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by veridies 8y ago
Give it a shot, at least! A lot of people feel about it the same way I feel about 2001, though, so it may just not be your thing. I think if you can be immersed in the visuals and empathize with the characters then you're good; otherwi
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by veridies 8y ago
I love Tree of Life, but I’ve tried and failed to get into 2001 several times. The thing I love in Tree of Life is the humanism: I can see people sorting through their feelings through their memories in real time, and the characters feel ab
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by veridies 8y ago
They bought ads and those ads were displayed. If I print out $10,000 worth of yellow posters at Kinkos, I’m not off the hook for that just because it was a mistake.
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by veridies 8y ago
And that's why when I use Omnisphere (which I love, BTW), I send my projects to my best friend's computer; there's no way in hell I could fit that on my computer's internal SSD. Even the relatively small software instrum
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by veridies 8y ago
Basically what everyone else said. DAWs all prefer uncompressed WAV or AIFF, and it takes quite a bit of time to convert back and forth to FLAC. Plus, even if I did that I'd still have to use external HDDs, just cheaper ones.
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by veridies 8y ago
Not offsite, which I know I should. I use macOS, so I just have a Time Capsule set up with a giant HDD plugged into that for stuff I'm working on presently. Stuff I don't use actively I just make sure to put on two different HDDs
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by veridies 8y ago
I record and produce my own music as a hobby. Each project can easily reach gigabytes in size, and my biggest projects are eight gigabytes or so (eight drum mics, guitar, bass, vocals, and synthesizers, all uncompressed 24/96 audio, of
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by veridies 8y ago
Manhattan also has a robust public transit system, making it feasible for a person without a car to get around. Driverless taxis are probably disproportionately likely to be used in suburbs and other places without that infrastructure.
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by veridies 8y ago
I've noticed a couple cases where Wikimedia contributors have done that legwork and extracted the original tiles; I don't know if there's any systematic effort to do so, though.
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by veridies 8y ago
Is there any sort of organized, searchable index of artwork online? It's sort of a massive undertaking, but it's the kind of thing that a wiki would be good for, and there have been a handful of different museums which have made t
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by veridies 8y ago
I'm not a very good coder, but I can hire someone to make whatever changes I need in a piece of free software. That's something I've seriously considered in the past, although it's never been quite important enough to me
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by veridies 8y ago
I used to do this in the dorm room cafeteria at my college, just to see if it’d work. People got yelled at all the time for filling bottles with coffee or sodas, but I’d just fill their ceramic cups up and casually drink from it while wavin
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by veridies 8y ago
If you said you upgraded your stereo, though, I’d expect you bought something pretty clearly nicer, eg by moving from a pair of PC speakers to a professional hifi. I wouldn’t expect that you’d have moved from one well-respected hifi manufac
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by veridies 8y ago
Kodi has a great interface for browsing movies, and automatically tags things like director, year, nationality, and summary. My fiancée likes to flip through that to pick things to watch; it's a lot easier and faster than trying to fig
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by veridies 8y ago
I think that you’re fundamentally describing BitTorrent, which allows very wide distribution of large files with very low bandwidth costs. If one’s only goal is hosting videos with minimal bandwidth usage, BitTorrent (and maybe a scheme to
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by veridies 8y ago
I have never seen an opera not do this. In Turin they offered subtitles in both the original language (English, as it happened) and in Italian, which was cool. I think some of the objections here come from people who really don’t have much
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by veridies 8y ago
There are probably a hundred times more professional-level guitarists than professional guitarists. It’s a ton of work, but it’s a ton of work that a lot of people already put in just for fun. Professional production is very hard, but it’s
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by veridies 8y ago
> Bugfixes-- from simple grammar flaws, to finishing dangled story threads, why aren't we patching and re-releasing novels? This is pretty similar to what’s happened with Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo. He’s repeatedly reworked it,
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by veridies 8y ago
I don't think so; I set up all my sound stuff before AirPlay 2 was out. I have an Airport base station with two different receivers (one Sony, one Denon), an Airport Express, and a Raspberry Pi running Runeaudio, each of which is conne
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by veridies 8y ago
I plug my iPhone into speakers every night to listen to music. I could connect over AirPlay, but that’s really unreliable everywhere else I’ve set it up.
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by veridies 8y ago
Some of this stuff is pretty easy to do if you're willing to pay. MakeMKV is pretty cheap for just copying the disks, a a NAS can be bought off the shelf, and a cheap computer running Plex or Kodi can be bought off the shelf. The probl
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by veridies 8y ago
One of the problems with that model is it centralizes power in one organization which is subject to the whims of its members. I’d argue that that might guarantee less stability than the current system. Perhaps a large endowment, like privat
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by veridies 8y ago
If you live in the bay area, go to Berkeley when you have some time, to the vegan deli The Butcher's Son, and try their buffalo chicken sandwich. It's fantastic.
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by veridies 8y ago
That argument is certainly true, but it applies to nearly everyone. Almost no one is politically well-informed enough to be sure of what’s in their long-term interest, with most people not understanding for example economics or environmenta
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by veridies 8y ago
I won’t speak to the specific examples in either India or the US, but I will say that when you have extreme support for one candidate by members of minority ethnicities, that typically suggests that the other party is either apathetic or ho
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by veridies 8y ago
I've heard people object to anthropomorphizing animals before, and it's always seemed like a very odd objection to me. Dogs and cats react very similarly to us when it comes to things like threats or fear or play. That makes sense
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by veridies 8y ago
I have type 1 diabetes, and this is a constant fear of mine. It’s absurd that I should have to go through my insurance company to be able to get more medicine if I need to.
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by veridies 8y ago
There’s a serious problem when the degree of attention becomes asymmetrical. Many more people can focus on you than you can focus on in return, and flood every line of communication you have (digital or in real life) with hateful or harassi
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by veridies 8y ago
I'm looking for a path forward, and I haven't found one; I'd appreciate anyone's insight. My actual work could be done on a Chromebook, but in my free time I do a lot of music recording, which requires me to have an SD c
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by veridies 8y ago
Width isn’t really the right measurement. Yeah, a carrier has to blanket the US, but any given user only uses a small fraction of that, and they have users all over the country. Density seems like a better standard.

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