Similar to other commenters I disagree. You can definitely read without parsing and just “move on”.
Or accept a superficial understanding and fail to see the deeper point. Philosophy might be a good domain to see this happen with - read the words but don’t parse the meaning.
> Similar to other commenters I disagree. You can definitely read without parsing and just “move on”.
What do you disagree with? Nobody said that reading makes you immune to moving on without understanding.
What they said was that while reading it is possible to pause if you don't understand something and move on when you are ready to move on. That's harder to do in videos or lectures. Do you disagree with this?
I should have been more careful with my phrasing. What I meant is I am much more aware of my own understanding, gaps and shortcomings and more actively involved in learning and processing information when I am reading. And I honestly cannot think of even consuming certain books with audio medium. As I commented elsewhere, "Gravity's rainbow" is one such book, in which for me, even a single page cannot be consumed using audio medium.
Fair, but not on the same “something else” so Trump still had the majority share.
I guess I’m more surprised by the low voter turnout. If you voted for Trump or didn’t vote at all, you are partly responsible for the mess being created lol.
Choosing not to pick a side is a choice in itself - not the absence of choice.
Long time coming. The only one in my social group who still used it was my wife - and just for the function to call regular phones. Calling family in the US/MX from EU was pretty cheap with the Skype credit option.
It also seems like all integrations that use Slack webhooks are working. But the ones which are like a dedicated app are failing with the same `fatal_error` message.
Maybe not a super popular opinion on HN, but this effectively changes nothing for me. I love reading on my kindle, by far the most convenient way to buy and read books for me (esp when traveling often).
It’s good that they are now being upfront about it, but it won’t impact my buying behaviour and it won’t for the majority of readers.
My daughter will grow up with direct access to my entire library of books and all other media, and I'm beginning to think (assuming we have any kind of future beyond current and future crises) that's going to be an enormous advantage for her.
It's not that easy on the latest versions at least through Calibre where there's a very common issue that if your Kindle is connected to wifi it will remove side-loaded books (through a "bug" or something else). There's more info on that issue in many threads like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1g7yt0r/psa_the_ne...
And even before that Amazon had The Man in the High Castle, which seemed like an edgy exercise in displaying Nazism more than anything else. You could tell there was some sci-fi plot there but the adaptation merely just touched on it. New Bond is likely to be joining Spectre.io and helping put down rebellions in colonized lands. Perhaps even helping the Russians/Chinese undermine the EU, working with a Leiter who avoided "rightsizing" and was promoted four levels by pledging loyalty to the Party.
Sounds more like the author just had bad experiences with non fiction? There are plenty of non fiction books which are good and where the book doesn’t just feel like filler. Some that come to mind quickly :
There's non-fiction (historical accounts and pop-sci explainers) and there's non-fiction (here's how you ought to behave.)
Obviously SPQR, but also Bad Blood is a historical account, and it's interesting.
Most business books are of the "here's how you ought to behave" variety. Most of these were written to win the author consulting gigs. The vast majority are formulaic and bland. Also, to hit a publisher's wordcount/shelf-space targets, they're always heavily padded. 99.9% of them would be better off in much more concise bullet-point format.
Of course there are a lot of edge cases and books that don't fit neatly into any category. And there are some books, like the Hagakure, Meditations, and the Bible itself, which started off as clear-cut examples of "here's how you ought to behave" but later became historically important.
He's not talking about books like that, I think he's talking about things pop sci and management books, but struggled with a way to describe only those books and not anything else that falls under the broad hemisphere of non-fiction. You could say that he's begging the question ("books I think are the problem are, in fact, the problem") but I immediately felt I knew the kind of book he meant, so I was not confused by it.
He's talking about how these books are padded with unnecessary filler material because people expect a nonfiction book to be a certain number of pages.
He's not saying that all non fiction is bad, just that the incentives are misaligned, and to be fair at least in my experience, there are a lot of popular non-fiction books where each chapter is repetitive, and I feel the whole thing could have been written in 2-3 chapters, if publishing a 30-page nonfiction book wasn't taboo
A good example is "the subtle art of not giving a fuck". It's a book where the author rediscovers stoicism, badly, hidden within a chapter where they use "fuck" a lot. Reading any amount of say Seneca will be better, but Seneca is terse and dead for more than 70 or so years, which isn't a very good business case.
I just wish he had applied a little bit of curation to his research before he put them on the page. Insight into the way the design team worked together is fascinating; recitation of cafeteria menu pricing is not.
No, text is not fake in the same vein. The whole point of deepfakes is that they're images of real people in situations they were not in. Unless you're actively claiming that some victim wrote the text, it's not similar.
Mh fair point. I guess the terminology / actual use of the words will evolve over time as AI becomes ever more prevalent. I'll probably have the deepfake - image/video connotation for some time.
Or accept a superficial understanding and fail to see the deeper point. Philosophy might be a good domain to see this happen with - read the words but don’t parse the meaning.