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by peteforde 4mo ago
Several things can be true at the same time. I truly believe that Pearl Jam and many others who have been harshly critical of TM and Live Nation genuinely want to fight back. However, a person much more cynical than me could make the argume
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by peteforde 4mo ago
Mea culpa: upon waking up and being challenged, I realized that I had conflated the Shannon Hoon story and the [very real] Oasis "piss bomb" story into one. If I'm really and truly honest, I still remember this happening quit
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I remember Oasis. They're the ones who literally pissed on the audience here back in the 90s. The idea that they care if their fans live or die really comes down to whether they could get sponsors on board or not.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
You're basically describing my idea of hell.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
Many of the other commenters have explained how the ownership structure of Ticketmaster gives them near monopoly control because they also own the radio stations and the venues and the promoters. (I'm using "they" and "o
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by peteforde 4mo ago
That is a common blockchain myth. There were solutions before blockchain, especially in the field of Byzantine fault tolerance. The original Byzantine Generals paper was from 1982, and practical algorithms existed before Bitcoin. For exampl
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by peteforde 4mo ago
My point is that regardless of who got rich, the web 3.0 pitches themselves did not pass even the most casual review. I was asked to audit a few proposals during that era and in every case I had to go back to the person asking me to say tha
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by peteforde 4mo ago
Yeah, I didn't reply in anger. Pointing out false equivalency != angry unless you are deep in the "words I don't like are violence" camp. Feel free to respond to what I actually said, though!
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by peteforde 4mo ago
The false equivalency in this explanation is off the scale. It wasn't just that crypto was an obvious grift; it was that you didn't need to be an experienced developer to confirm that 99% of the "web 3.0" nonsense that w
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by peteforde 4mo ago
Ahh, gotcha. Personally, I worry far more about guns in this regard, but I feel you.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
What's funny about this is that it sounds like your coworker reviews his LLM output roughly as well as you read the other replies before assuming that this was an anti-LLM pile-on thread.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
That's actually exactly what I do! And I highly recommend it as a viable alternative to Max/MSP. It's the native way to create patches for the Organelle and many other instruments. PlugData in particular has been a real joy t
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by peteforde 4mo ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Honestly, I just know what I'm talking about.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I believe that you misunderstood my message, which actually means that I didn't communicate well. Let me do better. I am not proposing that someone needs to disrupt or make Ableton obsolete. I am suggesting that the existence of Reaper
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I didn't say that. I didn't even come close to saying that. I am saying that when 40-50% of people will experience something, it is statistically very normal. In fact, it's technically "likely". In most cases, 40%
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by peteforde 4mo ago
Cool! I'll check it out.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
That is... not a good analogy at all. What it is, though, is a misguided attempt to move the goal posts on what I actually said, which is that a huge amount of the value of Ableton is gatekept behind paid addons. If a DAW was structured lik
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by peteforde 4mo ago
You're going to really, really hate learning about STM32 MCUs. https://www.digikey.ca/short/2v4t0n5m
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by peteforde 4mo ago
That's simply not what happened, at all. You're seeing either incompetence or conspiracy when the opposite is true.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
Please say more
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I answered this in a different branch of the thread, but you're kind of missing my point. I don't own Max for Live, so the large ecosystem of useful tools that I'd enjoy trying out is unavailable to me. It's not about sp
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I think we're talking past each other. I don't own Max for Live. If I want to use it, I either need to upgrade to Ableton Suite for $500 or I need to upgrade to Standard and buy Max for Live separately (also $500). There's a
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by peteforde 4mo ago
I've often felt as though the way to make a DAW that competes with Ableton today would be to build the entire UI around composable scripted modules. Far too much of Ableton's secret sauce is hidden away behind Max for Live and top
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by peteforde 4mo ago
You're fundamentally misunderstanding how MCU families work, I'm afraid. There's not 10+ versions with different features. The word version strongly implies that there's an incremental progression over time, and they k
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by peteforde 4mo ago
Everyone is different, but board layout is one area where I aggressively don't want any LLM input until such a time as it is as good at board layout as it is at refactoring code. We're still a ways off from that, and that's l
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by peteforde 4mo ago
The "Who's your ideal dinner companion (deceased or alive)?" survey at the end is icing on this cake. I honestly think I'd rather go hungry at this point.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
Hey man, speak for yourself. It's never occurred to me to even try getting an LLM to design or layout a circuit for me. Instead, I have dozens or hundreds of chats in my history where I debate the merits of different parts for differen
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by peteforde 4mo ago
... I'm genuinely intrigued to hear what you found funny.
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by peteforde 4mo ago
It is criminal to read an article about one of the catchiest songs of that decade and not see at least one of the excellent videos embedded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ee1gxJvVi4 Just make sure that you switch to the
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by peteforde 4mo ago
What I find unsettling is that large swathes of mainstream society seem to consistently tack towards safe, unchallenging pablum. Why watch Parasite when you could watch a Happy Gilmore sequel? I'm not saying this to be contrarian or gi

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