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This says more about our interactions with technology than parenting.. We could suggest that the pilots in Dune had just enough chamber time, too :)

You could say that YC is.. HN is just a tech news/discussion site. If anything it's all about (comparatively) respectful discourse.

> There is no situation where it's okay for LE to shoot or tase someone because of words.

ftfy

Right.. and if she assaulted CO's to the point where it required three tazings, do you really think she'd escape without a charge?

The idea that cops respond with reasonable force in a rational manner is a fantasy. They are not some innocent victims of misunderstanding, they regularly fight back with as much force as they are allowed to employ, and if noone's watching a whole lot more. It's part of their dichotomous mentality. There is tons of evidence for the idea that cops regularly appoint themselves judge, jury and occasionally even executioner. Having the right information means nothing if your entire mindset is bent around the idea that you're there to mete out punishment to the deserving and all you're doing is waiting for someone to stick out their neck to be made an example of.

Authority figures are regularly given a sort of indoctrination on induction. It's us vs them, they're criminal scum, etc etc. You can't have a civil conversation with a cop, even an off-duty one, about how criminals might be driven to criminal acts by things beyond their control and how they're still people. They simply choose that lifestyle and therefore are unequivocally The Bad Guys. It's in the entire culture, one person isn't going to change it. I do generally dislike cops, and I know there are still some good ones - but they're holdouts, and even they usually only hold out so far or so long before they fold to the cultural expectation for them to be overbearing bullies and thugs. Good people don't become good cops, good people lose themselves becoming cops.

Right, you're absolutely correct. I actually "get" inharmonicity, I think lack of sleep and the fact that tuning and the imperfect interval of an octave comes into it (I didn't know that tunings were actually shifted around inharmonicity) made me start thinking about JI/ET.. how embarrassing.

To my understanding it's more like Equal Temperament vs Just Intonation..?

VST/3/AU/DX, and it supports scripting your own in JS as well. Unless they're upset about not having LADSPA or Nyquist, I can't imagine what else they'd be referring to that isn't proprietary AVID garbage.

> I find that aggregation ends up around 30ms, which is on the higher end of acceptable when monitoring in-ear

I haven't done that kind of work, so for video/speech, fair enough. 30ms (on top of whatever's already there) is not really acceptable for a musical performance, though - the performer will be expending half their brainpower trying to mentally align what they hear through bone conduction vs in ear monitoring and adjusting their performance based on outdated/scrambled information. It's a really confusing experience - if you've ever seen that Japanese "speech jammer" device[0] you'll get some idea what I mean (although it uses much longer than ~30ms, that's still enough to mess with you).

Working in a pinch, it would make a useful and more stable tool than ASIO, though I run either analog or dedicated devices for any live work - I just don't trust computers that much - but I get that working with video means you might not have those kind of options. I can't say I've had many of the troubles I've heard about with ASIO to be honest, but I undeniably do enjoy working on OSX more anyway. This conversation reminds me how badly I need to revive my ML Hackintosh..

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USDI3wnTZZg

I think they have a fair idea of what they're talking about, but you've both rushed to reply without thoroughly reading. Seems they missed where you talked about it being okay as long as you can monitor realtime and you've missed that they missed that.

You are wrong about the need for proprietary ASIO drivers for all devices, or that many of the best audio interfaces don't support Windows.. One manufacturer is not "many" and while they are high range, it's definitely arguable whether they're the best.

Anyway, in my experience it's rarely the hardware itself that requires the majority of setup, and either way it's a once-off. Unless you're the kind of person who uses the same template for every recording session, in which case you have bigger problems than setup.

> low latency and aggregated devices

Hang on, no way, you take one or the other. Aggregating devices adds a huge chunk of latency and, frankly, I don't think is that exciting a feature anyway. Maybe for your specific setup, but generally speaking you should buy gear that suits your needs, rather than try to cobble something together from existing devices.

Having used OSX and Win7 (on the same machine) I would agree CoreAudio is less hassle and definitely lower latency - IIRC, OSX reported just over half the latency of W7 on the same setup.

That said, I'm not sure what you think is going on with ASIO, since any class compliant USB audio interface has compatible drivers inherently..

> People are

A person did. Not necessarily indicative of a trend..

No way do Scarlett pres have the amount of clean gain we're talking for SM7B or RE20 territory. Unless you really get an excellent interface/mixer I would go for external pres.

I don't remember any hacking in FO2 (at least, not minigamed).. Do you mean 3?

> I felt euphoric, not from intoxication, but from serenity.

How, exactly, does one tell the difference between light intoxication and serenity?

I seem to remember them flooding schools with low cost grey iMacs called eMacs (though you might have some trouble googling that).

..? I made a bunch of EPS for a coworker's Excel dashboard a while back, worked fine on 2013 and 2007.

Can't speak for OP, but in Australia we only have Primary (K-6) and High (7-12) school.

Edit: Yup, their website lists them as being in Adelaide.

Okay.. so that kind of sounds like you need a dietician, which is someone you can ask your GP for a referral for, or in many cases just book an appointment with. Your GP doesn't send you to the dentist unless there's something so wrong with your teeth it's impacting the rest of your health; why would it be any different for your diet?

Doing a check up on an apparently healthy person would be wasting time and money looking for something to be wrong. That seems right to me..

>It is a false assumption to say that because socialized healthcare works in some countries, the entire scheme of capitalism is therefore inferior

GP didn't say this, though. They said applying the model of American capitalism to healthcare fails to deliver (a reasonable standard of care, I assume). Your assessment seems to largely agree.

The whole "getting a physical" annually is purely an old school American thing anyway. I don't know anyone in my country who does this - although apparently nowadays US med associations recommended you go visit a doctor every 5 years or so if you're under 40.

Still, if I walked into a doctor and said "is anything wrong with me?" with no symptoms or obvious indication that this might be so, they would probably take blood pressure, do a breathing test, ask me if anything was actually wrong, and then wonder why I was wasting their time (or maybe ask if I was looking for a medical certificate cos I didn't feel like going to work, heh).

Yeah, that's ridiculous. I nearly bought an oldschool 3315 off eBay a while ago before I heard about the 2G shutdown - when I heard about this I was so excited because I could finally get my dumbphone, but with 3/4G! Apparently not.. surely, I am not the only one who loathes the smartness of my phone?

I mean, I already know this is true but I'm dealing with exactly one of these people right now and this is so reassuring to read. Especially the bit about just how scarily effective and utterly impossible to criticise this behaviour is.

I'm a non-American native English speaker and "I could care less.." confused me until I had it explicitly explained to me. I took it as some kind of inversion of "I couldn't care less" which I had heard plenty. It still doesn't make any sense (if you could care less, it's implicit that you care to some degree, right..?) but at least I get it now.

Why do you say so? I find them pretty easy to handle. Variant arrays can be pulled and pushed straight from/to Range objects, you have LBound and Ubound to iterate over arrays if you don't feel like you can trust the base, or otherwise you have For Each. And you have Collection and Dictionary if you have different needs - you can even define a class, instance it and push to a Dictionary, now you have a key-value store full of your Object.

I work in a similar role where we previously did have a lot of contact with call centre folks, and the whole "overload us with requests" thing is very real. You become the go-to IT guy in no time at all, because if you make stuff for computers, surely when one breaks you can fix it, right? Or you could build something else in place of it? And suddenly, you have nearly no time to actually finish projects anymore. We had to distance ourselves by a floor and implement a ticketing system to avoid exactly this. Sounds like you had the opposite extreme though, which sucks just as bad but for the floor staff instead of the devops guys. Seems to be a fine balance.

C also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12902304

> It's USB, though, so it can't be that old!

I dunno, I remember getting my first proper joystick (to play Descent Freespace) maybe 16 years ago and it came with both serial and USB connectors..