Yes, I think GGP was being hyperbolic.
Still a shameful state of affairs.
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Still a shameful state of affairs.
"...many extreme evangelical groups started to recognize that the fight against LGBTQ+ rights in the United States was a losing battle. These groups then shifted focus to Uganda, which was seen as fertile ground for this anti-gay ideology..."
The ruggedness and built-in controls are really important. I used to gig with a standard laptop + audio interface + multiple MIDI controllers. The external gear was a real hassle to set up, even with everything labelled with bright coloured tape so I could just match colour to colour while plugging it in. And eventually the laptop got knocked over and fell a couple of feet onto a wooden stage - and even that minor impact smashed the screen, which was glued in so I couldn't replace it. I also have a horror story about a machine rebooting to apply Windows updates in the middle of a gig and requiring the rest of the band to improvise until I was done! I don't really gig any more, but if I took it up again, I would switch to using as much hardware as I could.
But I really don't care about actual analog devices. I already have a decent few DSP-powered pedals on my pedalboard and I cannot tell the difference, other than the true analog ones are more noisy!
Sadly, although it supports realtime processing, it doesn't say anything about latency, which is a make-or-break quality for most realtime audio processing. Definitely feels like a batch processing library which has had realtime support bolted on. The VST support is extremely cool though!
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"Expressive activities" means any speech or expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or by Section 8, Article I, Texas Constitution, and includes assemblies, protests, speeches, the distribution of written material, the carrying of signs, and the circulation of petitions.
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Each institution of higher education shall adopt a policy detailing rights and responsibilities regarding expressive activities at the institution. The policy must:
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engaging in expressive activities on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
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That's pretty clear cut, to be honest. Like the article says, the intent is probably much more limited, but it literally says "any speech or conduct which is protected under the first amendment is banned". That's just really poor drafting indeed.
Hollow air core fibre does exist and seems to be touted as the next big thing though.
https://www.optcore.net/hollow-core-fiber-introduction/#h-wh...
This doesn't seem to be very accurate!
This StackOverflow answer probably does the subject more justice than I can: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/14587/what-...
but I'll try and explain it succinctly:
What you're measuring is the volume of rain falling per unit area in a given time (usually 24 hours). If you're collecting rain in a vessel, you divide the volume collected by the area of the vessel's mouth to get the volume collected per unit area. And in order to measure the volume in the container, you measure the height of the water and multiply by the area of the vessel's bottom.
If the bottom and mouth have the same area, those cancel out and you can just specify the rain height regardless of the size of the container. That is, if you have 1ml of rain falling per square mm over 24 hours, it will produce the same height of water if you set out a big container or a small container, as long as the containers have straight walls.
If they don't have the same area, then you can't use the handy mm unit.
Music can also sound better when it's louder, up to a certain point - if you're recording and mixing a piece of music, you want to do so at a very moderate volume, because if you crank it up loud some of the imbalances in the mix become less obvious.
That said, there's 'loud enough that the music sounds good and you're mostly hearing music and not audience', and then there was the Prodigy concert I went to, where I was wearing earplugs and my ears still hurt. Amazing concert, but holy crap, probably the loudest situation I've ever encountered. I've also been right in front of the speakers at a festival dance tent, and my earplugs rattled due to sound pressure, which was unnerving but quite funny.
I remember reading a long time ago that it was caused by "the neurons in your ears occasionally randomly firing" but I cannot find any source for that, so assume that it's untrue :)