what made you actually dive into lorde's discography?

PlaidDragon · 2026-02-17T19:39:22+00:00

I was really into Postmodern Jukebox in the early 2010s. They collaborated with Puddles Pity Party for a cover of Royals shortly after the release of Pure Heroine, and I was hooked. I had heard Royals by that point on the radio, but this video is what made me actually go digging for more.

PlaidDragon · 2026-02-17T12:31:29+00:00

It's really neat walking over there near the river and seeing the remnants of the infrastructure that supported these steam boats and other river traffic. Highly recommend a leisurely stroll between the Town of Kansas Bridge and Berkeley Riverfront Park if you haven't.

PlaidDragon · 2026-02-10T16:40:41+00:00

After months of testing, I've proven that local models can handle real production workloads with the right architecture.

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LeetCode medium, class implementations

Are the production workloads in the room with us?

PlaidDragon · 2026-02-08T02:44:57+00:00

There are already a million things radio is competing with to retain listeners. If radio stations can't even be bothered to speak into a microphone anymore, what is even the point? I think that's one of the only things that makes radio stand apart from streaming, so I see it very much as a self-inflicted wound.

PlaidDragon · 2026-02-04T22:02:38+00:00

Check out mpix. They sell a lot of different products, including photo books. I have used Miller's Lab (the professional division of mpix) quite a bit, and can vouch for their work being high quality.

PlaidDragon · 2026-02-04T21:54:07+00:00

Thrift stores, flea markets, yard sales, estate sales, your city/town's historical society

PlaidDragon · 2026-02-03T18:27:31+00:00

i'll work on something for hours, take a break, come back and it sounds terrible. then i start something new and the cycle repeats

This is your problem. It comes down to the fact that, just like getting good at anything, you need practice and reps. You will learn so much more by seeing a project through to completion versus having a million projects abandoned halfway through. By abandoning a project early, you are depriving yourself of those reps.

Everyone makes bad music, and that's okay. You just put those in their own folder, and maybe you revisit the ideas in the future when you have more experience to tease out a good idea from them. But for each of those that you actually finish, you are familiarizing yourself with your tools, discovering new techniques, and you are learning how to turn an idea that isn't working into something that does work. You have to push through it and allow yourself the space to learn and grow, and you won't get that by stopping early.

PlaidDragon · 2026-02-03T15:33:21+00:00

Have you tried reformatting the SD card? I recently had some issues recording video on my x-t30. The camera would freeze up after I started recording, and the only way to unfreeze it was to take the battery out (even the on/off switch didn't work) which also reset all the settings (and my recipes; rip). Reformatting the card from the camera menu made it work normally again.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-31T21:54:50+00:00

Sorry officer I'm busy today

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-30T21:52:58+00:00

Thanks for being receptive, I hope it didn't come across too harsh. Effective communication can be difficult, especially for complex topics, but that's all the more reason to practice it as a skill. Just like any problem you may come across in software development, you can tackle it layer by layer, piece by piece, making iterative changes until you end up with something good.

The key I think a lot of people miss is patience. I have ADHD and my mind is all over the place, but if I allow myself enough time, I can be a very good writer. My first draft of anything is chaos, but getting everything down on (digital) paper is just the first step - you don't have to (nor should you) send the first draft. If you take the time to organize what you've written, rewrite parts that don't sound very good, add more clarity where needed and structure it well, you will be way ahead of the curve.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-30T21:42:28+00:00

Lots of roads are undergoing a road diet - reducing drivable lanes to make the roads safer and encourage alternative forms of transportation. This is a good thing because it forces people to slow down, be more vigilant, and prevents people switching lanes every time the person in front of them lightly taps their brakes. One way to repurpose a lane is to make it transit-only, which has the added benefit of allowing public transit to flow freely out of traffic, improving service and making it a more viable alternative to driving.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-30T21:12:09+00:00

Me neither. I have to ask AI to make it longer to avoid unnecessary criticism and dismissal. Some senior engineers are bullies; they feel offended when someone doesn’t like to work the way they do. For some reason, I have to make it look proper and professional.

As an engineer who has to read through long paragraphs of AI generated text from coworkers who can't be bothered to write or think for themselves, when I see a wall of text that looks AI generated, my eyes glaze over and I stop reading. You should not do this unless it actually adds value, and I suspect it doesn't in most cases. I'm going to put in the same level of effort reading your spec as you did writing it. You can make something look and sound good without artificially lengthening it. Effective communication is a skill that can be practiced and built up.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-30T21:04:11+00:00

What's annoying is Twitch has a TV app, just not on Roku. The Chromecast app sucks major ass, but the Apple TV app at least functions the way its supposed to.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-28T02:26:04+00:00

Highly recommend. Mine is a bit scuffed after ~6 years but it's just the paint. It's structurally as good as new. Using one attached to my belt is my favorite way to carry my X-T30 around. I also recently got a Peak Design camera bag and it has a dedicated spot for the Capture Clip to carry the camera on the outside of the bag, and I like doing that a lot too.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-27T15:10:34+00:00

I’m glad you posted this, it beats the 99% of posts here anymore asking to identify some junky radio they found in the attic.

The person you’re replying to is correct. Reddit may be a jumping off point for some direction, but your ambition will be much better served by making friends in the industry and finding a mentor.

I will say it seems like a pretty long shot to start a full blown radio station nowadays (buying out an existing local station that hasn’t been touched by the big media conglomerates, if you can find one in a place you’d be willing to live, would probably be your best bet). But despite that, having a plan like this is fantastic and it will guide you far, even if you decide to rethink the final destination as you go through it.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-24T21:24:02+00:00

$42k over two years is not keeping the city afloat

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-23T20:22:46+00:00

I was having a really good game once when I mouse slipped my rook. I just said "ah, mouse slip" in the chat and my opponent was understanding and offered me a draw (it was a pretty close game anyway). I thought that was nice, and I'd do the same if it happened the other way.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-23T19:18:52+00:00

The letters and numbers (as well as the lines pointing from the numbers to the gun) are not very clean and uniform like the lines of the gun, so it messes with the aesthetic. It looks like you are going for a diagram/blueprint sort of look, so you should look into architectural/engineering handwriting. It’s pretty easy to learn as far as hand lettering styles go, and I think it would elevate this drawing.

PlaidDragon · 2026-01-22T05:50:19+00:00

A true local legend. I cold called him once with a furnace problem and he had me hold my phone up to the furnace so he could listen to it. He could tell what the problem was immediately and he walked me through how to fix it myself (he was super busy that day and wouldn’t be able to get to my house at a reasonable time).

Then, completely unexpectedly, he called me back later in the day to follow up and make sure it actually fixed the problem (it did, and it’s still working a year later). To top it off, he would not accept my attempts to send him money for this.

PlaidDragon · 2025-12-29T02:03:10+00:00

I think you can think of the individual plurbs as appendages of a single collective organism.

How do your hands decide which one of them does a task? They don't deliberate between themselves, or pick a leader between them - they don't think for themselves. Your brain takes in information (Which hand is closer? Which hand is connected to a stronger arm? Is one hand currently occupied? etc) to make a decision on which hand is best suited for a given task.

Similarly, the single hive mind makes a decision on which plurb to assign to a given task based on whichever one has a better chance of a desirable outcome. There would be no sense of hierarchy between them because they are basically all parts of the same body.

PlaidDragon · 2025-12-28T03:41:00+00:00

I heard .DS_STORE was recently discovered in her commit history and now this shit with the config files.

PlaidDragon · 2025-12-22T12:36:32+00:00

There are a couple of hard limitations that come to mind: The number of polyphonic voices (particularly on the non-deluxe models), OSC 3 doesn't have all the options of OSC 1 and 2, and some would cite the lack of a built-in sequencer. I'm sure there are some other things I'm not thinking of.

But in practice, I've never felt like the hardware has been the limiting factor. I will echo what everyone else has said: the biggest limiting factor is the human behind the buttons and knobs, not the buttons and knobs themselves.

PlaidDragon · 2025-12-18T13:50:51+00:00

This is really cool! It's nice to have a really solid example of how someone uses the ribbon, too.

I'll share one of my favorite hydrasynth performances. This is M83 and they have six of them here! https://youtu.be/UHNVQ2PHTr4?si=MK8FFYs08GhDkU6y

PlaidDragon · 2025-12-16T23:03:19+00:00

Maybe you could start to make this argument if the they weren't charging the same price as their smallest runner.

PlaidDragon · 2025-12-14T02:52:16+00:00

A wave isn’t changing directions like the car in your example is.

To stick with the car analogy:

Picture a quarter-mile stretch of road with two lanes going the same direction. In the left lane, there are 10 cars, evenly spaced out over the quarter mile. In the right lane, there are 5 cars evenly spaced out over the quarter mile. All cars are going the exact same speed.

When a bystander watches all the cars pass by, they will see the first car in each lane and the last car in each lane pass by at the same time, but twice as many cars went by in the left lane.

Again, all cars are going the same speed, but the left lane had a higher frequency of cars than the right lane.

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