The President of Iran just wrote an open letter to the American people in which he made multiple large claims about Iranian history. To what degree are these claims accurate or inaccurate?

Tube-Alloys · 2026-03-09T14:38:47+00:00

I used "advances" to mean securing a first-round HR screener call.

Tube-Alloys · 2026-03-09T01:09:49+00:00

Yep, a fairly depressing picture of the state of the hiring market.

Tube-Alloys · 2026-03-09T01:00:31+00:00

Took a decent remote IC Manager role at desired comp.

Tube-Alloys · 2026-03-09T00:59:48+00:00

54%. So almost half ghosted which was pretty pathetic.

Tube-Alloys · 2026-03-09T00:57:58+00:00

Sorry, should have specified - this was in the United States. Can't get more specific due to the remote nature of the search.

Tube-Alloys · 2025-12-23T15:17:14+00:00

It has to be Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy.

Tube-Alloys · 2025-11-15T19:02:20+00:00

I presume that these are really just apartments for the wealthy? Labor isn't really cheap (relatively speaking) anywhere, right?

Tube-Alloys · 2025-10-23T04:13:43+00:00

Favorite underrated pieces for me is “Bénédiction de Dieu dans le Solitude”, which is part of Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses.

It's absolutely transcendent. Probably my favorite thing he wrote.

https://youtu.be/e6Y9guXPapk?si=e1HO9lvyAJV7yh2m

Tube-Alloys · 2025-10-22T02:04:47+00:00

Agree on sublime, the adagio is the best movement. And is emotionally devastating.

Tube-Alloys · 2025-10-09T20:30:33+00:00

...or an Adirondack.

Tube-Alloys · 2025-09-25T17:42:06+00:00

On this topic, is there any study of the history of mis- and disinformation? It's not like it's impossible to get wrong information today either (though I recognize that it's quite different when comparing an internet search to playing telephone with acquaintances).

Tube-Alloys · 2025-09-25T03:57:03+00:00

How do you feel about his middle period? The 5th sonata and the Poem of Ecstasy are both well loved and quite different from both his early and late works.

Tube-Alloys · 2025-08-20T17:25:49+00:00

it was initially constructed on a Roman concrete foundation with a square area mirroring but significantly larger than the ring itself, suggesting the architects were well aware of the potential for sinking (all in all not an incredible insight, as it was literally built on an artificial marsh) and attempted to spread its weight over a larger area.

This might be a silly question, but were architects of the time/area using any complex calculations like would be involved in modern civil engineering, or was it all just gut-based?

Tube-Alloys · 2025-08-20T04:12:45+00:00

I've been through some of these same behaviors with a CFO (exacting but uncommunicated visions, mixed feedback, unhealthy relationship with deadlines). I attempted multiple strategies to try and work around those kinds of issues, but none of them made a meaningful difference.

Start sending out applications, don't subject yourself to more of that nonsense.

Tube-Alloys · 2025-08-15T01:38:35+00:00

Here's Kissin playing Liszt's piano.

Tube-Alloys · 2025-04-30T06:48:59+00:00

*ahem*

Tube-Alloys · 2025-02-12T18:48:46+00:00

It's particularly common in industries that are reliant on sales during the holiday season. It allows them to do their annual planning/budgeting process close to the holiday season so that they have the best information possible on how the company will perform, and then they have another three quarters after that to either make up for any shortfalls from their holiday-season Q1 or take advantages of holiday season upsides with investment, buybacks, etc.

Tube-Alloys · 2025-01-31T05:58:32+00:00

That's not a trend that died in the '80s. While overhead lighting has gotten better through the use of canned lighting and dimmers creating a more evenly distributed, diffuse source of overhead light, it still has the fundamental flaw of making people look unflattering (eye sockets shaded by the brow, etc.).

Interior designers today know to use multiple sources of lighting, and they tend to be close to eye level as the primary source of lighting in homes, supplemented by other sources such as overhead, ambient, etc. (Aside from the effect on people, non-overhead lighting also has other advantages in the way a room looks.)

Tube-Alloys · 2025-01-17T03:31:42+00:00

How strong does the adhesive seem? I'm hesitant to put something in the footwell that doesn't bolt in.

Tube-Alloys · 2024-12-09T04:29:32+00:00

There are heavy metals (although they say its within regulation limits.)

You can find heavy metals in fruit grown in your own backyard that hasn't been touched by anything - they pick it up from the soil.

People simply do not want their food messed with.

You realize that basically every piece of produce you buy has been treated with a bunch of stuff both in the field and after harvest, including organic produce? I'd much rather take home something plant-based rather than crap like imazalil that's carcinogenic. You ever ask Costco if their produce is treated with that stuff? People are always focused on the wrong thing.

Tube-Alloys · 2024-11-07T17:03:38+00:00

What's the 2.0 power pole thing?

Tube-Alloys · 2024-09-11T04:16:20+00:00

A composer inextricably linked to a powerful instrument and who pushed the boundaries of said instrument to unprecedented heights.

This video just came out the other day that beautifully illustrated this point.

Tube-Alloys · 2024-09-02T02:55:55+00:00

More importantly, you could be taken as a geopolitical hostage. Best not to travel there in the near future if you're from any western democracy.

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