I have a sudden urge to watch anime.

I tried to give a genuine answer, but maybe not to the question you really had in mind.

No, I don’t think ease of play and reproducibility should be the goal when designing each and every instrument.

Let’s talk about another, modern synthesizer as an example, SOMA’s Lyra 8. While you can manually tune the instrument to play a scale, it is infamous for modifying any initial tuning due to its internal feedback loops and won’t stay tuned for very long. If you tried to always keep it in tune, you’d be arguably using it wrong. It’s also rather hard to integrate with other instruments since it’s so hard to control - it has a reputation to play it’s user, not the other way around. I’ve heard people say they need a cigarette after a 20 minute session with the device. Yes, it’s hard to play, sometimes maybe even frustrating, but it also is a unique experience and one of my favorite instruments.

Let’s switch to a completely different example. Digital photography, both photo and video, is without a doubt a much more advanced and much more predictable alternative to analog, film-based photography. Still, people are actively looking to shoot film, sometimes even using expired film for its certain look and to explicitly seek the unpredictable.

About 20 years ago, I was asked to repair a Soviet film camera. The shutter timing mechanism was broken, so I replaced it with a completely predictable ATTin85 controlling the old electronics that time the shutter. The artist didn’t like this approach at all and refused to use it.

I hope this gives you a better insight into what I was trying to say.

Finally, as I said earlier, I don’t even believe a good, modern Theremin played by an expert is even be unpredictable to begin with.

Nothing wrong with prostitutes. Often, plenty of stuff is wrong with prostitution, but let’s leave the prostitutes out of it.

There are people out there who have mastered the Theremin and can absolutely play on point.

Also, not everything even needs to be perfect. Unpredictability, glitchiness, noise and not being pitch-perfect can be an aesthetic goal in itself.

Hast du von unserem Herrn und Erloeser, Mikroplastik gehoert?

I’m currently compiling a list of open-source audio streaming solutions and I think Sonobus is not on there yet, so this is a pretty useful comment to me. Thanks.

Is this your fire pit? If so, does the crack bother you? Also, what’s the the benefit of lighting from above, and do you feel it burns equally quick / evenly?

They are launched sequentially, but run simultaneously, yes - at least some of them. And they run concurrently but not in parallel - using a single execution context, there is only a single thread, so no parallelism exist.

It’s not the TV settings of the poster that inspired these articles:

https://www.polygon.com/23661749/why-movies-look-dark-cinematography/

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/why-movies-so-dark-hard-to-see-batman-1235195535/

https://www.redsharknews.com/is-modern-cinematography-too-dark

While some movies were not graded perfectly for some home screens, shooting darker movies has definitely been a trend, sometimes up to a point where it is indeed impossible to actually see what’s happening, and a lot of people complain about that.

The output is sorted due to the fact that for each number, a timer is started that prints out the number after waiting a number of milliseconds equal to said number.

Therefore, 1 is printed first after delaying for 1 millisecond, 5 is printed second after 5 milliseconds etc.

Oh, definitely. Shrooms and LSD are an order of a magnitude less trippy than DMT. I would not classify it as terrifying though.

I guess it depends on the definition of trapped. Let’s assume we strip trapped of its negative connotations and take it to mean time stretched to an almost infinite degree.

If you wanna experience this yourself: DMT.

I could see it if it was a screen I get to control, akin to a smart mirror. Fridge door would be a pretty good surface since I’m guaranteed to look at it a couple of times each day.

Other than that, push notifications if the door is open? That’s about the max when it comes to usefulness I can imagine. Is that a problem that requires a connected device? No, probably not.

However, depending on the model range, it becomes difficult to even get a model that doesn’t have the “smart” features. No one can force you to connect the device though (yet).

Thanks. I was reading the first sentence and my reaction was a big WTF - who wouldn’t be happy that their kid doesn’t want to spent time in front of a TV?

It’s not that they might be correct, it’s the fact that it got this bad in the first place, and that people accept it.

Arthur should be equally devastated, pissed, burned out, not dismissive and potentially praising some made up grind while succumbing to survivor bias.

I can confirm, this is a pretty old picture. Also, all connections are clearly visible, I don’t even know what the comment is referring to.

If you turn off the lights in the room and put a light in the direction they should go, they’ll never bother you again. Has never failed me.

If you live in the city, opening a window and turning off the light, all screens etc. will get rid of them in under a minute.

Heihachi Mishima

I notice a pattern there. Interesting take. I think I get it.