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by elihu 3y ago
> "His history includes stints at Apple, Tesla and AMD." Kind of a minor point, but it's weird they omitted Intel.
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by elihu 3y ago
The only MIDI 2 controller I know of is the Lumatone. For some reason they decided to go with MIDI 2 rather than MPE. https://www.lumatone.io/faq There's also the Roland A-88mk2, with MIDI 2 support "coming soon&
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by elihu 3y ago
> Except the tritone that's 1% off 7/5. That's technically true. 7/5 is about 99% of the square root of 2, but in terms of pitch intervals, a difference between 582.52 cents and 600 cents is about 17.49 cents. That&
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by elihu 3y ago
> Sounds way more complicated. Well, sort of. Consider though that a polyphonic synthesizer typically has to internally go to the trouble of allocating a free voice circuit, tuning it to some pitch, and triggering the envelope. What I&
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by elihu 3y ago
> "The 12-tone system captures most small natural number ratios" Notably absent are any ratios that involve a power of 7, and ratios that involve a power of 5 are noticeably out of tune. > "and, as such, covers most non
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by elihu 3y ago
You could make the same argument against unicode. "Why do we need all these weird character sets? The latin alphabet works fine for me, and all the English-speakers I know." Notes that deviate from exact 12-EDO aren't actua
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by elihu 3y ago
Some more piano-like limitations: The tuning is assumed to be 12-tone equal temperament. Other temperaments are possible, but you're kind of off in uncharted territory. Especially if you want a temperament that doesn't use a 12
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by elihu 3y ago
> "People complaining about it are ignoring the fact that it’s beyond ubiquitous and has not required a change for literally decades." It sounds like MIDI is meeting your expectations, but people who have different requirements
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by elihu 3y ago
What's worse about CAN bus? It seems like it would be a pretty good option if we were re-inventing MIDI in 2023.
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by elihu 3y ago
For electronic musical instruments, which in theory ought to only be limited by our imagination, it seems rather arbitrary and limiting to have synthesizers that can only be played like a piano. Users that just want an electronic piano are
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by elihu 3y ago
Here's some more: - no way to play a unison without resorting to multiple channels - communication is one-way, so no standard way to query what CCs the synth actually supports - tuning table support wasn't part of the original spe
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by elihu 3y ago
The idea of MIDI is that you can grab any midi controller and any synthesizer manufactured in the last forty years, plug them together, and they just work. (As long as we can keep up the pretense that we're synthesizing something that
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by elihu 3y ago
I suppose governments could mandate that businesses provide their employees with a stipend to cover tolls in addition to their regular wages if they require the employees to be in the office.
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by elihu 3y ago
> Proposals range from charging vehicles $9 to $23 during peak hours, and it’s set to go into effect next spring. That seems pretty expensive to me, but maybe that's typical of toll road prices these days. There are none where I li
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by elihu 3y ago
800,000 years is pretty slow, though. Maybe we could speed it up with the right conditions? I think what we'd need to replicate the azolla event is a large fresh-water lake that's very still and stagnant, so that O2 levels in the
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by elihu 3y ago
Interesting. If I understand correctly, they need a electrode that's in physical contact with the sea water. I'm not sure I understand it entirely, but there's a video on the Tech Ingredients channel that explains magnetohyd
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by elihu 3y ago
As a point of comparison, apparently people have been able to do one-direction data transmission in the petabit per second range over a single strand of fiber optic cable over a relatively short distance. https://newatlas.com&#x2
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by elihu 3y ago
It was discussed at the time. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigned as DNC chair over what was in the emails. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/debbie-wasse...
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by elihu 3y ago
> Think about what that means for the future of all auto mechanics. Will there be far fewer? In the long run, yes. If EV conversion becomes a major thing (which could happen if tax credits applied to conversions and if simple, cheap bolt
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by elihu 3y ago
In the U.S. a pretty simple next step would be to stop exporting coal. I mean, why are we doing that in the first place? We get all the same negative consequences of CO2 emissions as if we burned it ourselves, but someone else gets to use
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by elihu 3y ago
Yanukovych was removed by the Ukrainian parliament on a vote of 328–0 out of 450 members. Russia doesn't have a right to be upset that Ukraine kicked out a corrupt puppet. As for NATO expanding east, Russia has something of a grievanc
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by elihu 3y ago
Non Linear Circuit's Tripple Sloth is probably worth a mention: https://www.nonlinearcircuits.com/modules/p/triple-sloth I'm not sure if it does exactly the same thing, but anyways it's used in modu
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by elihu 3y ago
In theory they should be good for several thousand cycles, so -- a long time. As long as you don't overcharge them, drain them too low, or try to charge them in below freezing temperatures. Also, they say that usually LFPs will last a
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by elihu 3y ago
My suggestions: Don't regulate AI directly, but rather how it's used, and make it harder for companies to horde, access, and share huge amounts of personal information. 1) Impose strict privacy rules prohibiting companies from sha
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by elihu 3y ago
Those Liquid Pistons are probably the most interesting engine design to come a long in a long time, but they're still unproven technology. I haven't kept up on it but I think they've been working on figuring out how to get t
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by elihu 3y ago
I think for a lot of tech products, it's more that the profit margins are tight and competition is fierce, such that spyware integration is needed to subsidize what would otherwise be a money-losing product. At which point the only re
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by elihu 3y ago
Sensitronics was recommended to me by Roger Linn one time I met him when he happened to be in town for an event. They apparently make the sensor in the Linnstrument. It's not clear from their website, but if you order one of these eva
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by elihu 3y ago
If you're familiar with hardware design, it wouldn't be terribly hard to make a big grid of pressure-sensitive buttons using force-sensitive resistor material (Sensitronics makes some that they sell approximately by the foot, poss
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by elihu 3y ago
I wouldn't be that surprised if LFP batteries were approaching half of all EV battery production now. I agree LFPs are currently the right chemistry for mass-production vehicles. NMC is for luxury cars, or use cases with special requi
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by elihu 3y ago
Production emissions are dwarfed by lifetime CO2 emissions of fossil fuel vehicles, which need to be off the road as soon as possible. The quickest way to do that is with small, cheap cars that don't require bottleneck resources like

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