biggieshellz

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by biggieshellz 4y ago
Cool game, and great music! Runs fine on my old breadbin converted to PAL. A lot of good stuff happening in C64-land lately. Polar Bear in Space ( http://www.psytronik.net/newsite/index.php/c64/137-polarbear
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by biggieshellz 4y ago
It is a multi-band nonlinear compressor. It deals with each band of hearing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_scale ) individually. In each band, it elevates soft sounds to just past the threshold of audibility with
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by biggieshellz 4y ago
Yes, they do (in fact, they have custom hardware to do it), but the power budget is very, very small, so there have to be tradeoffs made, both in terms of the processing and in terms of the actual transducer.
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by biggieshellz 4y ago
I think you need to email David McClain to buy a compiled version, but the source (not including the plugin wrappers, etc.) is here: https://github.com/dbmcclain/Crescendo-Hearing-Correction
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by biggieshellz 4y ago
The Tomatis Method is a little pseudoscience-y for my tastes -- you have to buy the tapes / app / etc. directly from the Tomatis folks, and I've never seen any good studies from a non-conflicted third party that support its e
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by biggieshellz 4y ago
But you can certainly learn to ignore it. After one particularly loud concert, my ears started to ring, and they have never really stopped. I was depressed, disappointed, and angry with myself for not having taken better care of my ears.
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by biggieshellz 4y ago
That's not surprising, as what we think of as "presence" is usually in the ~4 KHz range, where our ears are the most sensitive. What's over 10 KHz may provide a sense of "air" but doesn't convey as much i
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by biggieshellz 4y ago
Please don't do this. This would work for a conductive hearing loss (ear drum or bones in your ear messed up, etc.) but not for a sensorineural hearing loss (like what you get from aging or from noise exposure). You need non-linear c
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by biggieshellz 4y ago
Check out Crescendo ( http://refined-audiometrics.com/wordpress1/ ) -- an engineer/musician with a hearing loss similar to yours has developed a piece of software that's like a "super" hearing aid (no
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
If you read the article, the $1B is not to go the fab itself (there's another, much larger pot of money for that); instead, it's for ancillary developments of "disruptive technologies for the foundry ecosystem."
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
It's not helpful. The filter doesn't allow your eyes to relax; the prescription that lets your eyes be relaxed while focusing at computer distance does. You can get computer glasses made without the blue light filtering and they
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
It helps to understand the mechanism your eyes use to focus. For eyes with normal vision, they are at their most relaxed when you are looking far away and your lens is at infinity focus. When you look at something close up, a muscle pulls
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
No. When I was in grad school, I was selected as an alternate for their on-campus interviews the night before, and I went through the full interview process first thing the next morning. I ended up getting an offer from them then, and aft
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
I suspect they picked that chip because tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of its launch (Nov. 15, 1971).
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
The carbon filament has gotten thin enough that it runs at a lower temperature and doesn't draw much current (or produce as many lumens), so it doesn't wear out as quickly.
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
They're not meant to go together like that -- there's not really an interconnect for it, or any pins on the package to enable something like that. Apple would have to design a new Mx SoC with something like that as an explicit de
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
Or how he taunted Alvy Ray Smith because of his Southern accent. Or how his example continues to be used to excuse bad behavior today ("but Steve Jobs did it that way").
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
I mean, we have a Linux Plumbers Conference for a reason. The kernel is digital infrastructure.
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
Also, cobblers can repair modern hiking boots with cemented (not welted) construction. https://www.davepagecobbler.com/ resoled my wife's Asolo boots, replacing an EVA midsole that had crumbled, for well under the c
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
Wow, thanks for the background here! FYI, https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... has more info on what they did in the high order byte, and what they had to do to make things "32-bit clean&
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
Until recently, Cisco's IOS-XR was based on the QNX microkernel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS_XR
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
> As Smith recalls it, Jobs began mocking Smith’s Southwestern accent. “I had never been treated that way. I just went crazy,” Smith says. Texan here. That is just beyond the pale. What a complete and absolute jerk.
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
I think the author misses the point. As a beginner jazz musician, I saw Pat Metheny in concert -- he killed, of course -- and afterwards, I asked him what he thought about when he played. His reply? "I don't think; I just play.&
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
Yup. As someone who has gigged an (original) ARP Odyssey, I can attest that this is indeed the case, even with a consistent power supply!
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
It's a damn shame Stevie never kept his end of the bargain as far as producer credits and compensation. (FWIW, I say this as a huge Stevie fan.) From https://www.okayplayer.com/music/stevie-wonder-malcolm-cecil...
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by biggieshellz 5y ago
Austinite here. Don't make not-work into work. Please leave your hustle culture in the Bay Area. Find a good restaurant, bar, or music venue like everyone else does and spend time being a person, not a tech person.
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
"a complete break from the roots of the western classical tradition into a wholly new art form informed by the limitations of what they were leaving behind" Wait, what? A whole lot of the western harmonic tradition went right int
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
They had them for Minimoogs, where you could buy a book of patches with the control settings to get different sounds, including those from some popular songs: http://www.synthzone.com/midi/moog/minimoog/MINIMO
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
I'm going to give different advice from the other person. Start out getting some basic technique and reading ability, but when you want to play jazz stuff, it's really a language. Learn by imitating -- transcribe (by ear) and pl
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
Same thing with Blue Bossa. The syncopation in the original is completely missing in the Real Book chart, and now every high school jazz musician learns it the Real Book way and runs it into the ground.

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