thirteenfingers

MusicBrainz is great. I stumbled upon it about a year ago while trying to figure out how various open-source desktop music apps populate track info... and was delighted to find that some random Internet stranger had helpfully catalogued all my youtube videos years prior!

That was seven years later. Maybe the problem is that Google stopped reading what Google wrote.

I also started getting that yesterday, but curiously I was still able to watch videos after closing the popup (without turning off my ad blocker).

And I literally just dropped my album this afternoon. I don't know whether I should be worried now.

I personally agree about the whole point of Lego being free form building - and I still have some Lego magazines from the days when that was explicitly encouraged by Lego - but you need kits and instructions to get to the point where you can do free form building. It's like composing music, you're going to have a very difficult time of it if you don't first study a whole lot of existing, well-constructed music.

What I don't understand (speaking of Vimeo) is why doesn't YouTube offer a plan where individual content creators can choose to pay a monthly fee to keep ads off of their own videos for all viewers. Speaking for myself I would happily pay for that.

Me! First Christmas at my new (fully remote) job on an SRE team and I'm on call through most of this coming week. Not complaining though, I actually asked for this stretch, due to awkward timing with other commitments during other weeks. Fortunately there are other members of the team I can reach if I need them, and family live nearby. I'm just thankful to be gainfully employed.

It's pretty quiet at the moment and I'm actually kind of jealous that I'm not facing the kind of excitement you are... I guess I should be careful what I wish for lol.

Merry Christmas all!

I'm taking the Solutions Architect exam. Arguably I should have waited until I had a few more months hands-on experience, but I kind of felt like jumping off the deep end.

Procrastinating on studying for my AWS certification next week. I was unemployed for several months of this year and knowledge of AWS or any of the major cloud providers was the most glaring hole on my resume. Happily, my new employer pays for AWS training for all of its employees, so that hole is being filled... except, as always, it's way more fun reading HN than studying :/

IIRC the system Bach was pushing wasn't actually equal temperament, but "well temperament" which was some sort of compromise between equal temperament and having pure fifths everywhere. The result was that all twelve keys sounded acceptable, but some keys had purer fifths or thirds than others. Some musicians/scholars say that Bach composed the different preludes and fugues specifically to use the resulting different characters of the different keys to the best possible advantage. I can't speak to this personally, I keep my piano at equal temperament ;)

(Big fan of your videos btw)

Over the years I've gone from Ubuntu to Debian to Slackware and back to Debian. I took a chance on Slackware for a few years precisely so that I could force myself to understand *nix from the bottom up. Unfortunately I didn't have nearly as much free time (or patience) as I needed to get the most out of the experience, and having to deal with missing dependencies turned out to be too much overhead for just getting anything else done. I'd definitely recommend it for folks who enjoy (and have the time for) getting their hands dirty.

I'm actually in a very similar situation - in fact I'm trying to go on unpaid leave as a preemptive measure. I would happily undertake other mitigation measures, including working remote, biweekly testing, masking etc., and my (extremely supportive) boss has been trying to pull off some alternative arrangement for me, but he's not the one who decides these policies.