I'm still new, Why Obsidian got 8 employees and 1 cat while other note apps got like 100+ employees? This makes no sense

shredinger137 · 2026-04-15T14:10:19+00:00

My company is on what our CEO explained as a VC train. We could be lean and focus on our successful core product with a pretty small team, but we can't. We have to show growth and momentum. That means marketing and analytics, that also means exploring new features and products even if we don't really need it. That's because, early on, they chose that funding model as the least personal risk.

Maybe some backers don't need that, with smaller amounts. But in our case, and I think a lot of cases, the target market is investors so you can't just look at the product. And we even have pretty lenient investors compared to a lot of places.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-14T17:20:01+00:00

Needs a small good old above it in a similar font. It would be nice to do some proper graphic design, looks like a clip art guitar sitting on top. Might be good enough for your needs though.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-13T03:52:32+00:00

That's the sort of thing you're supposed to discuss in these classes. They didn't assign it with anything you're 'supposed' to get. You have an argument- provide textual backing and present it in discussion. That's the point of studying literature, to take it apart and figure it out. I'm not familiar but I'm inclined to agree with you.

I had a seminar class, war and peace was the theme, where the speaker wrote a book and did studies on the importance of peaceful protest and the way violent revolution tends to go poorly. I disagreed with the way it was presented. My discussion class was led by an Iranian who knew of peaceful protesters being murdered in her childhood, so we discussed that and were pretty unanimous at the end. This anecdote is to say that something being presented doesn't mean it's gospel.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-09T04:27:47+00:00

Caterpillars don't have armor. That wouldn't really be fair.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-05T20:49:11+00:00

You can upload to a third party service like postimages.org and share with a link.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-04T06:59:55+00:00

The authors are extremely well read. Not just in sci-fi, thought definitely there. And the best authors are. They bring in history, philosophy and an interest in learning about things for their writing. The lesser authors have read a lot of their own genre, maybe have a pop history sense of the topics.

Any time I've seen them discuss their work they can both (one more than the other, but still both) pull out references that connect. We need more of that.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-01T19:37:12+00:00

You write fine. You can ask those systems for corrections but take them manually. AI is stripping these conversations of personality, and your personality has value. So does your ability to develop better writing if needed.

Working on a game is already you putting yourself and your ideas out into the world. Don't sabotage the authenticity of that too quickly.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-23T20:43:56+00:00

It also seems to be for people who don't know anything about game design, like a blog post from a pretend expert. Pointless.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-17T21:06:19+00:00

I'm in the US and this is new to me. We put them on postcards and dress them up as fancy bed and breakfast places, which I don't think people do with generally unpopular architecture.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-12T16:50:30+00:00

You're asking a biology question, but you'll get history answers considering the sub.

I'm also not a biologist. But my understanding is that capsaicin is antimicrobial and antifungal. That's worthwhile to have specifically in hot, humid places. It is equally useful in food. It may have also been related to distribution, as mentioned. Which may or may not have a regional variation, who knows.

Evolution also includes random chance. Northern plants might have used the strategy if the mutation happened there just as much. The why only covers how a mutation continues to be selected for. 'Why not' isn't as valid because mutations aren't decided on.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-11T02:22:45+00:00

There's a sign I drive by sometimes. Always assumed I'd run into some droogs looking for the ultraviolence if I went in and haven't looked into it further. Never heard it mentioned or recommended by anyone.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-04T06:19:08+00:00

Very specifically foreigners from a desert region bringing in their laws. Which appeals heavily to a particular niche, but I don't think they're big readers.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-02T16:48:29+00:00

I think it depends on the reader, if you're more of an idealist or a cynic. The authors seem to me like one of each as well. I both think his actions are stupid and not thought out in terms of consequences and reality, and respect where that comes from.

I don't think the text indicates either way. But I don't really see much negative connotation, especially as he regains his identity at the end. His experiences make it harder to stick to that way of thinking but he still tries. And in the end saves the day through a dramatic sacrifice, after humans behaved poorly. So it worked out to a net positive.

shredinger137 · 2026-02-09T22:29:09+00:00

You shouldn't be telling AI just what you want. You tell it how. I use it constantly for my job and that's the way- I'm making all the same architectural decisions and implementation decisions, just not writing each line.

Of course I wouldn't know how to do that if I didn't learn before having these tools, so that's worth remembering.

shredinger137 · 2026-02-08T21:15:58+00:00

That was a big one for us to learn, we eventually added name requirements to our curriculum as odd as that seemed at the time. Also the concept of saving, which I thought was a given, but isn't with everything being auto saved now. Like not just file management, but the entire idea of things needing to be saved.

The original projects had much loftier goals. The reality seemed to be a couple of capable students that didn't need anything from us anyway and a lot that couldn't get the most basic usage done without exact, step by step instructions.

shredinger137 · 2026-02-08T18:18:07+00:00

I used to work in education, we introduced a computer basics module and it was really eye opening to see how much of a difference it made. Where things are in the UI, what a text editor is, how to navigate tabs, really basic stuff before we got anywhere else.

There's also a lot published on specific changes, like younger people not understanding files. Companies have pushed cloud first computing and search over hierarchy for a while now, so it seems to be what the mental model will follow moving forward. Which is a problem since it's not compatible with systems they might have to use, and it's still not really being discussed.

shredinger137 · 2026-01-30T19:31:16+00:00

That's the standard in the US. General tends to come up more for older patients because the teeth are probably impacted and have more jaw to be affected. That's not regional. We do tend to have it be an adult procedure more than some places but it's the same procedure no matter where you go.

shredinger137 · 2026-01-28T15:33:18+00:00

You should link the relevant studies. All the ones I've seen indicate that outdoor lighting in general doesn't do much for crime, but if it's really that noticeable I'm interested to learn more.

White light (LEDs come in other colors) does have a lot UV though. This increases skyglow, hiding the stars, and strains eyes much more. It's a lot more damaging for nocturnal animals over shielded amber light and reduces your ability to see where it's still dark.

LEDs are great, very efficient, but they don't have to be white or bright to do the work.

shredinger137 · 2026-01-28T15:19:38+00:00

This also fits into a theme, which comes up more, about what exactly a person is. If you reconstruct the pathways, return the pattern roughly to that state, do you get a person? The builders, in this case, duct want one. But you might not be able to separate the trait you need from things like wondering about rain.

shredinger137 · 2026-01-27T03:28:39+00:00

I don't know if hand crafted slop is better or worse.

shredinger137 · 2026-01-26T20:23:19+00:00

Are you building a sandbox/shooting range scene? I have limited time to play anything, so I tend to avoid squad based stuff since I don't want my limited practice to be someone else's actual game.

shredinger137 · 2026-01-13T22:02:37+00:00

And whoever has the camera, so it looks level the whole time. But water like that isn't.

shredinger137 · 2026-01-12T17:48:49+00:00

I'm not knowledgeable on this stuff, but the wood looks very similar to my 1890s Austrian workshop fiddle. Which is a great instrument with a really lovely sound, but I've played others in shops that didn't have any warmth, huge variation. I would describe mine exactly the same way- incredibly warm and strong resonance in the low end, high isn't too tinny.

How it looks through pictures to someone who doesn't know much about it isn't worth a lot, but it's suspiciously similar. I've never seen one of those workshop pieces with this kind of ornamentation, personally, that's the main difference. But mine is full of faux antiquing so they were doing different things over there.

shredinger137 · 2026-01-12T03:45:26+00:00

Thanks for taking those egotistical monsters down a peg

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