lewispollard

> I used to get tipped in eggs by this wonderful human at a bar

As someone who lives in a country where tipping culture doesn't extend to bars, I was imagining something quite different at first

It is. Samatha is often contrasted with vipassana in the Buddhist traditions. Samatha being calm concentration, vipassana being analytic insight meditation. "Standard mindfulness", i.e. the distillation of Theravada Buddhist insight techniques into the western mainstream, is rooted in vipassana.

However, when you learn vipassana from a religious lineage, the various teachers and monasteries have slightly different techniques and progressions of the practice from what we'd consider "standard mindfulness".

> Somehow, there is no such thing as left wing edge lord.

I mean, I'm a pretty staunch socialist/commie and there are plenty of hard-left edgelords out there "joking" about gulags and executing academics and so on.

Those 50+ year old albums weren't using samplers.

That's a new Mario Kart game they're showing on the screen, not the Switch 1 version.

Why does everyone think this is generating 3D assets? It's purely 2D

What 3D assets? I don't see anything suggestive of a 3D renderer here.

Pali suttas doesn't work, but Pali sutta does. It's a weird filter.

As a musician who plays the drum set, the typical wisdom is that noise isolation is basically impossible unless you're willing to build a "room within a room" that allows you to construct a heavy, physical insulating barrier between the inner and outer room.

Nobody who actually uses that discord server would have been shocked, since it was widely, repeatedly and loudly announced on it that they were moving to the official server months ago.

> D&B is just jungle 14 BPM faster.

As a jungle fan since the 90s, don't spout that offensive nonsense ;)

Seriously, there are marked differences between the two other than BPM that make them sound very distinctive (and D&B typically boring to me as a result) - generally, jungle is heavily syncopated and makes more uses of chopped samples vs D&B which tends to be sequenced fairly straight and makes more use of programmed drums.

Serato Lite is free (as in beer) and you just need to buy a pair of timecoded vinyl records, which are pretty cheap.

Looks like a pretty standard npm-based application, so just clone the repo, run `npm install` and then `npm run dev` (see `package.json` scripts section for available commands to use with `npm run`)

Some on the left are proudly socialist or communist, and some on the right are proudly bigoted.

Yeah, geometry shaders aren't even widely used, they weren't great in the first place and devs have moved on.

That's only with the XReal Beam. I don't know if it's possible to use the Beam and an external device like the Steam Deck together though.

Edit: yes, it appears it has a passthrough for displaying an external device - it does introduce a little latency though.

I think you need the XReal Beam in addition to the glasses to be able to anchor the screen in space, without it the screen is just fixed to the glasses.

"Hallucinate" is just a term we've come up with for LLMs making mistakes. If the LLM knew it was making a mistake, wouldn't it just not make it?

Of course, it's not possible for an LLM to actually "know" anything in that sense of the word.

And if that confidence level is high enough for it to output an answer, but that answer is wrong or nonsensical, what do we call it?

The entire Rust ecosystem for gamedev is kind of like that - it was only recently that people really started writing games entirely in Rust, and even now there are very few actual released commercial games out there. I think there's a bit of a loop happening where it's like, until Rust is considered "stable" for serious gamedev work, libraries will be developed in this kind of "unstable" way where breaking changes should be expected at any time, but at the same time, that instability is making it less of a serious contender for gamedev work.

At least in terms of animations being superfluous, there's an accessibility setting to reduce animations that at least built in browser CSS animations can reliably respect, whereas with hand-coded Javascript animations, you're relying on each individual author to write code to respect that setting.

So the purpose of the website wasn't clear to you, you then figured it out, decided to write an article about it, but didn't explain to the reader what the website actually is?

It is, but at least in my experience, we do it for the 10% discount and then immediately cancel the subscription every time we want to make a purchase.

Aha!

I used to work at the IBM lab where Rexx was created, funnily enough I've never heard of anyone using it in the wild!

I'm familiar with music theory and microtonal music and the first examples are just too close to really discern easily. The examples of "chord 1/2" in the section "The Far-Out Solution: Freestyle JI" are probably the first example that makes the difference clear, if you play the 12TET and the JI overlapping slightly. That's because subtle differences in tuning are much more perceptible in harmony (chords) than in melody (single notes), since notes playing together are perceived with noticeable effects introduced by our brains such as harmonic beating and feeling tone.

> still not sure what consonant, continuous, or misleading chords are. I only know what dissonance sounds like

Consonance is the opposite of dissonance; so while a dissonant chord sounds jarring and unpleasant with beating, a consonant chord sounds harmonious, pleasant, smooth.

I'm not sure about the other two either, I don't think they're commonly used terms.

Maybe continuous refers to "continuo" in Baroque music, where the bassline and chords are separate but work together harmonically - in some tunings, perhaps this is harder.

I think misleading refers to chords where their function harmonically is ambiguous until they resolve "home" at a later time - for example, not using the root note of a chord, instead using an inversion or modulation that feels like the chords could lead in several directions, creating a kind of uncertainty and tension in the piece that feels satisfying to resolve when the later chord indicates which of the paths through the harmony were the "correct" one.

If you like synths/electronic music, and you're interested in listening to music in other temperaments/tunings, check out the artist Sevish. He also designed a web app for creating alternate tunings: https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop

Yes, exactly - minor/major and modes in 12TET (as well as pentatonic but that's just major/minor with fewer notes).

What would be interesting with this synth (something other synths, like my Korg Monologue, can do) is being able to tune to different temperaments, i.e. not 12 TET - for this synth especially, since 12 TET was rarely used in the medieval period in favour of pythagorean or meantone tuning.

> the pads can be retuned to different scales suggesting a complete break from any kind of equal temperament octaves.

I was kind of curious about this since in the medieval era, equal temperament wasn't used very much. But it just allows retuning to major/minor and modes in equal temperament, as far as I can tell. Would be an excellent device for medieval music if it could be tuned to meantone, Pythagorean and so on!