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I suggest reading James Muldoon's "Love Machines" for a thorough answer to your question.

Mythic Beasts rents rpi servers: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi/ - there is a niche for it

Helsinki has many DCs connected to the district heating network, but it isn't realistic in places that don't have an existing network as creating one in the first place is a huge political/nimby issue. Amsterdam has been trying and failing for years.

this is for teams where you don't want to create passwords or keep track of ssh keys for everyone by hand. it greatly simplified our server usage as we can simply ssh user@machine and it just works. you can create access controls for it as well.

For anyone who misses the Second Life-style camera controls in Blender, I made this during the weekend: https://github.com/miunau/blender-secondlife-camera-addon

It makes navigating 3D spaces so much easier with keyboard and mouse.

You're correct, with Realtek AC97 devices the resampling used to sound absolutely horrendous. Like they picked the worst possible algo. It's not as big of an issue these days though.

Compressors destroy dynamic range. The idea is to normalize, not limit.

This is solved by using dvh (or svh) instead of 100% for height in the CSS.

How did you find Ulysses, was it a good read for you?

There are no financial or career incentives to optimise existing, working things in these institutions. The structures which these large companies use are for people working on new things, so that's what we get. Making office faster doesn't create headlines, but a new product that does the same thing somehow will.

We've used the Tado system with a central boiler and smart radiator knobs for a few years. It's worked fine and hooks up to Home Assistant and can do the things you describe. I'm sure there are some alternatives.

Yeah, there are loads of cables, converters etc. that I can't get even from Amazon. Aliex has been the only place.

James Sharman has been getting quite advanced with his homebrew cpu. He's got audio and VGA working too and was demonstrating a spinning 3D cube recently. https://www.youtube.com/@weirdboyjim

Why not start supporting Asahi financially, if you aren't already?

It happens a lot in creative fields. I personally get depressive after putting an album out, and I know I'm not alone in that based on discussions with other musicians. Something about being in the mode of making something for so long, and then it's just... done. When you're deeply involved in something, it changes your personality.

I agree with the value of not wanting to participate.

But your reasoning for denying individualism is myopic. Do you only count the ones that have words printed in 16 point type using a standard layout as books? There are all kinds of layouts available in book form. There are graphic novels. There are photography books. There are pop-up books. Books with braille. Books that have augmented reality elements in them. There are poetry books where words are deconstructed on the page, maybe with pages cut up deliberately. There's notes and opinions scribbled on the pages. Or you might get lucky and find some old leaves pressed in between there. Every possible individualistic concoction you can do with a bunch of paper and some form of printing exists, and if it doesn't yet, it will eventually.

There are plenty of people that like the Lisa Frank looking websites. You don't need to be one of them, but you don't need to be a boring person, either.

This goes for European countries as well. Even well-educated people, from whatever country locals deem undesirable at that moment, in general do not get the chance to work in jobs that suit their education. Sometimes these people have benefited from taxpayer funded education in that host country, but the prevalent racist attitudes exclude them from even getting job interviews. E.g. Finland is losing lots of immigrants they have spent lots of money educating to this- not helped by the policies of the current government- people they need to stay in order to plug the plummeting birth rate are forced to leave the country because there is nothing there for them besides rejection after rejection, or jobs that do not match their education.

They are hitting the plexiglass in front of the camera and crabs, so I assume it's nothing interesting to look at science wise.

I was using a netbook with a comparable CPU as a work machine around that time. Using the web with it wasn't fun back then either, on Windows or Linux. I don't think there's any point in time when these underpowered processors would've been fine to use for browsing mainstream sites.

You're arguing statistics and simultaneously need the difference between "median" and "average" explained to you. Sorry if I don't regard you as an authority of any kind.

Curious conclusions. Which data do you base this on? US median income is 5th in the world. There's Luxembourg, Norway and Switzerland before it. Consumer electronics are quite similarly priced in both places once you take sales tax into account in the US. Not to mention it's odd to talk about "European prices" in the first place. There's no euroblock-wide price fixing going on.

They still kind of exist, but now in the form of crappy ten-dollar knockoff handheld gaming devices that go into e-waste after the first 15 minutes.

OK...

How do you deal with large files? After about a thousand lines in a file, it starts to cough for me. Forgets that some functions exist and makes up inferior duplicate ones.

Could do worse than investing in some reels in this climate. At least they're fungible.

Your buddy might like https://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-simulathe-cut/ which simulates the vinyl grooves on your computer.

You jest, but R2R is what some audiophiles are generally on about as being the bees knees, and has been getting popular again. I like physical music, but the prices on those is too much. I have heard some really good sounding reels, though I can never shake the feeling that they just have been recorded really, really well, using expensive equipment I can't afford to even rent, and would've sounded the same having been recorded digitally.

Sorry.. but a sales team for 20 album sales a week? That's just what regular artists making a living do. Small labels too, majority of which are one-person operations. At $20 a pop (cheap these days) that's $20k a year in sales, which is doable if you're promoting releases and gigging actively in a local scene. Majority of small runs go into local shops and get sold at merch boots at shows, not sold b2c in a web shop where it needs to be shipped somewhere else. Many don't have bar codes, so they can't get on Amazon.

But more importantly, people working in the music industry are excited about these developments. I think you as well should be, given you're a self-professed vinyl lover. All this means more development in cutting heads (the current ones cost tens of thousands!), in lathe equipment for master cutting, and more modern equipment and capable engineers working at pressing plants, many of which have had trouble hiring younger people. It also means more development in materials engineering for vinyl, biodegradable materials being a new movement.

It's not an apples to apples comparison, really. Tape is desirable for its nonlinear (read: saturation) characteristics, and those can't really be measured in a very comparable manner by taking a regular digital domain bit depth analysis and dropping it in the tape world using the background hiss and 0dB as a clamp. It's an OK talking point, but it's easily oversimplified.

Hiss is variable, too. When calculating the low end of the range from the background hiss, do we consider a -80dB hiss above ~2000Hz affecting the "bit depth" more than -80dB hiss below it? The hiss is nowhere near white noise either, so some frequency ranges are more affected than others.

Perhaps it didn't cross your mind that I expressed it in a stilted manner on purpose? What a weird thing to get hung up on anyway