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Comment · 8 months ago
Yeah, this can be confusing. This is referring to the "growl" effect in complete vocal technique. Imagine Christina Aguilera making a dramatic car engine growl when you kick down the gas pedal. I think this is roughly what this is about.

Not growl as in death metal vocals.

Comment · 1 year ago
I use FabFilter plugins all the time.
Comment · 1 year ago
I wondered about the same thing. Not an answer, but my guess would be that it's just a new package and they hoped someone picked it up by accident? In that case, it was patched with malware :)
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder, how do you decide to care about something?
Comment · 3 years ago
You have a multitude of things to measure in breathing air. For each you can establish thresholds for safe levels through the scientific method with evidence. Likely there is a transition area, but also regions with a very high likelihood of being unhealthy.

If any of these measures is "in the red", your air is unhealthy.

Why not?

Comment · 3 years ago
Why? If critical levels of "unhealthy stuff" is exceeded, it's not safe. Your spectrum is on the threshold of "unhealthy stuff"
Comment · 3 years ago
Which probably doesn't reflect the real costs of extracting, processing and discarding resources and their effect on humans, life and nature very well.
Comment · 4 years ago
I used to love the Discovery Weekly list as well. But since a couple of years, my account recommendations went into some strange niche solution and they recommend the same rubbish over and over again. I even get annoyed at certain genres that I used to mildly enjoy before.

If you try to look for a solution, apparently the only way is to cancel the subscription, delete the account, resubscribe and start over ... I wish there was a way to reset the "intelligent" recommendations for an existing account.

The only workaround I found: put a couple of similar and interesting songs into a playlist and let Spotify continue with recommendations.

Comment · 4 years ago
I think it is because of what is described through Conway's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

    Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.[2][3]
    — Melvin E. Conway
The problem isn't necessarily software itself, but how we organize people (more than 2 or 3), how we communicate, how we mirror operations, expectations, etc. in software.

Scaling sustainable software feels like an "unsolved" Problem, because the society hasn't figured out how to organize better.

Comment · 4 years ago
How do you apply the mind-shift to projects where you have to finish something in order to advance? I have a couple of songs here that need mixing, but since they entered my to-do list, they are in procrastination realm ... But sometimes the thing you like is mostly about doing the thing and leaves little room for playing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Hubbles pictures were probably new to you, so in a sense this is "just" an iteration. I think you just had the perspective/expectation that this will be new as well. Maybe a bit much for the very first public results of a scientific experiment.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think you underestimate the inspiration you get from touching a physical instrument and turning knobs with direct effects. It's the same with GUI design in music software, really. How you make the music affects the music itself a lot. I don't think we'll see instruments and gear disappear.

I love both worlds though.

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