SoleilAbsolu

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by SoleilAbsolu 6mo ago
Let's commission Alan Smithee to make the documentary! ;-) I've definitely noticed a huge increase in tangential slop when I've made the mistake of searching for books on Amazon in the last year.
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by SoleilAbsolu 6mo ago
I experience the same, I feel like it has something to do with the content of a book having a permanent spatial configuration.
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by SoleilAbsolu 6mo ago
Wow, this is very cool, I have been looking for the Phish show at Lounge Ax from November 1990 (opening for Alex Chilton of Big Star) for ages. It was first time I saw them live, and next time they came around they graduated from a 300 pers
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by SoleilAbsolu 6mo ago
Me too, as soon as I saw this I put on my Anker Soundcore noise-cancelling earbuds and fired up my AAS Multiphonics CV-3 software synthesizer. Sweeping a sine oscillator, there was zero difference in perceived volume in the 750-780 Hz range
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by SoleilAbsolu 6mo ago
Actually appears to be 2 concentric whole-tone rings, not chromatic.
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by SoleilAbsolu 6mo ago
A couple of other user-hostile Adobe practices I've encountered: - About 5 years ago I pretty much shat a brick as the person in charge of IT at a healthcare org when I discovered that by default Creative Cloud stored copies of any do
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by SoleilAbsolu 6mo ago
If MINASWAN... WTFIDHHSAFA???
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by SoleilAbsolu 7mo ago
This was part of the plot of an Elementary (modern-day Sherlock Holmes in NYC with Jonny Lee Miller & Lucy Liu) episode called Sand Trap. https://cbselementary.fandom.com/wiki/Sand_Trap#Plot
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by SoleilAbsolu 7mo ago
I will have to check that out! I also recommend reading pretty much anything by Richard Hamming, who worked closely with Shannon at Bell Labs, "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" is especially good.
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by SoleilAbsolu 7mo ago
Agreed regarding the audibility of (data-) compressed audio, just put on some classic jazz with trumpets and lots of cymbals and the artifacts are immediately apparent. Not going to argue with you regarding dynamic compression, but after ba
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by SoleilAbsolu 7mo ago
FWIW, my experience doing this process for a ~130 person org last year was pretty painless compared to other Domain Claims I've initiated for other SAAS vendors (Docusign in particular), and MDM nightmares (expired JAMF certificates, I
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by SoleilAbsolu 7mo ago
I'm in publicly funded mental health...federal cuts are starting to cause states & counties to either immediately slash what CBOs thought was solid funding for essential services, or to let us/them know to expect significant c
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by SoleilAbsolu 7mo ago
Great points - a Little Library near me has become more of a dumping ground than it used to be because when they re-did it, they replaced the clear plastic window with a frosted/corrugated plastic (you can't see what's in it
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by SoleilAbsolu 8mo ago
??? Hendrix was a working musician who paid his dues on the chitlin' circuit with artists like The Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Ike & Tina Turner, and Sam Cooke before making it on his own. AFAIK those are pretty high-pressure a
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by SoleilAbsolu 8mo ago
I run IT for a nonprofit and have 120 "real users" doing "real work" on "low-end machines "providing "real mental health, foster care, and social services" to "real communities". These worke
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by SoleilAbsolu 8mo ago
If this runs on the CLI, the system prompt should be "What do you want me to do?"
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by SoleilAbsolu 8mo ago
I'm in the middle of reading "All and Everything" and had the exact same thought!
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by SoleilAbsolu 8mo ago
Well there is Brian May, guitarist from Queen, who finished his astrophysics PhD in 2007 but he is probably an outlier!
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
He's kind of on the 3rd or 4th act of his career...I think he started on sports, really made his name in music/pop culture, moved on to be New York Times Ethicist for a while (!) and is back to sports. IMO he asked good occasional
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
I'm sure piracy has an impact, but they are already targeting hobby musicians with all the soundpacks that can run on Kontakt Player or Reaktor Player and lite versions of Traktor. I think it's more due to things like - the brilli
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Once they're done, shouldn't they be called "stopdowns"?
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Erlang fault-tolerance FTW! ;-)
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Fare thee well Bob! What a life in music.
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
I felt that Textile was the superior Sony Betamax to Markdown's VHS. Also, IME any no-coders I've known get freaked out by Markdown and always chose to use a rich text editor instead.
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Elton John wrote a song about that!
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Yeah I've been playing 40 years and did a stint in music school. Other than fat-fingered note entry errors my ear nailed all the ones I did. IMO this seems to start from a pretty advanced level off the bat.
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Read Geddy Lee's "My Effin' Life" autobio...the amount of coke Rush used for quite some time came as a big, big surprise to me! And Alex Lifeson has been a huge stoner since forever.
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Yeah, if I hung a sign on my door saying "Answers generated by this person may be incorrect" my boss and HR would quickly put me on a PIP, or worse. If a physical product didn't do what it claimed to do, it would be recalled
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Well, Bose has a long history of continually hyping whatever they're selling as the complete & utter pinnacle of sound reproduction technology, whether or not that's actually the case. Before the internet it was through their
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by SoleilAbsolu 9mo ago
Thanks for "Temba, his arms open wide"-ing me a chuckle!

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