It wasn’t documented! :/ one of the things I learned only after my prolific college years is that despite what Cage says, if you don’t document, it didn’t happen.
If it’s at all interesting I’d add that the instrument was multichannel and I performed from a seat in the theater audience, with the outputs of the system variously directed to the quad-channel PA and to the battery-powered car stereo I had sewn into a nylon vest / jacket on my person.
No, I built it and got it working, but it was a bit fragile. I used a Teensy for the brain, with USB MIDI, and that made it reliant on the cables. Teensys run on a mini version of USB, so the cables aren’t generally that sturdy. I’m going to rebuild it with a more durable foundation.
For whoever considers using Amazon for convenience I say open your eyes. The lower prices and free shipping will disappear as soon as competition is driven out of business.
Also working for Amazon seems to be a dystopian adventure [0] and [ ..]..
The secret to cooking is to test the food and know some basic things which may seem awkward at first but are simply learnable. Everybody who started cooking had a moment when they didn't know what they were doing and a lot of practice made them good. As a beginner I would concentrate on a few dishes and get good at those then slowly progress to more
At whose expense? Investors and drivers? Not a very good deal if you ask me. I am grateful to use Uber occasionally and the price is not too bad but I always tip the drivers because I know they're getting the short end of the stick. Occasionally for me is about twice a month which amounts to maybe 24-30 times a year.
I'm not defending uber at all - just saying that in my experience, people were more willing to go to bars/restaurants after cheap rides became available.
It's one of those things that is acquired with experience and from more and more peers one has had. I think I've learned a bit from all my peers, almost everyone had something interesting or an interesting way to tackle a problem. Once a lot of time is spent in the industry one starts seeing patterns as a new cycle starts.
As far as teaching debugging, it is one thing to show some examples and another one is to run into a bug yourself and get from having no idea how to debug to actually fixing it. That whole experience is hard to replicate in unnatural ways.. When I was in school they told me not to worry too much about debugging and that I'd run into issues in the real world and figure out ways to debug depending on the system and that turned out to be quite correct.
All what it takes is to digitize the whole infrastructure and make transparent all the public spending with details of details of the details all the way down to where the money currently is, all that is including large loans. Public spending? No privacy whatsoever, no hidden transactions nor business trading behind curtains. Oligarchs buy popular support as well, they own televisions themselves to manipulate local politics, but with detailed accounting all that could potentially be stopped. Of course the efforts to implement these would be gargantuan because they would fight back.
As a software dev in one of the Ex soviet block countries, I’ve heard several tales of accounting software projects being canceled because they would reveal inconvenient truths.
A good friend of mine once worked for a small software shop that was building some accounting software for power plants. When the project was almost done, the mafia guys in charge were reviewing it. The realized that if it was actually used, it would be waaay to revealing. The project got canceled immediately. With a clause to “stay quiet or else”...
And a couple of years back the government was trying to “crack down” on the gray economy. They released an app, that you could scan a receipt (from grocery shops, restaurants, everywhere really) and verify that the establishment has indeed paid its tax and has registered the transaction with the tax office.
However people “in the know” got access to a special api. When the verification is taking place there is actually a web hook being sent, which you can register for. And pay your tax “on demand” only when someone actually wants to verify it.
As far as I am aware this system is still in place today... Though its too esoteric to explain to the public so nobody really cares it seams. The public is like “sure government is crooked, like what else is new” :(
> digitize the whole infrastructure and make transparent all the public spending with details of details of the details all the way down to where the money currently is, all that is including large loans.
This is a use case for Bitcoin/crypto I hadn’t previously thought of. The public auditability is exactly the reason I don’t think it’s good for citizen use cases, but it seems perfect for government use cases. There’s an issue of how revenues get accurately added to the ledger, but tying a transaction to say an ID generated when a return is submitted would make it possible to track one’s own payment.
The thing is, if you want to do something about them, you're going to need to use a lot of violence - because those people will happily use violence against you.
Most people aren't interested in a starting a war, and would rather keep their heads down, and mind their own business.
You’d be surprised how much manipulation is taking place through local television and even social media. Local support is needed for elections, different politicians threat their existence..
> There is such a thing as government-mandated conditions in most places even in the US (
Government-mandated conditions are on paper only, are often abused and the boundaries are always stretched out to the breaking point.
> at a certain point people are better off doing nothing than being so badly abused, and there is always a better option below a certain level of mistreatment.
You're underestimating the amount of rampant poverty and unemployment without benefits in the US.
You're un
There was a funny series called Junk English by Ken Smith, not sure if there are newer editions to that book but it had a collection of jargon and subtly making fun of it.
But a sad thing overall, imagine he's stuck with this identity now but it no longer bears fruits for him. I assume this person didn't have much of an identity in the first place..
