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simplicity, peace of mind


  Yes. BankGPT uses bank-grade encryption, access controls, and compliance with global data standards (GDPR, SOC 2, etc.) to ensure sensitive financial data is fully protected.
Just a minor point perhaps, but I don’t think I want to see the phrase “et cetera” in a FAQ answer about security. Especially when it comes to financial docs…


I had this very thought recently at a concert. Tickets were $20, great. A clever shirt that ripped off an Office joke with the band’s name plastered on the front was $35. The music wasn’t very good, and they were playing a recorded bass track. I wonder where the band focused their effort?


Vividness can be modified easily by adjusting the contrast, changing the black/white point, or changing the color temperature of an image.


Great read. In a similar (but not identical) vein, I have been reading "Leisure: The Basis of Culture" (1952) by Josef Pieper, which discusses the concept of "total work" - where every activity of the modern worker's day is either work, or in service of work. Even "leisure" activities are pondered in terms of how maximally leisurely they are, and how much they refresh the worker to prepare for the work week again.

"Leisure" is different from "idleness", as Pieper expands upon early in the book. I'm still only partway through the book, and am not sure I fully understand this difference yet, but I think Bertrand Russell's article shared here is a helpful piece that might get me there.

Leisure, it seems, is a more enlightened and intentional state than idleness, and one is permitted to conduct work-like activities while in a leisurely state, from what I understand. But then this seems to break down as leisure is supposed to be defined as independent of the concept of work. If two individuals are doing the same task, and it appears from the outside to be work, but one is doing it with a "leisurely" state of mind, then is only one of them actually doing work? It appears to be the case, from my reading so far.

I was first introduced to the concept of "total work" by Andrew Taggart's excellent article "The Secret to Office Happiness Isn't Working Less - it's Caring Less" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170810035800/https://qz.com/10...).

Are there any other related works on the concepts of "total work", "leisure", or "idleness" that people would recommend here?


I have never read whatever farmers write, but I am almost certain it is miles better than the average tech writing drivel


I recommend starting with Wendell Berry


I want to do this too, and have a feeling that it's not as hard or time-consuming as it seems. 15 years ago, all my music lived in a /Music folder and I could play anything in there, instantly. It should be easy to just move that folder to a networked drive, get some sort of mp3 player app on my phone/devices, and point it at that folder. If the app is allowed to download files as well, that's even better. Otherwise, plugging in my phone/mp3 player and uploading songs manually was never particularly difficult, even back then.

If I remember correctly, all my playlists were really just text files used by Windows Media Player or iTunes, so it should be easy to support that type of functionality as well.


You can more or less do this with apps that will stream your library off Google Drive. The one I tried demanded permissions to read everything in my Google Drive which seemed too dangerous, but if you had a separate cloud drive somewhere you could set it up pretty easily.


I believe it's too risky to have DMCA-able content in Google Drive.


Maybe, though I will point out that Google did/does offer this as a service:

https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9716522?hl=en


The VLC app can read and play from networked drives, at least on my iPad.


Run a DLNA server and you client options grow.


Sheesh, I liked it. It turned some research that may have been otherwise inaccessible or difficult to understand, and expanded it’s reach.


I also liked it!

Since it's based on a research data set, I'm sure someone has written some "normal f###ing prose" about it somewhere on the web.

A search for "Candor corpus" yields some results, although none of it looks like what @pwdisswordfishz is looking for?


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Location: Denver, CO

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: python, django, docker, git, postgres, react, next.js, gatsby, typescript, jQuery, vanilla javascript, objectstore (nosql db), prisma ORM, graphql, bash/zsh, github actions, amazon web services (AWS), digitalocean, go, mqtt (mosquitto), R, matlab

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/AshwinSundar/resume/blob/main/resume.md

Email: [email protected]

Seeking: Part-time contracting work (25%-75%)

Target billing rate: $125-$150/hour

About: Full-stack developer with a master's degree in biomedical engineering. Polyglot technologist, with a focus on Python and Django development. Wide variety of professional experience to draw from. Am currently launching a startup (while working a full-time job as a Sr SWE) - I'd like more time to spend on the startup, while continuing to pay my bills. Thus the desire for part-time contracting work.


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