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You sound like a manager.


Workday is a hostile environment for applicants. Perhaps that is intended.


If the domain of easy applications is automated entries and copy paste, then Workday is indeed the desired tooling. LinkedIn Easy Apply serves the applicant, but I can't imagine any recruiter loves it.


Strangely, the most comfortable I've felt with symbols was when learning quantum computing. At the time, there was no established standard (perhaps it has a standard now), but the symbols were used more intuitively than any other math class I've taken.


I'm not sure if that helps, but you can switch to various fruits like kiwis, blueberries and blackberries instead of processed food. It can help you modulate your habit of eating while working.


It is not the vocoder but the guitar riff that sounds like robot rock.


The “guitar” is actually a synth with guitar pedals, and yes the effect is from a vocoder. Linked in the wiki: https://web.archive.org/web/20080221104737/http://www.thedaf...


The tone I'm referring to is the alternation between F#3 and F#4. I think your observation about the Shepard tone is valid. For the talking piano effect, I remember trying to play it on guitar to make it sound like "Robot Rock". I suspect this is in relation to Tethard's example of accentuation by spectral contrast, but that was a long shot to include.

Well, the audio area is full of masters and experts. I make no claim to be an expert, so you can ignore this writing as you prefer.


You are right. That part seems a little bit vague, I will update it.


"Manifacturing Consent" is a book written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. They discuss the propaganda model of communication in much broader sense.


Don't forget about

> "The Engineering of Consent" is an essay by Edward Bernays first published in 1947,


"Inventing Reality" by Michael Parenti is another book on the subject.


barthes mythologies


The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord


Simulacra and Simulation. And other works by Jean Baudrillard. His philosophy focuses on the unreal nature of contemporary culture due to mass communication and mass consumption.


“Crystallizing Public Opinion” (1923) is another important Bernays text.


And he surely knows what he is talking about.


The Century of Self is a BBC documentary about Bernays and his propaganda models. It's quite good and available on yt.


Watch everything by Adam Curtis. Century of the Self, The Trap and The Power of Nightmares specifically.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193231/


Suspiciously absent from every streaming service over here. But at least Century of the Self has been uploaded to Youtube.


"Die vierte Gewalt – Wie Mehrheitsmeinung gemacht wird, auch wenn sie keine ist"

https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/richard-david-precht-hara...


Richard David Precht is a poor caricature of a French public intellectual figure and loves to create outrage to stay relevant. He lives off the same mainstream media that he criticizes.


Precht doesn't seem particularly French to me. He is a solid craftsman. I associate French intellectuals more with esprit and a certain craziness.

His earlier books had a slightly penetrating American style, popular science peppered with human interest stories.

Precht, however, is willing to make himself unpopular, but he is also one of the few intellectuals who can afford to do so. Many media workers probably don't like to read how strong the pressure to conform is, they prefer to suppress that.


I hope there will be a mobile version too at some point.


I'd especially be interested in seeing how they implement on iOS, with Apple considering opening up options beyond WebKit:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...


Both Chrome and Firefox are working on native iOS versions in preperation for the expected opening up of iOS this year so would imagine they can just fork that and release their version.


I'm not sure if it's the same org behind it, but there is a Mull browser available on F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/


It's not. Mull browser is a Fennec fork [0] maintained by DivestOS [1] (Android ROM).

[0]: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

[1]: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile


I evaluated ChatGPT on Winogrande Debiased validation set[1], a dataset focused on commonsense reasoning. ChatGPT has an accuracy of 62.75%, below GPT-3's reported accuracy of 77.7%.

https://github.com/ugorsahin/Winogrande_ChatGPT


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