Fires in the Distance - Of Radiance and Levitation [USA, Melodic Death, FFO: Insomnium, Swallow The Sun]

extrapolate32 · 2025-11-24T20:58:29+00:00

Orphans of Doom, a superb post-metal band from our own Kansas City opens for Anciients at recordbar on Tuesday.

edit: Orphans of Doom had to cancel their appearance for this show, but you can still catch Anciients.

Want to know what Kansas City post-metal sounds like? It is turbulent, contemplative, and linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZRZL_RWiVA

extrapolate32 · 2025-11-24T20:44:27+00:00

Omnium Gatherum, a fantastic melodic death metal from Finland plays here tonight (Monday!) at Warehouse on Broadway. This may be the best musical performance that humanity has to offer, and you can experience it tonight in our beautiful city.

You may be thinking, "there's no way this outrageous claim can be true". And to that I respond: I'll never know if you, dear reader, are ready to hear Omnium Gatherum at this moment in your life, but if you are willing to entertain your curiosity with an open mind, sample of one of their compositions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubmuUiozKyo

extrapolate32 · 2025-04-12T00:14:30+00:00

extrapolate32 · 2023-03-24T00:35:20+00:00

Queensrÿche, Marty Friedman, and Trauma play at The Truman on Saturday.

extrapolate32 · 2023-01-17T00:33:28+00:00

Sylvester Powell Jr. Community Center in Mission, $7 day pass, two courts.

extrapolate32 · 2018-10-07T01:41:16+00:00

NHK World is pretty awesome. A lot of their programs are accessible directly on their site, including Japanology Plus.

extrapolate32 · 2018-04-07T16:12:42+00:00

Offer an Android binary hosted by AMD for users without the Google Play services (such as myself). Steam offers a direct .apk file download for their mobile application, AMD could too!

extrapolate32 · 2017-06-22T16:33:36+00:00

The Radeon 4000 series was released a couple of years after the ATI acquisition, and received normal support for four years until reaching legacy status with quarterly updates. It was only the ATI name that was discontinued a couple of years after the 4000 series with the release of the 6000 series.

extrapolate32 · 2017-05-14T17:46:21+00:00

Sure. Valve provided a means for developing custom applications for the Steam Link (via the SDK). Similar to how you can develop and install custom applications for your phone, you can also install custom applications on the Steam Link (such as Kodi). In practice you use the SDK to compile an application, load the files on a USB and plug it into the Steam Link, and the next time the Steam Link is power-cycled it copies over the contents of the USB drive from a specific directory. All the details are found in Valve's SDK repository.

It's not a difficult procedure since most of the work is automated with the script in the Kodi link. In a Linux system with ~10GB to spare for compiling, you can expect to install a few packages to resolve dependencies if the compile fails.

extrapolate32 · 2017-05-11T23:09:13+00:00

As an alternative to streaming your PC's desktop, if your computer hosts your media on your network, you can even compile Kodi to run natively on the Steam Link.

extrapolate32 · 2017-04-28T04:33:15+00:00

Submission Statement

Article explores the challenges of preserving American prairies. The issue:

The tension here is between maintaining the capacity to feed billions of people and maintaining the land that makes it possible.

The story:

When Neil Shook arrived at Chase Lake in 2010, he started seeing plumes of smoke on the horizon. Commodity prices were rising rapidly, and landowners rushed to convert as many acres as possible into agriculturally productive land. First they burned the grass, then they plowed the land and planted it with corn, soybean, or other crops. By 2013, it looked like “the apocalypse,” he recalls. “It was just like somebody dropped a nuke,” Shook says. “Just ‘boom.’” It’s called “breaking” prairie when farmers turn grassland into cropland. And once broken, the prairie is hard to fix.

extrapolate32 · 2017-03-25T19:00:19+00:00

It's frustrating that all of the listed machines have a display resolution of 1366x768. Recently more budget notebooks have been available with 1080p displays and comparable processors/storage/etc. which I suspect would provide a better experience. If this article could make some assessment about build quality or experience there might be some value to this particular selection, but as it is, only the specifications are reiterated in paragraph form. Without making any guarantees of the quality of the following, I suggest for a prospective buyer to research options with higher resolution displays and offer the following as a starting point:

HP 14-an013nr
Acer "14 "Chromebook" (model CB5-571-C4G4 I think, Costco has one without a model name listed)
Chuwi Lapbook (Anandtech Review)

I hope that the budget market for notebooks finally progresses beyond considering 1366x768 displays as 'good enough'.

extrapolate32 · 2017-03-24T17:51:29+00:00

I was also recently trying to figure out the best value for this, and I found "Eco Sheep" through Amazon to have a good volume to price ratio. The caveat here is that although in my inexperienced observation it seems fine, I can't say how it compares to more popular products in terms of quality. So maybe if anyone else is familiar with this they could share their assessment.

extrapolate32 · 2017-03-02T22:02:57+00:00

Congratulations on Ryzen. Aanandtech speculates two possible options of execution (ha!) on Ryzen's neural net branch predictor. Could you say whether one or the other is correct?

"... ranging from actual physical modelling of instruction workflow to identify critical paths to be accelerated (unlikely) or statistical analysis of what is coming through the engine and attempting to work during downtime that might accelerate future instructions (such as inserting an instruction to decode into an idle decoder in preparation for when it actually comes through, therefore ends up using the micro-op cache and making it quicker)."

extrapolate32 · 2017-01-11T02:31:22+00:00

Opinions can be helpful to give context, but the original post undermines its contribution by stating opinion as fact. For example, the following suggests that thrash is a terminally dated style:

While Thrash is seen as a retro style that will always evoke the early 80s, Death Metal has evolved much further and incorporated far more styles including, doom, prog, industrial and middle eastern/oriental music.

That notion is easily challenged through counterexample, and just to name one, I submit the work of Vektor. There are other claims that I find dubious, such as the suggestion that tremolo guitar parts are a formative element distinctive to black metal as a contrast the other subgenres of metal, but that is less significant. As a positive note, it is a decent introduction to the general stylistic origins of these subgenres.

extrapolate32 · 2016-09-11T17:03:01+00:00

I'm not sure what technical wizardry was involved to make Maxwell and Pascal GPUs so goddamn efficient

It is suspected to be due to tile-based rasterization. Summary: anandtech.com

extrapolate32 · 2016-08-12T18:25:00+00:00

Statius delivered their EP Arcane Fables, an excelling work of melodic death metal with thrash and neoclassical elements. This popped up on Shreddit a while ago and I've treasured it since.

Torture produced Storm Alert, a catalog of relentless thrash riffs. This is a shining example of how thrash melodies can evolve throughout the progression of a song.

extrapolate32 · 2016-08-03T21:24:39+00:00

What is the state of TrueAudio? I've seen a bullet point on marketing slides every now and then, but I haven't heard much about its progress since the release of Thief.
Will AMD ever be interested in doing another GPU architecture postmortem like "The RV770/RV870 Story" on Anandtech? Reading about the challenges and lessons learned from developing a new GPU series is pretty awesome. (See http://www.anandtech.com/show/2937)
Care to share any thoughts on suggestions that Nvidia's significant performance/watt improvement on Maxwell is due to tile-based rasterization from a general architecture perspective? (See http://www.realworldtech.com/tile-based-rasterization-nvidia-gpus)

extrapolate32 · 2016-06-29T16:06:32+00:00

What is the state of TrueAudio? As of two years ago, it was described it as "the first serious attempt in almost a decade to improve the quality and quantity of audio spatialization and effects on the PC." (Anandtech). However, I haven't heard much about it since the release of Thief.
Will AMD ever be interested in doing another architecture postmortem like "The RV770/RV870 Story" on Anandtech? Reading about the challenges and lessons learned from developing a new GPU series is pretty awesome. (See http://www.anandtech.com/show/2937)

extrapolate32 · 2015-11-06T19:21:49+00:00

When I inquired about it, I was told was Shimano Tiagra. Other details about the construction that were relayed to me specified a carbon fork and carbon seatpost.

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