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I've been working for the past few years to build better (and free) tools for DJs and artists. I'm interested in the mixing (pun in tended) of arts and technology, and in creating communities in healthier spaces than Facebook, for example. It would be fun to find other artists to share ideas and collaborate on projects.

In addition of the most visible project which is a streaming site for DJs called Slipmat.io, I've also built a ton of related tooling around the process of planning, preparing and hosting (live) radio shows, for example:

- Playlist parser for converting playlists from DJ software to text and/or HTML for aftermarketing: https://playlists.slipmat.io

- POC show scripting app for collaborative planning of radio shows: https://scripter.labs.slipmat.io

- POC app for planning and organizing (virtual or physical) festivals across several timezones: https://eventplanner.vercel.app

- A tool for DJs to take requests during live events using their DJ app music collection as a source for listeners to search from (early demo from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9HkLoKrTqs )

- A simple desktop soundboard app w/ MIDI-control: https://github.com/slipmatio/soundboard

I have a vision of building basically the GitLab for artists: a comprehensive tool stack for collaborative planning and playing live shows, marketing, and connecting with listeners, all in one easy to use place.

The current stack of all my projects is Python (Django, Starlette/FastAPI) and TypeScript (Vue). I've recently started to re-write the older stuff and in the process open source the parts. All the recent projects are now on GitHub: https://github.com/slipmatio

If you're interested in collaboration or testing out some of these tools, you can contact me either by email ville @ the project domain, or ping @uninen on twitter :)
That sounds like a better approach. Taxes are used to encourage some behaviors and discourage others.

If you want to have families own their detached homes, make it so that their self-declared primary residence is taxed very little. You can own as many houses as you wish – but the more you own, the higher the tax rate on all the extra ones which are considered “small”. Then families can have a house or two, or maybe even three – whatever you consider a “reasonable” amount. Then businesses can own as many 50-unit condominiums and office complexes as they want, without any diminishing returns. However, it could be economically impractical to own more than, say, two “small” homes – if you have to pay yearly homeownership tax on each “small” home that is not your primary residence, of 20% of the property value for each one that you own. You own five – you pay 100% of value of each of them every year. You own one extra house – you sponsor a new house for a new family once every five years.

But that would require some political will to screw over the rich people. And those are the people who are building the houses in the first place, so you'd also need to ensure that families can build a home for themselves if the businesses are not willing to build property they can't profit off by renting it out instead of selling.
Why would I purchase something that is actively hostile to my interests so much that I don't want it to connect to the internet? Doesn't sound like anything I'd want in my house.

It seems to me that if you stop paying companies working against your interest money, or only pay them money for products that aren't against your interest, you're probably going to do a lot better in the long run in terms of protecting your interest from unethical corporate raiders.
Expensive TVs have the same bullshit.
Nuke Kyiv, claim all land east of Dnieper, exterminate/send remaining Ukr population to Siberian gulags. Its still on the table.
Looking for Senior engineering manager / software architect roles

Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:
Web and Mobile Applications, B2B APIs and IPaaS integrations, JAVA, PYTHON, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, CSS, ORACLE

Email: rajeevayyar@gmail.com
True but being employed goes a long way to giving the perception that you are employable so in the cases that the decision is a toss-up between an unemployed person and an employed one I’d be willing to bet the employed one wins almost every time.
Because they sold it to you. They're who set the price and took your money. They sold you defective goods. Why shouldn't it be their problem?
There are a significant amount of TVs that won't let you do TV things until you give 'em a network connection.
Junk is an appropriate easy-access word. Would you be happier if geneticists told you junk DNA was mainly highly repetitive mobile element DNA derived originally from exogenous viruses? In general this junk does not make proteins and its expression as RNA is often actively suppressed.

The human genome is littered with cruft and dumb code comments just like you would expect for very very old code.
Handing out vouchers will increase the demand causing prices to rise. If you give people $10,000 to buy a house, congrats! You just made houses $10,000 more expensive.

Do you live in a skyscraper? Does anyone want to live in a skyscraper? I don't.
Then where do people live who can't afford to buy if renting is gone
I'm not that easy!
Considering we’ve had housing cycles since records have been kept and the last major price correction was 14 years ago I doubt “this will last 40 years”.
Just understand that those sticks have very similar dark patterns and privacy problems.
What kind of "functional change" did Bose do to your speakers, and how? And what happened when you took them -- where? -- to return them?
Obviously the Rust (etc.) stack would have to be reviewed in beta for a while before being declared ready for prime time (no pun intended). The OpenSSL primitives don't try to defeat power analysis as far as I know (that's more for smart cards and HSM's), and they mostly don't try to defeat timing analysis (e.g. the DES and AES implementations use lookup tables). On the other hand with DJB's primitives, it's harder to get that wrong. This is for symmetric crypto: public-key is more complicated.

Part of the reason C programs need such intense review and shakedown is that C itself is so hazardous. When you write in better languages, issues tend to settle out faster.

I don't claim to be a major crypto wizard like DJB, but I've been at it a while, have been in the industry, know other implementers shipping significant products and can see that they do the same type of stuff that I do. The big brains in the field are e.g. mathematicians designing primitives. Merely implementing them is just engineering and following specs and standards. It's much less big of a deal.
No. Because the setup screen you get demands that you connect to the network and refuses to let you do anything with your dumb old dvd player until you give it network access.

Welcome to dark patterns.
But they didn't sell defective goods. They sold goods that were fit for purpose, and then the manufacturer deliberately destroyed them.
Yes it’s an expense but you’re not doing it out of charity it’s for the benefit of the company and so it is also a part of the job.
>all these would never filter down to affordable levels.

Another factor contributing to the same thing is that cities aren't closed systems. Building new units at the top of the market doesn't mean that everyone in the city will move up one rung in quality leaving the cheapest unit now vacant. Many cities will have a latent demand for housing that is being suppressed by high prices. When that exists, someone from outside the city will move to the city to occupy the new construction or the newly vacated units at the top of the market. All that latent demand needs to be satisfied before the benefit of the new construction will trickle down to the bottom of the market.
Land being more expensive than the improvements atop it is a great milestone that your restrictive zoning is truly out of control, and that your area has probably bumped up against serious geographic constraints.

Which is to say, what you've described is a signal to demolish and build higher intensity, while the filtering happens elsewhere.
My main disagreement with the article is the attempt to plant the religious conservative flag on objecting to casinos and gambling. Many american progressives, the european left and center parties, even the chinese communists almost unanimously object on these practices. In fact I'd say that anyone with a rudimentary sense of morality would not think of casinos as a net positive.
No mention of Prince?
That’s a terrible idea.

So if I decide to build a new apartment building and cant sell all the units, you’ll do is me from renting them out in the mean time?

Sounds like building new buildings isn’t worth doing now.
I disagree, but still respect your differing perspective.
That's between them and their suppliers. They should have picked better suppliers who didn't put them into the position they now find themselves.
Or you could be someone building this TV saving “this is great! By adding advertising now even low income people can afford a big screen TV!”
This is an interesting idea.

I can imagine textbooks on this platform but we a collaboratively constructed knowledge graph.

I'd love to jump on a call and chat.
"I hate ads. Hm, I know, I'll use Google products!"
I recently spent a week in the office with my team. First time I'd had office time with any team since mid-2018.

It was really, really, really nice.

I've been a diehard work-from-home guy for ages. Why spend perhaps 10+ hours per week commuting? It's a productivity and environmental nightmare.

But... sometimes?

Yeah. It's nice to be in the room with other smart people, solving hard problems. I didn't realize I missed it until I experienced it again. For the first time in years.

I think it also helps team cohesion. We're human beings, not robots. I think my ideal schedule would be "3 days at home, 2 in the office" per week or maybe "one week in the office, two weeks at home."

edit: I'm baffled by the polarized and inflammatory replies to this post. I was just relating a personal experience. I don't have opinions on how others should work. You want to be 100% fully remote forever? Cool. I don't think you're wrong. I'll continue to be remote a majority of the time, myself.
Above Avalon: Apple Is in a League of Its Own
Every snowflake is special but a snowflake is still a snowflake. Tumblr as a whole definitely had a certain way about it. Probably inherited from the personality of its founders. Otherwise my gothic poems would have fallen on deaf ears!
Reversible Jacket Pattern for web frontends and backends
Oh please. My 300$ 55" TCL TV with Roku does show ads for TV shows in the start menu, but it very far from what is described in this article. Same goes for my Fire Stick which is shows ads for their new shows in the main menu.

I have never interacted with any device that did something as egregious as adding a banner on live TV.
So again, you admit that Hillary broke the law but JD “read the mind” of Mr President and just let her off the hook.

Just for the record, compare this with other case (e.g. Flynn) where JD failed to “read the mind” and pushed all the federal government force against a person.
It’s over live tv.
how much do you want to spend? you could do it in a couple days if you use a few sequencers. how long would it take to assemble? how much do you want to spend, etc.

how useful is it? not very at the moment. most analysis is still around specific variants that are understood. most function is not understood.
I fully support the opposite to the current thing ( https://summit.news/2022/03/31/i-support-the-current-thing/ ) .
What would you recommend for someone who a) wants to see something as small as mushroom spores, and b) would like to take decent quality pictures of them? DSLR or smartphone mount if there's one that's not super fiddly?
At 26 I made the switch from manufacturing management to coding. I started practicing and just trying to apply my new skills everywhere I could within the job I had, even when using old approaches would have been better. I slowly moved in the direction of coding and now I am a full time dev. There's the cliche phrase "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Well I say just pick up the hammer and whack things and you eventually find the nail.
Trello has quite a few fun integrations. I have a board for my home improvement, so I have tasks for things like cleaning filters on a recurring basis. It posts updates to the Slack channel my wife and I share so she can also remind me to do things. I get quotes from contractors for jobs, and post them right to Trello through the Gmail integration.
With AC and a relatively congested area, I see 1/2 under poor conditions, 2/3+ normally. For example, forcing 144.4 Mbps negotiated (or 130 Mbps, one side is misreporting it) gives stable 100 Mbps throughput. Worth noting that a different AP does noticeably worse under the same conditions, more like 75-90 with high variance.

Unfortunately I can't effectively test the AP-reported ~ 600 Mbps throughput on 867 negotiated, but it's pretty accurate at lower bandwidth.
I met a couple early on in the pandemic who were waiting for the housing market to cool down before trying to buy a place. Prices have appreciated over 20% since they. From talking to my parents' generation, it seems like real estate seemed super expensive back then as well. I've come to the conclusion that real estate is always in such high demand that it always seems super expensive.
How close is wireless power technology?
The most recent TV that I hung on a wall in my house was actually a 42" 4k computer monitor with an external media device and a Bluetooth soundbar. I want absolutely no "interactive media center" stuff on the display itself. Just let me set the resolution, refresh rate, and color calibration, then anything relating to what media shows up on the display is under the complete control of whatever I plug into it.
“We acted in the best interests of our shareholders by not fucking our customers over and tanking our reputation.”

Companies can easily argue the point on stuff like this. Raw profit isn’t the only thing you can do for shareholder value.
France’s Far Right Turn
> Why not just never connect it to the network?

I don’t understand this take. I think it's pretty clear a lot of people use Netflix and YouTube and it's incredibly obvious that they wouldn't want to add an extra $100 for a lesser (read: non-integrated) experience to use it on their TV when the TV can do it natively. Of course I'm going to connect my TV to the internet, that's the only thing I use it for.

I think the only solution here would be for appliance vendors to have a "nutrition box" for privacy and advertising, so the user can pick the least obtrusive TV and the vendor cannot just add ads later.

But in the US I don't see that happening this decade.
You're making the point that someone else's experience can't possibly match yours: that's why they shouldn't claim to understand what you're going through.

The reverse is also true. Don't assume so casually that your experience is the only valid one.
If there's a company I'd want in the mix less than Vizio, it's Google.
It’s a pretty good bet that that low price is subsidized by customer tracking shared with advertisers and the display of ads.
Yes, and I do too and you are wrong—-it is not misleading at all—despite what ENCODE has claimed.

I suspect you have not had a recent course in population genetics.

Read Michael Lynch’s “The Origins of Genome Architecture” before you make dubious pronouncements. The human genome is a jungle of code and under rather weak selection due to small effective population size. There is a tremendous amount of cruft in all human genomes due to mobile element insertions and spread.
I only joined a little over a year ago. Site seems a bit buggy (some gifs fail to transcode to their gifv format yet still succeed in making a new post?). If anyone from tumblr is reading here, I just submitted a support ticket.
Even higher end brands like Samsung are pulling stuff like this.
Market forces demand constant growth, and in a saturated market this means some business unit manager will keep adding more invasive advertising as long as people keep buying the TVs.
This is the precise sentiment that I've had each time I've found PlayStation wants to update itself. With each update, I found the device I purchased to be worth less. If silicon could be depressed, I'd call it Sony.
If you're lucky you'll be included in a class action and get a $5 check in a few years.
There’s plenty of applications beyond using them as solvents, e.g. fuel injection in jet engines, Diesel, or rockets; cooling in power plants or rockets; drilling; power cycles, etc.
Seems like you're insinuating the public should blame the individual peons doing the shitty corporation's bidding rather than the shitty corporation itself. What do you want to do? Do you want to dox a bunch of engineers and middle managers and "cancel" them or something? How about just not buying Vizio products anymore? You can also spread the word and tell others not to patronize companies that do this sort of thing, as well. No need to start mobbing up on a bunch of low level schleps.
Ah thank you! This is the right way to think and comment.
Totally agree with you. And I totally get why some people would prefer golang.

Don't like how some constantly feel the need to compare golang and Rust (two very different languages), and how some feel like the comparison is always favorable to golang. Like you said -- there are tradeoffs. golang folks seems to have a problem acknowledging that Rust made a few good decisions too, like Result and Option types, mostly because they haven't ever used them.

It's hard for me to imagine someone using them (golang has generics now, so get ready!) and not liking them. Especially golang. It's just so weird to hear that someone describe one of the warts of golang as actually beautiful, instead of, as you say, a tradeoff.

Rust has a certain amount of friction. It takes some work to learn well enough to feel productive. I don't know if it's all that bad. But, yes, it is a clear tradeoff for people who mostly work in domains in which golang works well enough to really pretty great, like writing web servers.
I've got a samsung tv that asks to set up an account, but I can still apply firmware updates with a USB stick, and the TV works fine if you ignore the prompts, and you pretty much don't see the prompts if you use a 3rd party remote that asks for specific inputs.
For what it's worth, I've been reading your writing here for a long time, and to see you make a comment which allows for the possible existence of either structural barriers or discrimination in the contemporary United States made me feel as though today's discussion was less than 100% hopeless. That the structural barriers you cite apply to Appalachians doesn't bother me, they're a good example.
> Define “significantly impose”. That’s the basic problem,

I agree.

> existing near someone can have effects that are easy to justify in court

I had the impression this was a "mob rule" problem, that local voters were voting for zoning laws that limit the quality and quantity of new housing. I admit to not understanding the legal or moral justification. It just doesn't seem right to micromanage others to the extent that occurs today.

There are other countries that are much more flexible, like Japan [0]. Instead of single family single use zoning they start with three story multi-use housing. Some places in the U.S. are moving in this direction.

> decreasing or limiting increase on future land values

That can be flipped around. Someone who opposes new housing is taking value from the people who could have made use of that new housing, had it been allowed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk
> There was a time in the distant past when people thought you could only be virtuous by doing things: by helping the blind man across the road […] These things involve effort and self-sacrifice.

Or if that was too much effort you could just show up at church and complain about the heathens and their wicked ways.

Seems to me that what the author is saying is a new phenomenon is actually as old as civilisation.
Hahaha, I came to say the same thing. It's an obscure line ("I'll wrap your head in with a ratchet!") but anybody who ever heard it will instantly recall this Frank Rizzo classic. I wonder if the Nirvana guys got a chuckle or just read it quizzically.
How about high repetitive non-functional viral-derived DNA—aka junk ;-)
Does it help if you don't hook it up to wifi? Or does it leverage HDMI to get to internet connectivity?
This is one of those things I stupidly thought I understood when I was a Jr. Engineer, and now understand quite a bit differently after decades have gone by.

The more competent people weren’t necessarily the ones getting more things done, or the most visible, but were those engineers who understood the long term implications of what they were building, how it related to the business, and their relationship to other teams and customers. It’s trivial to be a good “performer” toiling away on a feature or system that shouldn’t exist. It’s exponentially harder to have the awareness to identify where the real problems are, and make sure you’re investing effort where it actually needs to go.
Yes, as a wild guess, putting 100ohm or 1000ohm resistors in series with each lead might make it safe for inputs and outputs, whether wired correctly or incorrectly. There is no need to keep low impedance to drive a speaker or headphone.
NYC doesn’t allow you to lease a rent-stabilized apartment unless you live in it. There have certainly been cases of fraud, but on the whole it seems to be enforced well enough.
And in 2001 I bought a 32-inch CRT television for about $1,600. That was normal then.
“My team” are in London, Chicago, Dallas, Cochin, and Bangalore and I’m in Seattle. Commuting to the office just makes it harder to get in early enough for the morning Zoom calls.
Thanks for looking into it. It's a missed opportunity; this application failure quite possibly cost you a customer loss. I am not sure when I'll be able to test it again.

I think you should cross-promote PikaPods more, and prominently, based on the popularity of your BorgBase. I noticed the following in my backup report, and that raised PikaPods' profile in my opinion; so I might cut PikaPods some slack, and try it again.

> The team behind BorgBase is launching a new container hosting service for open source apps...