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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Honestly for live stuff, you don’t want plugins generating in real-time anyway. You want tight recordings / loops, samples at most, or a couple of external synths. There are so dang many compact “desktop” synths that are massively powe
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I picked up an MPC X for a great deal some years ago but I find that using it feels like using a limited DAW instead of inspiring much creativity. As an engineer as well, I always have the urge to try to preserve and record my noodling with
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Same, and these days my music desk is about half filled with half a dozen cases worth of modular synths, with a bread rack perpendicular to that housing some rack gear, too many effects pedals, and also too many standalone synths. I refuse
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Another very good band that got famous from a song that is obviously way more poppy than their other excellent music: Jimmy Eat World. Check out their two albums before Bleed American : Clarity and Static Prevails , or even just track
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Yeah, I still watch them to try to pick up more theory on “why” something sounds good or has a particular feel, but a lot of this stuff came because the people making it knew what they liked and picked something interesting. That said, ther
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
> “It’s worth what the market will pay for it” Is absolutely true at the time it sells — it was worth that much for the former owner who now has that much cash from it. The bigger question is whether the next owner will get that much val
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
4 million?!? That’s like the price of a normal old Victorian in SF if you’re lucky, and the people pooing on your front porch come free with that.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
End CA Prop 13 benefits for businesses or make them pay all the difference in back taxes when they sell the property. That would have the potential to massively help the budget and make things more fair for newer businesses moving in, so th
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Next up: an article about how easy it is to get a handicapped parking placard by lying about having a disability.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Obviously the proposed solution is to privatize all healthcare, because what we have in the US should be a model for the rest of the world.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Also just imagine what would happen to the stock market if they cracked down on cocaine consumption on Wall St.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
And I suppose type 2 diabetics should, instead of seeking medical treatment, simply stop eating cake and go for a run every morning?
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
As others have stated, it’s all extra ironic when those are the exact types of things that folks who need these medications really struggle with.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
If only healthcare made actual sense and applied science to the entire UX of healthcare, not just the treatment research.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Back in my day, we had curses and we liked it.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I view the rise of React and especially Electron as the failure of things like GTK, Qt, and e.g. Swing to make a useable cross-platform GUI toolkit that isn't a total nightmare to work with / compile / debug / install &#
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Yes, the only problem is that most homes are not plumbed for grey water and it's a very expensive retrofit. If you're building a new home, ask about that and structured wiring. It's unfortunately usually a way more economical
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Seems like thie brine from desalination plants should be pumped into tailing ponds and dried out to get useful minerals out of it that could then be sold to help offset the cost and environmental impact of desalination. https://n
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
any relevant research on how much of that higher-than-tap-water TDS content makes it into the plants? I'm not sure I'd want to use this brine (plants also aren't huge fans of saltwater) to water an edible herb garden, for exa
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
This should be thrown out legally because "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.". It's religion as law disguised as "But think of the children!" as usual.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I'm 100% sure that no one who works for the government knows how to acquire and operate a separate smartphone either /s
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I think it's pretty hard to argue that the undefeatable dedicated Bixby button was a good idea, or that Galaxy Folds are awesome. They release basically the same thing constantly to give people FOMO on upgrades because the new Galaxy+
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
This; I used to build my own custom ROMs for my Android devices to get a close-to-AOSP experience + Google services + rooted app store, but it was a lot of overhead and maintenance, plus still slow and unstable compared to iOS. Now that iPh
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
aside from the batteries, my Tile devices just straight up do not activate most of the time when I actually need them. I'll be a few feet away and they won't make any sound // won't connect when I try to ping them.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Don’t forget the military work that Boeing does. There’s more at stake with this relationship than just one aircraft platform.
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Also why scammers in poor countries are so dedicated; they can make many times what they would from working a legit job just by scamming your grandparents over the internet. They might only need a few successes per month to make it worth th
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
The juiciest model is to make content that people go nuts for, like sports, then charge $100/mo for access to it, then run ads on top of that, i.e. what Comcast / Hulu do. You want the sports, so you have no choice but to pay what
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Even if it were seamless, I think many people would rather just scroll past some crappy ads vs paying even a few cents to read an article. A monthly sub works better, but the content that I'm actually excited to pay for comes from folk
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Capitalism demands that companies do things that aren't good for consumers in order to maximize profits. Through the lens of game theory, a lot more corporate behavior makes a lot more sense. Until regulation makes it more expensive fo

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