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  • A few of us still remembers option 3) Regulation And also 4) Properly working anti-trust laws.

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    Italian Police Seize $50 Million In Counterfeit Retro Gaming Consoles And Games
  • Important to look as good as possible on the end of the year report...

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  • cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19273233 >cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19273232 > >Just finished my first completely improvised live set. > > 2 hours and 19 minutes of various chill vibes. > > > > I have been dreaming of a setup where i could just flow live and go where the music takes me and with my newly completed Korg Volca Suitcase, i have something that can help me achieve this. > > > > Thank you to all of you who popped in during the live session!

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    Nintendo is releasing a new ‘2-way stand’ for Switch Joy-Cons | VGC
  • Or its compatible with joycons but you cannot connect them to the sides (new cons or constantly connected controls?)

    The hybrid device route was so successful I doubt they will abandon it.

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    Former mayor confronts intruder, who had a nail gun, trying to 'claim' her house.
  • I think the downvote from someone not bothered enough to say "well duh" but also bothered enough to signal their annoyance...

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  • This one started out in my backyard, deciding I wanted to try to sample my ukulele on the EP133. It then sorta just grew into this summer track.

    Setup: EP133: Ukulele sample, drums and a few other samples. Micromonsta 2: Leads, custom patches by me. Exquis: Midi controller in MPE mode controlling the MM2.

    MM2 goes into the input on the EP133. Recorded directly into OBS on a Motu M2 interface. Postproduction: Slight EQ adjustments in Davinci Resolve before render.

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    This one started out in my backyard, deciding I wanted to try to sample my ukulele on the EP133. It then sorta just grew into this summer track.

    Setup: EP133: Ukulele sample, drums and a few other samples. Micromonsta 2: Leads, custom patches by me. Exquis: Midi controller in MPE mode controlling the MM2. MM2 goes into the input on the EP133. Recorded directly into OBS on a Motu M2 interface.

    Postproduction: Slight EQ adjustments in Davinci Resolve before render.

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    Anthony Fauci says Trump dropped F-bombs during 2020 COVID call
  • Wow.. can we focus on the actual outrageous and horrible things this man did... Like commit fellonies for instance.

    I mean he has done and said so much actual fucked up shit, it already waters down the impact, no need to contribute to it being diluted further...

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  • You only spray poop on someone once.

    Then you get told, and never do it again.

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • If you are traveling across the Atlantic to get from Los Angeles to New York i would argue that you are traveling the wrong way...

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • Yes, and?

    The point of distance is to take it into aggregate, for both modes of transport.

    This is in fact the exact point i am making.

    Per trip measurement implies that every trip (regardles of time or distance traveled) has equal danger.

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • I sort of answered this somewhere else but i will reiterate.

    Using this metric you are sort of assuming all trips are equal. No matter how short, or long you are assuming the base danger is the same. This means that driving 100 meters is just as dangerous as driving for a whole day. (See what the problem is?)

    And if we look at this premise in isolation: "Am i going to die on this trip"? If the trip is 100m, then a plane is probably out of the question either way. And if the trip is to a different country.. then hey, look at that, the sources you cited come into relevance (where pr distance a plane is safer) and you would have to calculate the danger of completing that specific trip in a car VS flying that distance with a plane.

    You are generalizing on terms that make no sense, since "total number of trips" in cars include all manner of different scenarios of some times extremely varying degree of danger. So in order to have data that is statistically relevant and in any form comparable you have to choose a different metric.

    So to answer the question again "Am i going to die on this trip?" or to extrapolate "should i drive or fly on this trip", if you cant use generic statistics, the answer will be "it depends. You have to calculate danger for the trip specifically".

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • I honestly think you are showing a fundamental lack of understanding of statistics.

    "Per trip" is a horribly poor metric. Because there is a fundamental difference between a trip down to the store, or a cross country trip, even with a car. Also it would be extremely dependent on where you are going, where you live etc. etc.

    For the discussion to have any meaning you have to abstract it to a metric that makes sense for all people, or else you would have to also figure in where you usually travel, how good a driver you are etc etc etc.

    At that point its a completely meaningless semantics exercise because for instance taking a plane to work is not realy valid for me since i live in the same city as i work... Or lets do it the other way around: If i need to go to Spain tomorrow, its safer for me to fly then to drive there. (This is based on your own sources)

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • I would think real statistics would be more interesting then peoples emotions when talking about what is actually dangerous.

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • Very interesting 🤔

    And your point about metrics is pretty spot on.

    In the end it becomes an exercise in trying to find the metric that best supports your argument.

    We have also been jumping around a bit on geographical limitations. And in for instance Scandinavia, the original premise might be closer to real due to better road safety.

    I think implying some sort of myth or ruse is missing the mark hard on this subject.

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • From your own source:

    Since 1997, the number of fatal air accidents has been no more than 1 for every 2,000,000,000 person-miles[c] flown,[citation needed] and thus is one of the safest modes of transportation when measured by distance traveled.

    So I guess this is the point you are trying to make?

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • Sweden , a country of 10 million, we have about 150 people killed per year from car accidents

    Yes, and how many die every year from plane crashes in sweden?

    If we take a relatively big plane (450 passengers) as an example. One has to fall out of the sky every 3. Years to match the car accident number...

    3186 deaths over 10 years VS 1.19 million every year.

    (This is globally. Sweden and Norway(where i live) will naturally have pretty radically lower numbers then globally when it comes to road safety.)

    But look at that air travel number again: 3186. Over 10 years. Globally. Commercial Air travel is fucking safe. Its horrible for the climate. But its safe.

    Whatever way you slice those numbers it comes up air travel i safer. Feel free to find actual statistics that contradict me. :)

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    xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation
  • This is complete horseshit.

    Are you aware how many flights take place every day?

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    How many fatal accidents pr flight?

    The fact is that almost every time a fatal accident happens in a (commercial) plane anywhere in the world, you hear about it. Because if a plane crashes a lot of people die in one dramatic (and rare) event.

    Fatal car accidents litteraly happen every minute of every day. Almost none of them go on the news. (Cause reporting them all would be impossible).

    Let me also post some sources, since you did not:

    https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-overview/odds-of-dying/

    https://www.icao.int/safety/iStars/Pages/Accident-Statistics.aspx/ Air traffic: (3187 fatalities over 10 years)

    https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffic-injuries (1.19 million people every year die on the road)

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    Google has more than doubled Play Store's app price limit to $1,000
  • I mean a pianotuneR (as in a guy that tunes your piano) is pretty expensive.

    These apps seem to be marketed as tools for professional piano tuners. And looking just at the screenshots it looks like it has a lot of tools and features outside of just showing the correct pitch.

    If tuning pianos is your profession, paying 999$ once and writing it off as a business expense isn't that far fetched.

    (Better be a bloody useful tool though ;) )

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    Trump says he is open to restrictions on contraception. His campaign says he misspoke
  • I'm not making excuses for him here... But this is really how he answers any and all direct questions.

    He always leaves room to backpedal or leaves his answers as open ended as he can, because he doesn't know anything about anything.

    "We will have to wait and see" "I might, or I might not" "Maybe it's round, or maybe it's flat, nobody really knows"

    This is the strategy of clueless manipulating dipshits all over the world.

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  • This one starting out with me trying to get some retro/chiptune sounds out of the MicroMonsta 2. Then i though "hey, i bet some crunchy 8-bit drums would work great on the EP133.. then one thing led to another.. and suddenly there was a Jam :D

    Micromonsta 2: Lead and performed bass. Bitimbral set to split, so i can play both parts on the Exquis. (On the last part i set it to stack and play both presets combined)

    EP133 Drums, Sequenced Basslines + chip style arp in B section.

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    New Jam! This time its all about the retro gaming feel. Started out as me having fun making new chiptune-like presets on the MicroMonsta 2, ended up as a Jam. 😎🤖

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    This is my first recorded Jam with the EP133. I have really mixed feelings about the EP133. On one hand its really fun to play around with, and make cool beats, but at the same time i find the Live performance experience to be, tricky at best. It requires way to many simultaneous button presses to perform things, and there are not enough options for scene transitions. (I want an option to change on pattern end, not just bar/tick)

    As such this is not an optimal Jam, as i probably would have needed more time to rehearse, and in the end i also ended up cutting out a part in the middle of the video because awkward transitions and overall performance was not interesting to listen to.

    I'm not quite ready to give up on the EP133, but I think i would need some really substantial software updates to be properly useful for me, and not just something fun to goof around with.... The frustrations in live play just makes me want to put it away and pull out the Circuit Tracks. :/

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    VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
  • It's not the guy in the trenchcoat next to you you need to worry about.

    It's the fact that some unknown entity owns/has set up the WiFi.

    Anyone working with complex network setup and admin will tell you how much you can abuse owning the network a user is connected to.

    The network guys at work never use public WiFi, not hotels or anything. Neither do I, even with my much more limited knowledge of network administration.

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  • This was a really fun setup. I just recently got the Intuitive Instruments Exquis and this is my first real Jam with it. The expressiveness of the Exquis combined with the nice flow working with the Circuit tracks made this setup very fun to work with.

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    This was a really fun setup. I just recently got the Intuitive Instruments Exquis and this is my first real Jam with it. The expressiveness of the Exquis combined with the nice flow working with the Circuit tracks made this setup very fun to work with

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    What Synth is for Me?
  • Yes.

    The microfreak loooves some delay and/or reverb.

    Im convinced a lot of the presets are made with that in mind as they instantly sound lush and lively when you give them some room to work with.

    My second hardware device was a circuit tracks, and the microfreak really revels in the built in effects. They are a really brilliant pairing, the sounds really work well together.

    What makes the microfreak still one of my favourites is that sound design on it is so fun, and it's a real happy accident machine.

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  • This time its a more minimalist jam.

    I recently got the Roland S-1 and T8, so decided to try to make something simple while learning how to use them.

    Gear: Roland T-8: Drums @baseli+ 303 bassline sound. Roland S-1: Main bass groove Korg Volca FM2: "Melody" line

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    Evening Jam 10 - 3x5 - Jamuary 2024 - Roland S-1+T-8 + Korg Volca FM2 - YouTube

    This time its a more minimalist jam.

    I recently got the Roland S-1 and T8, so decided to try to make something simple while learning how to use them.

    Gear: Roland T-8: Drums @baseli+ 303 bassline sound. Roland S-1: Main bass groove Korg Volca FM2: "Melody" line

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    This time its a more minimalist jam.

    I recently got the Roland S-1 and T8, so decided to try to make something simple while learning how to use them

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