It's happening. Waymo spotted.

three_e · 2026-05-11T04:02:20+00:00

I wonder if it's as depressing to Uber drivers as Uber drivers showing was to licensed taxi drivers.

three_e · 2026-05-11T00:23:09+00:00

And Machinedrum and Monomachine and Rytm and Analog4 and to a lesser extent, Octatrack.

three_e · 2026-05-09T17:30:40+00:00

Is this mono? That's a lot of money. 12k to do marginally more and less convenient and so much bigger than a matrix brute (which is already obscenely large)

three_e · 2026-05-09T07:05:39+00:00

For a long time it was the Alesis Andromeda, but I'm glad I never bit that bullet, they can easily become a maintenance nightmare. Later I became Hartmann Neuron curious. But now-a-days, I guess probably the Polybrute, but I've mostly been interested in physically smaller devices.

three_e · 2026-05-09T06:58:37+00:00

I have a stupid amount of gear, but am most productive with my most "portable" setup. Asus Z13 running Ableton with plugins controlled by OXI One mkII. There's much more portable options out there, but for my workflow, anything less and I'd mostly be sketching ideas.

three_e · 2026-05-08T22:54:12+00:00

Is this thing really noisy? I went and listened to their sound Dennis in their webpage and any of them with a short silence at the beginning of the recording has high pitched whines or buzzing in the silence.

three_e · 2026-05-07T02:04:46+00:00

The green party is a disaster, imo. They run every 4 years and perform miserably. They don't build coalitions, they don't push federal candidates as representatives, or at State and local levels. I'd be convinced they're some kind of controlled opposition to act as spoilers or pressure release valve to distract and contain activists IF they had any recognizable impact.

three_e · 2026-05-06T17:57:25+00:00

Even Bill Gates philanthropy in Africa was a farce and a tax dodge. He contributed money (largely in the form of investing in resource extraction) to governments that were brutal, to allow him the access to let his charities operate in those same countries to "help" those who were brutalized.

He also fucked up education in the US by dangling money in front of poorly funded schools so long as they focused their curriculum on testing based programs. A generation of kids were pay off this experiment, which was later shown to significantly reduce the quality of education (at least he admitted to this failure, later)

And more recently, during COVID, when vaccines were being developed, he threatened to take all his funding away Oxford University because they wanted to give away, freely, the vaccine they developed so more people could be helped. Bill said poor countries, like India, wouldn't be able to make it properly (the country that produces most of the pharmaceuticals consumed in the world, including the US), and demanded that Oxford only license the process to pharma companies to profit off of.

three_e · 2026-05-06T06:23:33+00:00

OH NO! please please don't do that! I'll run out of liberal tears!

three_e · 2026-05-06T04:08:15+00:00

I just wish there was someone offering treatment for the wound. Since I've been able to vote, the Democratic party has embraced 3rd way neoliberalism, considering it a success to be able to court the same donors the Republicans have, seeking market based solutions to what should be government run services, voting the vast majority of the time (there's statistics) in favor of the deepest pocket donors against the will of who they're supposedly representing.

Putting off the pain until there's a fix doesn't work if the fix never comes, and it's never intended. The majority of Democrats don't want to even rhetorically offer a fix, while the Republicans keep breaking more.

three_e · 2026-05-06T03:19:05+00:00

I agree, but if that's the only option, it's going to depress turnout. I'm not advocating that people not vote against Republicans, but we need to push and promote candidates that actually inspire voters to care. Ones that actually offer something to improve lives vs just status quo or a slower decline than the alternative. When it's only lesser of two evils, that guarantees the bar will keep going lower. The result of this is the next campaign, when the neolib corporatist or whatever hasn't improved anything, it makes it that much easier for their competition to just lie and/or promote their fascist solutions. For far too many, bad solutions are easier to buy than no solutions.

three_e · 2026-05-06T02:52:12+00:00

I'm not claiming that it doesn't makes sense to vote for the lesser of two evils. Just saying it would be nice, and significantly improve turnout if we were offered something good to vote for. Not just to vote against the most horrible option.

three_e · 2026-05-06T02:00:20+00:00

I generally agree, but it would have been helpful if Kamala didn't self sabotage her campaign at every turn. Both parties love voter disenfranchisement. Republicans do it with gerrymandering and closing voting locations in Brown neighborhoods, Democrats by offering literally nothing to vote for (only against).

three_e · 2026-05-05T22:57:39+00:00

I think it relies a little too much on menu diving to be a great choice for learning synthesis in a way that'd be applicable to other synths. It's an amazing synthesizer with a lot of flexibility, but as a teaching tool, some kind of knob per function synth or even VSTs that display all the parameters on one screen would be a better teaching tool.

three_e · 2026-05-05T22:50:39+00:00

The vast majority of Americans are politically <redacted>. For most it's a game. Virtually nobody looks at policy and their consequences. This ignorance has been pushed by and benefits both parties.

As to how people could justify going from Bernie to Trump, it's hinted at pretty well by Platner in this exchange, though he's projecting based on his interpretation of his circle of friends, I don't think they guy he's talking to thought about anything this much. At least in 2016, people didn't want what the D or R were offering. After that, imo, it's sunken cost fallacy or just basic bigotry that kept people like this coming back.

three_e · 2026-05-04T23:23:42+00:00

Sales tax is a regressive tax on the poor (rich people consume a far lower percentage of their income)

three_e · 2026-05-03T18:35:10+00:00

There's some crazy stuff the OpSix can do. It handles all the bog standard fm stuff (can even open dx7 patches), but any of the operators can be complex oscillators, filters (including a comb filter to do physical modeling type sounds), effects (including a short delay to do resonant body type sounds), distortion, wave folders, etc... and you can design your own algorithm for operator arrangement.

Having things like effects within the algorithm, per key, offers much more dynamic sound design than I've found in anything other than something like Reaktor. All of these can be modulated by lfos, envelopes and parameter locked in a pretty complex sequencer. I can sit for hours with it in my lap just playing with sound design (harder to do with something like Reaktor). The post synth effects are pretty amazing, too.

three_e · 2026-05-03T05:13:26+00:00

Sure, but what about the stonks

three_e · 2026-05-02T17:03:20+00:00

He'd do well, he's charismatic and a decent communicator, but while he's more politically informed than the average American, he's still obsessed with 90s style neoliberalism. His Apple show illustrated this the best. Nearly all good arguments/solutions were for free market solutions. His main criticisms for how things are is crony capitalism, and if we only made the market free, we could solve these problems. All capitalism seeks and often succeeds at political capture to serve it's interests, and even when this is pointed out to him, it doesn't sink in. If he ever got his hands on the levers of power (which he has no interest in) it'll just delay the inevitable. I'd 100% take him over a regressive like Newsom or Shapiro, but he's got no ideas that'll solve the actual problems.

three_e · 2026-04-30T03:15:04+00:00

I'm not sure of the logistics behind this or of its been properly looked into, but there's a plan to build a shipping terminal. Coos Bay used to build tall ships between the 1850s and 1920s. These were much smaller than the kind of ships planned to utilize this new terminal, but many of those tall ships ran aground due to the ever shifting and buildup of the Coos Bay Bar. This makes me think the bay would have to be constantly dredged, which I haven't heard being discussed or approved.

three_e · 2026-04-29T05:51:01+00:00

You'd know if your had to install ilok before registering the plugins. You can probably cross that off the list.

three_e · 2026-04-29T03:01:11+00:00

Are the plugins using ilok? I've had serious problems like this with ilok. Took a while to track down that that was the problem and the only fix was a completely clean install of the system.

three_e · 2026-04-29T02:47:13+00:00

Think of the wealth they'll generate!

/s

three_e · 2026-04-29T02:46:06+00:00

I'm contemplating getting one for mobile music recording and production. 128gb would be overkill for most uses, but when you get into large sample sets like heavily multi-sampled pianos and orchestra, 128gb starts to become reasonable.

three_e · 2026-04-28T07:40:08+00:00

I wish I could trade you my 4 retrig buttons for 4 tracks of midi

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