Slow_Hand

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by Slow_Hand 5mo ago
Reading the discussion in these comments I have the exact same thought about parallels with hi-fi enthusiasts. Then I saw your comment. 100% agree. The person I really want to hear from about brewing coffee is a chef. Someone who probably d
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by Slow_Hand 5mo ago
As a cyclist and a driver it’s not immediately apparent which Waymo behavior I prefer for passenger dropoffs/pickups. While it’s annoying in the moment to pedal around a parked car, I’m fine with it. However, having a Waymo dropping of
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
I disagree, as someone who doesn't practice any religious faith. The fact is, many people in AA and related programs do have faith, and the program is wise to engage with it and help those people orient themselves in a way that compl
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
Few things are as satisfying to me as seeing a musical idea realized and executed well. It is immensely fun to write, play, and record with friends. In a good session there's usually a moment where something falls into place and sudden
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
I hear people complain about laptop ergonomics all of the time and I don't understand it. I have zero issues with either of my Macbooks. I can go for hours and not be fatigued. If I have it in my lap, the outer ball of each wrist is re
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
It sounds to me like you and parent poster are in agreement in all but wording. But okay. Let's rephrase: "The current administration is hard for white collar crime."
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
This piece is fine but one of the sections, entitled 'Why people lie about it' includes this line: > If you’re selling a travel writing course, a mentoring program, a mastermind group, or a book about how to break into this com
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
Nice word. I rue the day the IG reels crowd pick up on it and it becomes the "word du jour" that gets overused to the point of being intolerable. Right up there with "narcissist" and "gaslighting".
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
Yes. Put another way: Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. And as my music professor once said: "If you sound good while practicing, then you're not practicing."
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
Cool idea! I've got a few thoughts for features, if you're open to them: 1. Ability to specify where your "played" voice resides in the voicing: As the bass note, as an inner voice, or as the top line. 2. Options for fir
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
If someone wanted to start making computer music I'm not sure I'd recommend this or Curtis Roads' book as a starting point. These aren't resources for getting started. They're more like encyclopedias for learning
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
In short: Not really. As another commenter below has said, "mathematics might be a useful way to understand music", but it's not how compelling music is made. Mathematics are fundamental to scales and the harmonic series, and
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
Not in my experience. The mastering engineers I know and work with care deeply about fidelity to the original work and not "crushing the baby". Not to say it can't happen, but it's rare for an album of any consequence to
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
You raise an interesting question. How do we keep the meanings of words from diverging so dramatically and so rapidly? A little bit is natural and expected, but this kind of change in meaning feels like a consequence of a culture that in th
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
Reminds me of this old article from The Onion: Phantom Diner Appears Only To Those In Their Drunkest Hour https://theonion.com/phantom-diner-appears-only-to-those-in-...
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by Slow_Hand 6mo ago
The thing about mastering is that unless you're a part of the production team and get to hear the before/after you'll almost never know what the mastering engineer's contribution actually was. Done well, their role is in
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
It’s not so simple. Today “loudness” is an aesthetic choice and good mixers and producers know how to craft a record that is both loud and of good sonic quality. There is a place for both dynamic records (in the sense of classical or old ja
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
I'd liken playing multiple instruments to coding in multiple languages. There's a baseline understanding of the fundamentals that is necessary to overcome in the beginning, but once you get confident with them they transfer across
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
I pedicabbed for five years, and the job is very much what you put into it. You can be passive and low-effort, or you can be active and hustle rides by chatting up strangers. My roommate could squeeze blood from a stone when it came to pers
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
As a pedicabber of five years this is solid advice. Negotiate before you depart. I always made it a point to get buy-in from my passengers before we took off. Nobody wants to be surprised. What many people don't understand is that pedi
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
I haven't yet read the essay, but I will jump at the opportunity to share my experiences working as a pedicab driver in Austin, TX for 5 years: Pedicabbing is one of the most satisfying, fun, and rewarding jobs that I've ever had
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
Could be! I don't know enough to say what the ratio of exhaust to tire particulate is on the average road. In either case it's a good physical representation of how much particulate we are exposed to every day. Maybe having it tra
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
I have a tangential question. Do you find that snow banks near roads are appreciably less black and disgusting now that there are fewer ICE vehicles on the road? Growing up in America I have memories of our roadside snowbanks becoming black
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
Really, I’m surprised that for all of the discussions on HN around these individual statewide acts that I see so little discussion of Meta as a primary force pushing them.
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
If I’m not mistaken, Meta has been lobbying heavily for all of these age-verification bills lately. It seems their strategy is to externalize their responsibility to verify age themselves, and thus reduce their exposure to liabilities when
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
Agreed. I want my h1’s to be larger than my h2’s. That visual distinction is how I parse data faster. Flat markdown with no formatting feels like it’s missing the point of Markdown. And are they really proposing that we ought to read itali
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
Yeah. It remains an open question if they'll be a net positive in the end. If they end up being helpful, good. And if they end up being mostly a waste of our time, then we'll go back to where we were. More or less. It seems like t
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
For the first time this year (and nearing 40) I'm teaching myself web development and learning to code - and I love it. I like the problem solving, and the creativity, and having the facility to build things for myself. The threat of L
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by Slow_Hand 7mo ago
I guess I’ll risk it anyway.

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