tom_vidal

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by tom_vidal 6d ago
We are creating animated corpses out of our culture. The point of art isn’t to generate beautiful patterns. It’s to create meaning. And you can’t have that without human care and intent. Furthermore, that care needs to be intrinsically inte
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by tom_vidal 27d ago
Check the article for the full context. It’s basically a musical version of exquisite corpse. One composer wrote the start of a phrase (on sheet music, without using a piano), then passed it on to the next composer, who continued the phrase
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by tom_vidal 28d ago
This sort of “autocomplete” is actually fundamental to how classical composers were trained. For anyone interested, I’d highly recommend reading Robert Gjerdingen’s article Gebrauchs-Formulas. https://www.researchgate.net/pu
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by tom_vidal 2mo ago
No. The reason cities are working so hard to build these kinds of safety measures is that cars are horrendously dangerous for people walking and biking. The “war on cars” is a war for the safety and dignity of everyone outside of cars.
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by tom_vidal 1y ago
Just to get this straight… they built tunnels for people walking so they could continue to jam the streets aboveground full of cars? Maybe if people can’t walk around your city efficiently because there are too many cars, it’s the cars them
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by tom_vidal 2y ago
How in the world can you have a discussion about DVD packaging and special features without mentioning the Lord of the Rings trilogy extended edition box sets? Not only did the movies come in beautiful collector’s cases with two DVDs per mo
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by tom_vidal 2y ago
The "rules of the road" argument here assumes that giving up huge amounts of public space for car infrastructure is inevitable and right, and that it's the fault of people walking or riding bikes if they get injured or killed
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by tom_vidal 2y ago
Think you missed the implied /s here :-)
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by tom_vidal 2y ago
Your car bias is showing here. The reason bike lanes and traffic calming measures get installed is because people are literally dying due to poor road design that prioritizes car speed over everything else. You might not want traffic calmin
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by tom_vidal 2y ago
The YouTuber Not Just Bikes made a great point in one of his videos: why in the world are public safety improvements up for debate? If people keep falling off a walkway, we don’t hold town hall meetings to debate the merits of pedestrian sa
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by tom_vidal 2y ago
What on earth is the point of doing “stealth”? This just sounds to me like a way to burn money and scale before finding product-market fit.
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by tom_vidal 2y ago
I had an account at this bank for a few years, and didn’t know about the collapse until reading this in Hacker News. I did receive a weird email from the bank today that my account was being migrated to a different bank. Republic First was
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by tom_vidal 2y ago
This has not been done in a single US city. We only have patchwork networks, and a patchwork network of safe infrastructure is by definition unsafe infrastructure.
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by tom_vidal 3y ago
This 432 Hz theory is sort of like saying that if we measured the meter as being slightly shorter, people would have an easier time running a 5k. Music exists in multiple keys, and a song can be in a high or low range regardless of what key