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by noizejoy 3y ago
> It’s unclear how the arsenic ended up on the book’s pages, but it was considered safe in small doses in the 19th century, and was often found in food, medicine and even common goods like face powder. An arsenic-based green pigment was
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by noizejoy 3y ago
Very cool! Is that hardware or vst plugin?
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The soundcard analogy may not be that faulty. General purpose soundcards have pretty much been replaced by motherboard components, while high end soundcards (audio interfaces) for DAW (digital audio workstation) use cases are an entirely se
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In my version of the history of Techno, "Yello"[0] also deserves very honorable mention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yello
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I have to admit, that I find centralized analytics as a service just really difficult to reconcile with higher degrees of privacy. That’s why I still prefer analytics solutions that can be self hosted.
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by noizejoy 3y ago
even more teensy weensy nit-pick: if the screen-size is small enough, even horizontal (landscape) orientation wouldn't help :-) :-)
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by noizejoy 3y ago
Lindows was started by the same Michael Robertson[0], who was behind mp3.com[1], one of the early Internet's rather lucrative IPOs and also involved in a series of litigation around copyrights and later what Matt Levine might now file
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by noizejoy 3y ago
Even smaller nit-pick: what you’re describing would seem to be more “small screen size” rather than “mobile”
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by noizejoy 4y ago
I think one of the reasons is air pressure inside the car. I've always found it amazing how much less slamming the doors needed when a window was left wide open and the air inside the car could escape freely.
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> With my car, trying to lock the doors just doesn't work if one is left open for suburban single family residence dwellers with their own garage, they may not always (or ever) lock the doors while the car is parked in their locked
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by noizejoy 4y ago
I can't help but wonder, if user interfaces will actually be one of the last problems to be solved well by machine learning. That's because arguably user interfaces (and data visualizations) have been - and continue to be - a sign
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Those listeners, who want to listen to old/classic or regurgitated some young woman duetting with Elton John :-) And it really helps to have a fondness for air headed radio dj ramblings …
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Not everyone has a high opinion of bias fx in comparison to some other modelled amp and cab sims. So that sample size of 1 may not be representative of the current state of the art. Love their GUIs though!
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> audio engineers are more likely to work events or film/tv. or in the creation of sample libraries.
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I’m actually wondering how long those stations will survive, given that routing around traffic bottlenecks is becoming the domain of smartphone apps.
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> single ballot, winner take all systems inevitably tend toward a two party equilibrium. I'm not convinced it's quite that simple. For example, Canada also has a first-past-the-post electoral system - yet political parties here
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Have you seen this? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/passk...
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by noizejoy 4y ago
On the other hand, the German way of speaking numbers with the order of just the 2 least significant digits flipped between numerical notation and speaking/writing is also easier explained by culture and history, rather than good logic
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Arguably human imperfections are already deeply reflected in computer design and programming.
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> one has been caught on film apparently it was just a rock[0] [0] https://www.universetoday.com/111076/follow-up-on-skydiving-...
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by noizejoy 4y ago
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.[0] [0] https://americansongwriter.com/me-and-bobbie-mcgee-by-kris-k...
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> When we were all farmers, things were pretty equal, and power could be distributed evenly. Peasants[0] living under feudalism[1] might argue that the large scale loss of equality already happened in agricultural societies. [0] https:&
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> “Sometimes writing for money, rather than for art, or pleasure, is really quite enjoyable.” I think that changes the meaning, since it’s now a list of 3 items with an Oxford comma, rather than two lists, with the first list having 1 it
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> Thatcher won two landslide re-elections for a reason. Arguably the reason was the war, not domestic policy [0] [0] https://history.com/news/margaret-thatcher-falklands-war
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by noizejoy 4y ago
In theory - and as has happened in history - governments can repatriate (nationalize) critical assets. So as long as a nationstate has meaningful independence, even the threat of that emergency lever can prevent the worst abuse. If such mea
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by noizejoy 4y ago
It may not be entirely coincidental that a lot of financial carnage is happening just after the large scale printing of money (quantitative easing) stopped, interest rates started rising and borrowing money became no longer almost free (for
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by noizejoy 4y ago
In sports, you need to replace players, because they age out of their prime. It might be interesting to apply similar thinking to technology.
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> You can't control it as a network administrator That’s the design intent. Because not all network administration is benign. DoH is a tool like any other. Good or bad entirely on why and how it’s used. And your own perspective on t
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> grant agencies should be … or enlightened corporations - ahm … never mind.
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by noizejoy 4y ago
> It's also how you backed up/restored midi data from early synths. In a weird closing of the circle, I now store the internal sounds backup of my vintage Juno 60 synthesizer as a WAV file recorded from that tape backup output.

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