Have you heard of the American TV Show Jackass? Debauchery and indecency is well celebrated in American culture.
Regardless of "strategy", algorithmic content delivery is going to be used for propaganda, period. What's really fascinating is it kind of happened over night, when Instagram and Twitter were updated to not display content in chronological order. Personally, I took for granted how much bigger than a "UX change" this was.
This should be an unpopular opinion but I kind of respected Apple's previous stance, and I'm in a way a bit disappointed they've backed down, but I think they've needed to because they are moving too quickly.
5 years from now we'll likely see Apple Silicon powering Apple's entire new product lineup, and Swift developers will be deploying software across the entire product lineup with minimal effort. Swift is both quick and safe, so we can hope these new softwares will be both fast, secure and free of critical bugs.
This to me is a really interesting and appealing alternative to the frustrating world of slow web apps that invade your privacy and fill your computer with bloat. I don't see Apple's previous stance as being greedy about obtaining a 30% cut, rather it is about trying to bring to fruition a vision of the future where users can perform their computing needs with fast and secure native apps. I hope we don't legislate away such a reasonable opportunity for people to be freed from Google and Facebook invasion.
I own an MPC60 and IMO all the magic in it is with its workflow. To get one just for the sound should disappoint. However it's a nice bonus to be able to use its shitty pre amp as a distortion fx for my other gear.
The VST integration is called Overbridge [0] and is available for all of the modern non-Model Elektron hardware.
I understand the appeal for display options but to me besides sound, the whole point of hardware (especially drum machines) is workflow which is kind of at odds with looking up and down at a screen or using a mouse to to control things. Drum machine muscle memory is an extremely powerful force but I guess it also depends on what kind of music you're making or how many tracks you're using.
I bought an Analog Rytm on the cheap a few months ago and have yet to plug it into a computer. Previously owned a Machinedrum UW and Monomachine nearly ten years ago which definitely helped with Elektron workflow familiarity. I've always found Elektrons to be easy to dive into but some of the other features definitely take some time to learn. Worth the time investment though.
I strongly agree that the whole point is workflow more than anything else. I use my Octatrack like a DAW so I don't even need a computer. My computer is more like a digital "tape" machine nowadays.
My Machinedrum and Monomachine are to my left and right. :)
Ah, that's right. I would have expected a refresh of that by now but the company has gone in a different direction with lower priced devices so who knows.
Those pockets are quite ugly though. The huge flap, the gaping phone slit. The advantage of the ones in the original article is they are pretty invisible.
Personally I'm way more inclined to believe Americans are unhealthy because their health care system is too expensive, rather than the other way around. Obesity is treatable.
This is repeated a lot but if you actually look at the research you find that physical exercise has very little effect(except maybe as a preventative). That nutrition in general has a small effect. And dieting has a larger effect but is only temporary, and no dietary interventions have shown any real success over the long term.
Bariatric surgery is currently the only real effective treatment. With GLP agonists like semaglutide having similar effects at least in the near term.
> This is repeated a lot but if you actually look at the research you find that physical exercise has very little effect(except maybe as a preventative).
This baseless assertion is simply outright wrong, and utterly absurd on so many levels.
> Sorry there was some confusion. By long term I meant 3-10 year follow ups.
That only happens if the patient relapses into his previous unhealthy lifestyle.
You can't simply follow a poor high calory diet and a sedentary lifestyle and still expect zero consequences from your actions. If your problem is behavioral then you fix it by fixing the problems in your behavior.
I lost recently 70 lbs without any surgery. Talking about extreme cases I have no idea, never met any people above 300 lbs. I can only guess, that start is always the same. Personally I am not a friend of surgical interventions.
Oh sorry I'm not arguing that it never happens, just that in every clinical trial I've seen that followed participants for 5 years it was so rare to keep the weight off that the average weight loss for the group was insignificant(clinically not statistically).
That’s probably the same effect as with Weight Watchers where long time success is rather limited. I have been there too. After couple years old habits return, one starts eating bad things, something happens (let’s take some illness) and exercising ends. Pounds are coming back and cycle starts again.
Anger isn't what's being punished, choosing to act on it is. I've met people who think that racism is an act that people choose, instead of a natural feeling that you shouldn't act on. Tribalism, whatever it's about, isn't going to go away any time soon, so I think trying to make people feel like they're part of the same tribe is a better solution than trying to legislate away millennia of human nature.
I don't think anti-racist legislation (what even is that? Do you mean maybe civil rights acts type things?) Is trying to legislate away human nature. Near perfect empathy is also in human nature. After all, why are we capable of desiring to end racism? It's about choosing the ethical and good parts of our nature, promoting that, and making Hate the less desirable choice.
If Facebook's abuse of everyone's personal data was as strikingly abhorrent as say, organ theft, Andrew Yang would write the policy to give me a $4.56 USD check while I lay bleeding in a tub of ice.
Regardless of "strategy", algorithmic content delivery is going to be used for propaganda, period. What's really fascinating is it kind of happened over night, when Instagram and Twitter were updated to not display content in chronological order. Personally, I took for granted how much bigger than a "UX change" this was.