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by jcpst 4y ago
Here is a concrete thing to try. Maybe it won't be useful, but it's helped me in the past. Get a blank sheet of paper and a writing utensil. Not a text editor. Start at the top of your call stack and start making a diagram that re
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Your take is not far off. One difference I think is an increased awareness of those in the caked areas of the prior generation. Not all, of course. But the ripple effects of the White Flight are hard to ignore. I came in from the rural surr
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Life is decent among the ‘cakers. I dream of moving somewhere a bit more dynamic, but JoCo is quite comfortable. Public resources are great, and kept in great condition. The police are actually nice, which is a new experience for me. I like
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It’s true- Arthur Bryant is bad BBQ.
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That is true- this is a good callout. You’re brain does a lot to convince you of the difference when you know the source of what you’re hearing. But there are always exceptions. As someone that worked as a recording engineer for 7 years, an
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This was mentioned is a sibling comment, but I’ll 2nd that it matters more on a bluesy/rock style tone. It’s right when the power amp is starting to get saturated. On a modeling amp, I have not heard one that doesn’t introduce extra di
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> we’re finally at the point where modelling really is indistinguishable from the real thing. I’d love to experience this, but so far it still seems like the technology is more in the “good enough for most people/situations” rather
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Cheating? Trying to understand- is using signal processing “cheating”? What is cheating in music? All I can think of is deception, like lip-syncing.
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I’ve been jamming with a drummer for years, just the two of us. A few months back he says “I had this looper in my closet”. I laid down a bass guitar loop, he started grooving over it, then I pulled out my guitar and all of a sudden we were
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I was able to get into modular in college with the synthesizers.com monthly payment plan. Each installment you paid, they mailed another module. They start you out with a few modules and a rack with a power supply mounted for you. The whole
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That’s what I learned too… Working in the music industry shattered a lot of the glamorous illusions. I also learned that from peers who were chewed up and spit out by the major label machines. For those 7 years, I was constantly broke, and
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by jcpst 4y ago
I started playing bass guitar when I was 11. My father told me no when I asked if I could play bass. Since my parents were divorced I was able to talk to my Mom about it. She got me a cheap used bass. I was so happy- it felt like I was mean
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You can choose to work outside the industry. I left the industry in 2013. I saw some of that toxicity and bleak future that you described. This year I am starting to get back into a music side career, treating it like a bootstrapped startup
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The most helpful advice around this actually came from a therapist. One of the things I started with in therapy was stress at work. You can just get your work done. You don’t have to give 100% for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Some days it’
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by jcpst 4y ago
Depends on how you think about it. From a data perspective, digital definitely captures less information than analog. We’re talking about the difference between discrete (digital) and contiguous (analog) data. I agree with saying that digit
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Then you can keep going through February https://www.rpmchallenge.com/
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Also, I can’t say I know, other than everyone on the board seems to agree with how it’s ran.
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Definitely not new- when I purchased the home, my attic had a box with HOA board member documents from the 1980s.
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My HOA is primarily a collective bargaining tool for trash pickup. Over 80% of the annual fee goes to trash service. The cost of the HOA is significantly less than even the most budget-minded trash service.
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I don’t have hiring authority, but I was on a lot of technical interviews at my company for a while. When people put their GH handle on their resume, I definitely checked it out. Sometimes I would even see if I could get it running on the f
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The Blind Spot(thegauntlet.substack.com)
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I’ve worked on two different SSL boards ( G series and K series ) that had the 1980s computer that controlled automating the console. They took up a 6 foot tall rack. And of course, you had to have a dedicated room for them so you didn’t pi
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by jcpst 4y ago
Not to derail this too much… This sounded familiar, at first I thought I might have an old 2010 version of this on my DAW computer. But now that I’ve looked, it’s a beta version of Mus2, which is used mainly for microtonal notation.
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This is what I ended up using on my linux box. Lilypond is very powerful once you get used to it.
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I’ll take it over a Morty any day.
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I don’t think it upset me really- more so surprised. Still feels like it was just released recently, but I suppose time perception is funny that way. Interesting discussion on movie discussion etiquette though. I never really considered how
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Yep, got it, lesson learned. “Spoilers” can mean spoilers for anything. Back to my cave I go.
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Ugh- I thought that when it said spoilers ahead, it would be just the movie being reviewed in the article, which I don’t plan on seeing. Then there were spoilers for other movies (Get Out) that I intend to watch sometime.
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There is a more general skillset of being a desirable employee. I had to build this skill up before my tech skills, I have mouths to feed. Another one is knowing how to “hustle”. If you need money, coming up with plans that might not work i
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Writing typescript code that compiles to javascript code that runs on a platform like node.js, and writing typescript code that compiles to javascript that run in a web browser.

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