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This is an extremely common and widely used standard for analog and digital connections for pro audio. I just wired in a bunch of DB25 gear last week. For low end / mid range digital stuff it is more common to see ADAT optical digital vs DB25

If you accept that the leaf looks like a happy little frog it helps :)

He does fairly deep analysis of recording techniques and music theory on his channel. He claims that even playing a few bars of music from certain artists himself on an acoustic or electric guitar will cause his videos to become de-monetized.

The Leaf solar charger is for the 12 volt system, which is separate from the main battery. I can't really conclude if it is a gimmick or not but my 12 volt battery has not yet died. To be fair, the car also charges the 12 volt battery when it is plugged in.

If you are paying for the session its completely reasonable to ask for a copy of the session files IMHO. If you are going to tape and they want to erase it and re-use it or something I would at least negotiate dumping it to digital.

50 years from now the problem will be that we have preserved digital masters in the form of session files for various DAWs and it will no longer be possible to patch together the correct hardware, OS, plugins, and virtual instruments to recreate the session. Artists and producers are encouraged to create stems or bounces of all the individual tracks for the purposes of long term preservation, but this does not always happen.

Orbital Sciences Antares rocket uses previously mothballed Russian NK-33 engines. These were originally manufactured for the Russian version of the Apollo program but never flown. These are 70's vintage engines that get refurbished and launched. Also notable they are closed cycle engines, which was seen as somewhat impossible to achieve at the time. SpaceX newest engine uses the same concept, probably inspired by these engines.

Documentary about this on Netflix

https://www.netflix.com/title/80119093

I think the documentary makes some great points about how limitations drive creative solutions.

A portion of flown engine #5 from the Apollo 11 mission on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. It was retrieved in 2013 put on display in 2015.

Vinyl releases are mastered to be less loud than digital releases because vinyl cannot reproduce mixes that digital systems can. The side effect is that lots of times they sound better. I think in a perfect world an artist would offer you vinyl if you want it, along with a digital version of the vinyl master. You could skip the whole ripping vinyl process entirely.

Another notable example of is the introduction to The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8

Mellotron for use as strings is sort of a staple for Beatles inspired artists, see many tracks by Elliott Smith on XO and Figure 8 as an example. Also see Radiohead OK Computer as it is on many tracks.

All the non-linearities with the tape playback gives them a really unusual quality.

If you listen to the NPR story above you will want to know that about a month later they ran a followup story.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/25/466555217...

It is interesting to me when these X for Y comparisons land for various folks. I have to conclude it worked for Elph or at least didn't substantially hinder them since they picked up investors. I find it very surprising that Coinbase would see themselves as the "Google of crypto" and not the "Paypal of crypto". Considering they are so highly curated, they could stretch it to the "Yahoo of crypto" but that sounds worse :)

My view of Netscape was that it was a fantastic browser, and it was quite a bit better than NCSA Mosaic that it replaced. That said at the time, I think the majority of internet users problems were much more fundamental, like "How do I get this stupid modem thing to send me the internet". I think it could be argued that the "getting connected to the internet" piece is an analog to 'getting connected to ethereum / blockchain", but its unclear to me how the winners translate over.

EDIT: I reserve the right to be completely missing the point. Feel free to call me out in 5-10 years.

I realize over time Netscape did quite a few things, but to me it is a company that made a web browser. They weren't a portal or an app store. Maybe if you accept that ethereum is somehow equivalent to the web...

After reading this, I feel the founders of Elph and myself have radically different ideas about what "Netscape" means.

The term 'useful arts' does not refer to creative works and is in fact an antonym for endeavors like performing or fine art. I believe any protections of this sort actually flow from the interpretation of 'authors' and 'writings'. Article I is not intended to 'promote the arts' in the way any modern person would interpret the statement.

Nobody in the known universe considers Topeka, KS to be part of the KC Metro area.

Last time I tried this out on my NeXT I found that pervasive use of HTTPS makes it pretty hard to find things to try out.

Does anyone know of a good tool for building custom PI distributions based on the Raspbian / Raspbian Lite or other distributions that does not involve forking the official image builder and hacking it up? My ideal tool would allow me to do this with a Dockerfile and just export the image after the configuration is complete.

Anyone that wants an EV ultimately benefits from the credits. Take a look at the prices of used EV's (other than a Tesla).

In my area when the first wave of EV spots went in they tended to be very 'premium' spaces. I think this was a result of novelty. Recently they have been making them the 'worst' spots or at least not 'premium' spaces and I think this is a better move. It also has reduced the instances of people parking ICE cars in EV spots.

I came here to make this comment as well. They had to know they were making an all electric vehicle when they named the Volt...

I drive a Leaf and this makes me an un-elected ambassador for EV's in general. When I'm at a charger people will randomly drive up and get out of their car and ask questions about EV's, charging, range, etc. I'm always happy to talk to to folks about my experience with an EV and in my experience there is quite obvious consumer confusion about the Bolt and Volt.

I did policy debate for 4 years in high school and also judged for quite a few years after I graduated. At the time I would say there were a mix of what we would have just called 'speed debate' at the time and 'traditional' style.

There was a great deal of showmanship involved which could be really fun, and we frequently would change strategies depending on who we were debating. This was also prior to laptop and mobile computing so there was a lot of mileage you could gain from wheeling in a bunch of huge evidence cases (which might have just had your lunch in them) or alternately just a small box of note cards.

I can also remember the giddy excitement of cracking open a new issue of "Congressional Record" and looking for evidence.

I have say it was one of the most valuable experiences I had in education. Sincerely and passionately arguing for a policy and an hour later doing the reverse gives you insight into how opinion is shaped and frankly manipulated.

I had completely forgotten flowing! If you as a judge wanted to signal you had experience in policy debate, all you had to do is show up with a yellow legal pad and turn it sideways on your desk and say nothing else. This was basically a green light to the debate teams to 'bring the speed and spread'.

Just get the RFID card and keep it in the car. Way less hassle than the app for unlocking the charger.

Sorry for being pedantic here, but despite lack of video hardware I would argue it has a lot more in common with the PI than an Arduino. It runs Yocto Linux and you can pretty much use the full suite of Linux tools to program it.

Hah, I have moved my Atari Gauntlet cab many times and I agree it is both heavy and treacherous :)

One of my 'favorites' is the patent for (1986) Atari Gauntlet: "Multi-player, multi-character cooperative play video game with independent player entry and departure"

It seems they could have caused quite a bit of carnage for later multi-player games if they had decided to enforce it.

The full filing has a bunch of similar flow charts, and a bonus 100+ page rom dump :)

https://www.google.com/patents/US4738451

When I clicked the link I expected to be presented evidence this approach would create better outcomes than the status quo.

Instead of completely banning actual lines from other material, it might be interesting to allow D-Prime to quote or slightly modify a phrase if it met some high threshold of notability.

It is MUCH more stable to shoot looking in the viewfinder with the camera pressed against your face than holding it out in front of you at arms length. There are smaller SLR cameras now that are mirrorless and use a variety of means to provide a viewfinder because it is still a much better way to shoot.

I would argue that aftermarket prices are artificially low for EV's because of the tax credits.

There are quite a few dealers in my area that sell used Nissan Leafs as fast as they can get them in, they are really nice cars for the price. We also happen to have better than average charging infrastructure and most of it is free currently.