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by goblin89 2y ago
An iPad is an interesting device. It has many uses where it is indispensable, but most of them are unknown to most people. I often see a sound engineer with an iPad on music gigs. The form factor allows you to walk around the room and adjus
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by goblin89 2y ago
More than just a plain fume event, if people in charge of aircraft had difficulty interpreting ATC directions and had no recollection of landing and taxiing that is a clear near miss. One more thing going wrong could have turned it into a d
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by goblin89 2y ago
For some mind-boggling near miss account that no one cared about, see https://avherald.com/h?article=4b6eb830 . See how FAA didn’t even have a record of this. And that’s an extreme case. How many less extreme ones happen? In
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by goblin89 2y ago
In Moscow metro my personal bane is the mind-numbing amounts of reverberating noise due to open design of stations with no soundproofing, but yes, there are also advertising screens in both trains and on stations. In Beijing metro while go
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by goblin89 2y ago
macOS sandboxing for native apps has a long way to go to catch up with iOS. As one example, any application can read from your clipboard at any time. Web apps are, I believe, much better sandboxed.
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by goblin89 2y ago
They are going to on all good systems for very valid reasons, and they are halfway there.
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by goblin89 2y ago
Are you saying native apps are less well sandboxed than web apps? Because that is exactly what I said. But they are getting there, and that is good.
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by goblin89 2y ago
Wow, and it is somewhere in this very thread that someone hinted that the maintainer of VCV is the one sort of rude. There is no information publicly disclosed about how much money is generated, but the sponsorship button is there and that
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by goblin89 2y ago
It is not factual as it is clearly biased in ways I described. It is also outdated and factually incorrect in ways I described. Feel free to address those ways specifically.
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by goblin89 2y ago
I mean all consumer operating systems, and they are becoming better unless you stick to old and vulnerable versions.
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by goblin89 2y ago
Every mobile OS from Apple would show a popup if an app tried to access clipboard without your explicit pasting . Obviously, if you tapped “paste” then popup would be unnecessary since you would be approving your own action, not app’s acti
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by goblin89 2y ago
Untrusted by default is a feature. No user would be able to protect themselves, unless perhaps they are a highly trained security expert always on alert, which is not a thing. This is not the exciting early days of the interwebz where scrip
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by goblin89 2y ago
Cardinal takes money via Github sponsorships. It appears that the original VCV Rack developer’s efforts are a money-maker for a few people…
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by goblin89 2y ago
Thanks, interesting. As a musician I suppose it’s not worth switching away from the original until I have an understanding of how Cardinal works “better”.
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by goblin89 2y ago
I have read that before. Things like “Core only” vs. “Everything is internal” make perfect sense to me as a developer, but this doesn’t answer my question. In fact, “everything is internal” is a downside since no one really uses all modules
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by goblin89 2y ago
What technical issues are there with VCV Rack that are addressed by the forks (Cardinal, MiRack, etc.)? I recently switched to VCV Rack 2 as my main creative tool, and it has been very stable and performant with frequent updates[0]. My expe
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by goblin89 2y ago
I like the idea of Organic Maps in general, but using it in Hong Kong is awkward; not only because in many cases it uses Pinyin Mandarin place labels (which locals never use) but also because requires me to download 200+ MB of “China Guang
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by goblin89 2y ago
Where to improvise is always up to the performer. Even a precise score can be reinterpreted creatively, it is nothing but a hint.
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by goblin89 2y ago
One you drive your patch from a random source, the notion of score goes mostly out of the window—you just have the patch and you adapt to what comes out in the live.
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by goblin89 2y ago
If CCP did not manage to create that image, developed countries would have much more difficulty funneling taxpayer money to PRC. It’s easy to lead if everyone else is behind, and it pays for itself (and for future coal plants, I suppose[0]
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by goblin89 2y ago
It’s easy to push for solar in Europe and the US if >80% of the panels are made in China, a country which not only benefits from increased sales of said panels but is also (hardly coincidentally) leading the planet by the number of new c
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by goblin89 2y ago
I don’t see why it has to follow the same rules as consumer Starlink, unless SpaceX wants to make an extra buck by making it a bundle.
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by goblin89 2y ago
Starshield uses its own purpose-built satellites with different capabilities compared to Starlink.
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by goblin89 2y ago
It sounds like SpaceX wanted to make Starshield & Starlink a bundle deal. To fulfill the DoD contract, they could only operate military Starshield and not consumer Srarlink. They even use different satellites as far as I know.
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by goblin89 2y ago
I would almost certainly be on a diet of some attractive but unchallenging fast food like teenage detective novels if I had that choice as a kid. Would my life actually have turned out better if I didn’t read the likes of Kafka, Dostoyevsky
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by goblin89 2y ago
If SpaceX wants Starshield to operate in Taiwan, it would. If DoD wants it to, it means nothing unless they convince SpaceX, which apparently has a conflict of interest through its CEO’s other businesses, or force it legally.
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by goblin89 2y ago
I know someone who owns some land to build a house. I envy that person, who is definitely in a more secure position than myself.
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by goblin89 2y ago
I never got into reading web-native writing, though sometimes I wish I did. I also don’t piecemeal publishing, even though I know many classics were published that way initially. On the contrary, I like to read for as long as I want, finish
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by goblin89 2y ago
Your grandparents’ house must be huge. We never had a room just for books, not me, not my parents, not their parents. A family of 4 in 2 bedrooms, one living room. Shelves are not expensive and you’d be surprised, they can fit quite a lot o
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by goblin89 2y ago
Everyone seems to say children should go to libraries more. At 9, I didn’t need to go to a library—we just had bunch of books at home. Books are cheap, especially second hand. Some of our books were in fact from a library (my mom went, b

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