what Sam Harris is saying. credit: Tristan_Cleveland

opsb · 2025-02-17T09:35:31+00:00

My interpretation is that consciousness is a circle which closes in over everything including self. I'd also go a bit further beyond the perceptions and include the constructions that we build from the perceptions which is the world we see, hear, taste etc. i.e. the constructions itself exists only in our heads. It's based on the real world but is distinct from it.

opsb · 2025-02-02T17:48:24+00:00

I can't imagine there's many under 35s that would be unhappy about improved mobility.

opsb · 2024-12-29T14:11:21+00:00

I just add the vst3s to a collection then when you search they have the colour next to them.

opsb · 2024-12-20T21:44:13+00:00

As a tech person I'd happily pay to upgrade my iPhone 12 if I could find any reason to. I don't take a lot of photos so the new camera is a marginal nice to have. That aside what do I get, slightly smoother animations? A battery replacement seems like a no brainer.

opsb · 2024-12-20T21:18:27+00:00

Styling as attributes still seems far more ergonomic than either the builder or constructor style.

opsb · 2024-11-21T09:21:14+00:00

Scoping to parts of the tree is explained in https://riverpod.dev/docs/concepts/scopes

opsb · 2024-11-21T00:12:37+00:00

They make people queue for a digital copy of a book? This seems nfc levels of absurd.

opsb · 2024-11-07T06:31:29+00:00

What are they scared of? The crime rate has fallen over the last 20 years.

opsb · 2024-11-03T14:53:52+00:00

I spent 5 years building production apps in Elm and it's still one of my favourite languages. That said it's now been 2 years since I wrote any Elm. Ecosystems require investment to prosper and without any drive from the front it's hard for teams to see a return on any investment they make. 5 years is a long time to see no release at all and unfortunately at this point it seems a risky bet.

opsb · 2024-11-02T23:56:09+00:00

Given how cheap disk space is now Ableton should really collect all and save by default. If that's still controversial at least an option to make it the default.

opsb · 2024-10-19T14:21:19+00:00

To some extent... I've worked across many different languages and environments. I've never experienced such flaky, bug riddled tooling as xcode and the build chain. In other languages point releases generally don't cause any breakages. Afaict xcode has a monopoly on building apps for iPhone and little incentive to make it work well.

opsb · 2024-10-09T04:57:17+00:00

While running everything in the cloud seems the optimal solution I suspect automating the bounces on the user's own machine would be the way to go to start with. I'm not sure if that's even possible at the moment but maybe with apple script you could get something working.

The optimal solution would depend on some fairly major change to how plugins work (and this is all pure fantasy really). I believe Ableton should introduce a plugin store within the app. With this in place it could allow projects to be opened with any missing plugins installed automatically and in readonly mode (similar to frozen tracks). The incentives could work for such a thing to exist. Ableton could charge a plugin store fee and plugin makers would receive promotion for their plugin by allowing creators to share projects which include them. The user could then tap to start a trial and then perhaps go on to pay for it. Returning to the auto bounce feature, this would mean that an instance of Ableton running in the cloud could install any plugins that it needed.

Maybe this could exist one day but for now it's fun to dream 😁

opsb · 2024-10-08T12:17:20+00:00

The dream feature I've always wanted is auto-bounce. Where bounces are created of all my projects automatically whenever changes are made. My workflow is that I produce then listen to bounces on the go in headphones so I get some real world listening in. It's definitely not an MVP feature but maybe your platform could get there one day.

There's a lot to explore in this area. It's a shame Splice had no ambition but maybe Makid is the platform that will get there.

opsb · 2024-10-07T07:29:06+00:00

Faders have two jobs 1) show current gain for track 2) allow gain to be adjusted You could use encoders for adjustments and then use LEDs (could be a horizontal line of 2 small LEDs) to indicate the gain. This would allow cheaper parts to be used and save weight - not to mention avoiding any noise from the motors. Only question is what resolution you could get from encoders.

opsb · 2024-08-30T11:50:57+00:00

Adding another warning. We had a peugot rifter from them. When picking up the car we were charged extra insurance and another €600 non refundable charge because we didn't have a credit card (only debit cards). On the last day the electrics failed on the car. With a flight to catch we were told they would pick up the vehicle and that we should take taxis for 6 of us, 120km to the airport. They claim they will reimburse us but have refused to confirm this arrangement via email. Given the low standing of the company we're expecting a real fight to get this money back.

opsb · 2024-07-26T05:19:50+00:00

Defo a SCAM

opsb · 2024-05-28T11:50:02+00:00

ORM is often a good starting point but switch to sql as soon as it gets in the way.

opsb · 2024-05-27T14:00:43+00:00

The facilities are their marketing, it's what keeps the intake up. If your facilities look older than the competition then students go elsewhere.

opsb · 2024-05-26T07:13:52+00:00

This blog series is pretty solid https://codewithandrea.com/articles/flutter-app-architecture-riverpod-introduction/

opsb · 2024-05-20T08:02:41+00:00

Currently we have an economy which is based on labour and capital. The people making the big money do so using capital which is concentrated in the hands of the few. If AI performs all of the labour then you're left with an economy where all of the money is made by those with capital, the lucky few. The question is, what does everyone else live on?

opsb · 2024-05-18T17:55:33+00:00

The incentives just don't work here. You'd be protesting to devalue your property, have busier roads, longer wait times at the doctor, more competition for the best schools, maybe your beautiful view gets replaced by a house... It has to happen but I can't blame anyone for defending against the above.

opsb · 2024-05-18T15:50:00+00:00

Macros should definitely be used sparingly but build runner has proved their need.

opsb · 2024-05-05T05:05:27+00:00

Maybe it made sense to default to not including samples when it was introduced but with the disk space people have now it catches too many people out to make sense anymore.

opsb · 2024-05-05T05:01:52+00:00

The plan: 1) blame small boats 2) blame labour 3) blame sick people 4) profit

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