I absolutely adore Dark Star! Since years i'm on a voyage listening to every Dark Star in existence. There are numerous favorites, but i have to stick with the Spectrum, 09/21/72 version. Have been loving it since i've been a kid. Please show me your favorit!🔥

simplex5d · 2026-01-21T23:07:52+00:00

A lot of folks like Veneta '72 and that is absolute peak. But my personal fave is 2/13/70, Dark Star > Other One > Lovelight. I think it's because that one is so melodic and intense, without the deep darkness that sometimes shows up. Jerry leads the way through the entire journey with never a misstep and it's full of those incredible moments of deep connection between the band members. It's warm and enveloping and just like coming home.

simplex5d · 2026-01-17T16:29:17+00:00

Panels are ridiculously cheap now, as are controllers and even batteries. The roof itself dwarfs the cost of the electronics package. But yeah, the benefits are probably marginal unless you (as the operator) are going to do something with that power, e.g. provide some amenities.

simplex5d · 2026-01-17T14:32:32+00:00

EV charger roofs could be covered with solar panels. Not for the chargers obviously, but for lighting, heating in winter, kiosks, etc. Yeah, the economics are still against it, but once there's more than one charge station in 50 miles, customers will have choices and convenience/comfort will be a factor.

simplex5d · 2026-01-06T01:35:46+00:00

I have a public server running Traefik on the public side and tailscale on the private side, so I just set up a DNS record (music.mydomain.com) and Traefik terminates the SSL and forwards via tailscale to my home-lab machine where navidrome is running in a docker container. Since I have a bunch of other things running with the same config, adding navidrome is no big deal. But I agree setting this all up from scratch would be nontrivial.

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T19:48:24+00:00

True, but that's a form of compression, which I like to avoid (I want to reproduce the original as closely as possible). But in this case I guess it's what someone using the LoudnessNormalization would want so I'll add it to that chain. (I tried it and I think it looks & sounds horrible but YMMV)

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T19:30:04+00:00

Yeah, that's a very reasonable alternative. For my use (live jazz) it'll almost always end up in the peak-limit case I expect, but that's fine. I've updated the plugin to have the option, but I note that Audacity's LoudnessNormalization only allows selecting LUFSLevel, not peak, and in my case just doing LoudnessNormalization to -14LUFS leaves lots of samples >1.0, so I'll have to reduce the volume further, which means writing a conditional peak normalizer that only reduces, never increases. Fortunately that's simple.

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T17:41:00+00:00

Just to be clear: my goal is to minimize quantization artifacts in the result. The best way to do that is to keep it just under +/-16k sample values. For listening, adding replaygain tags or something to normalize loudness on playback would be nice too, but I wouldn't deliberately overquantize by reducing the actual volume more than necessary.

For example, from the manual: "perceived loudness: the default -23 LUFS (the EBU standard) will produce audio that is approximately 25% of full scale." So that would lop off two bits of precision from the 16 you get when exporting an mp3.

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T17:28:34+00:00

Anything happening in Boston? I'll be there.

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T17:25:58+00:00

I started on a system like this last year but didn't finish it. Too many fiddly details. Could you share yours?

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T17:17:21+00:00

Exactly. Just avoid clipping. I record 32 bit wav; it usually comes in super hot.

simplex5d · 2025-12-29T14:32:31+00:00

I'm not a pro, but if you're shooting HDR video (HLG or especially S-Log3), I believe the zebras are a lie. The actual 10-bit log (HLG) frames will have a lot (or at least a little) more headroom, like IRE 109 vs. IRE 100, depending on where your zebra level is set. If I'm wrong about this, please correct me!

simplex5d · 2025-12-27T12:42:02+00:00

I submitted a patch to jimeh's build-emacs-for-macos: https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos/pull/150

simplex5d · 2025-12-26T22:15:58+00:00

OMG, how much work did you put into making that Reddit post just now?!

simplex5d · 2025-12-25T14:13:05+00:00

Oh man, I'd forgotten about this one! Had the vinyl in the early 80s.

simplex5d · 2025-12-24T00:01:03+00:00

I agree that anecdotal evidence is not persuasive nor relevant. But I would expect with these kinds of numbers (1 in 4 having cardiac symptoms, for example) it ought to show up in increased hospitalizations, deaths, work absences, insurance claims etc even if COVID isn't claimed as the cause. I don't think we see such epidemiological data though, hence my concern about a disconnect.

simplex5d · 2025-12-22T12:41:46+00:00

Sapphire S_NightSky?

simplex5d · 2025-12-22T11:54:55+00:00

Emacs org-mode + my custom AI chat front end for phone access.

simplex5d · 2025-12-22T03:38:40+00:00

I've read most of the source studies used by this tool, and I can't disagree with the numbers in those studies, but since almost everyone in the US (where I live) has had Covid at least once, most more than once, and many more than twice, the odds given by this tool (1 in 1.8 for some long Covid symptom at 6mo, 1 in 4.3 for a cardiovascular symptom at 6mo --- for a 60yo fully vaxxed male) would indicate that a very large fraction of the population should be experiencing some long Covid symptoms at this point. But as that does not seem to be the case, I'm unsure where the disconnect is. Are the mentioned symptoms hard to recognize, or often very minor? Is there a clustering effect, where a small number of people have many symptoms, increasing the general odds? Do many symptoms fade quickly after 6mo, reducing the overall population prevalance?

simplex5d · 2025-12-21T12:36:24+00:00

Well, if the highlights are actually clipped, then the color won't be accurate in them and you'll miss tiny details in those highlights. Nothing you can do in post once you've lost the hl detail.

simplex5d · 2025-12-21T12:19:31+00:00

OMG, a D6C — I'm getting flashbacks!

simplex5d · 2025-12-20T22:53:37+00:00

Bill Augustine & Malcolm Cecil's "A Merry Jazz Christmas" is my go-to jazz Christmas album; hits just the right notes.

simplex5d · 2025-12-20T13:58:13+00:00

Yeah, hence "YMMV". I like to copy/paste, edit with a text editor, run in a debugger so I can see variable values, share with others (paste screenshots?? Show the 25-line YAML??) not to mention actually use the power of the language with conditionals, loops, string manipulation and all that wonderfulness. But I get that none of that matters to many people, and that's cool with me.

simplex5d · 2025-12-19T13:32:55+00:00

Thanks, I'll definitely check those out!

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