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It almost reads like a snapdragon x marketing flyer. Is this page a legitimate? Reading through the article and scanning a few benchmarks I see that it’s still behind most of today’s chips but is in “striking distance”. What does that even mean? The chip is going to become sentient and attack the m2/amd/intel chips and get its performance revenge?

This is an important point. The main reason that pro audio gear pushes bit depth and sample rate up to higher that 16/44.1 audio is because when you start doing the floating point math to mix and apply effects to audio you can end up with audible differences when multitrack recording. In this case (and I still think it’s optional for all but the most demanding recording of live performance) higher sample rates can help and to a lesser degree but depth can give you more dynamic range.

I give that long preamble to say once a record is done and mastered, having > 16/44.1khz is wasted bandwidth.

I totally get what you mean here, but I don’t know if Jeopardy is a great example. I think of that like trivia which is a skill that you have to practice and exercise. Rote memorization can increase knowledge and definitely helps. (Here comes the but :) ) But I don’t consider someone who has a head full of facts(only) to be knowledgeable. They have to be able to talk about the concepts and theory to back up the facts. The very act of connecting the dots demonstrates knowledge.

Anyway I think we are probably saying the same thing and discussing semantics.(and to be fair it is probably just me:) )

I’m curious and haven’t seen anything regarding the ip theft of ARM by (???). Didn’t the Chinese arm of the business get taken over in some way? It made the news a few years back and nothing ever came out of it.

But doesn’t knowledge imply understanding? Otherwise it would just be facts without context.

A lot of hip hop still has unlicensed samples in it but the slices just keep getting smaller and less recognizable. And believe it or not a lot of the samples in Paul’s Boutique were licensed. I do agree with you though that (maybe until recently as I think the price of sampling is softening somewhat with sites like tracklib) Paul’s Boutique would be expensive to release today. Then there are stories like the Mark Ronson song ooh wee that he owns -25% of[0] because the boney m string riff took 100% of the publishing and Dennis Coffey drums took another 25%. So he theoretically lost money each play. Public enemy’s it takes a nation of millions to hold us back is another album that would lose money to make today.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooh_Wee_(song)

I appreciate the response and it prompted me to think of the following questions/comments. Hopefully this comes across as curious questions and not attacks or contrarian.

1)Flying in private jets != killing an rhino. Yes a jet harms the environment. Not debating that at all. However, they are more like a drop of water in the ocean in terms of pollution. 2) If this is the tip of the iceberg what are we taking away next because the amount of consumption is too conspicuous? 3) why should a private jet not be a thing? is there no reason ever for a private jet? 4) when was the last time someone shamed you into complying? Did it make you change your mind willingly and not resent the person who shamed you? Is that the way to affect change in a healthy way? 5) what companies are telling you to change your habits? Genuinely curious- what are you having to do that you don’t want to because a rich company is telling you to change? I’m really trying to think of one and cannot. 6) which rich people specifically are you or people supposed to be mad at? For what reasons? Should they not be allowed to be rich? Is being rich a bad thing? I can think of a few things that even Kim K has done that are good for society (judicial reform being a big one)

I’ve noticed a shift in tone of late on this site from “let’s invent the future” to “let’s shame the wealthy wasters of the world”.

So let’s say that we have a private jet tax that is some scalable amount to make people stop flying private.

1) commercial flights typically are not as direct as a private flight can be since small regional airports can accommodate small jets and not commercial ones. So if you were to fly into Houston you could fly to the side of town you wanted instead of the north(iah) or central (hou) part of town. That saves upwards of an hour of driving afterwards.

2) does this fix our carbon problem? Unfortunately no.

3) even electric cars are 40-50 years away from going away. There is nowhere near the same amount of charging infrastructure in the US to support mass adoption.

The only real way to get adoption of cleaner technologies is to make them better than their carbon generating alternatives in most if not every way. I’m all for getting off of fossil fuels. I’m personally looking for opportunities to push forward better and cleaner energy technologies. Articles like these are just journalistic dunks on the rich. Of course we have to mention Kim K who is the epitome of a wasteful vapid human being who flys around going from lunch to party on her jet. Of 8 billion people there are 1000 who ride planes too much. Never mind that many countries still burn coal for electricity we need to stop these rich folks!!!

Im just not on board with this at all. Ive driven for 35 years WITHOUT an accident, and I dont look at my phone while driving. IF EVERYONE DROVE WITHOUT A PHONE deaths by car would DRAMATICALLY DECREASE. Yet we are yelling that cars are too big, completely ignoring the design decisions made when building the cars. Even "small" cars like the BMW 3 series have grown into large cars now mainly so that they will pass crash tests. Cars are markedly safer now than in the 1960s and 1970s when cars were enormous boats, look at the 2005 impala vs 1955 impala video for a great example.

I cant drive even a small trip without someone on the road causing extra traffic because their IG or whatever is too important to ignore, but big cars are the problem... OK...

Legalize everything!= Everyone should be using drugs. This is just one step in what should be a public health approach to drug use/abuse. Take away the lock them up because they are weak minded degenerates approach to drug use. I don’t see any dissonance in saying that drugs should be decriminalized and or legal in some cases but I also don’t think most people should use drugs regularly. If someone is abusing drugs it should certainly be cheaper to provide them with mental health care than locking them up in jail. Hard drugs like heroin and cocaine would be safer if they were not sold on the black market. I think that is a net positive vs the status quo- which is a game of “Is It Fentanyl?!?”™ currently. Should people be using those drugs? I don’t know. I personally wouldn’t want to even if I could buy them from a store. As for cannabis, I’m convinced that for 90+% of the populous* it’s safer than alcohol.

*I think anyone with family history of schizophrenia should avoid weed and probably all intoxicants.

Did you get the memo? Yeah I will go ahead and get you another copy of that memo.

What is that number though? Do you just assume every driver just mats the go pedal and slams the brakes at every stoplight? Battery life is a bit non deterministic. Yes you can track driving habits but I don’t know that I always drive the same way depending on how much of a rush I’m in and other factors.

Very cool! I just started a project with a Japanese company and was thinking I should try and learn a bit of the language.

I understand the sentiment, but is it these assault vehicles at fault here? I tend to think that the real problem is distracted driving, since EVERYONE from the smallest Kia on the street to the biggest lifted truck seems to have trouble staying off their phones while driving.

You restart the album. I was party to a screening this way back in college and while there are some things that line up with the movie pretty well but it doesn’t seem like a lost soundtrack to the movie.

I’m a sample size of one but I suspect that most folks don’t see many negatives to the walled garden. I don’t want to hack about on my phone. I don’t need root nor do I want to worry about security on my phone. I don’t think Apple is perfect or impervious to attack vectors but for me. I actively prefer the walled garden. It’s mostly something I don’t have to worry about.

Once I change to a laptop then I’ll shoulder the additional risk and work to have a more open platform.

Nobody is that simple to describe.

I don't know the answer here, so Im asking hoping that someone may. Couldn't private equity be seen as the "ants" of the economic landscape? Scraping the skeleton companies of the world for the last bits of meat on the bone and then move on to the next?

Why stop at Republicans? I would think that a bill that allows for more people data would get bipartisan support no problem.

— We didn't notice, it passed all our tests (sheer luck) and dumped core on prod all day long.

If this happened to me I’d not call that luck, I would want to know why my tests missed this.

I had to come back to this comment and congratulate you on your pun. Light a fire under the ass of legislators so they can do something about wildfire insurance. Ha!

Ableton live enthusiast here. I went all in on ableton after finding a push 2 second hand for cheap enough that I was willing to switch from Logic Pro. That was in 2018 and haven’t looked back.

From my perspective I see this as a mixed bag. I don’t think i would want to use the push as a lap device while sitting on the couch. This looks to be about the same dimensions as the push 2. It’s a squareish device that is about 14” or ~35cm wide and tall and about an inch and a half thick. I have and have had several other stand alone devices and they have to be much smaller than the push to tempt me away from my music pc desk.

That said maybe as a desktop device for traveling etc I could see it.

The other thing is that stand alone mode doesn’t allow both “views” in Ableton. One is the linear arrangement view (unavailable in standalone mode) and one is the session view that is more for clip launching and attaching musical phrases to a button on the push grid. This is the view that standalone mode allows. Here is the link to the manual for that https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/session-view/

In my opinion this mode is great for remixing and spinning up new ideas but I typically use live as I would a hardware sampler back in the day. Layer up ideas in arrangement view record everything and then go back and chop. To me, that is what I would rather do on a couch than remix clips.

The hardware running live is adequate but I see why they may have limited the standalone functionality. I run live on an iMac Pro with 32gb ram and the 8core Xeon standard cpu. Live 11 can really tax this machine especially with plugins in the mix. This is the other limitation that I understand but don’t really like. No external plugins. I’m not sure if max will be available but suspect that the built in efx and max live edition will be there(I haven’t watched all the videos yet)

@dubcanada - the push is super cool and can be assigned scales/modes so that the buttons play scales up and down the octave range. Or if it’s controlling a drum machine you get the familiar 16 pad interface x4 You can use it for step sequencing, playing chords with polyphonic expression (also in the push 2 but 3 looks to be improved) or just sit there and launch clips with 1 finger.

As I read what I have written I think I’m going to stick with my push 2 but if you use live and want a push the 3 is the one I would buy today, but probably the upgradable one that acts like push 2. Then I would see if I could upgrade it myself and not with the ableton kit. They hint that it will be.

I highly recommend this tool to any mac users out there. I use it daily- it makes sampling any inbound audio stream simple and would be much less productive without it. My only complaint is the ACE driver is frequently updated which sometimes causes ableton live to puke if it’s open when the update happens.

You forget that it organizations are now able to install even more spyware made by Microsoft called o365 that is used to track worker productivity and a host of other tools such as netskope that make windows take 45 seconds plus to launch an approval dialog to escalate privileges.

I don’t use Apple Music on windows so can’t argue with the bad client experience, but Spotify isn’t exactly perfect either. To me the issue with iTunes and Spotify is the fact that to be a viable business the streaming model is going to squeeze all artists into making a between 1-2 grand for a million streams if they are that lucky. Tidal promises more money but once the realize those economics don’t work and get large enough they will follow suit.

What has happened is also an unprecedented breach of contract for older artists out there without streaming provisions in their contracts. I only know of a handful of instances where the artists have addressed this but I know of at least 1 example of a major label contract that specifically says “in the case of unforeseen circumstances (streaming, mind beaming, any new unavailable technology) the artist will split the proceeds 50/50. This same artist is not getting 50% of the revenue and is in fact getting the same (awful) deal as everyone else. [0]

What Spotify/Apple Music/Tidal have done is create the same hierarchy that existed in the days of physical media where they pour money into the top1% of artists and have effectively made everyone else much worse off. [1]

Anyone can make and release music today but it was hardly democratized. They same forces in the record industry have figured out how to screw streaming up in their favor now too.

[0]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/black-sheep-files-class-actio...

[1] https://youtu.be/gDfNRWsMRsU

The 200 million subscribers of Spotify are subsidizing things like Joe Rogans 100 million contract and some of the a lister musicians as part of their 360 deal.

Proton Mail outage

Maybe its me, but if the thief already knew the building the car was located it would be trivial to find out the unit the author lives in and could show up looking for his missing wax.

if I recall correctly there was a part where they showed some of the cash was ruined.

Do you feel like you’re happy with your model s given the issues/compromises of the yoke you mentioned above?

The industry wide reduction of real buttons/switches and gauges is something that gives me pause on my next car purchase. I was initially thinking of getting a golf r but the infotainment and steering wheel capacitive buttons are almost universally criticized as really bad and there not being any real way to fix it.

When I saw the yoke I thought it was a concept car and they would come to their senses and use a wheel for production.

My wish list for an electric car: 1) be a dumb car. Minimal screens/animations/annoyances 2) if you do OTA updates I want to be able to reject a version and or revert to any version from any other version of the system software 3) don’t track me or show me ads 4) no feature on the car should require additional or recurring payments to use with very limited exceptions (thinking navigation updates etc) specifically don’t disable something on my car because I don’t pay future moneys for its use. 5) I’m fine with fast but I would rather have a reasonably quick car that pushes 400miles of range without needing a 200kwh battery. I get that big motors also help make big regenerative power but I would like a car that has similar performance to say an Audi s4 or bmw 340m but electric. 6) simple is fine but the model 3 is oversimplified. they really can’t put simple gauges in front of the driver? I feel like every feature of most teslas is built for this looming full self driving where some of these features make more sense. I think the odds today are pretty good that someone who takes delivery today of a new Tesla will send it to the junkyard before fsd really fully self drives. 7) don’t try to drive for me and allow tweaking of things like brake /steering feel, suspension settings.

This. Creative had scale and ability to reduce costs for both E-MU and Ensoniq. These companies had extensive silicon design and fab experience (Dave Rossum is still at it in fact) that could have been leveraged and some truly innovative products could have been made.

Still computer software was rapidly eating the Audio hardware market and things like samplers started to seem both redundant and one and the same thing. (Akai s5000 and Z series were basically a pc)

I’m sure it was not an easy call to kill the hardware business for emu/ensoniq but I wish they hadn’t.

Edit: I will also forever think of this video when I hear the name creative labs- https://youtu.be/h73kd6wsBq0