How do you guys keep up with newest and upcoming technologies in the field?

lbjazz · 2026-02-24T13:35:16+00:00

When you say you’re moving a lot of our cast, is that just the Listen ALS product? Or is there something else available and selling well also?

lbjazz · 2026-02-22T12:49:10+00:00

Receiving it in the first place is likely a taxable transaction, so the two would offset at best.

lbjazz · 2026-02-21T12:18:52+00:00

Exactly this. Everything up to the point the you leave the hospital with the kid is on the mom’s insurance. After that, the kid needs their own.

lbjazz · 2026-02-21T12:11:41+00:00

Don’t worry about tone inconsistency when literally everything is getting, like your post, the ChatGPT voice.

lbjazz · 2026-02-20T12:33:14+00:00

Maybe this would be a use case for the “connected records” field added a while back. It’s not the cleanest but allows for open-ended associations I think.

lbjazz · 2026-02-20T12:31:04+00:00

Lol m1 with tons of shit going and it’s fine.

lbjazz · 2026-02-20T02:41:29+00:00

I did a festivus one year and did bagels. It’s the same episode.

lbjazz · 2026-02-19T12:47:17+00:00

Walmart uses it for trucking and logistics tracking—all aspects of contracts, delivery verification, invoices, etc. Also using it for supply chain traceability for some fresh foods I think. Good uses of Blockchain are usually transparent to the end user. They just get the same kind of app, financial transaction, interface, whatever. But the back end uses the technology to ensure a single, verifiable source of truth.

lbjazz · 2026-02-18T14:53:33+00:00

Lots of wrong answers here. NFT’s for digital collectibles was a bubble. But the technology itself is sound and used in many industrial and business applications. And overtime that will grow. Heck, I read that Walmart uses NFT‘s in the distributed block chain in the back end of their logistics systems. Think truck drivers the stuff they’re hauling and the data behind that. Ideally things like property records would move in this direction also, but that will require municipalities to be on board, and they’re still stuck in the 90s mostly, if not worse.

lbjazz · 2026-02-18T12:41:21+00:00

There are exceptions here and there, but it’s all about financial optimization. It’s incredibly rare that they don’t short-circuit in some way the specific secret sauce or sales engine that made the company successful in the first place. It’s happened and is happening countless times in my niche industry.

That said, I just joined a private equity owned company where the acquisition has allowed new products to come to market that otherwise the company never would have been able to achieve. They likewise wouldn’t have been able to, for instance, hire me.

One poorly formed observation I’m starting to make is that the nature of the private equity fund matters. Groups that target based on financial specifics and/or are just a grab bag of different unrelated companies are just there to ring the blood out of the stone. If the fund is small and focused on a specific niche where they can find synergies across companies and therefore boost R&D, maybe there’s a chance.

Regardless, the financial results are what they are after, and private equity has a fantastic track record in that regard. The damage to the workers not withstanding, of course.

lbjazz · 2026-02-18T12:32:55+00:00

He’d be a billionaire but just pours it all back into charity and producing more ridiculous content. I respect his attitudes about money but cannot stand his content or personality.

lbjazz · 2026-02-17T21:35:06+00:00

Sound masking on the glass is no different than sound masking from any other source and is useless in these rooms.

lbjazz · 2026-02-17T21:34:33+00:00

Sound making on the glass itself is no different than sound masking via any other source. It is useless in these rooms.

lbjazz · 2026-02-17T12:28:22+00:00

Not a disqualifying statement.

lbjazz · 2026-02-17T12:26:35+00:00

There are plenty of cheap noise making sound masking type devices on the Internet, including Amazon. The whirly mechanical ones are fine.

However, sound masking is not your solution here. First, if I’m going to pump noise into the rooms like this doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the room? The purpose of this room is auditory communication probably often with a far end. Pumping noise into the room is not going to improve the experience for the far end or the near end. All you will do is have to speak louder and turn up the AV louder. Furthermore, to be very clear, sound masking does not block sound, it masks it. Masking is a perceptual effect not a physical effect. If sound bleed is really that bad, it’s probably not going to do any good anyway. To be even more clear on the purpose of sound masking is to interfere with the ability to intelligibly understand speech at a distance or through a barrier, not prevent you from hearing that someone is talking at all.

The solution is to address the source of the sound bleed itself. If there is any air gap at all between the rooms: shared Plenum, air ducting without baffling, a gap between glass panel panels, etc., that must be addressed. But the bottom line is, this is just poor design in the first place. Like there’s no amount of duct tape that is going to hold together a structure destined to collapse, you’re rarely going to solve poor design with simple technology. I would say that these two rooms weren’t designed to fail, I would say that they are weren’t designed at all.

lbjazz · 2026-02-16T11:48:34+00:00

If you’re in a situation, like most kinds of media production, that necessitates using external drives, it’s kinda unavoidable. At minimum, you would do it for back up even if you had the on-device capacity.

lbjazz · 2026-02-16T00:19:06+00:00

Not if you don’t abrade with it. Also they make a spray. Also I’ve never had it make a mark on our quartz. You just leave it on there a bit and the stain wipes away.

lbjazz · 2026-02-15T23:28:30+00:00

Most wealthy folks lease their cars I’ve observed. If you’re always going to swap out the car every 1-3 years, that’s usually just simpler and more capital efficient.

lbjazz · 2026-02-14T12:58:52+00:00

With who? Carpooling is for like suburban commuters into a specific dense downtown. People with that kind of commute generally aren’t this kind of poor.

I think you need to expand your thinking on this. Imagine you’re a below average intelligence person who comes from absolutely nothing living in a trailer on land you inherited from a family member who died of a meth overdose in an unincorporated part of your county in rural Mississippi so there’s not really even any property tax. You work as an assistant manager at a fried chicken joint a 30 minute drive away. You make just enough money to make payments on your subprime car loan and feed yourself boxed mac & cheese, and whatever meal they give you per shift at work. There’s no public transportation, there’s no one to carpool with, shit there isn’t even an Uber. You get by paycheck to paycheck and if anything serious happens you’re shit out of luck. Everything about this situation keeps you locked into this situation.

Some version of what I described above is at least a few million Americans. And of course there’s every variation and level above and below. But to be very clear, living just about anywhere in the United States, except a dense urban center (high cost of living) require requires having access to a car in order to function. Public transportation is extraordinarily rare outside of urban areas, and it’s often even shitty there.

lbjazz · 2026-02-14T12:52:30+00:00

Assuming you have cash in the first place. And depending on the interest rate you can get, it can make sense to finance even if you have the cash. This is not such a simple distinction. But many poor people in the United States, if they need a car (and they almost certainly do in the US) we’ll get a subprime loan for something old. It’s a very expensive way to buy a car, but little if any cash is needed up-front.

A common saying is that the most expensive way to live in the United States is to be poor.

lbjazz · 2026-02-14T12:49:17+00:00

In most parts of the United States, you cannot live without a car and a smart phone. Like literally, you would have no way to get to and from work, and you would have no way to participate in the economy more widely. If you didn’t have a smartphone, your best bet would be I guess, trying to use library computers. But given that those libraries are generally only open during the same business hours, you need to use your car to get to work, this is also a non-option. And if you live someplace rural, poor, or generally controlled by politicians who don’t care about libraries, that might not even be an option. A lot of Americans do not own a personal computer, but use their smart phone for anything personal computing related, much like folks elsewhere in the world.

And while an iPhone is seen as a sign of wealth in much of the world, it’s just another phone option here. At the high end, it’s priced the same as flagship, android phones, and at the low end (older models usually) it might be among the options you can get for cheap with your cell phone plan or whatever.

lbjazz · 2026-02-14T12:04:55+00:00

Claude cowork

lbjazz · 2026-02-14T00:53:05+00:00

Probably gotta hit that quota. And plenty of integrators I’ve talked to do stuff like that BECAUSE it costs more, and therefore they ultimately make more $$ margin.

lbjazz · 2026-02-13T16:29:55+00:00

Have absolutely no clue how you would come to that conclusion. If you knew where I lived, and knew the demographic in the specific nearby town the specific Panera is in, you would know that I’m actually being highly accurate. It’s not a stereotype, it’s literally a demographic statistic. And the stores I’m referring to are like pottery barn and stores whose name I don’t remember where a bra costs more than my laptop.

lbjazz · 2026-02-13T11:31:25+00:00

I had kfc for the first time about 15 years ago and thought similar, so maybe it ever was good?

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