The way I look at it is that I haven’t heard anything about NFTs in a while. The bubble will burst soon enough when investors realize that it’s not possible to get much better without a significant jump forward in computing technology.

We’re running out of atomic room to make thing smaller just a little more slowly than we’re running out of ways to even make smaller things, and for a computer to think like, as well as as quickly or faster than a person we need processing power to continue to increase exponentially per unit of space. Silicon won’t get us there.

DB9 is still used on for MIDI on electronic instruments, though some manufacturers are moving to doing it with a TRS 3.5mm plug since it only uses 3 pins.

I had a mouse that plugged into the serial port, but my first computer was a Commodore 64.

Scanning electron microscopes image in a vacuum. Nothing looks 100% like it does at sea level when you suck all the air out.

Didn’t women do tons of the math in the early days of NASA?

Windows wasn’t any better in this case. I grabbed an old win7 laptop and it wouldn’t run there either, but this time it was Korg’s drivers and Windows’ flawed notion of how to MIDI that kept me out of the promised land. SYSEX still works on both platforms though.

I’ll note that on both MacOS and Linux the synth in question is ID’d, addressed and usable via USB midi with no additional drivers, installations or scripts.

Macs are popular in music because Apple pushed hard to get creatives on board for decades and it worked. I have a Mac because doing music stuff on Linux had me fixing tools more than playing music and I’m sure as shit not gonna run win11.

Also when you own electronic musical instruments. Tons of librarian software for synths doesn’t run on Apple silicon. My 2005 flagship synth can’t talk to my Mac mini.

Loans for groceries is desperation. Loans for restaurant meals is straight idiocy.

The government should not take away anything that it cannot provide. It can’t make life so it should not take it.

Around these parts we call that getting sternwheeled, after my wife’s stunning realization that they are so named because of the wheel at their stern.

EDIT: I am not good at word.

Don’t pet strange dogs on the top of their head, to them it feels like you are trying to dominate. Pet them on the shoulder or chest with your hand visible to them. Better yet, let the dog come to you and leave it alone if it doesn’t.

It’s all staute that governs modifying cars, just to different extents and by different means. Different strokes for different nations. Literal strokes in this case.

Singapore has a population density around 7800 people per square kilometer. With that many people, many of whom ride motorcycles because its so crowded, regulating their noise and emissions output is in everyone’s interest. Singapore also does not fuck around with punishments. They have mandatory canings for some lower crimes and they execute hundreds of people a year for drug offenses.

The US does similar things. You aren’t allowed to modify the ECUs on cars to push them outside EPA standards. A truck mechanic got tagged for installing devices that let people roll coal and ended up with huge fines.

You do in Singapore.

Mario 2 music.

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