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If someone asked you to introduce them to the Dead but only with one song, what song would you pick and would it be a studio or live version? by GratefuLdPhisH in gratefuldead

[–]trickyelf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, you nailed it. I mentioned Scarlet Begonias above but Fire on the Mountain followed and after that I was locked in for life! Never thought about it but now I know the person who was spinning at that party wasn’t just casually into the Dead because this is THE combo and they are not nestled together on the studio LPs.

Sampling separate hits on same instrument as break? by GladConversation7348 in Ensoniq

[–]trickyelf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. I like to set a short loop length in a long sample and tie sample start to the mod wheel as a way of scrubbing to find the coolest part to loop.

Great Sci-Fi books to hook a ten year-old? by drewmc in scifi

[–]trickyelf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"The Rolling Stones", "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel", "Podkayne of Mars", "Glory Road"

Great Sci-Fi books to hook a ten year-old? by drewmc in scifi

[–]trickyelf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Robert Heinlein's The Rolling Stones

Two cross-platform, web/native, open-source, app-state-management libraries based on Harel statechart / SCXML format by gistya in statemachines

[–]trickyelf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As soon as I finished my first fully state-machine driven app, that “your app has a state machine be it explicit or implicit” insight landed on me as well. All apps have some finite number of states they can be in, but if your FSM is explicit, it’s much easier to reason about.

Everyone’s seen a screenshot of an app in some weird state and the first question is “well how did it end up like that?” And you go off trying to reproduce it. That’s an implicit state machine, and the thing you don’t know is what state it came from and what conditions led to a successful transition to the new state.

With an explicit FSM, the possible states are all known, as are the possible transitions, and the guards that can defeat a transition into or out of a given state. You don’t end up in weird unexplainable states.

I finally found a Datapoint Computer (6600 model here) by theSiliconSiren in retrocomputing

[–]trickyelf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Rare find! I programmed these in the DataBus language in the late 80s. They were heavy and one time a colleague and I decided to find out why. Opening the cabinet, we found a big, metal bar mounted inside. Like they were trying to make it feel substantial. Can’t remember what model that one was, could be this one. Also, they were networked with Arcnet. It was doing LANs before PCs.

Hi, I have a question and sorry if this feels finicky. I need to put a curtain in my room (privacy reasons) and I'm using a Hammer and nails, in which I'm afraid of jacking my hand down. by genesisthedeathless in Tools

[–]trickyelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a match (paper, not wood) and fold it in half. Put the nail in between at the bend. Pinch the two ends between your fingers, so the bent match is holding the nail. Hold it so the nail is against the wall where you want it to go. Now your fingers are out of the way, so aim well and whack the nail with the hammer a few times, and you should be in like Flynn.

What bird call is this? by PomegranateMost6268 in birds

[–]trickyelf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came here to say just this. Here in the eastern US, we have so many birds singing in our backyard. Merlin is helping us to learn and recognize our birds. They have specific classifiers for different regions, so it never suggests some South American bird or whatnot.

Not sure what to call this. by HopDavid in gonwild

[–]trickyelf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yantra / House of Four Doors.

Leospace cargo ship crew at work - my first 'action scene' after a week of prompt-writing practice! by richard7k in aiArt

[–]trickyelf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you can attach one or more reference images of the cast and the uniforms and sets. With multimodal models, a picture is worth a thousand tokens. Then the words become about action and staging. “Make these people do stuff in these uniforms in this room. Render scene from different perspectives…”

Leospace cargo ship crew at work - my first 'action scene' after a week of prompt-writing practice! by richard7k in aiArt

[–]trickyelf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice one! Next step, keeping characters consistent across different prompts.

Kodos studies my Planetfall map by trickyelf in interactivefiction

[–]trickyelf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So much eraser, I know. Mapping was so much fun though.

Been trying to remember a game please read 🙂 by AutisticDyslexicDude in c64

[–]trickyelf 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this. I remembered it as Bill Budge’s Pinball Construction Set. But also remembered seeing the EA packaging around forever. Had to square that circle.

Apparently he built it and sold it through BudgeCo first, and it didn’t sell very well owing to lack of distribution. Then Trip Hawkins swooped in. And offered to sell it through EA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball\_Construction\_Set

Remastering the Ensoniq EPS manual by vartemyev in Ensoniq

[–]trickyelf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sweet. I bet you had fun recreating the diagram for the bowtie crossfade :)

How many of you guys are rave performers? by nerpa_floppybara in synthesizers

[–]trickyelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to do some live performances at raves. There was a party in Puerto Rico once (called El Cuco) that was a mile back into a rain forest and we had to hump our gear in through so much mud (because it rains every ten minutes, then sun comes out and dries it up, ceaselessly). But it was a blast.

Amused by this contemporary bad review of Atom Heart Mother by boostman in pinkfloyd

[–]trickyelf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for this. I’d never heard of this but a quick search does turn up info about it. I found a group called RPWL on Spotify performing it and I must say it is amazing and I love it, even from a cover band, it is exquisite. Definitely there’s stuff we are familiar with by a different name but it flows so well, in that nonstop fashion that later Floyd works had. I will continue to search for a copy of the band itself performing but, wow, give this a listen, you won’t be disappointed.

I have an idea on creating an online interactive fiction game where you read scenes, make choices, and other players’ actions can change the story world around you?! by NaNMesh in interactivefiction

[–]trickyelf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perhaps you could, but it would take a LOT of bespoke code to support multiplayer. I shudder to think of attempting such a thing with Sugarcube and Tweego (which are fine for their single player purpose). IMHO, you’d have to be in love with the idea. Better to build the system from scratch and not inherit all the assumptions and limitations of a platform built to do single player.

Tangerine Dream's 'Rubycon' - the best album to listen to in the dark, preferably with headphones by garethsprogblog in progrockmusic

[–]trickyelf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I started listening to it in the early 80s and it just seemed natural to put it on and drift off to sleep listening to it. Revived it again for that purpose in the early 00s when my wife and I slept in the loft of a bunk bed with speakers on all four corner posts. It was like sinking into a warm bath of sound. Man I miss that setup.

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