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interesting things written by other people

LLM-powered search. Interesting idea, have not tested much to see if it actually works.

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Reasons we could never have machines larger than humans

this is not about keeping people safe from fentanyl

describe the hallway you too to get into this room (or some aspect of the previous room). People remember details differently

“How can I reduce my time here?” is a good followup question after finding out where one spends time

…and you experience resistance against doing the work, it’s worth identifying and articulating that resistance, and then integrating it into the work. once the resistance is inside the work, it doesn’t need to act against the work

important skills for a world saturated in bullshit

thread from 7 lessons smokers can teach us about getting shit done

how the Tylenol poisoning guy created more packaging waste than has ever been mitigated by consumer recycling efforts

  • Permutation City, by Greg Egan
  • Fabric of Reality, by David Deutsch
  • Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks

I also do stuff like eq/tape-saturation/compression/wow-flutter etc. on most of my samples beforehand.

Regarding my regular workflow on the Z I use it like below:

Tr1 - One shot drum kits containing a full kit (not only kick/snare/hi-hat/fx like you ‘should’ use it on the Z)
Tr2 - Sliced Drumloops
Tr3 - Multisampled instrument (synth/bass/piano/guitar etc.)
Tr4 - Multisampled instrument (synth/bass/piano/guitar etc.)
Tr5 - Bass samples
Tr6 - Melodic samples (pads and plucks)
Tr7 - Melodic samples (plucks and short notes)
Tr8 - Melodic samples (pads and long notes)
FX1 - Half wet or full wet delay with LFO on Pan for ping-pong effect
FX2 - Full wet reverb and bit of LFO on Pan or something else as well
Tape - Effecting chosen melodic content (most of the time Track 8) Fine on 100 (+12 semitones) or Fine on 0 (-12 Semitones) Filter on 30 with a bit of resonance and using a Full Dry signal. Tape track is going thru the full Wet reverb FX2 for a subtle and dark shimmer effect giving everything a more spacious feel
Master - Bit of Chorus (never above 30) and Drive on 50. Punch on 50 and Master around 50.

That’s about it! I am thinking about making a sound pack for the Z soon for the ones interested. The pack will contain most of the sounds of the above Z-Files album.

Everyone wants to date someone impressive, but focusing on impressiveness in dating is perfectly useless

Rough and incomplete working notes, to help me think through how to use this site. Intended primarily for my own use. But I will also share this with friends, as grist for conversations about how to best design a website to support creative work.

exceptional internet

This seems very bad.

oh no

Subtitle “How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood”.

but you don’t actually get to fuck broad social approval. you get to fuck some particular person they alone want to fuck you for some specific special reason

TLDR get enough sleep and exercise

Clips from Mayer Hawthorne’s iPhone

clickbaity, but still not ideal

just in time

this aspect was more interesting than the show for me

cool new thing to worry about this week

highlighting new additions in green is cool.

actual ambitious 2030 goals for phone recycling