adriand

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by adriand 5y ago
I am also on Endlesss…username adriandz. Maybe we’ll cross paths at some point!
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by adriand 5y ago
That Grid device looks very cool. What do you connect it to? Like I assume you’re using it with mobile app(s)? What works well?
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by adriand 5y ago
Very cool! I didn’t know about that. I have been hearing a lot of positive stuff about Bitwig in the electronic music community. Personally I have invested too much time (and money) to switch from Ableton, but if I were starting now, I’d de
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by adriand 5y ago
Agree with others that the Push is good; I have a Push 2 that I love. It's great for chords and melodies because the layout is massive (8x8). However, it's somewhat expensive (the 2, anyway) and the pads themselves could be better
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by adriand 5y ago
An alternative is to get a good pad controller. You get a lot out of this beyond just playability (such as knobs — physical knobs are great for experimentation and fast, dynamic changes to things like filters), but it's still something
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by adriand 5y ago
It's probably because the Dutch diaspora has succeeded in getting their children hooked on stroopwafels (syrup waffles), salt licorice and those amazing dense raisin buns that seem to be approximately 50% raisins... I for one am happy
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by adriand 5y ago
> My point is that if you want to convince me that animal welfare should be the thing to focus on right now, articles like that aren't helping It’s not that it’s “the” thing but rather “a” thing worth focusing on. We can improve in
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by adriand 5y ago
What a ridiculous comment. You could dismiss any act of goodness with that logic. “We built a shelter for homeless people and are feeding and clothing them.” “You know, the Nazis thought they were doing good things too.” I mean…seriously?
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by adriand 5y ago
It seems you’re firmly putting yourself in the second category. I’ll take the risk of landing in the first one.
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by adriand 5y ago
I think I'd like a version of the famous "cloud-to-butt" browser plugin that changes Omicron/COVID/etc. to "common cold". Then headlines like, "The Omicron variant will spread quickly through the U.S.
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by adriand 5y ago
Check out https://www.hatchbox.io/ , it lets you easily host stuff on various hosting platforms (using your own account) with similar ease to Heroku. Which also means it's WAY cheaper. Heroku's pricing has always s
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by adriand 5y ago
I was CTO at a company and ended up managing a team of just under 20 developers and although I didn't feel the same way as you do right now, I did absolutely feel that my technical skills were becoming increasingly rusty. The Javascrip
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by adriand 5y ago
I don't know anything about the details of Amazon's policy in this instance or the specifics of what happened, but strictly going on what you wrote, I'm not sure that this tragic outcome necessarily means the decision was bad
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by adriand 5y ago
I'm wondering the same thing. We have stuff hosted in us-west-2 and multiple people across the US are reporting that our systems are down, however our system is working fine for me here, which is near Toronto.
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by adriand 5y ago
The same thing is happening right now with plastic pollution. Plastic waste in the environment breaks down into smaller and smaller particles, eventually forming plastic nanoparticles. These nanoparticles are capable of crossing the blood-b
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by adriand 5y ago
I have a weird search FOMO thing where after I DDG something, I will often throw the !g into it to see the Google results for the same term, to make sure I got the "best" or most comprehensive result. And usually the DDG result wa
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by adriand 5y ago
> Carbon Based Lifeforms Nice, I hadn’t heard of these guys. Big Hopkins fan. What else would you recommend along these lines? A few for you to return the favour in advance: - Rival Consoles - Daniel Avery - Lorn (on the darker side) - I
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by adriand 5y ago
You could choose compassion but instead you choose judgment.
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by adriand 5y ago
A heartless and uninformed perspective that is all too common among people born into privilege (you may not have been but in my experience, most people who believe this were). The majority of addicts are people who have experienced trauma.
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by adriand 5y ago
Perhaps women are also better at speaking truth to power.
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by adriand 5y ago
That's not an analogous situation. This is virtually identical to #MeToo cases in the West. For many years, those were also swept under the rug, but the situation now, while still mixed, does seem different. A closer analogy would be t
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by adriand 5y ago
Several people have objected to my use of the phrase "poured money into SETI". To clarify: 1. I agree that "poured" is an overstatement (and I support spending more!) 2. However, by "SETI" I did not mean NASA&#
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by adriand 5y ago
I agree with you that we have a “unique brand” of intelligence but we’ve gone astray in ascribing a value judgment to that, in my opinion - as in, our brand is the best. Or, our brand is so much better than others that those others are wort
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by adriand 5y ago
A fascinating article that once again demonstrates we are just barely scratching the surface when it comes to understanding the intelligence, let alone the lived experience, of other animals. This reminds me of the recent debate we were hav
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by adriand 5y ago
It’s not just the jobs, it’s also the awareness of what we’re doing to the planet and our future. When you get seized by the panicky feeling that we’re on track to end it all, one solution is to say “fuck it” and get drunk. I do it. I’m sur
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by adriand 5y ago
Yes, they are in fact innocent: they are of course “free from legal guilt or fault” but it’s the second definition from Merriam-Webster that really sums it up, “free from guilt or sin especially through lack of knowledge of evil”.
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by adriand 5y ago
It’s one thing to prioritize saving children from a burning building but not mice, and another to justify one’s decision to do so based on the neural complexity of children compared to mice. I don’t think killing a mouse is the moral equiva
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by adriand 5y ago
> not because we are humans and therefore more valuable to each other I value my children more than I value your children, but you will likely disagree with my assessment, even though it isn’t unexpected. And I would have to admit my ass
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by adriand 5y ago
By this logic, humans should be given only half the consideration we give to orcas, which according to the resource you posted, have twice the neurons we do.
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by adriand 5y ago
I assume that Dr Jonathan Birch, Associate Professor at LSE’s Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, and his team of scientists didn’t encounter this insightful perspective when they reviewed “over 300 scientific studies” in o

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