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by jnovek 3y ago
For many -- myself included -- the buttons and encoders make it much easier to play as a musical instrument. When I buy a digital instrument I'm not just buying the sound engine, I'm also buying a specialized controller for playi
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This is me, it was my pandemic hobby and then it just stuck. I’m still terrible on pretty much every front but I’m constantly improving. Take your time with modular. It’s easy to get carried away and overspend. Each module is deeper than
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Betcha I’ve spontaneously produced code that’s been written before. Who do I owe royalties to?
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Bankruptcy essentially makes you a financial pariah for 7 years; e.g. landlords can (and do) deny housing applications over past bankruptcy.
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One hypothesis: it’s too expensive. Total cost (including an attorney) for declaring bankruptcy sits around $2500 and at one point the article points out that her bank account is $900 overdrawn. If you’re in that situation, $2500 might as
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No, that’s totally reasonable. I was and still am a supporter of the ACA and I think the price tag for this site was bonkers. I just think it’s a shame that it’s politicized because we can’t easily discuss it as a case study without pre-ex
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It’s not at all like sales quotas. The salesperson’s upside is directly linked to their quota, they are incentivized to fudge it as much as they can. What’s the incentive for a developer to inflate their estimate? The only reason I have to
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by jnovek 3y ago
Unfortunately the cost of healthcare.gov has become politicized, but it was extremely, absurdly expensive. Wikipedia says the total cost actually landed somewhere between 1.7b and 2.1b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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For what it's worth, UNESCO agrees that it's art: https://www.unesco.de/en/culture-and-nature/intangible-cultu...
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If you like the music from demoscene, much of it was written on a tracker sequencer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker . I've been playing with Polyend's hardware tracker recently and I love it. If
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by jnovek 3y ago
Came here to say this. Activision has been such a poor steward of Blizzard's properties that I find them largely unplayable. It may be unlikely that Microsoft will course correct away from data-drive, engagement-focus mtx games, but I
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YC focuses on product-market fit so it's not uncommon to see a YC company start as something that just looks like a single feature. The product objective of doing this is to gather some early user feedback so you can grow and refine t
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As a fellow YC founder, I agree with everything you've said here. This article wrongly characterizes the YC experience. I think the author is attempting to apply a normal VC incentive structure to YC, but YC positions itself a little
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by jnovek 3y ago
I don’t have a source handy, but I seem to recall that ultrasound as criteria for PCOS has been criticized recently because it has a high rate of both false positives and false negatives.
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I’m an anecdote, but I deal with chronic pain that is thankfully well-managed at the moment. When it wasn’t as well-managed my experience was that apathy among medical professionals was the norm and compassion was the exception. I’ve had p
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by jnovek 3y ago
I read the article and perhaps I missed it, but does the author propose a reason other than theft why these stores are closing? Is there an implied reason that I’m just too obtuse to catch?
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I have several old lenses that are much easier to shoot on digital because they have a flange distance too short for an SLR (e.g. industar 69).
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Yup! I have an X-E1 and I love it to death, but it’s quite long in the tooth these days. I’d love to get a modern X100 or Xpro but Fuji is still recovering from supply chain issues and prices are through the roof. No shade re Sony’s mirro
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This is a big problem because there aren’t many ultrawide lenses for older cameras and those that exist are often slow, bulky, expensive and have mediocre rendition.
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So this is just me, I don’t speak for all film shooters. I actually really prefer the interface of a film camera. It’s hard to explain, but I feel like there’s an additional layer of abstraction between me and the final image. I spend les
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How would this work? I’m pragmatic about the division of public/private responsibilities, so I’m not opposed to the idea, but accommodations are highly specific to the impairment and how it affects the person. I’m not sure how the gov
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Accommodating disabilities is cost center and and failing to do so is a liability. Businesses use loopholes to “opt out” so they don’t have to deal with those things.
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I’m disabled. 2023 has been all about re-entering the workforce for me and I couldn’t have done it (yet, anyway) without WFH. I know that the return to office is vogue now, but I really hope we don’t forget that many of us are only able to
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I hope the question isn’t intended to have a single “right” answer because it’s very vague.
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I think “packing” and “mapping” describe real things that people do and I think it’s possible to lean in one direction or the other but the conclusion — that one is better than the other — doesn’t really follow for me. I’m not very good at
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This is me as well. I’m not very good at memorizing things so I have to build a mental model of a system that I’m working in and extrapolate. It gives me a lot of anxiety to be in that trough before it clicks.
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This reminds me of the feeling of calm that survivors have reported when they are dying of hypothermia or drowning. I wonder what the evolutionary advantage of these things is?
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Is this just musical notation or do you hook up a MIDI device so it can point out mistakes?
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You’ll probably end up primarily running Visual Pinball. Some of emulations are nearly perfect if you disregard nudging; I’ve never been able to get convincing nudge physics. Pinball FX is pretty fun too, but it definitely feels more like
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I have a VPX cab that but I've been out of the loop for a while because it just works. A refresh of my cab is on the agenda, though, and VPE looks great! Are you targeting Linux compatibility, by chance? My biggest complaint about th

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