noizejoy

Very cool! Is that hardware or vst plugin?

The soundcard analogy may not be that faulty. General purpose soundcards have pretty much been replaced by motherboard components, while high end soundcards (audio interfaces) for DAW (digital audio workstation) use cases are an entirely separate market.

Side note: Most of those high end audio interfaces are now external devices connected via USB (formerly also via Firewire).

And since a DAW typically doesn’t need high end video, I didn’t bother with a separate GPU on my latest DAW build. I will only add a GPU card, if I ever want to do higher end gaming, video production or machine learning on that computer.

In my version of the history of Techno, "Yello"[0] also deserves very honorable mention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yello

I have to admit, that I find centralized analytics as a service just really difficult to reconcile with higher degrees of privacy.

That’s why I still prefer analytics solutions that can be self hosted.

even more teensy weensy nit-pick: if the screen-size is small enough, even horizontal (landscape) orientation wouldn't help :-) :-)

Lindows was started by the same Michael Robertson[0], who was behind mp3.com[1], one of the early Internet's rather lucrative IPOs and also involved in a series of litigation around copyrights and later what Matt Levine might now file under "everything is securities fraud"[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robertson_(businessman... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...

Even smaller nit-pick: what you’re describing would seem to be more “small screen size” rather than “mobile”

I think one of the reasons is air pressure inside the car.

I've always found it amazing how much less slamming the doors needed when a window was left wide open and the air inside the car could escape freely.

> With my car, trying to lock the doors just doesn't work if one is left open

for suburban single family residence dwellers with their own garage, they may not always (or ever) lock the doors while the car is parked in their locked garage.

I can't help but wonder, if user interfaces will actually be one of the last problems to be solved well by machine learning.

That's because arguably user interfaces (and data visualizations) have been - and continue to be - a significant weakness of software as long as I can remember. If user interfaces were better, wouldn't grandmas around the world do better with computers?

So if machine learning is effectively an aggregation of whatever has been done before, it would lead me to think, that the old adage of "garbage in ==> garbage out" would lead to ML generating some pretty mediocre user interfaces for a while to come.

Data visualization in general is arguably also subject to the "lying with statistics" principle. So I can see ML "helping" to weaponize this lying with data, rather than illuminating the truth.

Those listeners, who want to listen to old/classic or regurgitated some young woman duetting with Elton John :-)

And it really helps to have a fondness for air headed radio dj ramblings …

Not everyone has a high opinion of bias fx in comparison to some other modelled amp and cab sims. So that sample size of 1 may not be representative of the current state of the art.

Love their GUIs though!

> audio engineers are more likely to work events or film/tv.

or in the creation of sample libraries.

I’m actually wondering how long those stations will survive, given that routing around traffic bottlenecks is becoming the domain of smartphone apps.

> single ballot, winner take all systems inevitably tend toward a two party equilibrium.

I'm not convinced it's quite that simple.

For example, Canada also has a first-past-the-post electoral system - yet political parties here have come and gone. And continue to do so.

Have you seen this?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/passk...

On the other hand, the German way of speaking numbers with the order of just the 2 least significant digits flipped between numerical notation and speaking/writing is also easier explained by culture and history, rather than good logic.

The English equivalent for 1125 would be onethousand-onehundred-five-and-twenty.

Arguably human imperfections are already deeply reflected in computer design and programming.

> one has been caught on film

apparently it was just a rock[0]

[0]https://www.universetoday.com/111076/follow-up-on-skydiving-...

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.[0]

[0] https://americansongwriter.com/me-and-bobbie-mcgee-by-kris-k...

> When we were all farmers, things were pretty equal, and power could be distributed evenly.

Peasants[0] living under feudalism[1] might argue that the large scale loss of equality already happened in agricultural societies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

> “Sometimes writing for money, rather than for art, or pleasure, is really quite enjoyable.”

I think that changes the meaning, since it’s now a list of 3 items with an Oxford comma, rather than two lists, with the first list having 1 item, and the second list having 2 items. And I’m having a rough time even making sense of such revised meaning.

Expressed as pseudo-code, I read the original intent of that sentence as:

“money and not(art or pleasure) == enjoyable”

and that can be broken into

“((money and not art) or (money and not pleasure)) == enjoyable

> Thatcher won two landslide re-elections for a reason.

Arguably the reason was the war, not domestic policy [0]

[0] https://history.com/news/margaret-thatcher-falklands-war

In theory - and as has happened in history - governments can repatriate (nationalize) critical assets. So as long as a nationstate has meaningful independence, even the threat of that emergency lever can prevent the worst abuse.

If such meaningful independence doesn’t exist, it arguably doesn’t make much of a difference who’s name plate is on the ownership?

It may not be entirely coincidental that a lot of financial carnage is happening just after the large scale printing of money (quantitative easing) stopped, interest rates started rising and borrowing money became no longer almost free (for the wealthy).

Arguably numerous “new” financial constructs only worked with free money. Meme stocks, crypto, SPACs and very large VC funding may have needed all that free money to “work”?

So maybe we’re just returning to more traditional financial investment patterns?

Some or all of those financial constructs probably still have their place on a much reduced scale in more specific contexts. But it’s no longer guaranteed free money.

I’m assuming that there are quite a few PhDs and other books in the works that will analyze those connections/dependencies in considerable detail.

In sports, you need to replace players, because they age out of their prime.

It might be interesting to apply similar thinking to technology.

> You can't control it as a network administrator

That’s the design intent. Because not all network administration is benign.

DoH is a tool like any other. Good or bad entirely on why and how it’s used. And your own perspective on that use case.

> grant agencies should be …

or enlightened corporations - ahm … never mind.

> It's also how you backed up/restored midi data from early synths.

In a weird closing of the circle, I now store the internal sounds backup of my vintage Juno 60 synthesizer as a WAV file recorded from that tape backup output.

So the digital info of the internal synthesizers gets converted to analog audio in the synth, then passed as audio to my modern computer’s audio interface, which converts it to a digital representation of the analog audio.

And vice versa to restore the backup into the synthesizer’s memory.

Incidentally those backups are more reliable now than when using analog tape decks, since one doesn’t encounter physical tape degradation or a cassette deck “eating” the tape.

I haven’t done any testing with compressed audio formats, but I would expect even lossy formats to perform well, if one keeps the lossiness within certain bounds, so that the highest frequencies in the audio file are preserved.

> People make mistakes, but data doesn’t.

But data collection, storage, retrieval and/or interpretation may contain errors.