testermelon

> Really? You're going to cherry pick classical performers who largely never directly record anything? The only exception in all of music?

I’m sorry but this sounds like you just dismissed classical performers as insignificant musicians just because they don’t fit your categorization that “all musicians also do audio engineering”.

The world is wide, blanket claims like this is bound to have exception, by principle.

I read your comment to my wife and her response was “what is a green bubble?”.

We are living in Japan and here we only use Discord, WhatsApp, and Line for messaging.

I suppose the writer meant it in the sense that no one hyped prior to its release. Being original work instead of adaptation is one factor.

How do you measure popularity objectively anyway. Sites like MAL might do well but in the end it’s in the amount and quality of conversations that truly matter. Hard to measure.

> and reviews are saying it's good even though the story sucks! what else can be good when there is no story?

I beg to differ. There can be more than just story in anime. Presentation itself is an aspect that cannot be dismissed. Because the expressiveness of the medium provides capability to tell narratives as pure sensory experience as well, not merely plot points.

I'm interested in the idea as I'm also shit at executive functions. I've never thought about it this way before though.

Sibling comments mentions that delegation should be basic in modern society, but I can't help but wonder why the following is true:

> ...since there's zero chance they'd get me such an assistant and similarly zero chance they'd let me pay for my own.

Instead of allowing everyone to delegate we somehow fixate on getting the all-in-one package super employee. I'm curious if the HR complexity is the reason to avoid this.

> These days a significant number of X11 apps just render _everything_ "server-side" as bitmaps and then send them over the wire to the client to composite them.

Inferring from the quotation, I take it you mean application server-side (instead of display server-side)? Just confirming.

On the fourth paragraph:

> The study also found that the children of professionals were more likely to be extrovert.

I have a hard time grasping who they meant by "professionals", and who they meant to exclude by the implied antonym ("not professionals").

Do you have any list of recommended resources for the topic of psychoacoustics? And any cursor on where to start the experimentation?

Looks awesome. I might want to try to use it. Do you have image search? Or more importantly, *reverse* image search?

> Every other demographic still needs two hands for a 5" phone...

Sorry to sound snarky, but make it smaller then. 4" sounds good to me.

> Now that they do not, I own an iPhone 13 mini, and I hope to use it with battery replacements for at least 4 years.

I own an iPhone 12 Mini, and if it ever breaks in the future I plan to buy the iPhone 13 Mini, even though by that time it will be on the brink of being obsolete. And if that also ever breaks I will buy another 13 Mini again if they still sell it. No matter what.

> The point of hobbies is not "getting good at them". It's enjoying them for their own sake. Otherwise they turn into ... work.

Put like this, it is actually mind blowing and betraying the belief of my whole life.

To me, hobbies are activities that you enjoy so much you eventually get good at. My definition of talent is the ability to persistently and consistently improve yourself in a field. This definition includes the ability to efficiently obtain positive dopamine feedback to continue training and effectively curb burnout.

I really wished I can say I am talented, both in my works and my hobbies. But maybe, just maybe. Getting good is not really important after all.

(And about work: Maybe getting good at work and advancing career is also not the point? What is work anyway? Contributing to society in exchange of being let alive? Lol)

To be fair, this post seem to be a way to tell a story about how the white paper came about. The white paper itself is actually a separate publication, which should be read with a more rigorous approach.

I've heard somewhere that docx is actually gzipped xml. But I never really confirmed that myself. But it's binary once gzipped, so your point still stands.

Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Tamil, Thai, etc begs to be remembered.

The notion that some people prefer dub over sub is not new, but it baffles me that it is to the level of urgent business concern. From what I see in other comments, is it an American thing?

We should invest in making people’s ear accustomed/used to hear other languages. It has great intercultural benefits.

I think that comment refers to Google trying to know more identifiable information about the user: a phone number. Which adds to Google’s collection of private data, susceptible to more profiling and such.

Can it run Linux From Scratch (LFS)? It seems like it could.

> Plus, just look at this dudes website. Sure it works just fine but it's nearly impossible to read on my large screen. It feels like it was designed for an older CRT screen and has never been updated since.

Using the browser's Reader View mode I can read the website beautifully just fine. In fact, this is my preferred way of reading articles on the web, because I get consistent and controlled styles.

> I wonder how people like this can survive in todays world with the requirements people have on web software. You will sooner or later be out competed by a guy using a web framework.

Not everyone doing webdev is competing to get a job or gig as a webdev. There are people who makes their own sites for various purposes, i.e. they are their own webdev customers. And if you're suggesting these people to "require more", it looks to me you start to meddle with how they run their business (which might benefit from your suggestions, but also maybe not).

> The main drawback of ABC notation is that it doesn't capture polyphonic music well but by the looks of it, Alda's notation doesn't either.

Do you happen to know any good textual notation for polyphonic composition?

Can you provide further reading on the insight that shows the formation of hubs/centralization? It seems interesting.

Yes, this is where I feel a downvote is not appropriate.

I can see why one has the urge to downvote this though. It has to do with “ruining the positive atmosphere”. Instead of offering alternative view, heck, even just a simple encouragement, some people just default to knee jerk reaction of disapproval.

Now that you mention it. I have a Masters in electronics, and I did a lot of layouting in the last 3 years. Not that big or complicated, but it is becoming a significant portion of my engineering time. It is perceived to be cheaper to just do the layouting in house because our system is small and benefit from fast iteration.

I’m not sure how many people here share my view, but when I see “collision detection” I think about video games first, not self driving cars.

Really awesome. I’ve been thinking to start learning audio programming for quite a while now, but never really know where to start beyond just basic DSP. This list can serve as a prompt to pick something up and get practical.

Seconded that. I feel that even Aristotle’s idea of cosmos being divided into natural habitats of substances , albeit sounds superstitious by our modern standard, actually quite convincing and well thought.

That got me thinking which field of natural sciences in our times that still has this level of crude understanding. Probably certain aspect of medicine surrounding brain or cancer. Or maybe cutting edge physics like gravity waves.

Because the pebbles stay there when nothing knock it off. And when something knock it off we can't reliably know where it will go?

To my understanding, natural discoverability of H2 gas on earth surface is very low due to the gas being very light and buoy itself up the atmosphere, possibly escape the planet entirely.