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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you're a mathematician how can you be dissing 5 like that?

Less than? Hell no.

5 is soo much more and soo many things that 25 isn't and never will be.

Without 5 you wouldn't even have 25. Some might even say that 5 is the root of 25. Show some respect for the roots.

Not only is 5 a beautiful prime number, it's also the perfect number for a geometric shape. Everyone knows what a pentagon looks like. The Pentagon even named their institution as that. They didn't name it after 25. Who the hell has ever heard of the icosikaiopentagon? Nobody, that's who.

Look at the American flag. It has 50 stars. Guess which shape they have? That's right, each of the 50 states have stars with 5 points. Exactly 0 of them chose to have a 25 pointed star.

You know what a bad number is? Yes: 25.

25 is a shitty composite number. It's shitty because it's not even good at being a composite number; having only a measly 3 factors: One, itself and 5 (of all things, duh..)

That's because it's square and boring. Does it even look square to you? This uneven 25 is supposedly a square. I never made a square of 25 things. What's the fucking point in that? If I had to make a square for any purpose whatsoever, I'd definitely chose a better number with many more factors, so I could actually use the squaredness to divide things and mark mid points and what not. 4 is a square. 16 is a square. They're so much better at being square than 25, because you can cut them in half and make a grid with a midpoint.

So, yeah yeah, there are probably other numbers out there greater than 5, but it sure as fuck is not 25.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 18 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Norway did it in 2015, and it seems to have been a success.

There has been surprisingly little debate about it here in Denmark. I haven't heard a single argument against it.

It should be noted that the draft is for training only, and that it's possible for pacifists to opt out of the military training by doing work for other institutions.

Personally I think it might be a great help for modernizing the military, because they'll need to rethink the old "one size fits all" procedures.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 17 points 1 day ago

It's a response to Neil Young's songs which criticized the racist south.

Basically, it's what-about-ism in song form, mocking the liberals for being upset with Nixon.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 2 days ago

I refuse to believe that a majority of Americans are fascists.

Things would look very different if they had a democracy.

What they need is a democratic election, without gerrymandering, without voter suppression, done on paper ballots with a pencil, on a holiday, with all ballots counted and checked.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You know the quote: "You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place."

Same thing applies to politics. They're doing illegal things that people didn't vote for. There's no way this can be fixed by voting when they don't respect anything anyway.

States need to secede and form a different government.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 2 days ago

Colonel Shitbucket

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 2 days ago

Jeg kender en der arbejdede for Verisure i den periode. De fik kun en meget lille fast løn og så provision oveni. De skulle sælge sælge sælge for overhovedet at kunne lave en almindelig månedsløn.

Den slags setup resultaterer selvfølgelig i løgn og bedrag.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

It's part of a larger plan to get cars out of the central city, which is plagued by rush hour traffic and expensive parking.

The point is to get the commuters out of the cars outside of the city by allowing them to ride the train for free from the commuter parking outside the city at the freeway and into the city.

Poverty isn't an issue in this regard. The public transport is already cheap and the entire city has bike lanes everywhere. I wouldn't want to own a car there if I lived there, but for a lot of people it's necessary in order to commute to the city.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk -3 points 3 days ago
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 3 days ago

If I could drop out of everything for 29 days, I wouldn't come back at all.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 3 days ago

Art has always had that issue. Is a potato print worse than a hand drawn figure?

Sometimes you need to know the material or technique to appreciate the effort.

It also applies outside of art. It's not always the end product that is important. We can appreciate things for being more difficult than necessary. Like the game Roller Coaster Tycoon being impressive because it was coded in assembly, or the Olympic guy who no-scoped in the shooting competition etc.

If the AI prompt is the effort, it should be appreciated as such, instead of comparing the end product against other techniques. We also don't compare airbrushed grafitti artwork to oil paintings, because even if the end product of both is a neat picture, it's impossible to judge against each other.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 3 days ago

I think it's just a follow up on the recent NATO meeting where everyone decided to suck Trump's cock to make him shut up and play along.

Troels Lund Poulsen is the perfect tool for that.

 
 

I recently got fed up with spending hours making my MIDI devices work in Windows. Everytime I plugged the USB hub with my controllers into Windows, it would reassign the ports and I'd have to use the ancient Korg utility to remove dead ports. This is a really old issue that Microsoft claims was fixed ten years ago, but never was. So I decided to test if Linux can handle MIDI devices better.

It seemed to work fine on an old Mint laptop that I have around, but since I'd rather use the newer laptop and since I still need Windows on that for work, I decided to try out putting everything on a USB stick for portability. Also, the old laptop which I might use sometimes is a bit too slow for Mint, so I needed something smaller.

So, the idea is to put the OS, the DAW, the plug-ins and samples on one single stick. I happened to have a 8gb USB that I found on a parking lot. It's kinda dirty and broken, so I figured it was perfect for the experiment. Yes, I do know that flash drives aren't good for this, and when I'm done playing around, I will probably get an external SSD for this purpose instead.

8gb is not a lot for this, but I like the challenge.

At first I wasted another evening trying to make Slax boot. I gave up and found Poppy Linux instead, since I do want the tiny and persistent kind of installation. It's a bit slow to boot into ram, but it's nice and quick once at the desktop.

For a DAW I got Reaper working just fine simply by extracting the files from the official webpage. No install required.

It recognized my MIDI devices and audio interface instantly. No issues at all, no missing dependencies or drivers or whatever, and better yet: It's still works after rebooting. I made a setup of the devices to control mixer actions in Reaper and that also saves fine as expected.

Now getting plugins is a bit of an issue. It seems that most people run Wine to use VSTs, but I decided to stick with free native Linux plugins and those are somewhat more difficult to find.

So far I've found Helm for a synth and LSP for a samples. I plan on recording real instruments mostly, so I only need the essential stuff.

I was pleasantly surprised that the linux download for LSP also ships with a bunch of effect plug-ins. Highly recommended: https://lsp-plug.in/index.php

I have yet to make any music other than test tracks, but it seems that my idea works so far. The installation is completely independent of which computer I have available, so I guess I will be using Linux in one way or the other to make music going forwards.

 

I get notifications on new messages that don't show in the inbox, and mark as read doesn't clear the message from unread.

Manually switching from all/unread seems to work and clears the read messages

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Lemmy's årlige "place" er begyndt, hvis I har lyst til at deltage. Jeg har dårligt tid i år, men et par pixels skal der nok blive tid til. Reglerne er vist ligesom sidste år.

https://toast.ooo/post/4031953

 

How do I best view tabs from pages like ultimate guitar and others on a phone browser, so that the chords and lyrics match up? I know on pc they usually show up fine in notepad or with ASCII fixed sys font, but I can't quite figure out how to set it up for easy browsing on an android phone. I tried copying it to other apps but none of them have a fixed width font.

How do you do it?

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