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There's an old game, Anachronox, that does a wonderful job of making fun of this when the player is on the planet Democratus. Worth a play if you haven't.
Let the privileged folks have their fun, so the unprivileged can eat and not worry so much.
S3E1, specifically.
... it's a failure. Maybe it blows up in the future... maybe.
As another comment notes, accusations need evidence and solid claims. I have neither... I don't know the super deep internal politics of where I worked, only whispers from overhead conversations. Plus a number of sudden, "cordial" departures, and a bunch of napkin math estimating the costs of this person's antics.
Don't forget these are wealthy folks accustomed to using the legal system for their own ends. Ending up in the crosshairs of these folks could destroy a man, and as far as martyrdoms go you wouldn't even be making a larger impact as it changes nothing about the situation of other bad actors.
So, I'm going to grumble, and if I ever decide to bring her down I would do so in a place far, far from here.
I have suffered under a few such C-levels and their incompetence is maddening. It is hard not to see the C-level social network as one big circle-jerk, and they get to walk away scot free. These folks are only worthy of spending the rest of their life as a clerk at a gas station, not (mis)managing million/billion dollar companies.
It is more than a "solid, sustainable" profit source, it is a best-in-class cash cow that feeds a growing monstrosity for shareholders that want more, more, more.
The business they left behind is still sustainable.
The evidence may be clear, but it is also driven by tech that is increasingly effective at pressing our dopamine buttons. I'm not sure that the opinions of a drug-addled constituency are important for the far more simple question of, "is there a sustainable business here?"
My first camera was a D3100 in 2010ish, which I recently sold to a friend of mine for $100 and they are still taking fantastic photos with it.
I have a D750 I bought when they were new and that fucker still works fantastic, taking gorgeous photos with the right lens.
Even bought a D3500 cause I missed the little guy. Same sensor as the D750 (expeed 4) just DX format and worse AF. Weighs like a third of the D750 too!
Nikon makes fantastic bodies and lenses.
Are they as sexy as the bajillion TikTok users out there? No.
Are they enough to build a solid business aruond? Yes.
Would facebook ever consider stepping up to the plate that built their core business again? No, because Facebook management sucks.
I don't give a shit about algorithmic recommendations and of horse-shit force-fed happiness content don't anticipate ever changing that. Many of my friends are the same way.
What ever happened to servicing the long tail?
Learning is hard, it makes people uncomfortable, sadly. Which means that the easy road is to stoop to their level, which is what we're seeing.
It sucks that you got screwed by large corporations, and I don't know the story, but that sounds more like standard business fuckery than "software for smart people"?
Everything nice that they offer eventually gets changed or taken away.
Yes, I'm bitter. We could have a much better world, one that actually empowers anyone willing to step up to the plate, but instead we grab all the low-hanging fruit so we can make them smile and step on workers' rights to deliver them burritos, instead.
A happy cohort is an obedient cohort, amiright?
Please consider not correcting everyone with your wokeness; it is equally if not more intolerant than the people you lord it over.
Is the phrase "giving someone a dutch oven" rascist? What about jerry-rigging? What about a Mexican standoff?
If you guys are going to indiscriminantly purge "rascist" language, then be thorough about it. And don't weep when there's nothing left but some of the most bland, boring-ass speech available.
Come on.
Normies should be eating our table scraps, not dictating how the software is written.
Normies learned how to drive a car. They can learn how to properly compute. And if they don't like the tech, they don't have to use the tech.
OSS is the last bastion of computing for people who know/like computing, because the armies of "designers" aren't selfless enough to donate their time like programmers are. And frankly it is better off that way, the prevailing trends in design seem to be all about limiting options.
Hard, powerful software over push-button appliances any day.
And, to use the car analogy, BMW gets away with this approach just fine.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” doesn't seem to be fashionable nowadays but it's a valuable piece of wisdom.
Cancelling folks with this "lalalala I can't hear you!" attitude, against someone who offends a few sensibilities, is the problem here. People are imperfect, don't be so closed-minded.
Won't somebody think of the investors?
The synth itself. Samplers, hardware emulations, and effects can eat a lot of memory and CPU, to say nothing of a monster 100+ voice synth patch (very easy to achieve with unison, used in supersaw-type sounds)
> What does freezing tracks mean and why is it so expensive?
Freezing tracks means recording the output of that track to a WAV and using that output as a stand-in for the real thing. Freezing tracks isn't expensive, it's what you use when another plug-in is too expensive and you want to reduce your CPU load.
You are saying this, not me.
There's entire ecosystems of plugins out there. Yes they can be reimplemented but if the authors use the same quick algorithms as everyone else it's going to sound plastic-y and dull. IMO plugin dev is one of those things where every hour spent makes a cumulative difference in output quality.
WASM may be great, but unless they can run as their own binary in their own windows you're going to have browser overhead for each window, nevermind those of us that spread our DAWs out across multiple screens.