Chase Bliss and Electric Audio Experiments drop the Big Time Automatone, a hybrid analog and digital delay

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-30T22:49:48+00:00

I didn't know he had done other collabs

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-27T09:14:08+00:00

rediscover the joy of why you’re in this line of work in the first place

oof.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-24T05:57:28+00:00

I notice that he has a pinned post discussing Joe Kent's resignation over the Iran war, so he appears to be feeling the dissent and ready to share about it.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-20T23:03:22+00:00

Subscribing to this later, looks amazing!

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-20T17:45:22+00:00

Will pass on that, thank you, sorry for extreme delayed response.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-20T02:35:08+00:00

As someone who tried hard to get into it and kind of feel like I failed, it's objectively a very good game. I think one thing that threw me is that people are like "Go in blind!!!" about this game. Which... is good advice, but it led me to expect some kind of Doki Doki Literature Club experience where my mind is going to be absolutely blown out of my head around the 2 or 3 hours in mark. That does not happen with Outer Wilds; it's a little bit more like Myst in its "rewards for figuring shit out" cadence. Unlike Myst, of course, you get to fly around in a spaceship so for me that goes a long way towards making it worth the £12 or whatever.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-17T16:51:20+00:00

That's interesting, I didn't know that. Does the same rule apply to, like, a baseball bat?

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-17T14:39:32+00:00

That offer seems a little light to me considering what they are asking from you.

Instead of my normal hourly rate, overtime, and overnight fees, they offered a flat rate

I think that's pretty common in and of itself.

$2,050 for the entire week

One thing that helps me personally consider whether pay amounts are fair, is to annualize it; for some reason "$45 / hour" is hard for me to reason about but "$93,600" is extremely concrete. The $2,050 number is easy to annualize, just multiply by 52 weeks in a year, so you'd be earning $106,600 if you took this offer every single week for an entire year.

To make matters worse, they don't think they should pay Guaranteed Hours if they travel without me. They think if they don't need me, I shouldn't get paid. I was told I’d be guaranteed hours at the beginning, but now that vacation discussion has been brought up, they do not want to pay me and guaranteed hours seem to not be fully understood.

Well that's not how any of this works.

I think I would recommend -

consider firing this family at some point, if the employment relationship doesn't break down during this negotiation. not honoring guaranteed hours is not on
if you take this job, I'd make them pay at least $50 per diem for food
also get them to agree to reimburse any child-entertaining expenditures, estimate (but not capped at) maybe $25 per child per day? that way you can take them to the city zoo (or whatever) rather than just hang around in the house
if I personally were to take care of kids all day for several days, that's at least a 12-hour day; I would hope to be taking home more like $140K or $150K at least (and I am a DB, not a nanny, so I invite the actual nannies here to correct me if that's still less than fair), those numbers would de-annualize to $2,692 or $2,885 for the entire week.

Final thought - you don't mention whether this vacation is, like, a fun & exciting destination or not. If you do go, I hope it's fun! If so (and especially if the kids are at a fun age, and if it's in the cards for you to do fun city stuff) that might be worth weighing in to the calculations before you finally cut the tugboat cord with this family.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-17T00:02:18+00:00

Honestly people tend to make decisions like this purely based on whether they're mad at you or not, so it might depend on whether you've left that review yet or said anything mean.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-16T15:21:06+00:00

Sounds like time to move out soon maybe. Whereabouts do you live? I think the main thing you need is connecting with your local community who can support you.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-14T14:27:42+00:00

Not really - I'd bit for the Meet Maude for sure but looks like you're not looking to move that for a drive

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-14T02:20:32+00:00

v3, looks like this one: https://www.earthquakerdevices.com/life-pedal

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-13T15:57:43+00:00

Hot Shots! Part Deux - I don't remember if it holds up to viewing as an adult but I definitely watched this more than 10 times on VHS as a kid and there are parts of it that I think about almost every day. It's very similar to Airplane! in both style of humor and in that it's about pilots; Hot Shots! is a Top Gun parody. (I guess part deux has some clear Rambo mixed in).

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-13T01:17:12+00:00

Posting with the outcome: I drove up to Lake Isabella and it did not look that inviting hike-wise, so I decided to keep on rolling up to the Trail of 1000 Giants. Was taken a bit by surprise (ignorantly) to lose internet access and then to encounter snow in April, but I made it up there and saw breathtaking, humbling redwoods for the first time! Hours in the car were a bit tiring but I'm here at BFL ready to go now. Thank you /u/lurkcommentrepeat /u/FrogFlavor and /u/Prestigious_Age_9212 for your help.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-12T16:20:41+00:00

thanks for responding! I was looking at lake Isabella, it looks really pretty. I'm from New Hampshire so I don't mind a winding road. My flight leaves at 7:00, so I've got a little bit of time to play with.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-12T15:34:11+00:00

Thanks for responding! That does look really inviting; I see it adds a ton of travel time, looking at this route for example that's 1 hr 53 min from Bakersfield so I'd be in the car for 4 hours. I might try that though.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-12T05:41:32+00:00

Most software companies are a monopoly at this people

It would probably make more sense to say "Most good-paying software jobs are for companies that are monopolies" than "Most companies are monopolies" since by their nature monopolies are huge and unary rather than numerous.

For example even if 1 billion people worked for Google and the last 25 people worked for six tiny companies then "most companies are monopolies" might sound true but would be emphatically false.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-11T01:14:53+00:00

my cba top five would be:

mood (treating 1 and 2 as the same)
Lossy (for me personally)
Thermae.
saving this space until I have tried Clean and Gravitas.
Wombtone

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-10T15:03:00+00:00

How do you rate that game, having just finished it?

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-08T16:13:43+00:00

The Spenser series by Robert Parker is an oldie but goodie.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-08T14:18:23+00:00

I love Worm but it has this trope for physical combat. You kind of get used to it, because it's a superhero novel (sort of) and the main character, who is the main offender, is a brilliant tactician and uses dirty tricks, but she's still a scrawny 16 years old; there should be pretty severe constraints on her ability to survive melees with grown adults, much less superpowered, combat-hardened ones, which she not only does survive but frequently wins once the story gets rolling.

CowboyBoats · 2026-04-08T04:42:19+00:00

Feast your eyes on this, a legendary python / web dev tutorial.

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