whatever you do, don't quit your job to start a business thinking that will give you freedom and autonomy. if you believe you are called to make art, in whatever form, you have a moral obligation to make that art. aka find a boring corporate job where you can slack hella hard and work on your craft during company time.

also don't expect your art to pay your rent, because then your work will follow the market and it will suck. your spirit will suffer, too.

imagine finding this painful to read because it doesn't describe your world

can't stand not seeing what exactly an ai agent is doing on my machine

idk maybe you should try curiously reading about the experiences of other people rather than belittling them/projecting your insecurities onto them. these people are earnestly sharing their experiences, including anecdotes about how they struggle to relate in small talk with non-entrepreneuers, and here you are ironically unable to relate, proving the point. in a comically toxic manner.

lol i just bought this same clock cuz it was cheap and had no tech except the clock

i've written a novel's worth of words. yikes! ps, game of thrones is not a good comparison. a literary agent is more likely to take your novel seriously if you have more than 50k words

Wait, have I not written about why I picked game of thrones for good comparison? I feel deja-vu lol.

So the reason why I picked Game of thrones is that you can see my github username (SerJaimeLannister)?

Why'd you may ask? Because I had given some minor exam and was in my brother's dorm room. They started watching game of thrones. I started watching from s4. When I came home, I binge watched s4-s7.

I later, wanted a github username (my last one was lost as I was using keepassxc and that archlinux distro got wiped by me back then [I was still learning])

Actually lost my name@proton.me and many other good additions. Oh well, Anyways it was around this time that I ended up wanting a new github account as I lost complete access to previous one. And the story overlapped with previous and I always wanted some nice name so ended up deciding on serjaimelannister.

So Actually the AI suggested something like harry potter or something and I only wanted to compare to novel because I said in one of my previous comments that I may have written enough to write a novel (you can actually read that on HN when I got the idea)

But I thought the opportunity of using game of thrones when my name's literally ser jaime lannister was quite good :D

also after making github account,Then later watched s1-s2-ish. Still haven't watched s3 tho. No spoilers tho xD!

Supposedly the latest trend deciding what novels get accepted by literary agents isn't the total number of words in the book, it's the total number of words in each chapter. They're getting much more strict about wanting chapters that are 1250-1500 words.

The reason is audiobooks: Having shorter chapters is a better user experience and audiobooks are really hot (money makers) right now.

This is just an anecdote though. I'm not an expert (only wrote one novel and my chapters were like ~2,500-3,500 words).

my comment was based on what i heard directly from a literary agent in november (also an anecdote). as a debut, my book needs to be 15k words longer in order for it to be worth the publicists time. because it needs to sell for enough so they get their time investment. which means, short novels don't sell enough for it to be worth an agent's time.

unless i found the right indie press or self-publish or already had a big platform.

*worth the agent's time

i did this and it made for a horrible travel UX. leaving the house and you have to pack up an entire bag in case you might need to take a picture, write an observation, record an interesting noise, wayfind with a gps, etc

and you might have to think about and be conscious of the many things...

like when would you need to take a picture, write an observation, record an interesting noise, wayfind with a gps?

How often do you need to do these things? Is this current trip likely to turn into one of these trips, or is it a grocery run (granted you might want photos on a grocery run).

Can you be specific about what made this horrible?

And yet, there's a lot more deliberate-ness behind it. I can understand the appeal. But I don't do photography or writing so most of this would be wasted on me.

i encourage you to go out in the world with a notebook or camera with the express goal of writing/photoing observations. it might make you see the world in a slightly new way.

dunno where you're located, but 32k for sewage and water doesn't seem that terribly expensive if you compare what it would cost for each house to dig a well and install a septic system.

> This is all wonderful and all but what happens when these tools aren't available - you lose internet connection or the agent is misconfigured or you simply ran out of credits.

i would work on the hundreds of non-coding tasks that i need to do. or just not work?

what do you do when github actions goes down?

Don't rely solely on github actions?

it's only an example for a rhetorical question

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