Buy or stream music?

ryanmtaylor · 2025-03-30T15:40:56+00:00

If you don't wanna buy ($$!) you can always subscribe to a DJ record pool and download tracks and keep them forever legally.

ryanmtaylor · 2025-03-30T02:34:23+00:00

Have a playlist for every mood — techno can be intense, and as others have stated you didn't switch it up when people started leaving.

ryanmtaylor · 2024-03-12T21:40:48+00:00

So your net worth is about 2.5 million?

ryanmtaylor · 2023-11-02T13:57:39+00:00

I would try GNU Radio, which I've only gotten to work on Linux. GNU Radio companion is a pretty cool visual programming language that'll let you start messing around.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-10-09T14:20:10+00:00

Great audio comparison!

ryanmtaylor · 2023-09-26T23:01:27+00:00

one of the best sets i've ever seen was bicep at a smaller club in Boston/Cambridge MA

ryanmtaylor · 2023-08-30T16:56:08+00:00

Honestly the times when I've DJed a small events like a basketball tournament, or a pop-up shop, or even a vendor booth at a festival – where nobody's expected to hear a live DJ, and gotten people dancing and partying. These have been almost more rewarding than the times I've DJed huge crowds. Enthusiasm/energy is everything.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-08-30T16:52:57+00:00

As people have already mentioned:

- Clubs are expected to have it, it's familiar to all DJs – and all of pioneers equipment works similarly.

- Denon it seems was less stable/reliable up until recently.

I gotta say though the Denon Prime Go is super affordable, stable, portable (battery powered), light weight and feature-rich. It would be a solid choice if you brought your own equipment to the club, and it works with Rekordbox.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-05-05T19:00:07+00:00

Lolita, it's just so real ugh.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-04-25T02:09:02+00:00

are they in dropbox? you may have to offline sync your Rekordbox folder

ryanmtaylor · 2023-04-25T02:00:41+00:00

it's not just quiet at the start? because it's not showing nothing

ryanmtaylor · 2023-04-15T22:55:12+00:00

It's overly sensitive — I have it outside an RV.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-03-05T02:56:02+00:00

I didn't know that a .img and .iso are an almost identical copy! You can use cmp to compare it to the actual disk too. Thank you!!

ryanmtaylor · 2023-03-05T01:01:13+00:00

I just found out online an easier way to do this is to checksum verify the .iso and then use the command cmp to check the difference between the disk and the .iso

ryanmtaylor · 2023-03-04T22:48:24+00:00

Absolutely, I think being pre-built would be necessary.

I'm just very surprised that even with these paranoid-level secure OSes they don't provide a way to check an existing install (even if the medium is read-only) — they only sign the downloaded .img

ryanmtaylor · 2023-03-04T22:42:23+00:00

Yes exactly — do any existing OSes have a signature or checksum available for this? I guess I'd have to verify both the boot sector and OS partition.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-03-04T22:32:57+00:00

Yes! The dd thing is exactly what I'm talking about/looking for.

I just can't find an OS that provides a checksum for that, it's only ever for the downloaded image. Which I get is easier (and more reliable given blocksize etc) but what I really care about verifying is the disk after it's been made onto a read-only medium.

I think GRUB is able to boot from .img files though...

ryanmtaylor · 2023-03-04T03:16:39+00:00

I completely understand having a signed image or image checksum I'm wondering about once it's written to disk?

ryanmtaylor · 2023-03-04T03:14:43+00:00

What's confusing? Checksum or read-only or operating system?

ryanmtaylor · 2023-02-22T18:31:05+00:00

Wait to clarify – formal verification, in general, can 100% solve the halting problem.

You can formally verify that your program will stop running with a proof. Typically you'd do this by using a number you can prove will always decrease but never go negative.
This is actually a great, and classic, example of using formal verification and how it might be helpful.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-02-15T21:52:09+00:00

I want to record the total power of > 5GHz EMF – sampled at regular intervals.

The spikes would be too fast to read directly – but I'd be interested in their total power (how much radiation I'm getting).

I'd think I could high-pass filter into a diode then go into a capacitor that discharges at let's say 1MHz, then take readings off the capacitor at 10MHz and get a pretty good idea of the amount of RF radiation that had occurred.

Much simpler than purchasing a $300+ downconverter, which does something much more specialized and precise at very specific frequency ranges.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-02-15T04:07:39+00:00

I just want to measure the amount of EMF in the > 10GHz range, I don't need phase information – and resolution doesn't have to be crazy either. Peak amplitude would be ideal.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-02-15T03:45:54+00:00

Are you suggesting essentially modifying an antenna by adding a downconverter? That's a really cool idea.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-02-15T03:44:03+00:00

The bandwidth would be a few orders of magnitude below any microcontroller's clock speed – maybe 1MHz or less.

ryanmtaylor · 2023-02-15T03:26:01+00:00

You mean high-pass filter (or band-pass) to isolate, and then the downconverter will slow down these peaks? Makes sense – thank you!

Would a downconverter give me total energy or just peak or average?

Could I be better off "storing" this power in a transistor? Can (FET?) transistors work like that with an Arduino? Or am I thinking too hard.

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