scarecrowbob

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by scarecrowbob 4d ago
It took me quite a while to "get" the "Arby's" restaurant name.
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by scarecrowbob 5d ago
Not me, but I've been thinking about it a bit lately, and what I believe is this: the idea that we can have something that so deeply ingrained into my practice as a human just kind of tossed out there easily as if it's no thing at
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by scarecrowbob 5d ago
You make the CSS and branding into a thing that folks are "discouraged" from distributing. That's most of the WP plugin and theme ecosystem, or was when I retired from it.
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by scarecrowbob 5d ago
I'm thankfully about 4 years out of making a living un-fucking WP sites but one of the strangest things about the ecosystem is about "for-sale" GPL software. It's felt somewhat unique to WP for sure, though maybe there a
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by scarecrowbob 6d ago
Yeah, that's pretty much how it works in the big bands I've played in- you need to be able to both read and improvise and know when to do either. I very much can and do read for a lot of instruments. In some situations (I played
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by scarecrowbob 6d ago
Well, you do you... if you're putting piano rolls in front of the folks you're performing with and asking them to use that as a basis for a tune, then that's neat. I don't believe you are, but hey I have been wrong abou
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by scarecrowbob 6d ago
It would be really hard for me to improvise a clarinet solo based on the melody line in that kind of notation, which is something I have to do pretty frequently in my old style jazz band using fake books. I'm sympathetic to that view;
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by scarecrowbob 6d ago
Even more, my experience as a person raised by and sometimes married to professional music pedegogs and who plays in a lot of professional situations is that the "theory" itself really isn't that hard when we understand the p
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by scarecrowbob 7d ago
Look, just because someone doesn't have a functioning soul doesn't mean they are a bot.
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by scarecrowbob 8d ago
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by scarecrowbob 8d ago
I agree with you. Maybe consider my conciliatory rhetoric ("folks here think") in the original post as statement about what I think the vicious and hyper-authoritarian tech bros here believe, namely everything from obviously dumb
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by scarecrowbob 8d ago
I mean... Ken Paxton?
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by scarecrowbob 9d ago
I understand that folks here think that the general anti-AI sentiments that can be found in some of US culture are often misguided. It's likely projection on my part but I have a deep suspicion that people understand that mass surveill
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by scarecrowbob 12d ago
Nice list. Maybe a bit over the top for a lot of situations. I assume folks would acquire these things over a long period of time depending on their projects or what they are repairing. I have a 2-ch function generator coming because afte
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by scarecrowbob 12d ago
I'll also echo the "practice kit" thing, especially for desoldering- solder stuff on, take it off, do it agin. Also, good tools and supplies- kester solder and liquid flux. It took me quite a while to figure out that my prefe
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by scarecrowbob 17d ago
My buddy called me yesterday just before he got into the playa so I could cover a sound tech gig for him. He's not "wealthy" by most folks' standards. He is a tech guy, though. But he keeps having to go to oil productio
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by scarecrowbob 17d ago
What if you just stated your actual point instead of asking stupid questions? Look, I get that folks in the US and other colonial projects feel a-okay in genociding the folks who were living there previously. I also get that you can't
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by scarecrowbob 19d ago
What you're missing is that while it's certainly true that there are plenty of small groups working from the antifacist position, the claim isn't simply that these groups exits- the claim (by the US gov) is that these groups
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by scarecrowbob 23d ago
I wish those actions made the folks doing that "better" instead of implicating beautiful parts of my childhood in their vicious attempts to keep the entire world under their thumb... The obvious problem is that when the same group
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by scarecrowbob 24d ago
I miss being able to simply wish folks ill and hope they get what they "deserve". Instead, as I get older all I can think of is how horrible it would be to possesses some vague idea of escape but have to deal with a smoke or risin
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by scarecrowbob 27d ago
Yeah, I feel you on that. It took about 20 years for my philosophy and literature degrees pay off. I know more now, but I had to start -somewhere- even if it was hard to get the whole context. Much of that time between putting in all that w
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by scarecrowbob 28d ago
One of the problems for me is that the people I disagree with are the white supremacists who operate the empire. I know them pretty well. It actually has been quite difficult to extricate my thinking from that culture which raised me and I
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by scarecrowbob 28d ago
I love your line of thinking here. Just pure, unadulterated bat-shit craziness. There is no world where the globe-spanning, petroleum based colonialist empire that produces F35 is going to somehow, out of the goodness of it's oil-pumpi
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by scarecrowbob 29d ago
I dunno, the Ute and Navajo folks I live near don't agree. A lot of the indigenous folks I know think we are living in a literal apocalypse. Historically the way white folks have squared that circle has been to say that those folks ar
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
More importantly, can _I_ log into the cameras? Because allowing randos into the data is the real ask. I understand that the unspoken assumption is that (unlike internet randos such as myself) LEOs and your local government and every other
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
This is the quality of thought that I come to HN to experience because I have a hard time finding it in other places. The amount of assumptions about what it might mean to "think" coupled with a seeming obliviousness to those assu
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
Ah yes, I remember Strom Thurmond, that great firebrand of the left, and his 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Basically Lenin. /s To be fair, US political culture (and capitalism in general) contain deep, deep contradi
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
Getting an AI response from folks has a very "let me google that for you" kind of feel. If you're not familiar with the concept... https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=lmgtfy
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
Yes, yes and their hearts pump a viscous oily goo rather than blood.
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by scarecrowbob 1mo ago
"surely you don't actually think you've learned NOTHING from playing Fallout? Nothing about yourself?" Well, I did write out a couple of paragraphs about what I thought I learned. I did indeed "learn how to play fal

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