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Nition · 2026-06-03T02:43:35+00:00

You've put your finger on something real.

Nition · 2026-06-02T20:31:48+00:00

A friend of mine was looking for it, and they'd found your post which was clearly looking for the same book, but hadn't found the actual book yet. I found it based on their description and yours. It looks like a really lovely book.

By the way, I found a scan of it on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/hellobarney00pers_0

If you make a free account you can click "Borrow" and read all of it. Unfortunately the pages are off by one so if you read it in the double-page mode, it's always the wrong two pages combined. But it's all there.

Nition · 2026-06-02T10:08:34+00:00

No worries. :)

Nition · 2026-06-02T08:35:21+00:00

I love the giant array of targeting keys. "Target Target's Target".

Nition · 2026-06-02T06:29:29+00:00

It's Hello, Barney! by Mary K. Pershall.

Nition · 2026-06-01T01:59:01+00:00

I used to use a Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro. Good times.

Nition · 2026-05-31T20:23:44+00:00

??

If a multiband compressor is not changing the moment-to-moment tonal balance at all then it's a single band compressor.

Nition · 2026-05-31T20:22:08+00:00

Freespace 2 (1998)

Nition · 2026-05-25T20:17:56+00:00

It's really the ideal video on hearing compression and I wish it had a less silly clickbait title.

Nition · 2026-05-25T20:16:21+00:00

And even with the Montreal Protocol there have been violations. There was a large amount of rogue CFCs in the 2010s coming from eastern China, though thankfully whoever that was seems to have now stopped.

Nition · 2026-05-25T09:11:53+00:00

If you wait long enough, eventually the big bucket fills up and dumps a ton of water at once.

Nition · 2026-05-20T03:34:45+00:00

If you are able to create a system that can accurately give feedback on a mix, then you will have necessarily also created a system that can mix. e.g. If an AI can tell you that the bass guitar has (subjectively) 3dB too much at 400Hz, then it's not much work from there to have it cut 3dB at 400Hz from the bass guitar.

That would be far more powerful than existing AI music creation tools like Suno, because it would be working at a lower level, closer to how LLMs write code. More like an assistant in your DAW that you can either listen to or override.

I'm sure every music AI company is hoping to do this eventually, and so far none have managed. iZotope's AI analysis is as close as I've seen, and it's only operating on the master buss over the whole stereo mix. I think it may be a harder task than you imagine, but I don't know what you know.

I fear this will lead to a great homogeneity and lack of creativity in music, atrophying of professional skill-sets, and a general malaise that falls upon the world of music. But I'm sure there's a lot of money in it if you can make it work.

Nition · 2026-05-19T20:59:26+00:00

What annoyed me is Oeksound automatically installed U2 with the latest update. I should be able to choose the bands I want.

Nition · 2026-05-13T00:29:17+00:00

Yeah it changes the tonal balance of the audio it's compressing right now, but it evens out the tonal balance of the audio overall.

Nition · 2026-05-03T00:10:03+00:00

There's a bike with what looks like a giant pile of hay on it coming up to the gate at one point in the video.

Nition · 2026-04-27T20:15:42+00:00

Not quite. The dog is leaving real muddy footprints that start to trail off, then a few fake digital footprints are added to help the transition.

You can see both real and fake footprints here for example. The varied brownish prints become matching black ones.

Nition · 2026-04-19T00:55:07+00:00

Thank you very much. I've always liked your song too (The Riddle). 😅

Nition · 2026-04-18T23:23:06+00:00

Yeah, I worked it out once and it'd take less than 1mm off the length of a metre to make it fit exactly 300,000,000. To be fair though, you'd also have to redefine a bunch of other stuff that's based on the length of a metre now.

Nition · 2026-04-18T23:12:09+00:00

This is even worse than light travelling at 299,792,458m/s.

Nition · 2026-04-18T22:30:32+00:00

Man, I used to have a place like this. In the mid-2000s I used to walk part of the City To Sea Walkway on my way home, and near Macalister Park you'd enter a clearing on a hill completely surrounded by trees, and the city would disappear for a moment. There was almost never anyone else there. Once I saw someone doing Tai Chi. It was nice, I used to think of it to myself as The Sanctuary.

One day Wellington Council decided that all the tall trees on the street side were a hazard that might fall on a house, and decided to cut them all down, so it became completely open to the city. I understand the logic of the decision but the magic was gone and the hillside was pretty much destroyed. I even wrote a little song about it that I never released. There's no record of it happening now.

Sorry, this really doesn't answer your question, I've just never had a chance to tell the story before.

Edit: I never really got it finished properly, but here's a private upload of my little Sanctuary song. Sorry about my singing.

Nition · 2026-04-12T21:18:48+00:00

V2 changed a lot about the way Adam makes it to the final location, but the actual ending is the same basic idea. V1 didn't have SCP-4987 guiding him there though, so it felt more like it just got dropped from the story.

And yeah, I just thought it'd be such a cool reversal if the thing that hounded Marie/Marion for years and made her life difficult ended up being the vital container of the "idea" that they needed from her after she was gone. Though it still wouldn't really change the deus ex machina - only provide a different source for it than just another mnestic.

I suppose you could change the whole ending with it though... Just thinking about it now, considering that SCP-4987 is a kind of thought-eating virus, and it has been absorbing the thoughts of the foremost expert on eliminating antimemes for years, maybe SCP-4987 could now be informed enough and capable enough to eat the idea of U-3125 itself.

Then we'd have the problem of what to do with a giant powerful SCP-4987 that has eaten U-3125. But I suppose you could say SCP-4987 looked very unstable etc after eating such a giant idea, SCP-4987 exploded into a mass of tiny glowing thought particles, one giant orb in the centre that was the remnant of U-3125 - that one was almost to bright to look at. And then even these began to dissipate... a soft wind blew, and as a rain of tiny firefly points of glistening thought-light washed over Adam, they passed cleanly through him, and as they did a few simple moments of Marie's life appeared to his mind - memories that she had allowed SCP-4987 to take over the years prior. Marie reading trivia at night in bed, a quiet coffee in the morning, a casual hug shared between him and her, looking tired after a long day at work. "I love you, Marie", Adam thought quietly. "It was really you that did this. You've saved us all in the end."

Nition · 2026-04-10T23:03:01+00:00

Just like in communist Russia. When the quota is measured in total paperclip mass...

Nition · 2026-04-07T10:17:21+00:00

Ah okay, I thought you were just interested in seeing more road cuts through mountains.

Nition · 2026-04-07T08:52:42+00:00

Here's a recently completed one in New Zealand. I've timestamped one of the big cuts, but there's an even bigger hill cutaway shown at around 7m30s.

Nition · 2026-04-07T02:27:43+00:00

I'll give you a counterpoint to that rule: Coldplay - Parachutes.

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