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I don’t think it was mentioned in the article, but I wonder if the team has a mechanism to call an audible. And if so, does it have a unique name?

Note that I haven’t used it in two years, but this is the same problem I had with the extension and experimenting with things like evil mode in emacs. There was also a problem where VSCode would update and the vim extension would break or get laggy until the extension devs caught up. It may be better now, but both experiences drove home the fact the I really just felt more comfortable in vim.

> It sometimes is, or at least used to be, intentionally mastered with less dynamic range.

Right. Agreed on this. Mastering for the particular medium is a big part of the final outcome.

The sound quality is worse, but that doesn’t mean it’s not preferable. If you listen to music with a decent dynamic range and has some breathing room, then the sonic qualities of vinyl can enhance that.

The same goes for cassettes. There’s been a (small) resurgence of cassettes, mostly from heavier types of music. There’s something about the harshness and hiss to tapes that fits really well with metal and punk.

As to the collection thing - a buddy has a growing vinyl collection and a decent, mid-range stereo that he pieces together. It’s a system much like my dad put together when I was growing up. Listening to music on a real sound system that you’ve tweaked to a particular room is a far more rewarding experience than ear buds or even the best headphones.

I find headphones to be isolating and uncomfortable after a short time. And playing music from a phone speaker is dreadful.

A very similar open source project, Tic-80[0], already exists. It has tools for sprite generation and music creation. It also supports Lua, in addition to Fennel (natively), JS, Wren, and Moonscript.

[0] https://tic80.com/

The Discipline and 2000’s era KC are probably my least favorite. My preference is for the 70’s Wetton-fronted version and 95’s Thrak.

Part of me feels like 80’s Crimson was riding changes in music, rather than driving them. Another part applauds them for discarding the familiar and continuing to evolve.

Some of my standout favorites from the Discipline era are “Frame by Frame”, “Three of a Perfect Pair”. And everything Tony Levin does is incredible.

Racket has a cross-platform GUI library. It’s what drives the DrRacket editor.

> I have greater empathy for people in those roles. Working support must suck, but being first line support in a call center truly sounds like hell.

Same here. The company has put them in a no win situation. However, it also leaves me pissed off as a consumer, as the experience seems designed to make you frustrated and give up.

If you want outdoors - gravel bikes are great fun and it beats riding on tarmac, dealing with SUVs.

Walking, running, or hiking nature trails.

Gardening.

Prior to the pandemic, I was doing about 6 hours of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu per week. Exercise and socializing. I’d like to get back to it eventually, but the risk/reward isn’t there yet for me and my family. I’m also concerned that my gym has gone a bit right-wing cultish, so…

I can’t find it now, but there’s a Bobby Clarke quote about modern protective equipment being like armor. This gives players a false sense of invulnerability and the tools to hit other players harder with less damage to themselves.

> Your children don't need to go to a public school

You’ve got this part backwards, if I’m reading this correctly. You must adhere to public health mandates to send a child to public school. If you choose not to abide, then you can opt to send your kid to a private school.

Ferris is kind of a grifter. If he were to probe deeply, then others might do the same to him.

Interesting. I had an assembly course taught on a VAX system in 2001. At the time, I had the impression it was because the instructor had access to it and felt it was of historical significance. I wish I could remember more about the experience.

Are you equipped to fight a protracted legal battle with Microsoft? Neither is anyone else.

Who can? Sure, Disney shouldn’t be able to copyright public domain works or Mickey Mouse until the end of time. But they also shouldn’t be able to swoop in, use your songs/artwork/software in their latest movie, without permission or appropriate compensation.

Apart from some node issues early on, CoC has worked well for me. At some point I’ll try the native lsp, but it seems like a lot of setup, just to get back to where I already am.

> I bet those Canadians are young and healthy

Exactly. I know a Canadian that’s in their late 30’s, has children, and mixed health record. Now that the adventures are over, they’re eager to move back. Similar stories for European friends that married and had families with Americans.

Fantastic Plastics are a husband/wife duo that play Devo-inspired synth pop. It’s not normally my cup of tea, but they’re fun and the production value is great. They’ve got costumes, make extensive use of green-screening, OBS overlays, and interstitial video between songs. It’s silly and fun and they’ve clearly put a ton of work into it.

Idiomatic Powershell is definitely verbose, but you get used to it (and you can disregard if you want). The verbosity can be used to make it more human readable, if done right. I use Powershell on a daily basis - the biggest thing that people have noted is passing objects, instead of text. At first it was weird, but now I find it really helpful. It makes it very easy to tie components together, without having to slice and dice text.

Another great feature is named parameter support. It's so much easier to deal with parameters than with other languages I've used.

Is that what they want, though? Most people that work an office job, at least, still deal with Excel, Word, and Outlook. Maybe they’ll setup work email on their phone, but that’s probably it. I’ve noticed a pushback (true for myself, too) ever since the push from work-supplied devices to BYOD.

I really enjoyed this set of tutorials for Tic-80, which also uses Lua (or Fennel/Moonscript/Wren/JS). The series was a really great intro not just the tic-80 engine, but programming concepts in general. A friend of mine was able to take some of the concepts he learned and was able to improve the bit of spreadsheet/data munching that he has to do for his otherwise non-technical work.

(https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOT6zBnJyYF3FzmfXz2QXM...)

Me too. But counter argument: Angel Hernandez and Joe West.

This was fun. I annoyed my family making a blast beat with the slice tool.

My mother-in-law always says, “lie-berry”, like she’s getting books from a deceitful fruit.

Constantly. Her list of banned medications is huge. Each time she’s prescribed a medication, she has to decide if the “rare side effects” are worth risking or are worse than going untreated.

My spouse, who suffers from an autoimmune disorder, suffered similar symptoms. Severe enough that she won’t be able to get the second dose. My understanding (from her doc) is that this is a known, but uncommon side effect for people with autoimmune conditions.

> give the pedal some crazy name and paint some whacky stuff on the enclosure.

This seems to be the primary differentiator between most analog pedals these days.

The title doesn’t match the article. It’s not about why toms descend in tone (typically - unless you are Jimmy Chamberlain and a handful of others). It’s about why toms have variable lengths.

That’s a Texas-sized 10-4 buddy!

That’s a bit “How to Draw an Owl”.