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i think you need to understand more about modern software infrastructure [0]

[0] https://www.fordfoundation.org/learning/library/research-rep...


I'm focusing on the following premise;

> if you require money to do something, you usually have no chance of being as good as the folks that do it for the pleasure

Not only do I think professional have a chance to be as good as amateurs, but the elite professionals are on average better than the elite amateurs.

I do think that we would be better off if more elite amateurs became elite professionals.


should i repeat my comment and link the free document i doubt you read, again? modern software infrastructure runs on "folks that do it for the pleasure"

I did read it and I agree with the sentiment, but disagree that professionals have no chance to reach the level of amateurs.

Modern software infrastructure also relies on a lot of professionals.

laws that allow big players hurt minorities are any good? Rockstar recently had a strike from their workers by their abuse and layoffs

have you heard startups

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dissect Volume 1, 2 and 3 of A Modern Method for Guitar, no excuses, no cries


there's no evidence on scientific pedagogic literature that "analog ways" are better than digital when you control variables like "your kid being able to open a tab to watch a non-related Youtube video". you can't use your sample of 10 kids to say anything, nor use poor journalism done into the topic, which cites single research with less than thousand participants and bias from the author by other scientists on the field

no meta-analysis done into this topic could conclude anything beyond the digital medium being a bit more efficient on reading speed. and these studies do not account when comparing one way to the other on the plethora of ways a digital medium can expand knowledge (videos, gifs, images, interactive visualizations and so on)


You assert a pretty strong view, on what basis? but your hypothesis is directionally wrong, as found in these trials:

Screen readers take longer.

Feis A, Lallensack A, Pallante E, Nielsen M, Demarco N, Vasudevan B. Reading Eye Movements Performance on iPad vs Print Using a Visagraph. J Eye Mov Res. 2021 Sep 14

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8557948/?utm_source...

Another

https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~srikur/files/HCII_reading.pdf?ut...

Tangential: One study finds few significant effects of disruptions on just on-screen reading, no printed books.. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

Cited in Card Catalog , Hana Goldin, "What scrolling did to reading" here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/cardcatalogforlife/p/what-scro...


you managed to gather with all the research you cited minus the blog post, less than 100 participants. if you think this is enough to conclude anything i may warn you are tripping balls

i suggest you do some read, specially of effect sizes found in many studies showing "better performance" (minuscule effect size). there's a plethora of political things you'll ignore by thinking books are better. i gathered you some stuff (there are more than 200,000 people studied on the links i'm sending to you) and i truly hope you don't try to counter-argument by pointing some meta-analysis i linked concluding the analog is better. they admit the effect is minimal to negligent and if you actually consider studies done on text that user doesn't have to "scroll" but rather advance the page with a tap/pgDN and the user don't have their social media hooked on their device (muted or absent), there literally NO EVEDIENCE of any difference between paper and digital learning

[0] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-16892-001

[1] https://futureofreading.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1-s2.0...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10606230/

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-025-13843-8

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277250302...


they also managed to buy and destroy a really proeminent 4x4 national company [0] it's tech was of course, eaten by them

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troller_Ve%C3%ADculos_Especiai...


but if i'm Facebook, can't i pay thousands books?


> More choice, more competition. This is a good thing.

hopefully one day we lurk at the same protocol and type: with more federations, more choice. This is a good thing.


ATProto is designed to improve residence and resistance over time. The starting point and requirement was a UX that didn't suck. If you actually want to build a new social fabric that everyone will eventually adopt, you need to be easy and safe for normies, they care more about that than the federated stuff.

Has anyone from the blockchain and federated world found a UX for key management that doesn't suck? Same problem, same non-solution afaik, for how many years now?


seriously, this bullshit and ISP raising prices of what's basically UBER cheap: transporting data to others via internet

information should be free and not locked under paywalls; in no time if this pill is swallowed you will have the same level of shallow articles but this time, all paid


and the worse is (contemporany) research on these drugs being slowed down by the field getting the rare licenses to study something broad as "depression cure"... some types of pyschodelics are really effective to treat specific stuff like post-traumatic anxiety of unexpected events like the 9/11. with rates of prognosis improvement beyond 80%. Katherine MacLean has a nice critic on what are the politics/dynamics of this field


> Katherine MacLean has a nice critic on what are the politics/dynamics of this field

Would love to read, what's it called?


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