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> Producers invariably have favourite, go-to plug-ins which are instrumental to their artistic identity.

Lol. Most producers talk about how the plugins are fairly interchangeable, and almost none of them will really change how you work or the sound you get. The VST / plugin market seems really saturated. Not like it’s so saturated that you can’t make money, but any problem you want solved is likely solved by a battery of different plugins.

People fetishize hardware and talk about how it’s essential to the sound that they want, and usually, when you dig into it, you can replace 95% of your hardware with something else and end up with something nearly indistinguishable. There might be some synth or guitar pedal that you are in love with, or even several, but it rarely turns out to be critical to your personal sound. Like, if you want to sound like Van Halen, maybe you want to buy an EVH cab, but don’t bother tracking down exact replicas of guitars and amps… despite the fact that fans obsess over his guitars and amps, that stuff is easy to replicate.

The software side is similar, it’s just that most people don’t fetishize specific pieces of software beyond, say, drooling over a few big names like Serum, Omnisphere, or Pro Tools.

> Once monopolisation is achieved, enclosure accelerates, locking users into an ecosystem with few alternatives or competitors.

I’m not convinced monopolization is going to happen. What I see happening today is that the software and hardware is so cheap it’s ridiculous. The prices have been falling for ages. More companies are making this stuff than ever before. The platform seems wide open. Tons of free VSTs, even good ones, abound from tons of different software companies. Real analog synth hardware is way cheaper (Behringer) than it ever was, even in nominal dollars.

Meanwhile, a lot of the stuff you see at music stores seems to be glorified toys. DAWless setups aimed at Instragram or YouTube which are terrible for producing music, but look good on video. I’m not trying to be gatekeeper here and say what “real music” is, or how you should make it, but there are segments of the music equipment industry which are competing against Lego. That’s where the money is.

After all, real, working musicians seem to have less money these days, so it’s only natural that the industry shifts. As far as I can tell, this is what an infusion of capital will be aiming at—people with discretionary income that love music toys (whether or not they actually make music with it—it varies).

That quote from Adorno is really wedged in there, I guess you gotta show off who you read.
Not sure yet. I just started a new job and I’m not sure if I’ll make it past the probationary period or if I’ll even want to.

It was a mistake to take it, with some alarming red flags from the very beginning, during the interview process, but I took it because I wasn’t getting many appealing options, and felt the money would be worth it. It was also moderately different than what I’d done in that last and would have a higher career value (in terms of work done, tech used, skills gain) than any of my prior work.

I’m sure I’ll perform fine technically, but culturally, I picked up on some concerns from day one and by day two I already saw them start to manifest. I figure in a month or two I’ll be able to tell whether I’m likely to be pushed out or not. I could start the job hunting process again now, but the results were pretty bad a month or two ago and it’ll just add more logistical problems. I’m already a bit stressed and unable to sleep with is just furthering the issues.

I’m just burnt out from the career in general. All the options available to me suck in one way or another. In my dreams, I’d just quit and go back to school, or even less realistic disappear and bounce arounds and travel while I figure things out, but both of those are financial suicide and would likely land me homeless without a fat paycheck backing them up.
> Can anyone explain to me why Asians despite having some of the highest scores and GPAs have the lowest rate of admissions to some of the wokest institutions in America?

Because of legacy admissions, also known as “rich white kids skipping the line in spite of low GPAs”. There’s nothing “woke” about Ivy Leagues…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/23/elite-school...
From the article:

“A UCLA study published late last year found that 1 in 5 California Community College students, 1 in 10 California State University students and 1 in 20 UC University of California students were experiencing homelessness.”

http://transformschools.ucla.edu/stateofcrisis/
To me, that sounds a lot like a 2 year old type of behavior. Does anybody really even care what a TLD is or is "meant" to be used as? Honestly, if it's not a .com, most people are going to screw up and add .com out of sheer habit.

It's the friggin' internet. If it's out there, someone will do something they feel like doing with it even if that's not the originally intended concept.
> Anyone whose main income is from other peoples rent has an incredible amount of explaining to do if they want to claim that they are anything but a useless leech

What would you envision as the alternative to tenanted apartment complexes?

Let’s say you could wave a wand and outlaw rental housing as a business. Do you think the world would be a better or worse place?
Bedrock edition already has microtransactions. Unlike what many JE players think you can still download resource packs, skins, maps, etc off the intend instead of the marketplace.
I believe the paper's author was Newell, but the USC professor was Dr. Kuehl (Dr. Cool :-). He was teaching Linear Systems when I was there and always had some really great "real world" applications of the stuff we were learning.
I run a free virtual coworking community. Going over 15 users isn’t uncommon. Though since it is based around coworking and accountability, most users are closer to spectators than active participants.

I’m not putting shade on Meet. Haven’t used it in over a year.
Facebook plans to shut down facial recognition system
Car rentals?

Tool rentals?

Camera equipment rentals?

Leeches, all of them?
Yes but it's a little more complicated than just rates. It's a multitude of factors including perceived worth, available cash, financing rules, supply, new construction costs, etc.

People need to be willing to sign their lives away to pay off houses, otherwise rates would also be strongly tied to the price of everything from cars to toothpaste (they are very loosely, but those things don't cost 3x what they did in 2014).
Related explanation: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7131/what-is-the...
I am not a fan of denial & resistance arguments. Do bad thing X. Try to convince others that X is good and its failure of acceptance is just people's denial. Next step is the well-known psychological curve that you will accept X eventually. This can be applied indiscriminately to anything one wants to push without having to defend the specifics. We should instead question all assertions - there is no law out there that denial always precedes acceptance.
Pretty rich to call them victims.

They have benefitted from a large amount of revenue and if they wanted, they could have easily prevented foreign registrations by requiring a mailing address in the country or that the registered site has some tie to the region. Like your example of .cat.

What exactly have these countries lost?
This fails on !wsl windows (no `cat`.) Or on *nix if `ssh-keygen` is missing (minimal VM image? new box?) Or on *nix if I absentmindedly used `bash` specific syntax and I'm now in a real `sh` shell. And this is for basic SSH setup!

An aborted script has a good chance of having left things in a broken, half-constructed state, such that simply re-executing the script results in more errors. Attempting to manually resume the script midway will have likely discarded important env variables that I must now figure out how to reconstruct.

...which isn't to say the scripting approach doesn't have value - poor checklist discipline by my coworkers has led me to painstakingly automate more than one perfectly fine checklist, and some stuff is quite scripting friendly - but I've also written my share of scripts that ate up more time in debugging and troubleshooting than I ever saved by writing them in the first place.
> MMO’s are almost exclusively played in 3rd person perspective in part because looking at eye level prevents you from seeing behind the person in front of you

I mean, yes I agree. There are some workarounds, i.e. you could jump, in VR it’s very fast to swivel your head, look around the people in front of you or look behind you.

That said, I very much agree, I wouldn’t want to play WOW in VR. The DBM style warning zones on the ground alone would kill the UX. Meanwhile, as a HPally, I played WOW primarily in 2D :)(specifically raid frames). I’m very certain I would continue to play VR WOW in 2D as well. Some sort of console attached to my arm or floating in front of me to 1. See who has my beacon/buffs/debuffs 2. Quickly chose targets to spot heal or cure.

However, I’m very excited to try the second big VR-first MMO (basically the WOW not the EverQuest) built exclusively for VR!!!

Maybe, it’s a lot more skill shots, maybe it’s more aoe heals. I can’t even imagine how spot heals or cures would be targeted. Maybe it would feel like being a QB and Id need to literally throw Madden style spirals to land my spot heals??? THAT COULD BE SICK (although that skill floor/cap might be too high to balance boss fights well).

I’m not smart enough to predict the actual implementation. But I know there is enough money to be made that someones will iteratively make it happen.
Our 'natural' hamburger is already being 'processed' by well- and long-bred cow 'laboratories' on 'factory farms'. Tipoff: the burgers don't look or smell like grass (or whatever cows eat these days, besides antibiotics and meat and bone meal).

The big question, of course, is how much methane these 'laboratories' will produce! ';-)
That is why his statement there is no proof mRNA is safe is so ridiculous. That is not far from saying that there is no proof chemicals are safe. I don’t think we have any disagreement, I agree with you. It’s just ridiculous uninformed blanket skepticism I disagree with.
Once, I saw the employees get frustrated in a nominally high security environment with the contractors not being able to even directly access their dev env without scheduling a visit days in advance (the contractors were all hours away) while having the employees stare over their shoulder the entire time. They were trying to debug an issue that sometimes came up in dev/prod but not in the contractors' local copy of dev.

The employees set up TeamViewer on their "dev" server and promised the contractors in writing that this all had sufficient permission, this was a dev server, and the credentials on the dev server were not going to get them into anything else that might be troublesome by mistake.

The last of those three statements was accurate. As you might imagine, TeamViewer on a nominally tightly controlled network was not even in the same hemisphere as acceptable...

...and while debugging, the contractors made an incompatible DB schema change on dev to see if it fixed something, only to get a nasty surprise when the employees ran to them within an hour or so asking what they had done, because by "dev" they meant "prod".

I don't really have a great moral for this story, other than maybe "netsec/infosec teams need to actually work with other teams and not just be opaque sources of fiats, or people are going to work around them to get things done instead of trying to work with them, and that's going to end poorly for everyone."
If the process takes a long time, it should be okay to just start the list from scratch and click OK a few times.
Of course; no tool is perfect. But in the general case, they're good enough, and they do help.

For example, I manage nodes with Puppet, and Puppet can and will "clean" things like sudoers.d, yum.repos.d, nginx.conf.d etc. of files that it does not manage.

I don't do this for every possible directory because so far configuration drift in those has not been a problem and generally whatever comes from the packages by default functions fine and crucially, the system can be rebuilt from scratch using the configuration that is managed, so the important bits are there.

I will simply start managing more directories as needed.
Right but the fact that these are two separate roles strikes me both as bureaucratic overhead and a fundamental lack of trust in individual engineers. If I were approached to enact something like readability, I would veto it immediately. We hire engineers because we trust them. Part of that trust means that engineers occasionally wade into codebases they don't understand in languages they don't know and need to make contributions, but we trust them to not make a mess. Do some of them make messes? Undoubtedly. Is the magnitude of the mess, multiplied by the number of engineers, worth the creation of an entire readability certification process? I don't think so.
> This no longer exists. You need Twitter in perpetuity. If for some reason you’re banned from Twitter (often there’s no reason at all) there goes an entire career and audience you’ve built for years.

Tell it to Josh Rogan.
The funding that you were granted covered your full traditional salary and not a shoe-string budget? I really want to do graduate studies full time but I'm struggling to figure it out financially.
I mean, after 40 years as a programmer, can't you retire or look for a better lower paying job?
While what you say is true, I think GP is ultimately correct. You can have a system define a convention and allow bypassing it, instead of forcing everyone to start from scratch. In fact, this is the approach that pretty much any modern service at Google will use.
FYI this is a gift that requires knowing the recipient well. One of my aunts got me and my sister some scratchers one year and we were pretty disappointed, a few minutes later and we managed to turn $30 into $3. Maybe we would enjoy it more if we were gamblers? But we would never buy a lotto ticker or a scratcher ourselves.
Seriously. I don’t have time to do the things I need to do, much less the things I want to do. I haven’t had time for TV, books, movies, etc. in years.
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Wikipedia says of Quillette:

Described as libertarian-leaning, Politico and Vox reported that Quillette has been associated with the "intellectual dark web", a term used, according to Politico, to describe "a loose cadre of academics, journalists and tech entrepreneurs who view themselves as standing up to the knee-jerk left-leaning politics of academia and the media.

So yours is a totally fair question.

If this is indeed a topic worth debating, then there must be better sources.
> More specifically, the way we use the web today to navigate from webpage to another is how we we traverse the metaverse. The core problem that needs to get solved right now is interoperability, to enable the "web of 3D".

May be I lack vision, but I'm not able to understand why we need this. What I have realised during lockdown is that I don't want to or can be fully immersed in one thing. I'm always multi-tasking different things on a computer and in a real world around me. Metaverse seems to be opposite of that. So while it was an interesting demo, it felt very unintuitive to me at this point.
So if a landlord owns property in a low income (higher risk) area, then it's ok?
> I'm very annoyed at having to socialize in an office vs. just being able to show up and work. 100% I would rather work through my afternoons than go do team building activities

This is part of the reason I felt like work from home was kind of "the great equalizer" via the way it took those who coast by on social capital down and increased the visibility of the non-social high producers. At my firm at least we laid off some middle management who were highly visible but weren't big contributors for specific deliverables during the pandemic.
Wouldn't substances with different molecular weights tend to separate out from each other simply due to gravity while still in liquid form?
1. I had a controller with 512 bytes of program store, and I need to be able to adjust timing to adjust for distances and variable line speed. I implemented an NCO, and a PLL to take pulses from one of the pullies on the belt, and was able to get everything working across a wide range of speeds and offsets, and add another feature, with 2 bytes left over. ;-)

2. I needed to allow users to edit the questions in a survey system back in the days of MS-DOS. I implemented a system where the had edit fields that matched the display on the portable computers, and then gave them 2 branches for yes/no questions... they could chain them any way they wanted, and it worked.

3. I needed to detect an infrared laser to aid in the alignment of inter-building communication links... it turns out that if you put an infrared filter over a solar cell, you can build a detector fairly cheap. I built an accompanying box to send an audio frequency sine wave into the transmitter.

4. I had a small program that searched through a megabyte of text back in the DOS days... it was deemed too slow... (30+ seconds)... I wrote a small loop that used the XLAT instruction to do a pattern match, shifting a bit through the accumulator until it got to a carry, which was a match... time was less than 3 seconds.

Yeah... bragging about accomplishments is fun
>fight for what's right when others appear to moan and carry on

This is called being a toxic employee, I've come to think of that as a good thing but it's definitely not a career move.

Good story though, can definitely relate
Are any of those accessible to hobbyists? As in, can I order a pair of glasses and have a reasonably open SDK?
There is another, opposite force that manifests in humans arising from almost the same inputs, they will often happily tolerate 99% friction, as long as they actually get at least those few 1% of wins.

Even with a ton of nice safe ossified process to make the owners feel safe, if you just make it a policy to give them a win once in a while, they'll live off of that and not even be all that unhappy.

The 99% friction is felt less like a waste and more like a high bar.

I think in a lot of places, they just don't allow even that calculated IV drip of dignity and purpose.
There's no such thing as an oneshot if you're creating a system that someone will actually use and depend on.

All systems have a lifecycle, and even on a "trivial" system you have backups, access, monitoring, logging and security maintenance to worry about even before you consider how installing any useful software affects those things.

There are exceptions to any rule, of course, and I did in fact create a system where the configuration management is a snapshot backup just two weeks ago; but that system has no data on it, its lifecycle is expected to last for less than a year, and if/when it breaks, a backup restore can be performed without any additional considerations. It was also an emergency installation into a network that's not easily accessible with SSH, which is why I did not just use Ansible from the start.

I thought it would be a oneshot, but I did end up having to create a second instance of the system a few days later, fortunately with less emergency :P

Still even ignoring that, I fail to see what could possibly be overkill about literally 3 small files in a git repository. You call "overengineering" what is to me "5 minutes of effort with extremely relevant upsides". That's literally how much time it would take me to create a playbook for unbound if I already know what the configuration needs to look like; probably less, but most of the time will be lost to context-switching overhead.

My point being, most of the time will be spent actually configuring the software and the automation overhead is nothing in comparison compared to the value you get from it, and that's why I generally automate things by default: It provides more value than I put in effort.

When you start of learning configuration management and infra automation tools, there's a learning curve; in the beginning, you will be "wasting" time learning (what a silly statement) how to use your tools effectively, but with practice, you will learn how to effectively use the tools and where to apply them and how to approach managing specific kinds of systems such that over time, using the automation tools is simply easier and faster than doing it manually. That's what I meant when I mentioned "higher quality" earlier; you get it for free, with no effort, once you've put in a bit of practice first. It just sounds to me like you're arguing against doing things well in favour of doing things with strictly inferior tools.
a quick look at the "sunlight" document on city salaries, shows about 12,000 employees of the city overall

construction coordinator: starting $76k per year, grades $80k to $98k per year

construction & maintenance supervisor II: starting $98k per year, grades $100k to $120k per year

construction field inspector: starting $81k per year, grades $81k to $100k per year

pavement management supervisor: starting $77k per year, grades $80k to $94k per year

every listed position has 401k retirement and health care benefits. why waste time proving this when urban decay is a constant, documented situation? certainly some cities have failed budgets from the 2008 era, thats true, but not in this case.

this is the same city that was voted "worst unfixed potholes in the continental US" recently in some media outlet
Bits are not unlimited; entities in a virtual world consume real resources, which are finite and have cost.
There was a Kaggle Competition in case you missed it. At least here you can see what kind of features they are using and what models people employed. See https://www.kaggle.com/c/zillow-prize-1
I should add that open source is always looking for more people to fund it too.
not every situation can be fixed
Not necessarily. https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
Looks a lot like Vagrant, albeit possibly more streamlined. (That's a compliment:])
I absolutely love how these are complete, self-contained programs with the output illustrated. Thank you. This is a wonderful resource.
Cheat Sheets that always save my time during web development
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu
What do nothing scripts automate is on the human side, particularly the shift of focus. It's perhaps correct to call them along the lines of "thought automation" or "decision automation" scripts.
Which affiliate link? https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Analysis-Tuning-Modern-CP... doesn't seem to be one to me, unless I missed something in the URL.
1 in 20 UC students is really high. UCSD has 31k undergraduate students, and that would mean around 1500 homeless students just at one campus?

I wonder if this is a side effect of the high tuition even for in-state students.

Edit: correct number of homeless students.
Yeah, and reinvent them in Node.js!
Why one of the Internet's oldest images lives on without its subject's consent?
How to Scale Web Application: Tips and Techniques
Yeah it’s pretty shocking that ~20% of community college students are some kind of homeless. And particularly shameful when contrasted with the stock market continually hitting all time highs. Not really sure who society is for anymore.
This is true. But in your point I assume you are talking about the company who is doing the facial recognition I assume. But that is not the case really. Even if the person uses a home grown tech, the person can eventually share it to another dataset.

A good example is me refusing to share my photo with my friends for that app which turns you into an old guy. Another friend just out of spite shared a personal photo he has of me. Now my photo is in this Russian database which does data mining.

For better privacy, you being careful is not enough. You need to make sure everyone around you are privacy oriented. And we need to make systems that make that happen. Opt in privacy is not effective.