alisonatwork

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LAME v4.0(lame.sourceforge.io)
3 points by alisonatwork 2mo ago|0 comments
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by alisonatwork 3mo ago
TBH I never really got the point of those "video game score played by a real orchestra" things, although to be fair most of them seemed to be for games from the console world so as a PC gamer I didn't have any attachment to t
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by alisonatwork 3mo ago
In 1993 I thought the OPL2 version sounded better and still do now. But my broader point was that comparing this old game music to "real" guitar music kinda takes away from what it actually was for a lot of people listening to it
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by alisonatwork 3mo ago
It's amazing how much better all these sound to me in OPL2. When CD-ROM soundtracks because the norm it really ruined a lot of game music for me, because all that chip music perhaps inspired by guitar and orchestral music just ended up
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by alisonatwork 4mo ago
Fifty Plus One kinda does that now: https://fiftyplusone.news/methodology
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by alisonatwork 4mo ago
You might enjoy some of the projects here, including a presidential approval map: https://projects.gelliottmorris.com Maps for elections generally don't come out till a few months beforehand because there isn't enough
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by alisonatwork 4mo ago
I highly recommend G Elliott Morris' blog Strength in Numbers. He exists more in conversation with political science researchers and commercial polling professionals which makes his reporting feel a lot deeper and more interesting than
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by alisonatwork 4mo ago
538 had some decent years through its various sellout phases and imo hit its peak after Nate Silver left - he'd long since exposed himself more as a contrarian than a serious analyst and had become a real detriment to the brand. It was
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by alisonatwork 6mo ago
Thanks for posting this. I feel like for years we've been getting gaslit by the Markdown guys who inexplicably decided that stars should make text go italic instead of bold. I get it wrong every single time and then have to go back and
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by alisonatwork 6mo ago
Sorry, that wasn't really what I was getting at. The thing I find interesting with orientalism is that it has a mirror in chauvinism from the other direction, both sides reinforcing the idea that there is something special about the cu
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by alisonatwork 6mo ago
I feel like a lot of this is culture and class specific. I can't speak for Japan, but in China there are at least as many different levels of chopstick-using skill as anywhere in the west. Kids and elderly who can't pick up a pean
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by alisonatwork 6mo ago
I have the same issue now. It's especially annoying when it happens while reading a "serious" publication like a newspaper or long form magazine. Whether it was because an AI wrote it or "real" writers have spent so
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Planet Labs announces two week delay on imagery of Iran(bsky.app)
5 points by alisonatwork 6mo ago|0 comments
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by alisonatwork 7mo ago
How do you do this in the modern era where websites demand a unique phone number for each account? I couldn't even set up one Discord account due to the phone number requirement, which at the time wouldn't accept numbers in the co
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by alisonatwork 7mo ago
The power grid problems islands have is a really interesting topic. Just the other day I read an interview discussing Taiwan's energy situation[0] and even though I am familiar with the various factions and the surface level debate, it
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by alisonatwork 8mo ago
$1 is far too low to discourage abuse. Spammers and scammers will still make exponential returns. PR agencies are paid tens of thousands to craft narratives for their clients. With institutional actors the sky is the limit. Even just your a
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by alisonatwork 8mo ago
This kind of thing already existed for a long time, but not as a scam. The people selling these products were selling their ability as "tastemakers". They knew about all the various distributors who could provide "artisanal&q
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by alisonatwork 8mo ago
This doesn't make sense to me. I mean, the term "remix" literally comes from the music scene. Artists are constantly getting inspiration from one another, referencing one another, performing together or having their works exh
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by alisonatwork 8mo ago
Eh, Aphex fans and IDM more broadly has always been pretentious AF. I think there's a kayfabe effect going on where both the artists and the fans lean so far into the earnestness of it all that it surely has to be somewhat tongue-in-ch
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
From what I've heard from people who insist on using Substack even though it's American, VC-funded and full of dark patterns, they are trying to make money from their writing and are actively hoping to capitalize on its social net
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
I can't speak for this one, but I've stayed in a bunch of these over the years and they're exactly as quoted in the article - better than a hostel, worse than a hotel. Because the rate is higher than a hostel, it prices out t
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
What platform are you on? I use Ungoogled Chromium on desktop (uBlock Origin still works if you install it from GitHub) and Cromite on mobile (some AdBlock built-in), mainly because both of these just give you a clean and compatible browser
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
I agree that mainstream games tend to feel more predictable in their mechanics than what we got in the 8-bit era, but I'm not sure that that means they're more boring. There were a lot of crap games that came out in the old days t
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
I think I just don't really vibe with roleplaying in realtime with other humans, to be honest. I grew up trying to play tabletop RPGs (my dad was a DM and used D&D mechanics as a way to make storytime more engaging), but while I re
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
I never got deep into it, but I remember reading magazine articles back in the 90s that that's exactly what the new generation of MUDs were. Wiki has pages on MOO, TinyMUCK, MUSH etc - these are basically platforms where the players th
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
Isn't this what MUDs are? I tried a few in the early days of the internet and even back then they were like much bigger and more dynamic versions of text adventures of the 80s. For me I bounced off the idea that I had to role-play with
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
I wonder if it depends what country you are in. I only notice it occasionally when the video won't play in FreeTube or PipePipe (which always has the pause at the start since the last few months) and I'm forced to open an incognit
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
This situation is so frustrating to me, and despite my attempts, nobody seems to get why it's problematic. I still have a Facebook account from over a decade ago that I use occasionally to access stuff that is only visible on Facebook,
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by alisonatwork 9mo ago
The funny thing is that YouTube has now enshittified to the point where people routinely DO wait well over 5 seconds to watch the video they actually wanted to watch while interstitials and other commercials are jammed in. Even with adblock
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by alisonatwork 10mo ago
I see it as a neat way for nerds to nerd out about nerd stuff in an experiential way. Like, this is not going to headline a big time rave or festival or anything, but in a community of people who like math or programming or science, sure, w

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