matt_j

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by matt_j 5y ago
What drivelling times are these!
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by matt_j 5y ago
This seems like an over-protective attitude to me. I rode my bike around the (Australian, suburban) streets from age 5, rode to school for 12 odd years, caught the train to the city and skated all over it from about age 13. My parents made
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by matt_j 5y ago
You can definitely ride offroad on the old style mountain bikes. I used to ride a department store bike ($200 job) on the tracks in a national park and had a blast, and it teaches you good riding habits as well. On a full suspension bike yo
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by matt_j 5y ago
Perhaps not, but you don't have a lot of options on a handlebar. You could drill holes and bolt it I guess. I think they are OK for gravel tracks but if you are taking big bumps it's gonna be an issue, and modern MTB is all about
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by matt_j 5y ago
Bar-ends are mounted in the handlebar tube by friction alone. On any decently bumpy trail, they have a pretty good chance of twisting (forwards and down) and you could hit the handlebars with your face. They are useful for one of the reason
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by matt_j 5y ago
Salty, but not wrong!
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by matt_j 5y ago
Carrying The Fire is my favourite astronaut memoir and I've read a few, it reads beautifully. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest.
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by matt_j 5y ago
Right! I'm familiar with Donato Dozzy and their collaborations, it's a match made in heaven. I need to chase down a copy of his K album on vinyl, it's lovely.
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by matt_j 5y ago
Nice! I love acid music, such a simple formula with infinite variation. There's something so delicious about the wobble of a 303 bassline. I just want to mention Tin Man for those who are interested in acid. He writes, mostly, quite pa
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by matt_j 6y ago
You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm not arguing that the lockdown wasn't extremely strict or that the hotel quarantine debacle wasn't negligent on the part of the government (they should have put a much better secur
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by matt_j 6y ago
I spent 6 months in lock down in a 1 bedroom apartment in Australia. Working from home. 1hr outdoor/exercise a day. No more than 5km from home. We had pretty strict rules. I went for a walk around the block with my mate once a week and
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by matt_j 6y ago
Making a mod is a really good driver for learning development. That's how I got started. It's good that the goal is so unreachable at the start. There's an awful lot to learn and you need to boostrap yourself, somehow, into d
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by matt_j 6y ago
An astonishingly large percentage of the population are parroting this and all manner of other misinformation on social media, all day, every day, for months, and it's getting worse as one by one the dominoes fall and yet another impre
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by matt_j 7y ago
There's nuance to each of the terms. Asocial is what I would say an introvert often is; avoids social interaction without necessarily wishing ill, perhaps dislikes being in the company of others. Anti-social behaviour is disruptive to
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by matt_j 7y ago
I agree that it isn't a trait to be proud of, but show me a government that isn't morally bankrupt and I'll show you a government that you don't know enough about. Being civilized seems to be a low priority in the civili
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by matt_j 7y ago
The US conflict with Iraq was unjustified and based on blatant lies. Whatever their reasons for invading, they were certainly to further their own interests, the economic boost of a war machine and rebuilding infrastructure, geo-politics, e
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by matt_j 7y ago
Cataclysmic events occur on geological timescales. Historically no species survives more than some thousands or perhaps millions of years, timescales short enough to fit between unavoidable extinction events. Humanity is currently on a path
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by matt_j 7y ago
Speed is a factor. A motorcycle can easily travel 60km/h - 120km/h. A bicycle is likely to be travel at 20km/h - 40km/h. 40km/h is pretty damn fast on a bike. Maybe the enthusiast guys riding the beach in the mornin
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by matt_j 7y ago
I had a Geocities site in high school (mid 90s) complete with wood panel background, animated gifs (rotating skull, etc), visitor counter, headings with color gradient, blinking text and an autoplay midi file of Hotel California. I'm s
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by matt_j 7y ago
There is more to a beautiful equation than the shape of the symbols used to describe it. The beauty of Euler's identity is the relationship between 5 fundamental constants (0, 1, e, i, pi). It's simple, elegant and far reaching. T
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by matt_j 7y ago
If people are bored because "all jazz sounds the same" / "heard it all before" how is that the popular sounds of today are all regurgitated EDM / rock-lite / rap-lite / "nothing-music" that
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by matt_j 8y ago
I completed a bunch of courses at Udacity before they introduced the Nanodegree programs. I enjoyed the experience and gained useful knowledge in areas that my regular degree program didn't cover (brushed up on Stats, Python web progra
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by matt_j 8y ago
Plaid is another cool artist on Warp Records.
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by matt_j 8y ago
Good sounds :) Do you know Future Sound of London? Try their Lifeforms and Environments (I, II, III, ...) albums.
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by matt_j 8y ago
Nice app mate, I particularly like the elements that show the colors used with a practical example.
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by matt_j 8y ago
Every time I come up with some crazy bash construction someone shows me how I could have done it more elegantly with AWK and nothing else. <3 https://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little...
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by matt_j 8y ago
I read on the train when I commute to and from work. The train is frightfully busy, rammed full, noisy, uncomfortable, but as soon as I open my book it's just me and the page. It's my favourite part of the day, my own little world
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by matt_j 8y ago
That's a good point, and I still hear music I like today it's just that absolutely none of it is on any popular radio station.
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by matt_j 8y ago
Finding music becomes easier the more you practise, but a few things you can do are: 1) Follow the 'if you like this, you might like this' recommendations in your music program of choice. 2) Curate your own playlist/collectio
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by matt_j 8y ago
Modern pop music is becoming trashier by the year. Loud (as in no dynamic range), obnoxious crescendos and drops, little nuance, simple melodies, no harmony, obvious grooves that lack the subtle swing required to shake someone from the insi

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