bstix, bstix@feddit.dk

The way to do this right

Rewind. Stop. Do not press play on tape.

Honestly, no, I don’t want an easy way to convert.

I generally dislike temperatures.

No, the guitar to amp “instrument line” has even lower current than the line in.

The only hazard with music instruments is if someone turns on phantom power 48V to a microphone that doesn’t use it. Then the grill can give a nasty shock and typically right on the lips.

It appears to be a line signal, so it should be fine. But then again, we can’t see what’s on the other end. Could be a nuclear power plant for all we know.

Sometimes they’re right though.

Of course not if it’s a verifiable fact, but as I’ve grown older, I have seen plenty of historical “facts” getting proven to be wrong. All it takes is for a young mind to challenge the existing views.

Having an open mind is more important than being right. Most inventions happen by accident while pursuing something else, something wrong.

Jeg læser det som om de indirekte siger at unge ikke er selvhjulpne nok, fordi forældrene er for flinke til at klare problemerne for de unge.

Det er meget muligt at nogle unge har det problem, men det er forkert at generalisere det udover en hel generation alene fordi forskeren ikke tør pege fingre af curling forældrene specifikt.

Some people will argue that reversing everything would set a precedent for future governments.

Fuck those people.

It has already been proven that the republicans have no intention of honoring previous decisions. There is no high road any longer. Everything must go.

something about audio that attracts an atmosphere of wilful ignorance

I think it’s the lack of a shared vocabulary.

Everyone likes some music better than other music, and so everyone think they can tell the difference between good and bad music. However, nobody can explain the difference in plain words.

This easily leads to the conclusion that it is fully subjective, and this is where the ignorance comes from. If nobody can explain what good music is, then my own voodoo explanation is as good as any.

However, we can talk about music theory, audio production and sound analysis in scientific terms to the point where we can even reproduce certain sounds based on the description. But we can’t really understand the description without actually experiencing the sound.

It’s similar to somebody saying “I don’t like this cake” or someone saying “my taste receptors react to the umami in this cake”, but I still wouldn’t have a clue about how the cake tastes.

Sound is also different from other sciences in that there is very little proof of one thing being more correct than others. And that goal changes constantly. Whenever somebody does crack the code to what people enjoy, it’ll get boring really quick.

I had a music teacher long ago who said that there is no bad music, only wrong audiences. His point was that the music that makes it through to the recording and publishing will already have passed the filter where someone made a decision if there is an audience for it. If you hear bad music, then you’re just not the right audience.

Anyway, cables. Who cares. The end result is the most important part. However, I’d prefer to hook up the instruments on stage with thick cables instead of bananas. Same thing applies at home. Any wire will do, but cheap wires do break.

I imagine a conservative drummer to be someone who shows up with a snare only.

Num pad is much faster for clean numbers than num row because you can use the thumb on zero, allowing you to use all 5 fingers without ever moving the hand.

However the secret to achieve true mad man number typing speeds is to use both hands. Num row is for the left hand. Num pad is for the right hand.

This can be optimized by positioning your left hand on 1 to prepare yourself for Benford’s Law which tells us that a majority of numbers start with 1.

Actual numbers also includes many zeros (but rarely starts with one). The fat zero key on num pad has room for two fingers, just saying.

It’s a famous quote of Churchill about USA during WW2. Unfortunately he never actually said that, but he said something similar.

Video for anyone who hasn’t seen it

https://lemmy.world/post/43115897

History is a circle.

First we had bicycles. These then got helper motors. Then we got motorcycles and the two stroke engines had helper pedals to start. Then the pedals were removed.

Now we still have bicycles. These then got electric helper motors. Then we got electric bikes, that still have pedals, but people hack them to run entirely on the motor.

Make up your minds already. Everyone of these changes upsets the elderly.

TEMU om to år, når affaldet ikke er fjernet og vi sidder grædende på gaden:

“Er du sikker på at du downloadede fra det rigtige link?”

Is that close to Nassau without the N?

There’s the Pipistrel Velis Electro. It costs about $200 000. It’s a regular plane. Been around for some years.

What I’d like to see is more of is stuff like the Ehang 216 eVTOL drones. I don’t know if they’re actually commercially available yet or what kind of places they’re allowed.

No, but there are fees for late payments and other special situations.

Their main income is from the transaction fees that they charge the merchants.

The idea is that people who don’t have money can spend money and create a transaction fee on a sale that wouldn’t otherwise have happened if they didn’t lend the money. That way it’s the same as a credit card that you only pay monthly.

The difference is that the payments can be split, so that the customers can .. uh .. utilize their entire credit maximum every month..

Needless to say, this kind of credit maximum optimization can end really badly for people who have unstable incomes. The same kind of people who might be tempted to use it.

But seriously though, in hindsight, the invention of asphalt roads was a mistake. The oil industry doesn’t just own the production of fuels. They also own the production of materials for roads and tires.

If we were to reinvent the car using contemporary knowledge, materials and technology, we would have to use something else for both cars, tires and roads.

Or we can wait 50 years and let our grandchildren deal with it when the oil has been depleted.

Going into fiction, if we were to settle on another planet covered with plants and natural resources, I seriously doubt we would be able to justify what we did to the Earth when we paved the roads. We only use roads because we upgraded the existing dirt and rock trails used by horse carriages. If those hadn’t existed already, it would have made much more sense to redesign the vehicles to actually work without a paved surface. Like the horse carriages and early cars, which had really large hard wheels and softer suspension. It really is the invention of asphalt roads that caused modern cars to be such whiny rubber glove bitches.

Perhaps the whole flying car science fiction isn’t that stupid after all, because it eliminates the need for roads and tires and all the shit that comes from it. Small electric personal planes already exist. Roll out the solid state batteries and autopilot and we’re almost good to go.

This is what billionaires ought to spend their money on instead of drilling holes in the desert.

Det vil være mærkeligt for en politisk regering at indføre en religiøs helligdag.

Jeg skal ikke bede den dag.

Giv os hellere en ekstra dag i ferieloven, så vi selv kan bestemme hvornår den skal afholdes.

Jeg kender godt problemet, men det er udelukkende fordi min arbejdsgiver ikke kan finde ud af at læse ferieloven.