interested in the topic of essay writing and what makes essays great.
Breadth and depth of knowledge: 8/10. The author demonstrates a broad knowledge of essay writing and related topics, but the depth could be further developed in some areas.
Aiming for timelessness: 7/10. The essay discusses the concept of timelessness but doesn't fully achieve it, as some of the ideas may not be surprising to readers well-versed in essay writing.
Discovering ideas through questions and answers: 8/10. The essay does explore ideas through asking questions and refining answers, but the most valuable questions could have been pursued further.
Overall, the essay scores well in following its own advice, with an average score of around 7.7/10. However, it falls short of being a truly great essay by its own standards. The author could have pushed further in exploring the most compelling questions, cutting unnecessary content, and aiming for more timeless insights. Nonetheless, it remains a thought-provoking and insightful piece on the art of essay writing.
It's because there are two ways to sync content across devices, paid sync through Obsidian vs. git. Given sync is a p0 feature, it seems logical that both get mentioned when the question arises.
Also, the app's really good, and I pay for Sync -- git works well, but it's a bit clumsier on iOS. Never posted a paid comment in my life.
911s aren't really about the straight lines. You can get a reasonably equivalent performing car for well less than half the price of the SC, so factor in that at least half the car's value comes from scarcity due to low production numbers and 911 halo effect. It's non-trivial to get these cars even if you can well afford them and they're considered iconic by many folks who love cars. All that said, this model is more of a collectible money grab to me than the car someone who loves 911s goes for -- I'm biased, 992 GT3 is more fun all day, and that's on a track where it belongs.
