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by zeruch 4y ago
A modern improviser that uses microtonal scales a lot is guitarist Dave "Fuze" Fiucynski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWM6xRGoGcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWxV7u8Zm4I&ab_channel=Berk
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by zeruch 4y ago
No.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Everything.
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by zeruch 4y ago
No, generally in terms of QOL. If you make less, but what you have goes further (because of offsets like national health services and otherwise functioning societies)there are some tradeoffs that some folks are ready to make.
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by zeruch 4y ago
You don't. Unless you plan ahead and live well below your means, the volatility of what attracts so many new people into this industry will never afford you a relaxed moment, particularly when they do everything possible to keep you sp
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by zeruch 4y ago
Susannah Melvoin is the twin sister of Wendy Melvoin, who was Prince's guitarist in the Revolution for several years. The stories that both have from their tenures with Prince could fill several very readable tomes.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I used Joplin for about a year, then switched to Obsidian. Joplin is/was good (and on mobile was nice and responsive) but Obsidian just (so far) has been a better overall fit.
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by zeruch 4y ago
A/B testing (which is getting users to respond/react to a UX event, and choosing which outcome is more suited to the business) is considerably different from "can we manipulate users up front, to perceive or react to things a
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by zeruch 4y ago
"That's all well and good procedually." Which is all I was referring to. "Maybe we should reevaluate what the system prioritizes making easy and what it makes hard. Don't you think? " Doesn't matter what
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by zeruch 4y ago
"are considerable and have value in a court of law" What is that value and in which court? The point is the prosecutors went for what they could reasonably prosecute on, with evidence available.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Every 'era' has some set of folk who think whatever hot thing is "invincible" and all of them are wrong, every time. Even in cases like Apple (which was very vincible for a long time) and IBM (which is the only major fir
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by zeruch 4y ago
I always found his harmolodic concepts interesting, if delivered unevenly. I feel like some of his proteges did a better job implementing the ideas that Ornette did sometimes (e.g. Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, or some of
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by zeruch 4y ago
"I think it's a little more complicated than that." Agreed, but decades of observation tell me there is more than enough supply across the shitpost to troll spectrum to go around :)
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by zeruch 4y ago
"While you have a point, this process may make it harder to be a troll." Trolls are not lazy. If anything, their efforts are hype fixated.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Blender has indeed been a much more "slow overnight success" than I suspect GIMP will ever be, and that's unfortunate, because its not like GIMP is lacking in the potential.
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by zeruch 4y ago
JellyFin would be my server of choice if not for one nagging issue; it doesn't play nice with Chromecast OTB (also, subtitle management is a bit winky, but its been a while so maybe thats changed). Hence I'm still on the ever-dec
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by zeruch 4y ago
I haven't used CDE since I was playing with Solaris AT SUN back in the 90s...wow.
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by zeruch 4y ago
That's been the feeling of many of us for years (literally, when I knew a few of the GIMP folks back in my VA Linux days I rattled off stuff I thought was valuable and some of its still not there...mostly around the baroque UX, 20+ yea
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by zeruch 4y ago
...they'd be deeply confused, and likely revolt at the satire, mistaking it for jingoism.
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by zeruch 4y ago
In the 80s, most teens could rattle off some measure of nuclear stats, in between bouts of jingoistic refrains. We were more technically literate, and still dangerously stupid. "Just reiterates how important it is to ensure that weapo
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Its actually difficult for me to believe that any elite would be stupid enough to think they could survive an earth environmental catastrophe in space." You underestimate the raw power of untethered hubris, fueled by venality.
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by zeruch 4y ago
One weird story I heard was some people who were there when Steve left and still there when he returned were called into his office to be berated for...lack of loyalty to his vision? I've only heard it twice, and only once in any detai
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by zeruch 4y ago
LI has been gradually but surely towards wanting to be a broader-appealing "social network" which utterly makes them nearing "jump the shark" territory.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"All the words are meaningless if twitter says otherwise. It’s really like living under a medieval king who is a law unto himself." That's every company policy, ultimately. C-Suites and the like exist partially to do "ex
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by zeruch 4y ago
"It doesn't have to be a lot of links, if you piss off the wrong people and they massreport you you're temporarily out." Or permanently. I once responded to an inane Kardashian tweet with a very dry restatement that she
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by zeruch 4y ago
Conway's Law is sorely overlooked. It really does have broad applicability in the industry, and sometimes you can use it to evaluate vendors better (read: this product is a bit haphazard...the vendor probably is also. Warning.)
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by zeruch 4y ago
I did, but it required taking a 4 month bit of self-exile and then starting a new place within the industry (different vertical) such that there was enough familiarity for me to not feel totally un-moored, but enough newness to make it fres
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by zeruch 4y ago
I watch it in part or whole, monthly (sometimes I swap it for the film, or for Smileys People...once I swapped it for The Night Manager, but that wasn't as comforting).
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by zeruch 4y ago
I don't see the click-bait, but I do agree on "I think it would be much more interesting to talk about the intersection of wealth[1] and large-format painting."
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by zeruch 4y ago
Hilma was brilliant, but I feel like so much of the attention to her as of late has been around her "mysticism" and not the sheer breadth of her artistic work. Obviously one influences the other, but for me at least, I'm happ

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