rtisdale
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Comment · 1 year ago
Howdy Tina.
I'll send a resume your way. I've got 10+ years experience doing devops/sysad.
Just finished performing a migration of a large Rails monolith from a legacy EC2 based setup to an ECS based setup.
Comment · 2 years ago
I put in an application a a week or two back but haven't heard from you folks.
Do you typically respond to candidates with an "interested or not interested" email?
Comment · 2 years ago
Thought this was a really interesting example of DIY spirit and might be well liked here. Couldn't fit everything into the title but it's also using an atypical key layout (Wiki-Hayden)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki%E2%80%93Hayden_note_layo...
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I know HN tends to run a bit more technical and this article is more for the business minded/technically challenged but I'd love to hear any thoughts from my peers on this.
1. Did I oversimplify the concepts too much?
2. Could I improve the language or clarity in anyway?
3. Should I put more pictures with funny captions?
Whatever you have to say, I'd love to hear it!
Comment · 5 years ago
>Today? The laptop
The laptop is really just a tool to host different virtual instruments.
The "instrument" most easily associated with the past 15-20 years of electronic/pop music making have been Wave Table synthesizers like NI Massive and Serum.
Remember Skrillex? Those screeching sounds and basses are using Wavetable synthesis (from NI Massive in particular).
A big part of the reason it's harder to associate a particular instrument with newer electronic genres is because it's FAR easier (and more common) now to program your own patches (essentially a preset instrument) for your songs.
The DX-80 mentioned in the next section was VERY difficult to create patches for (even for it's time) so when you hear it in a song, it's almost always the included stock patches.
>The 80's was the electric keyboard and synths, kinda.
You'd associate a few types of instruments (and synthesis types) with the 80s but the reigning one was FM Synthesis, in particular the Yamaha DX-80.
Give a listen to some stick DX-80 patches and you'll immediately go "Yep, that's the 80's"
Comment · 5 years ago
Can't reply directly to SirSourdough because of thread limits.
>I don't think this really address the point though. Alcohol is sold with known purity, quality, and quantity. You aren't going to overdose due to an impurity.
Their argument was never that it would stop everything, only that it would help (and I agree).
How many people have you met that have gone blind from drinking "bad" alcohol? During the prohibition era, this was an actual issue people faced.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/prohibit...
>A major decline in the risk per use massively outweighed by a huge increase in use over time due to legalization.
There is evidence that decriminalization when paired with other policies can potentially cause decreases in usage as well as a decrease in negative outcomes such as HIV transmission rates and drug deaths.
https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portuga....
Comment · 5 years ago
This was relevant to the parent post as well as your own comment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210
A UK study led by a panel of experts analyzed a number of recreational drugs and evaluated them across 16 different criteria.
Alcohol was one of the most dangerous drugs and was unique in that it was the only drug that posed more risk to society than it did for the actual user.
This is of course, not definitive proof of the parents assertions but the findings do lend evidence to it.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's likely less to do with alcohol and more to do with the fact that it's pretty easy to "make" other psychoactive substances using it.
In particular, you can spin robitussin rapidly to separate the dextromethorphan.
Comment · 6 years ago
Nifty!
I just placed in a beta request.
A business partner and I heavily prefer to utilize markdown for note taking (we generally use Typora) but this poses problems when we are trying to colaborate on a document together.
Does Obsidian support real time collaborative editing?
Comment · 6 years ago
Hey everyone! I wrote this up and felt it might be of interest to both the technical peeps here (Scroll down midway for some EBS & Instance Store benchmarks) as well as the less technical peeps (Stuff near the top for you folks).
Would love to hear any thoughts about the article, my benchmarking methodology, or anything else really!
Happy to answer any questions you might have as well :)
https://breakbeat.tech https://roberttisdale.com