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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there some special process by which musicians/producers arrive at an agreed-upon tempo for a song recording?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A band is 3-5 ish people just vibing and making it up together. When you get into a studio, now you have at least one engineer in the group. If a record label is involved, you have their representative as well as all their money. So it’s a lot of chefs in the kitchen when it comes to making an actual recording.

  The biggest influence outside of the band though is usually the engineer. As an outsider with a vested interest in making the song as good as it can be, they often have really great insight into changes that can make the song even better.

  Finally, when you’re playing live even with a click track in your ear, you’re going to want to rush. And that’s ok, it’s fun to play fast. You may not even notice it. And then you go into the booth to record and you end up laying out what you had in your head from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify begins accepting AI-narrated audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs' software; Spotify already allows AI-recorded audiobooks, with several restrictions.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m as anti “AI” as they come but there’s a master Japanese carpenter on YouTube, Shoyan, who goes through the trouble of translating his commentary to English, someone proofs it because the grammar is usually perfect, and then runs it through a comforting racially ambiguous old man voice from ElevenLabs I think. And honestly? It works really well. It’s obviously not a natural voice but it’s not fake enough to be disorienting or annoying like the early types were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yes! That was the point of my rambling though I never quite got there. I was wondering if curriculums had caught up yet, to at least look at the modern system languages. Sounds like you’re at a good program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If Rust had been around when I was an underclassman, I would have been totally locked into the full CompSci track. Instead, I got introduced to Java and C (and calculus…) and that looked like a nightmare compared to what I had been playing with in JS/Python land, so I noped on out of there and got a Comp Sci Lite degree.

  Years later, I’m just completely in love with Rust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired boss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s incorrect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 2 Celebrates 15th Anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting raked over the coals for this but you’re not alone. ME2 is so linear and simplified it may as well be a different game series. Incredibly disappointing playing it right after ME1. ME3 does turn it all around and it’s my favorite of the three, which is also a controversial take so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give it time, too. I didn’t discover I’m an absolute fishing fiend until I was 28, and now I’m out with my dad as often as we can. Same with woodworking and building stuff, I picked that all up when I bought a house.

  Do I wish I had known this about myself when we lived together? Of course, but I’d be a very different person I suspect and I like who I am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My actual professional advice: cut portainer out of your learning. Stick to compose as your only docker abstraction and you’ll be a wizard in no time. I have portainer running in my sea of self hosted apps and never use it. If you let some app generate compose files for you, or even just blindly use an app’s example compose file, you’ll never fully understand what’s happening and it’ll make things much more difficult to debug.

  4: yes, every container will show up in portainer. 5: I don’t know 6: this is one of the reasons why I personally hate piling layers onto tools. Very often someone else’s opinion does not jive with mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That might’ve been the best year for metalcore 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Wanted is the GOAT simply for the soundtrack. Bullet For My Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold practically defined my music taste for the rest of my life.