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No, it doesn’t have feelings - it would be like asking your washing machine to please wash your pants? Anthropomorphising LLMs seems deeply unhealthy.

I wish I could upvote this 10 times! I love the film - blew my mind when I saw it on cable just after it came out.

There was a lot of work done on the RE_303 and the Pixie CPU (303/606) - I don't know much about it but it might give you another more recent vector to explore: https://github.com/sunflowr/recpu?tab=readme-ov-file

(I built one and as far as I know the Pixie CPU was the 303 code + MIDI)

Try and talk to the other seniors? Last time I joined (fully remote) I asked all the other seniors for a 1 to 1 - not all replied but I learnt a huge amount about past projects, what people would have done differently and where the pain points were. Meant I could get a jump on the issues rather than find out slowly. You also get a sense of the weather and who you can vibe with. Oh yeah, taking notes about everything!

When I was a kid I thought the future would obviously be more “Star trek” as it had such a compelling interior logic. Sad times. Makes me want to go back and review the Picard years.

If you're transcribing written music then it's fairly straight forward - you program the pitches in one round, press a button and input the note length values. If however you want to jam around like you might with any other seqencer driven synth I find it's too much to keep in your head so a pencil and paper with a 303 sequencer grid on it is pretty essential.

The Behringer lets you connect to an app via USB so you can program it that way too.

The sound engine is easy to use and the knobs encourage experimentation - the interaction of the filter, the envelope and the accent is where the fun is. And of course the slide!

“Never whistle while you’re pissing” - Robert Anton Wilson in Illuminatus trilogy.

I notice there isn’t a lot of the actual performance? Banjo and synthesiser is always a tough call.

Not easy at home in London. Our flat would not allow a cargo bike (1st floor) and there is no where outside to lock it safe and dry.

60,000 people on a 4 year waiting list for on street bike parking:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-cyclists-bike-...

Getting on the front page is hit and miss - this was interesting yesterday: https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/

For what it's worth I didn't read the article and come away thinking well of Chevron. I'm sure it's biased, but I read it and was shocked by his treatment, came here to read more.

I take the point for sure, and escaping constraints can be valuable - but we must all be familiar with the 'great wo/man' syndrome where everything they say is right and doesn't need editing or even questioning...

What I don't get in these conversations is why no one mentions the role of the editorial team?

Expecting even a great journalist to write consistently interesting and clear pieces on their own is like letting a musician record without a producer. It might be good for a while but the chances are a great producer is going to even out the output and make a tremendous difference in depth, quality and accessibility. To say nothing of checking the wilder excesses.

These discussions which focus on the stars ignore the team so necessary for consistent and readable articles. I suppose the lone genius idea has an inexorable fascination.

It seems weird to me that people would disregard the input of the artist and producer who will have painstakingly mixed the original - surely that is as much a part of the art form as the music in many cases? I'm thinking of records like "Bitches Brew" where you couldn't just go back to the master recordings and recreate them without Miles in the room.

Though I guess the early stereo mixes for e.g. The Beatles were often done without the band's input simply because no one was interested in the stereo mix - it was all about the mono mix. 2nd Engineer Richard Lush said “The only real version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the mono version.

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/sgt-peppers-lonely-hear...

The format controversy runs and runs!

The thing is that wind and sheer volume of air tend to mitigate the pollution but in the home the air can stay static.

This reminds me of Philip Larkin - Vers de Société where he opines that, now, "All virtue is social." He had no idea...

Ale is great - lints, checks, fixes - rules my world. A little complex to get going for multiple languages but when you do it's very powerful.

BTW worth checking https://github.com/justinmk/vim-dirvish as a lightweight alternative to NerdTree or netrw.

In London minicabs and black cabs are very different. Black cabs can be hailed whereas minicabs have to be booked and are regulated differently.

I've been using the same set of parrot zik v1's for about 7 years. Cons: heavy, 6 hour battery life Pros: good sound, comfortable (for all day wear), over ear - so good for blocking out the extraneous noise, funky design

I quite often check mixes I'm working on from home while day jobbing on them and they are not studio grade, but they are good clear revealing without too much hype in any of the frequency ranges - they are a little 'smooth' compared to studio quality, but that seems good in a set of headphones that are primarily for blocking out noise.

I replaced the ear pads for the first time this year - now good as new.

It reads like a spoof, like if Paul McCartney wrote a manifesto for why he should be considered the cutting edge of rock.

Mine was flickering on a Dell external monitor. It didn't happen so much if you had it as the main monitor (i.e. the one the tab-application switcher appeared on). Other wise it would constantly go into power saving mode and then come back on - works fine with Debian!

I think the threat implied would be that if all of our beliefs are essentially meaningless then nihilism might appear to be the logical outcome.

That is largely what I believe (about beliefs) - they are cute but meaningless.

or update

$ brew update && brew upgrade vim --HEAD

I'm always reminded of number 43 in the list of Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument "You used to program in Pascal, didn't you?" http://www.pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.htm...

(And yeah I did - I liked it too!)

If you grew up in the 90's in the UK you'd sort of recognise something from stuff like the road protest movement, free parties etc - the ubiquitous hi-viz jackets of the police. To understand the cultural context think about those lines of Hunter S Thompson about the hippie movement as a wave of love and optimism. This diorama is what is left behind when the wave breaks and ebbs away. I wonder if the serotonin receptors in Jimmy's brain have just burnt out - maybe that is why it's so bleak...

Vim? Takes some setting up/learning but everything I ever wanted is 'out there'. Amazing plugins for git, linting, code completion, whatever you can think of some one has done/is doing. I used to use Textmate a lot, tried sublime, Atom etc. I'll never go back. (Sorry, but someone had to be 'that guy'.)

I loved the interface design and discovery. There was a lot to like about Rdio, but no gapless playback? C'mon who wants to listen to Darkside of the Moon with a 2 second pause between each track?

They have an iterm2 theme https://github.com/YabataDesign/afterglow-itermcolors , gets you partway there (on a mac).

It hurts my brain. I'm not going to complain about it though.

Every time I re-read this I think of the hours it's saved me over the last few years - history is important!

Speaking as a recent convert to Fastmail from Gmail and Dreamhosts roundcube offering I have to say Fastmail is a hell of a lot better experience, it's quick, uncomplicated, and slick with great keyboard shortcuts. Roundcube on Dreamhost is fine for what it is but couldn't be compared with Gmail in terms of usability, Fastmail can. Don't get me wrong I'm not sure its as good as Gmail (spam protection for example is not as good), but you're getting a vastly better webmail experience than Roundcube.