I would definitely say that my experience on Kbin has been the closest to a “whole new Internet“ experience that I’ve had in quite some time. The interplay between the microblogging and forum side of things has been very interesting for me to wrap my head around. It’s actually been pretty fun.
For the past year, I’ve had this completely ridiculous side project to compose a big orchestral piece, even though I don’t have that much experience, and I feel like I’ve gone through half this discussion on my own.
Suddenly, I need to read notes for all kinds of instruments, many in treble clef, which I’m less familiar with, and constantly switching back and forth between clefs, too.
What’s also not fun, as complex as notation is, it’s actually quite limited in describing how to perform, especially at a detail level where a computer can do it.
As a result, I’ve considered switching from notation to a DAW, but:
You quickly lose yourself in that detail work in DAWs. The limitations of notation are kind of a feature.
The piano rolls really are quite unwieldy. I basically can’t have more than one instrument visible on my laptop screen. And even if I could, visually jumping 10cm (or more) up and down, just to compare two instrument parts, is not helpful.
I don’t want to encode it into some DAW-specific format, which might not anymore be usable in 10 years or so. Especially, if you do rely on encoding performance details to make it sound good, there’s no chance any human will be able to replicate that.
So, yeah, I’ve been trying to embrace the limitations of notation. Make it sound good, without relying on the specific performance.
And if I really want, I can compose it all in bass clef + 8va as needed, then switch it back to treble clef when I near completion. Or I can just have it render the note names into the music sheet.
Here’s another one…whenever I go to a coffee shop, I like to order flavors with caramel. Where I’m from in the Midwest (dunno if every Midwest state is the same), it’s pronounced “CAR-ml”. Well I’ve since moved away from the Midwest.
Almost every time I order my drink, the employee will always say “do you mean CARE-uh-mel???”. …Yes…yes that’s what I mean…
I’ve only seen two or three videos from this guy, but I like him. He’s thoughtful and tackles complex issues intelligently, but keeps things accessible.
I also appreciate him introducing me to the phrase “Black Lives Marketing”. It’s great to have a phrase for insincere empathy and inclusion done solely for profit.
He’s been championing right to repair from the start. Apple hates him because he repairs their shit for people at a fraction of the cost and goes into detail on WHY their repair markup is ridiculous. Like they’d charge $300 for what he fixed with a $5 part and 30 minutes of labor
ROFL. I wold love to call you the “R” word right now, but that’s not the politically correct term to use nowadays. So I’ve begun to instead- call people who I otherwise would consider to be r*******d “conservatives” instead.
The irony of a conservative calling someone a nut job is delicious. If you only knew how that looks from the perspective of a rational and thinking person… you’d see the humor in it.
Sounds about right. My state passed some fairly extensive gun reform laws, and someone tried to tell me that smaller magazine sizes would impact black people most “because the wealthy white people will buy all the large clips”
That dipshit was so close to getting it, yet so far.
Menthol cigarette advertising was/is targeted heavily to black people. It’s possible that banning menthol will give people the nudge they need to quit, so it could end up helping black people more than average.
if a sophisticated medical device experiences the same type of error because a hospital chose unregulated repair options, it can be a matter of life or death.
This seems like an obvious concern, I’m not sure why the armchair philosopher is shitting their armchair over this.
He addressed that at 2:30 and 4:35. The lobbyist is purposefully misrepresenting the reality of third party repair services in the medical field. Restricting repair access puts more people’s lives at risk.
Right, so legislate that critical equipment is required to use certified repairs. Easy-peasy, lemon-squeezie. We don’t require airplanes to be thrown away and repurchased every time maintenance is due, we require the maintenance to be certified.
If you think air travel sucks now, Imagine airlines having to bring their plane to Boeing every time it needs new brakes on the landing gear, or having it rot on the tarmac in Kuala Lumpur waiting for the AirBus repair team to come replace a wiper blade
Fortunately, planes are designed to be serviced, and the manufactures make replacement parts available. Going further, the manufacturer even publishes instructions on how to service the plane as well as tests you can do so you can make sure the plane is operating within specifications.
I don't see why a med tech company couldn't do the same so a hospital can fix its own hospital bed
Won’t somebody think of the manufacturers who wanna get paid for gold but deliver shit that needs to be repurchased at full price every time it dies due to being shitI mean children! I mean black people!
you're right there's absolutely no wiggle room between "anybody can service anything in any context at any time for any reason whenever they feel like it" and "i want to be able to repair my consumer-grade low-power electronics"
No wiggle room whatsoever. Under any circumstances.
Whenever I’m short on cash, I show up at my local hospital with a roll of duct tape, some pliers, or whatever other tools I have lying around. (Between you and me, I’m usually drunk, too.)
I “fix” anything that looks broken. They are legally obligated to pay me for my services. I made about $27,000 last year. I could have made more if it wasn’t for all that community service taking up my time. Fuck you, Judge Anderson!
Hospitals are already regulated trough other means. They already require certified maintenance. It’s not a good excuse for restricting access to parts for consumer devices.
Pretty sure medical device maintenance has nothing to do with right to repair. Especially at a hospital that is going to have certified contractors for liability reasons whether they come from the manufacturer or elsewhere.
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