midiguy

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by midiguy 3y ago
> Spreading a chord over two hands isn't really using your left hand though Kind of like how running with both legs isn't really using your left leg? I don't really understand this train of thought. > playing random she
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by midiguy 3y ago
You can experiment all you want, but to reproduce those results consistently in any situation that might arise you need to contextualize your experimentation within the framework of theory so your mind has something to grasp onto other than
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by midiguy 3y ago
> but as an amateur jazz/blues/rock pianist for the past twenty years or something, it's not going to make you a better player. Knowing theory won't necessarily make you better at playing music in a certain style on a
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by midiguy 3y ago
Well that's not really true in any sense. Almost any jazz piano player today worth their salt will favor two-handed voicings for comping, and comp with left hand while soloing.
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by midiguy 3y ago
Even the more static websites built by my government look and feel like garbage. There is no way they could pull off something remotely as complex UX-wise as social media. Unless they hired expensive contractors, in which case people would
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by midiguy 3y ago
Yeah, I got a Seiko 5 for under a hundred bucks awhile ago which was actually scary accurate. The only thing that irks me about cheap mechanicals is that the movement is essentially disposable like a battery, as it's way more expensive
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by midiguy 3y ago
This sounds precisely like the mechanical vs quartz watch debate. The $50 Casio keeps better time, is more durable, and requires less maintenance than the $10k Rolex. Practically speaking, there is no debate to be had. But it won't sto
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by midiguy 3y ago
> I don't believe the Catholic church (or other denominations of Christianity, or Mormon church) would allow a LGBT couple to officially join. That's not entirely true. No legitimate catholic church would prohibit lgbtq couples
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by midiguy 3y ago
Yup. I think it will be pretty important for academia to serve as an intermediary between the possibilities being presented by big tech on the one hand, and the concerned regulatory bodies and lawmakers on the other. It's the only plac
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by midiguy 3y ago
Pretty soon you may not even be able to have that prejudice, because who will be able to definitively say your favorite author isn't using generative AI?
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by midiguy 3y ago
Kind of a stupid headline. The article goes on to explain that generative AI is just allowing for a lesser number of people to do jobs that will still exist for the foreseeable future. So in other words, tech giants aren't making jobs
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by midiguy 3y ago
Most people in design fields would not disagree that the lion's share of design innovation in the past couple decades has been in software UI/UX. The way we interact with our devices is just so radically different than 20 years ag
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by midiguy 3y ago
In reality architects work way too much to attend parties, and make too little money to attract beautiful people.
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by midiguy 4y ago
I call it the Anglo-Saxon pioneers who take advantage of their Protestant work-ethic to procure long roads and prudently engage in trade of Catan
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by midiguy 4y ago
Have you even cracked open the Pali Canon upon which Theravada is based? It is rife with references to devas/demons and heavenly/hellish realms, purportedly spoken by the Buddha himself.
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by midiguy 4y ago
I prefer engineering like a manager
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by midiguy 4y ago
On this note, I think people underestimate how intrinsically important things like our relationship to our physicality, and face-to-face contact are to us as human beings. Just in the last few decades have virtual worlds/networks/
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by midiguy 4y ago
It will take a few more generations to say for sure. Hasn't interest in the RTS genre waned significantly since the 2000's?
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by midiguy 4y ago
Would you rather do some library gluing, or reinvent a thousand wheels with every project? The latter is neat the first few times. Whatever your preference, your value as an engineer is much higher if you can glue. Imagine if a carpentry wo
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by midiguy 4y ago
The PNW gets pristine air though for most of the year, aside from the inevitable few bad late-summer wildfire weeks.
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by midiguy 4y ago
It's mainly to help software 'architects' sleep at night
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by midiguy 4y ago
For me it's not about the collection of the data, it's about what the company does with it. I don't love that Google makes a fortune harvesting my data for targeted advertising, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make
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by midiguy 4y ago
Just tell me how many AI winters we will endure this century
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by midiguy 4y ago
The typographic principles of today were already established in print for decades before the web existed. It just took a while before web was held to a similar standard.
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by midiguy 4y ago
We could just say that a project can have a flexible scope and undetermined end date, and keep calling it that? Or just call it what it is. An application, library, data visualization, etc. Or spend copious amounts of time trying to convinc
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by midiguy 4y ago
I think sometimes these 'hobbyists' border on patterns of addiction and escapism. I know that when I am anxious or depressed in my life I put my focus on one of these rabbitholes to escape - while I am researching the next thing t
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by midiguy 4y ago
20% of this article holds 80% of the valuable content
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by midiguy 4y ago
Pays 1 million dollars for a couple grams of moon dust... 2 decades later Elon Musk starts mining the moon and moon dust becomes a commodity going for 10$ to the kilogram
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by midiguy 5y ago
The fact that 5 different open-source software are required to do the same thing as Lightroom has convinced me to stick with Adobe.
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by midiguy 5y ago
Alcoholics Anonymous

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