tkam
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3 years ago
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on: Music Mouse
Nice! One problem: There's digital clipping. I suspect that the four samples are normalized individually, and when playing at the same time the transients add up to over 0dB. On quality headphones (beyerdynamic dt770 for me) it is quite audible. It happens with the piano and the synth sample, but is more audible with the piano sample.
tkam
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3 years ago
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on: Guide to Writing Online
> I was a terrible writer growing up.
And why should I care? Maybe answer that question earlier. At least give me a hint, to keep me engaged. The whole first five+ paragraphs are way too self-centered for a piece that wants to sell something to me.
The way it is written now, you lost me right at the beginning. And I guess I'm not alone in that. If you want more people to give you their email, you have to do better than that.
tkam
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4 years ago
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on: New theory proposes ‘forgetting’ is a form of learning
Related to this: Since when I was young, maybe around six or so, on nights before special days I looked forward to a lot (like my birthday), I was desperate and agonized over the realization that my current self (what you call "train of thought") would end once I fell asleep, so this current longing that I had would never actually be fulfilled. This made me really sad, and it felt like my current "self" would die and get replaced the next morning by a somehow related "self", that was in it's essential emotional state very new and in that regard definitely separate. I continued to have this feeling from time to time (maybe 2-3 times per year, less later on) until well into my twenties, when it somehow receded. I have not talked about this often, but when I did, I never found anybody that could relate.
tkam
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5 years ago
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on: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
my bet is a combination of high barriers to entry and the disincentivisation of bad behavior.
on hackernews, the first one comes as a side effect of the general topic and the relatively high level of discussion and entries, and maybe also of the fact that it's text-only.
the second one comes via the threat of downvotes, or, more generally speaking, the possibility of negative feedback.
