So as of Monday, CA AB1909's LPI provision is in effect. LPI is Leading Pedestrian Indicator - when the crosswalk signal says you can go before the traffic light turns green. AB1909 says that this applies to bicycles too.
I've been doing this for the past year, even though it was not legal yet, as an advance scout to see if I ran into any problems. And I did: scrambles. 🧵
I dunno, these plugins sure are pretty, but every time I try to learn how to mess with audio it always comes across as utter babble. I seem to have achieved the effects I wanted, but I was using an old pre-treated track so who knows what it'll do on raw input from the new mic that's coming next week.
Anyway, at least it's all non-destructive effects now. I don't care how much latency gets chucked at this stuff, so long as it works, so I'm happy to keep fiddling around.
A lot of this reminds me of trying to learn Unix in the 80s: loads of people babbling in jargon, insistent that the terse man pages told me exactly how to use each tool.
None of those pages told me why I'd use any given tool! And if they did, they did so in more jargon. And any actual "here's a normal human use case, broken down" documentation tended to be a sales pitch for a particular expensive suite of proprietary BS.
Audacity has live LADSPA/LV2/VST plugins, now, so these things are available outside the realm of chin-stroking synth musicians. It's time to actually help people set up effects chains for normal stuff like recording voice tracks or fixing up noisy field recordings. I don't want to crunch my flange on a saturated meta-harmonic oscillator sidechain: I want to remove mouth clicks and over-projected sibilants.
All the Americans on the fediverse are tragically reminding me that #EggNogg in the US is not the boozy posset it is in the rest of the world. I remember growing up drinking horrid vanilla-nutmeg heavy cream from tetrapak cartons in the 80s, and wondering who found that enjoyable. It wasn't until I left prohibition-scarred America that I found out what the rum-and-egg-white drinks are actually supposed to taste like.
Best spam of the week. At least they spelled my name right:
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Those who dismiss or deride BASIC don't go beyond the language. Guillaume Chereau points out there's more to BASIC as on early microcomputers it provided a full development environment too, almost an IDE.
I'd say BASIC also supported a REPL-based, exploratory programming style similar to Lisp's.
@amoroso And I think that derision of BASIC as a "toy" language by smug 6502 or z80 ASM programmers caused some smugness to rub off against REPLs as a concept for a decade or so.
It's important to remember that BASIC was used in some heavy-duty production workloads! The lighting system for A Chorus Line in the mid-70s was all managed by a PDP-8 running BASIC, and it was at the time the most complex lighting plan of any stage show in history.
Sigh. You can see in the data that this mailing list suffered a catastrophic dropoff after a specific month. What happened in that month? (checks archives) Oh, right, giant flamewar that moderators did not (could not?) put a stop to. Wish I could see how many unsubscribes happened that month.
@luis_in_brief@jessamyn I remember @joeyh published a blog post once that was sort of a Jane's Guide to Thread Structures. You could see from screenshots of the thread indicators whether something was a dogpile (lots of people responding to one post midway through a thread, but no further engagement after that), or "get a room" (two people replying back-and-forth, for screenfuls), or any number of other common patterns.
Of course he also set up the mailman-haters list, which I recommended use the controversial "moderate unsubscription" feature, so nobody could leave...