Yeah, this can be confusing. This is referring to the "growl" effect in complete vocal technique. Imagine Christina Aguilera making a dramatic car engine growl when you kick down the gas pedal. I think this is roughly what this is about.
I wondered about the same thing. Not an answer, but my guess would be that it's just a new package and they hoped someone picked it up by accident?
In that case, it was patched with malware :)
By experiencing the sheer existential horror that Nietzsche and others spoke of and coming out of it knowing the only way out is through. There is nothing to lean on. You decide you start caring and it will happen.
For me, the metric is one of empathy: would I want someone else to suffer through what I just suffered through? No? Do I have any influence over that outcome?
The Serenity Prayer is very real to me. So is "be the change you want to see in the world"
You have a multitude of things to measure in breathing air.
For each you can establish thresholds for safe levels through the scientific method with evidence.
Likely there is a transition area, but also regions with a very high likelihood of being unhealthy.
If any of these measures is "in the red", your air is unhealthy.
Why? Here is a model that would make sense: your body is capable of clearing x ug/day and anything over that causes inflammation. Well then stay below that level and it is
As with most things, even if there is no "magic point," you need to draw the line somewhere as accurately as you can, or you'll be trapped in pedantic bickering and inaction forever.
Drawing an arbitrary line where none logically should exist is the cause of, not the solution to, pedantic bickering and inaction. You're going to get a lot more people to agree "pollution should be lower" than "this is a good amount of pollution."
Which probably doesn't reflect the real costs of extracting, processing and discarding resources and their effect on humans, life and nature very well.
I used to love the Discovery Weekly list as well. But since a couple of years, my account recommendations went into some strange niche solution and they recommend the same rubbish over and over again.
I even get annoyed at certain genres that I used to mildly enjoy before.
If you try to look for a solution, apparently the only way is to cancel the subscription, delete the account, resubscribe and start over ...
I wish there was a way to reset the "intelligent" recommendations for an existing account.
The only workaround I found: put a couple of similar and interesting songs into a playlist and let Spotify continue with recommendations.
I've heard that their algorithm now prioritizes lower licensing cost songs even if their algos rank them as a lower possible match for you. It also seems like their curated playlists prioritize lower quality songs now too, so I try to find better user generated ones.
Why does everything go from good to the lowest mediocrity companies can get away with?
This has always been the problem with Spotify for years but I guess it got worse and more blatant now. There has never been any incentive for the platform to be recommendations neutral and nowhere did they specify how they treat songs and labels from different artists.
Whats particularly egregious with Spotify is that their recommended method of improving your recommendations is to just "listen more to things you like". It's so disingenuous.
Literally: they keep recommending variations of the same song over and over. And if I'm not mistaken, not even variations, but the same song over and over.
Each time I mark it as "remove".
I visit my Discover Weekly about once a month because there's almost never anything of value in there. I'd find more gems with a random list of 30 songs.
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.[2][3]
— Melvin E. Conway
The problem isn't necessarily software itself, but how we organize people (more than 2 or 3), how we communicate, how we mirror operations, expectations, etc. in software.
Scaling sustainable software feels like an "unsolved" Problem, because the society hasn't figured out how to organize better.
Small teams can be super productive, but unless the people in it are there for the full run of a product, you'll end up with a problem; taking over the work for one developer will take more than one developer.
I'm sure - but haven't witnessed this myself yet, so take it with a grain of salt - that if one productive developer builds an application in a year, it needs a team of 5-10 to continue development at a similar level, and even then it may not make it.
Companies need to focus on keeping software as simple as possible, well documented, and transferable. Unfortunately this also means curbing people's enthousiasm.
How do you apply the mind-shift to projects where you have to finish something in order to advance? I have a couple of songs here that need mixing, but since they entered my to-do list, they are in procrastination realm ...
But sometimes the thing you like is mostly about doing the thing and leaves little room for playing.
Hubbles pictures were probably new to you, so in a sense this is "just" an iteration.
I think you just had the perspective/expectation that this will be new as well. Maybe a bit much for the very first public results of a scientific experiment.
Not growl as in death metal vocals.