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the apollos are great. the plugins can be a money pit though

also, how is this even a topical issue in the US at this point? masks are almost never enforced anywhere and it hurts absolutely no one (except the hearing impaired) if you are wearing one

be warned that the minidisc is in a format that doesn’t work on 90% of minidisc players. found out the hard way

i will say that the use of distortion on this album is a bit over the top

i’d strongly recommend song for alpha- https://www.discogs.com/master/1343310-Daniel-Avery-Song-For-Alpha

we could use some fresh ideas around here

toby huss is one of my favorite actors. as a life long weird al fan (weird al was my first concert when i was bout 10), i enjoyed the first half a lot more than the 2nd. i thought it was a bit long but still glad it exists and that i saw it. follow up to mention that toby huss was artie, the strongest man in the world on pete & pete

Native Instruments lost their way a long time ago. Most of the people who were driving innovation left and they've mostly been coasting on Kontakt content and their various controller keyboards/machine. That being said, there are good synths in the Komplete package but I wouldnt expect anything more than what you're getting. Also, I think Apple's move to ARM processors is most likely triggering a lot of this tree shaking in the product line, across multiple companies. Izotope is dropping Trash 2 (great plugin!). I can imagine that a lot of these legacy plugins would take so much work to port over to a new processor that they've decided its not worth it. So, if you see some plugins that you're interested in and they aren't ported over to ARM yet, be wary because they may never and end up dead in the water.

well confield was pop music compared to some of the stuff they didn’t put out

i’m not defending him at all. he’s an ass and i think he royally messed up in even getting legally bound to buy the thing. it was an amazing 44 billion dollar impulse buy and then he went ego first into his first weeks there and tanked the company. there is no way it will continue to run on the same service level with only a third of the employees. he stands to lose a lot and he deserves it.

i understand what you are saying. i get that elon is not going to become completely bankrupt by this mistake. i'm just pointing out that he does have something to lose, he does have 44 billion in twitter now and i dont think he wants to lose it. if i put a quarter of my savings into something, i would still survive without it but i would not want to just lose it. is this hard to understand? it seems obvious to me.

simple answer is that he is ultra rich and deluded into believing he is a genius and that he can go in and make a series of "smart" decisions right off the bat and somehow turn Twitter around. I don't believe the current outcome was his intention at all but he made a bunch of rash decisions under pressure (again 44 billion is a lot of money, i dont care who you are) and caused this to happen. Deluded incompetent leaders is how nations fall in a short span of time. We're seeing the corporate version of that right now.

i'm not saying he's going to become homeless. obviously he's ridiculously rich and i'm definitely not saying anyone should feel sorry for him. i'm just saying he does have something to lose here.

if you were paid $56 dollars and you blew $44 of those dollars, that would still be bad right?

he stands to lose 44 billion dollars

The user interface to Twitter is simple, that's one of the things that makes it popular. Delivering messages to millions of people in real time, with built in moderation, handling security, having an add platform with all the required analytics on a global scale is incredibly complicated. On top of that, typically how software engineering end up working is that there is a lot of tribal knowledge. People will work in parts of the codebase for years and become experts in the nuances of adding new features and identifying/fixing bugs in the existing features. Depending on the codebase, someone walking into it, even with a lot of previous experience, may require weeks if not months to get up to speed with how certain aspects of the app work. If Twitter has really lost 75% of their engineering team, that is an amazing amount of very specific, very hard to reproduce knowledge out the window. Something to think about- Have you ever gone to a website and it was down or something wasn't working as expected? Then you go back later and everything is good to go again? That didn't just magically happen. There is monitoring of errors in the system and there are people on call that get alerts when errors hit some kind of threshold and they go in and troubleshoot the error and then fix it. Their expertise in the matter will determine how quickly that gets fixed. The number of people available to solve these kinds of issues also determines how quickly they get fixed. If the number of problems now outweigh the number of people available to solve the problems, that will have a compounding effect. In a big enough company, you might have dedicated teams just to solving these kinds of issues, and then other teams building new features. If everyone in the engineering team is now dedicated to just keeping the place running, the site will be dead in the water in terms of new features. Also keep in mind that an application of this size also has teams of people writing software to help keep all of this going. You have to have code to orchestrate software deployments, allow support people to get (limited) access to data they need to help troubleshoot issues etc etc. A lot of the people who worked on that side of things are likely gone as well.

that's only like 5 or 6 people at this point

needs more cowbell

where’s whatshisface when you need him

not sure about began but merck records, and schematic were making waves in the late nineties/ early 2000s

photek-esc micro changes in this track while not being at all derivative. diggin it

been a pretty good week for sanity

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/politics/democrats-keep-senate/index.html suck it, bitches

things slightly less terrible than previously thought. yay