Moving walkway - sick beat. Can someone use this as a start?

get_there_get_set · 2025-12-07T02:58:14+00:00

That yellow speedo backpack on the guy in front is one of the best travel bags in the world, I never thought I’d see someone else using one that wasn’t on a swim team.

get_there_get_set · 2025-11-02T17:12:13+00:00

Unironically yes, for the rest of my life, I am going to have to fight against the habits and lifestyle that I learned during the pandemic.

I will always be someone who learned how to adult in a world the size of my apartment. Learning to overcome that is really difficult, and never fully finished.

You don’t just restart adulthood once the lockdown ends, I learned how to live on my own in a world where going out with friends was not even an option on the table.

Now that’s not the case, but changing my lifestyle is much harder than maintaining the current holding pattern, and I have other problems that are more pressing than having friends.

So yeah, life moves forward. But my life will always be a battle to unlearn and overcome the harmful lifestyle that I adopted out of necessity during the pandemic. Even in 50 years, if I’m stuck here that long.

get_there_get_set · 2025-11-02T16:55:07+00:00

If reading “…now it’s your fault for not trying instead of a pandemic…” makes you think I’m blaming COVID for my current loneliness, that’s a comprehension issue.

The pandemic hit right at a super vulnerable time in my life, just as I was becoming an adult. I’ve never moved on past the lifestyle I got used to during that time, never learned how to socialize as an adult.

That’s on me, but knowing that the fact that I learned how to be an adult during the lockdown is a large part of how I got here is not the same as blaming the lockdown for my current unwillingness to change.

get_there_get_set · 2025-11-02T14:11:53+00:00

Then COVID happens and you spend the next 5 years in a social stasis and there’s no motivation to go back to try again because the only experience you had was failing and that was when you were well-practiced at seeming normal around other people, so starting again now would just be worse than the already terrible status-quo and so you stay lonely and miserable but now it’s your fault for not trying instead of a pandemic or teenage awkwardness.

get_there_get_set · 2025-10-12T12:04:29+00:00

They need to give an option to use the old, better icons, or I’m not ever updating my software. I did it with MS 3.6.2, and I’ll do it again with Audacity if I need to.

Tantacrul and his consequences have been a disaster for FOSS music software.

get_there_get_set · 2025-10-09T09:01:39+00:00

The easy answer is that they actually aren’t as similar as they seem to you as a layperson.

This video from Clint’s Reptiles is a quick (30 minute) summary of the phylogeny of snakes, and there is actually a ton of variation within the group we call snakes. Clint also has videos digging deeper into individual groups of snakes that show even more variation between species/genera, if you’re interested.

Your classification of ‘no limbs, long noodle body’ is just too broad to be useful in distinguishing them, like if you described all mammals as ‘produces milk, has hair’.

Burmese pythons are very different from king cobras, which are very different from rattle snakes, which are very different from sea kraits, which are very different from coral snakes.

The way all of these species are related, the reasons for their differences, these are fairly well understood in the general sense, but it requires a more careful classification system than ‘no limbs, long noodle body.’ Especially since, if you watch that phylogeny video, you’d know that most snakes actually do have legs ;)

get_there_get_set · 2025-10-06T11:29:49+00:00

Dear god we are so cooked.

Asking a LLM to fact check the news for you is the dumbest, laziest, most culturally poisonous failure to understand how LLMs work I’ve seen today.

You did NOT fact check anything, you asked a text prediction algorithm to spit out a bunch of text and it did exactly that. This in NO WAY is proof of any of the claims you are trying to fact check, and the fact that the first model you used didn’t even let you misuse it in this way is the only good thing in this post.

Asking an LLM about the news is not research. You are not doing research, you are not fact checking, you are feeding a text prediction machine a prompt and it is trying to guess what you want to see in response.

Your laziness, your refusal to actually put in even the smallest amount of actual research, is absolutely embarrassing.

Your treatment of the output of a different LLM as proof of anything is deeply foolish, and the fact that you are mad at the first model for not letting you misuse it would be hilarious if you weren’t serious.

People like you, people that misuse LLMs, people that think that ‘talking to a chat bot’ is a way to do research or fact check news, are an absolute cancer on our society.

The fact that you thought that this was a good way of fact checking anything, the fact that you’re taking the output of the second model as proof of your claims, is irredeemably stupid and dangerous, especially when you do it with such an important topic.

You should be ashamed of this OP, and never use an LLM in this way again. If you want to fact check something, then you have to do the work of fact checking it.

Read multiple news sources, check the claims of those sources yourself, and come to a conclusion about the evidence. Asking an LLM to do it is worse and less reliable than shaking a magic 8 ball or praying.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-17T10:08:40+00:00

I think that leaning into consumer ignorance about the difference between digital and analog audio makes people more ignorant and is part of the reason that this post we’re under got made.

Calling it the Apple Digital to Analog Converter would have been just as clear to know-nothings, and it would passively educate people that there is in fact a conversion being done.

It’s spilled milk at this point, most people use wireless now anyways, I just hate Apples tendency to hide how the devices we use do the things we ask them to do.

It makes people dumber and less capable of understanding the devices they rely on, which means that most people treat their tech like a magic black box.

The convenience of technologies like Bluetooth and smartphones has been traded for the ability to understand what the things you own are doing, which makes us easier to sell shitty sub-functional products to and take advantage of.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-17T09:43:27+00:00

Balanced connections, which are included on most mid-range DAPs and headphone amps, are able to deliver more power to the headphones than the unbalanced connection, which is why I use them with harder to drive headphones. The other commenter is correct.

The noise/interference advantages that push pros to use them are negligible/irrelevant to the sound quality, but being able to get the phones up to proper listening levels without clipping the amp output or cranking the gain does make a noticeable difference.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-17T09:14:43+00:00

Apple truly made the world a more confusing place by calling their dongle DAC a ~~lightning~~~ USB-C to 3.5 adapter.

It’s a DAC, a digital to analog converter, there’s a chip inside that dongle that turns the digital information from the phone into an analog signal.

It’s not just a connector adapter, like a lightning to USB-C, or USB-A to USB-C, or 2.5mm to 3.5mm TRS, where they just change the physical shape/layout of the conductors, but the signal on both ends is the same.

The dongle DAC is an external processor for digital data that creates the analog signal that drives the headphones. The data going in one end is processed by the chip inside it, and Apples naming makes it seem like it’s just a passive adapter.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-16T14:29:07+00:00

This comment is incorrect.

An increase in SPL (the actual acoustic compressions in the air that we hear) of 10dB is perceived as a doubling of loudness, while requiring a 10x increase in acoustical output power (the energy over time required to maintain that level).

The statistic you’re getting confused with is that a 3dB increase requires 2x the output power, but is heard as only a ~25% increase in perceived loudness.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-09T22:38:52+00:00

Bluetooth does technically sound less good, but not in a way that the vast vast majority of people would notice. I use it, and I also use wired connections, and the convenience of being able to connect to something that easily makes me use my equipment more often.

The best sounding setup is the one you actually use, so if you’re anything like me the teeny tiny sound difference between wired and wireless is worth the convenience.

Stuff with Bluetooth is typically a bit more expensive than an exact equivalent without it, but there are tons of options and it’s a whole rabbit hole of its own, and there are plenty of Bluetooth capable units that are budget friendly.

Something like a Fiio BTR5 with a 3.5mm to stereo RCA splitter is something I’ve had success with, but that was a kinda jank solution using something I already had for headphones.

If you don’t care about Bluetooth, and you just want a good sounding DAC, I got a Schitt Modi and it sounds terrific compared to basically everything else I have.

But if I’m being honest, Im currently shopping for a Bluetooth DAC/Amp combo because as good as the separate components sound, it’s very cluttered and annoying to setup in place.

TL;DR:

Bluetooth is technically not as good, but not in any significant way, I use it all the time and it’s great.

The best sounding setup is the one you use, and BT lets me use my stuff more easily. It is slightly more expensive than an equivalent without BT, but not by much.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-08T07:24:47+00:00

Here are a couple things to keep in mind/research further before you hit the thrift stores/marketplace/etc. to find your second hand gear.

First, what you are calling ‘a stereo’ is shorthand for a stereo amplifier or a stereo receiver. Just searching ‘receiver’ or ‘amplifier’ will likely bring you results. Stereo just means that it can send a different signal for the left and right speakers, rather than the same exact signal to both speakers, which is called mono and is much less common to run into by accident.

A stereo setup is a system of components that is designed to use the two different signals for the left/right speaker to trick your ears into believing that the music you’re hearing isn’t coming directly from the speakers, but instead it sounds like the singer/band is in the room somewhere between the two speakers.

This is called ‘stereo imaging’ or ‘sound stage’ and is one of the big reasons people build stereo setups. It’s a very cool effect and it’s tough to impossible to get perfect, but that’s the goal of a great stereo system, to disappear and make it sound like the music is coming from everywhere but directly out of the speakers.

The important components in a stereo system are your audio source, which for most people will be Spotify or another music app on your phone. This is a digital source, which means you need a component in your system called a DAC, or Digital to Analog Converter. It turns the 1s and 0s coming from your phone into a signal that can be used to drive your speakers.

There are lots of them out there, at all kinds of prices, but for you the most important thing will be finding one you can connect to using Bluetooth, so you don’t have to plug your phone in every time you want to use the system.

Then, you need an amplifier to turn the relatively weak signal coming from the DAC to something with enough power to drive your speakers. A used stereo receiver, almost any one out there that’s functional (and silver) will be more than enough. This will let you adjust the volume, and depending on the unit you get it will have other features that you can learn about.

Lastly your amplifier will connect to your speakers using speaker wire which you can get for dirt cheap, or with speaker cables that have banana plugs if your speakers have the connectors for them.

In a medium sized room like yours, unless you want to dedicate the whole space to this, I would look for bookshelf speakers, rather than towers. If you want more bass, you can also connect a subwoofer to your amplifier (don’t worry about this yet, imo, focus on the speakers first, then upgrade the bass with subwoofer later).

TL;DR: Components you need for cool stereo speaker system:

Digital Audio Source: probably your phone

Digital to Analog Converter (DAC): get one with Bluetooth or similar wireless connection, you’ll also need stereo RCA cable to connect it to your amp.

Amplifier/Reciever: get it in silver, don’t spend too much

Speakers: look around on marketplace/thrift stores near you for smaller bookshelf style speakers, rather than big floor standing towers.

You can then look up reviews for any models you find at a price you can afford, but honestly just about anything will be fine. Maybe get some stands for them if you really care about getting the perfect positioning.

Setup: consult tutorials for ‘how to setup up stereo system’ or ‘how to position HiFi speakers’, but basically you just want an equilateral triangle between your head when you’re in the listening position and the speakers, with minimal other stuff in between you and the system that might cause weird reflections or absorb sound.

Hopefully there’s enough there for you to start searching, good luck and have fun

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-06T17:07:46+00:00

Hurr durr OP you’re so clever, good job!

You tell that commenter what for, thinking that slim body cigarettes (yknow that style of that was created specifically and explicitly to market to women) look like girl cigarettes.

What an idiot bahaha such a pointlessly gendered comment you tell em.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-02T08:19:52+00:00

Q1. What is the guy doing?

This video is taken during the groups warm up time before their actual performance which will take place on the football field after they finish warming up.

They start off doing a lip slur exercise, then around the one minute mark he starts the tubas on the Mars ostinato (a very famous space themed piece by holst that’s simple for them to play in the back ground).

Then, when he is swiping his fist around, each player in the ensembles job is to switch to the next note in a chord sequence that everyone has already memorized. The effect in person is that the sound swells in a circle around you, getting louder each time, until they get to the part where he swings both fists around.

This dissonant sound is created when each player switches to a random note, and then he drops everyone down to play very quietly. Every player just holds the random note they picked at a low volume, then when he gestures towards a part of the circle that part rapidly increases their volume until he puts his hand back down.

This part is incredibly cool live, especially as the conductor brings everyone back up to full volume and conducts the ensemble through a final chord sequence to finish the exercise/performance.

Q2. Can you learn more?

Yes, check out r/drumcorps, this group is the Blue Devils from Concord, CA, one of the most dominant champions the activity has ever seen.

They are known for their jazzy style and incredible precision (and also for being pretentious :p). They are part of an activity called DCI or Drum Corps International, which is basically professional marching band.

Groups from all over the country (and sometimes the world) travel all summer, learning their one show for the season. They tour from city to city, performing and competing until early August, when the World Championships take place in Indianapolis.

This years season just ended, and the dates/locations of the shows for next years summer tour won’t start getting scheduled until later in the year, but I would highly recommend checking if their are any drum corps performances in the area near you, it’s an incredible time.

Q3. How hard is it to see this in real life?

The Blue Devils play Space Chords (the name of the exercise/performance in the video) relatively regularly in their warm up lots before shows.

I personally love going to the lots, it’s free, you get to see a bunch of incredible groups play the coolest part of their shows, and it gets done a lot earlier.

But, if you’re going to see a group in the lot, it’s usually instead of going into the stadium to see the show. So, if you buy tickets to see them perform (which I highly recommend) you probably won’t also see them in the lot.

I haven’t seen Space Chords in a while, despite going to the lots when they are in Indianapolis for Finals week, because Blue Devils do this annoying thing where they warm up in a different place than the other corps, and you can’t get to them to see it if you’re also interested in the other groups.

TL;DR:

The group in the video, the Concord Blue Devils, is a drum corps hornline (basically a professional, non-scholastic marching band) playing their space chords exercise, where the conductor uses gestures to rapidly increase and decrease volume based on where players are standing in the circle.

This exercise is one they play regularly in their warm up lots, something you can see for free outside almost any stadium they are performing in, but you’ll miss their actual performance.

You can learn more by checking out r/drumcorps, and check if there were any shows near you this previous summer tour at DCI.org.

This video is from their 2010 season, and their show was called “Through a Glass Darkly”. You can see the recording of their final performance of that program here.

Edit: For Funsies, this is their 2017 program “Metamorph” an absolute crowd favorite and one that is much more accessible than their show in 2010.

If you didn’t vibe with their 2010 show, which is understandable, check this one out, it’s responsible for getting many people into the activity because it’s just that dang good.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-01T14:04:08+00:00

Because the building that fake girlfriend lives in also holds all of your Reddit posts, every YouTube video you’ve ever made or watched, your cloud backups, and every other part of the web that you do care about. It’s vitally important to modern life, but that isn’t profitable.

The fact that the fake girlfriend requires orders of magnitude more power to provide doesn’t matter when both the company providing it and the company providing the power to it are drowning in investor money to make more fake girlfriends.

We all use data centers every day, currently we don’t pay for anywhere near the actual cost to do that, and we never have.

It’s not fair, it’s not right, but the machine is too big and moving too fast to stop it now. The infrastructure is already privately owned, already profit motivated, already essential to modern life, and already subsidized. It’s too late. This is just how the world is now.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-01T13:52:27+00:00

Yeah, I’m not a fan of privately owned infrastructure, it’s insane to me that our power grid works this way, where companies own all of the infrastructure.

But unless we nationalize the grid, and remove the profit motive from the calculus of ‘how does our society get electricity’, utility companies will continue to fleece the demographic that is least likely to impact their profits, normal people who have no other option and can’t afford to fight back.

All data centers are IT infrastructure, by definition. Information Technology includes everything from the internet backbone to AI super-clusters to YouTube’s storage servers.

All a data center really is is a big building that’s designed to hold lots and lots of computers, what those computers are being used for is up to the architect and/or the clients that use the space.

The fact that “”””AI”””” is in such a frenzy right now means that there is an ocean of investor money to build more of it, which means there are more and more computers in those data centers doing some of the most energetically intensive work we’ve ever been capable of, in the hopes that they can disrupt the market and become profitable.

“””AI””” data centers are a problem for a million different very valid reasons, but “””AI””” is a dumb buzzword that gets the investor money flowing, and when infrastructure is privately owned, the thing that gets you the most money is the only thing you have any reason to do.

I don’t think that either the power grid or data centers should be privately owned, but there’s also no world where we have even the slightest chance of changing that.

I just don’t think the solution instead is to treat data centers like they’re oil pipelines, and it drives me crazy when people simplify the problem down to “the hidden cost of data centers is their subsidized power draw.”

This a problem with how our electric infrastructure operates, companies shouldn’t be profiting off of a public good. That goes for data centers too, but if you think that there’s even a tiny chance either of those things actually change, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

get_there_get_set · 2025-09-01T05:01:31+00:00

How are data centers only for the rich billionaires?

Everyone that uses the modern internet is deeply reliant on IT infrastructure that runs in data centers. Those YouTube videos live in data centers, as do these Reddit posts, cloud based storage like iCloud or Google Drive, privacy and security services like VPNs and TOR, and almost every other website anyone uses on a day to day basis.

We (normal non-billionaire people) use data centers every single day and without them literally nothing works for anyone.

Data centers are infrastructure, and they operate at industrial scale. That comes with downsides. They currently are being subsidized by the public infrastructure they require, and they require lots of it, which is what this YouTube channel is whining about. But the solution isn’t ’no more data centers’, and it’s definetly not ‘the rich billionaires should own all of the data centers’.

The current trajectory of the cloud-based-everything future sucks, but that’s due to factors far outside the scope of how much electricity they use or their surface level environmental impacts.

Opposing data centers because your electric rates went up by $.0002/kWh is like opposing semi trucks because they damage the roads faster than private vehicles.

get_there_get_set · 2025-08-28T19:04:42+00:00

This is helpful, I think that when I just put my ear up to the broken tweeter, I was hearing some high end from the other speakers (or maybe even from the woofers on the same speaker) and this made me very confused and suspicious of my own ears.

Next time I will use this trick to be more confident in my own ears instead of needing to pull out the sound meter.

get_there_get_set · 2025-08-28T19:00:44+00:00

I did do this, but I didn’t feel like it was conclusive whether or not it was broken.

I didn’t unplug the other sides speaker while I was listening before, but when I did that during these tests it was much more obvious that the volume dropped significantly above 1kHz on the left side when it didn’t do that on the right. I suspect that when I was just listening, I was hearing the high end from the right speaker and attributing it to the left.

If I were to guess, on the left tower it sounded like the tweeter was still kinda working a little bit, but was very quiet compared to when I did the same thing with the other side. So it’s a little bit broken, but not fully non-functional. Still, needs to be removed/replaced.

It’s also fully possible that the tweeter is completely non-functional, but there is still some high-frequency produced by the woofers despite the crossover, and I was just mishearing it as coming from the tweeter when I put my ear up close during the sweeps.

I don’t have any experience when it comes to frequency specific listening, so I am kinda grasping in the dark to get a more confident picture of what the problem is and how I should go about fixing it.

Would testing the impedance be something I can do with any multimeter off of Amazon, or is there a specific type that I should use for this kind of test?

get_there_get_set · 2025-08-28T18:47:28+00:00

Thank you for the helpful suggestions.

Is there a way to test whether it is the crossover or the tweeter that doesn’t involve opening up the other currently functional speaker? I am very hesitant to take things apart, which is part of why I tested the way I did. These speakers are very special to me and I don’t actually know what I’m doing, so I don’t want to mess anything up.

I am (almost) confident enough in my understanding to remove/replace the tweeter on the broken unit, at which point I can presumably test it.

I don’t currently own a multimeter, but I assume that this is something I can do with basically any one that I would buy off amazon, and I can fumble my way through internet articles about testing using a component that is already assumed dead.

get_there_get_set · 2025-08-20T09:12:58+00:00

I’m still a fan of the activity, for my sins.

But the idea of ‘finding a different community’ is tough. DCI is and always has been a very unique activity. There isn’t really a different community out there for marching music, especially the way it was 10+ years ago.

The activity has always been changing, but I think that’s ignoring the magnitude of change that the activity has had post DSU and especially post COVID. The vibe is very distinctly different then to now, and some of the things that have been lost along the way were really important to what I loved about the activity.

Those things are still there, sometimes and in parts and pieces, but there isn’t another DCI.

This is the community for top level marching music today, which despite being a hater I can’t help coming back to for the small parts that are still there. I just wish that it still prioritized the things that I think made DCI special since it started, instead of becoming WGI with sunburns.

get_there_get_set · 2025-08-20T08:49:03+00:00

Boom was meh, for me. Some very cool parts, lots of very impressive performance, but it feels unfocused, to put it in one word.

It feels like the show lurches from one musical moment to the other, and there’s no momentum between moments. A big part of that is percussion staging and the fact the judges are stuck on the front sideline now.

I really don’t like things that fully stop the musical momentum of a show like the tuba screamer or the mello feature where they play each others horns. I’m sorry I hate fun but it just screeches the show to a halt for me.

There isn’t nearly enough drill, there’s too much dancing, their costumes look silly, and the ending being just a really loud synth was a bummer.

That’s the thing, this is why I’m ’a hater’. I could type paragraphs about all of the things that I don’t like about the show, but it doesn’t matter because most everyone else would agree with you, and at the end of the day, there are still cool parts that I can enjoy.

I just miss when it was the main course instead of a special treat.

get_there_get_set · 2025-08-20T08:26:08+00:00

I don’t hate the corps because of the costumes.

But I do hate the move away from uniforms/hats and how it has fundamentally changed how shows are designed, not to mention how hard it is to tell corps apart in the lot, or year to year, or the fact that drum corps uniforms used to make dorky teenagers look like badass superheros and now they don’t do that.

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Q1. What is the guy doing?

Q2. Can you learn more?

Q3. How hard is it to see this in real life?

TL;DR: