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by jnovek 1y ago
Another thing to consider is that, once you are medicated, you have a whole new set of skills to develop. I remember when I started taking ADHD meds and I was like “wow I can focus now” and proceeded to focus with all my might on the wrong
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by jnovek 1y ago
> But it was absolutely terrible - 9 out of 10 requests were people trying to talk to chatGPT I don't totally follow, probably because I don't tend to run ad campaigns and I'm not up with whatever shenanigans advertisers a
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by jnovek 1y ago
When I see a product — especially an early-stage product — trying to funnel me into a yearly subscription, the signal I get is that you think I’ll quit in less than a year which, in turn, implies that your product isn’t very good. It just m
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by jnovek 2y ago
I recently stood up the server in our k8s cluster and that part was also pretty easy, at least compared to elastic.
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by jnovek 2y ago
I noticed this on your website regarding transcription -- "More accurate than Deepgram, supporting 50+ languages with a word error rate of just 8.6%." Can you explain how this helps me? At the end of the day you are not my transcr
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by jnovek 2y ago
Does it have rotation lock? That's my single biggest pet peeve about the Kindle Scribe.
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by jnovek 2y ago
I’m a fan of Helm but it’s got some complexity under the hood. If you’re an iOS user there are a ton of good soft synths on iOS that are criminally cheap. E.g. Moog has a version of the Mini that’s like $15.
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by jnovek 2y ago
That’s fair, I misunderstood GP’s post thinking you were making that recommendation to total noobs. Modular definitely has enough rope to hang yourself. If someone is going to buy a hardware synth to learn on, I think a well laid-out semi-
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by jnovek 2y ago
In this case it would likely be frustrating. Many synthesizers (especially softsynths) map changes in sound to velocity , that is, how hard you hit the key. Hitting the key harder makes a different sound (e.g. layers more samples) than hit
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by jnovek 2y ago
These days there are several tools that map hand tracking to MIDI CCs and notes, you might enjoy something like that. It's on my list to try sometime in 2025. :-) Here's an example, although I'm not sure if it's good or
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by jnovek 2y ago
I tend to thing that non-modular is a better place to start. Modular is great, I've wasted untold shameful consumerist dollars on Eurorack, but I think it's better to get the core concepts from a well-known fixed-architecture synt
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by jnovek 2y ago
Syntorial was how I first learned and I was pretty happy with it.
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by jnovek 2y ago
I think it’s also a reminder that the internet felt so much safer in 2010. My sister (who is apparently wiser than most of us) has always refused to sharing pictures and videos of her kids on the internet and in 2010 that felt very old-fash
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by jnovek 2y ago
I shoot cheap color film (and have for almost 20 years) because I like the conspicuous grain pattern. Likewise I shoot quite a bit of 5222 which I develop in rodinal.
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by jnovek 2y ago
B&Ws also scan poorly on it if the negatives are even a little bit dense. Tricky negatives that could still produce good images in the darkroom had no hope on the LS-2000.
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by jnovek 2y ago
System 100 is a _great_ design to learn on. Nomenclature and patching strategy is pretty close to what we do today (vs Moog 55 series which is very... Moog-ey) and it includes quite a few conveniences like inverted outs on envelopes withou
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by jnovek 2y ago
> so make sure to have backups Can you (or someone) suggest a backup scheme? I have a 28TB NAS. Almost everything I've looked into is expensive or intended more for enterprise tier. Are there options for backup in the "hobbyis
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by jnovek 2y ago
I tried to build a setup like this with OpenVPN years ago and OMG. Tailscale/Wireguard has been such a big leap forward.
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by jnovek 2y ago
Answering your questions in order: - On mine I use NFS and SMB which covers most possible clients. - I use an ssh bastion that I expose via Tailscale to connect to mine remotely. So a VPN but it's wireguard based so it's n
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by jnovek 2y ago
“Opioids can't be banned until we can replace them with something equally generally effective.” If only doctors took this advice! When the CDC made its first recommendation against using opioids there was a chilling effect and thousa
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by jnovek 2y ago
This is spoken like someone who has enjoyed the privilege of living without chronic pain.
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by jnovek 2y ago
You’re saying “created excess demand” like the people that you’re referring to weren’t chronic pain patients. I know some of them were drug-seekers but we decided it was OK to throw chronic pain patients under the bus so we could eliminate
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by jnovek 2y ago
As someone who deals with chronic pain, I watched this situation develop: people lost access to their “safer” opioid and switch to whichever one they can get. Or suicide; there were many suicides around this time. Thankfully opioids have n
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by jnovek 2y ago
I use two of them (Lenovos) in my small homelab. They take up 1U side-by-side so they’re great if you have limited space.
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by jnovek 2y ago
Ugh Freecad. Love hate relationship. I pretty much only use the Part Design, Sketcher and Spreadsheet workbenches. Those mostly work OK together. I don’t dare branch out because of poor interoperability between benches; I sometimes use t
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by jnovek 2y ago
That's fair -- I read some here and there but I recognize that I'm not a hardcore sci-fi reader. You mentioned that there are other, lesser known books that explore the same ideas in a more compelling way. Can you give some examp
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by jnovek 2y ago
I think your criticisms are legit. I think the books are love 'em or hate 'em. Like you I never connected to any of the characters, but the direction of the story and its almost exponential growth in scale was what drew me in. Bu
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by jnovek 2y ago
FYI, the first half of the second book is very slow and somewhat cringe at times. You just have to plow through because the back-half of the second book + the third book are a wild ride that's totally worth it.
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by jnovek 2y ago
The decisions made in Death's End in particular are very frustrating but I think the point was that humanity's biggest barrier to reaching the stars is itself.
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by jnovek 2y ago
"If the sensation of being banished from 10-dimensional cosmological heavens down into dead 3-dimensional purgatories..." Ahem, spoilers. :-) You made me laugh. I understand this reference as of about 14 hours ago.

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