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It instructs you to build the shelf wrong. The camlocks go on the bottom of the shelf.

I once to believed this too. And then I got much more skilled at prompting agents to get the results I wanted.

As someone who is and always has been a very unapologetic skeptic, I am still surprised by the number of capable people who can't accept that things are changing.

It can't be either none of it matters, or all of it matters. The truth lies in the middle somewhere.

I was excited to see this, since I'm looking for a symbolic algebra library.

But then I saw the absolutely awful license. A license like that at a time like this is no small miscalculation.

I disagree with this take. Particularly because this isn't just a little more of this or that. It's a well-integrated set of features that should have already been on the market in some form, but wasn't really. And it's also a premium setup in terms of each feature individually. It really does feel like the whole is more than the sum of its parts in practical terms.

I don't feel FOMO. I'm thinking more "why did it take this long?"

I ordered this within 30 minutes of learning about it. I've been waiting for something like this. Here's why:

- My eyes are getting older, and I need a better visual connection to my work.

- We spend much of our lives in front of these devices. Optimizing this just makes sense.

- It is more than just a monitor with some features. It's a well-rounded kit with good software support.

- I previously used multiple 4K monitors and external KVMs. The built-in KVM and management software that works with the display makes multi-system use as easy as it could possibly be.

- The resolution has _more than_ overcome the issues I had with font rendering on lower resolutions while trying to have more visual workspace.

- The thunderbolt hub has vastly reduced multi-system USB/wiring/speed clutter and confusion.

Yes, it was expensive. Yes, I'm very happy with it. Within this week, it has drastically improved my sense of comfort and utility, and I got rid of all the other monitors.

Ok, for the gripes:

- The curvature is a bit minor compared to what I'm used to. Given the spatial density I want, the optimal distance is less than 30" from the display, and with my aging eyes at this distance, looking from center to edge changes my focal depth by more than a small amount. That said, the off-axis views are quite good. Essentially, looking at this display from a longer distance wastes much of the effective ocular resolution.

- The software is great, but if you want something more tactile, reaching to the sole multi-purpose menu stick is not that great. It wouldn't have hurt for them to provide a USB-connected desktop switch. I hope they still do. This monitor runs its own "OS" of sorts, and can be extended with new functionality should they choose to.

- Finding the improved dynamic range took a bit of learning. The way it works feels better (less of a special case) for me, but I had to go adjust the settings to tap into higher resolution per color plane.

If anybody has any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

This advice is not better than random. It is actually much much worse. It is a pseudo-formalization of a chilling effect.

Actively preventing people from sharing their ideas or being exposed to different points of view is one of the ways that despots stay in power. Don't be part of the problem. The first amendment was the first one for a reason.

Profit margins on eurorack are pretty damn low. And you need a lot of knobs and jacks and plugs. Even a hall effect sensor may be out of the sweet spot for cost.

The physical interface is an intrinsic part of the design of any eurorack module, including artistic elements. If you actually use these, then you quickly tire of menu diving for simple options, and only modules that do very particular things make it worth the bother. For everything else, the layout must be accessible, memorable, understandable, and not too crowded. And it helps if the visual of the thing conjures up memories of how it sounds or what it does.

I host OSS images there, and I see no notice about how they will be affected. If they limit access to my published images, then it will be an issue. In that case the benefit and thus incentive for many of the projects which have made docker and docker hub pervasive goes away. Without that adoption, there would probably be no docker hub today.

This should help people understand a bit better why this feel a bit underhanded. The images are free, and I and many other OSS devs have used docker hub in partnership to provide access to software, often paying for the ability to publish there. In this case, any burden of extra cost was on the producer side.

Turning this into a way to "know" every user and extract some value from them is their prerogative, but it does not feel like it is good faith. It also feels a bit creepy in the sense of "the user is the product".

This essay might win an award for having the most words for the simplest point made. The genuflecting and synthesized history lesson that it's the first 3/4 of it was an entirely unnecessary diversion.

There is and always will be those who take earnest and reasonable ways of describing beliefs and behaviors and turn them into hyperbolic ad-hominem at both ends of the spectrum. If we are aware of it, and use common sense and a little bit of critical thinking, there will be less of this.

Did that take pages of text? No.

I was curious about this as perhaps a new approach to recipe-oriented bytecode injection. But the I looked at the project's (long) history and docs status. It seems that the main contributor has tapered off this project over time, and more specifically hasn't been active since July. (Mumfrey, if you're out there, please tell us what's up)

So, OP, what made you mention this here now?

I was paid to do code analysis on medical systems coming up to Y2K. Yes, there were Y2K related bugs which would have munged patient data, including exam data and results. Yes, we analyzed every point in the code having anything to do with dates and fixed the issue. Yes, this needed to be done to avoid injury to people. It was a months long effort due to the size of the code base.

I went to see the film tonight. I went into the theater not knowing what to expect, but keeping an open mind since this was a "Kyle" film. Meh. It's goofy, mildly entertaining, and well, just like a film from before Y2K. But I somehow managed to enjoy it.

I should have been more specific. I meant lopsided as in the character of the two candidates. I posit that any decent, moderately educated citizen should be able to see this clearly, but therein lies the issue.