And started their career as a sysadmin. I don't know Dana at all, but some of the best kernel and networking people I've met got their start as sysadmins.
Good thing there is nothing in their career that actually signals they were a good network engineer and not just another do-nothing corpo elitist that wants to collect their bag while fucking over society.
Somewhat unrelated, but the number of times I have invoked Ableton as a metaphor of challenging the status quo is quite high. I was a Cubase user before Ableton showed up and completely upended the DAW world. And they've kept going.
This is just what I've been looking for. I never warmed to Max for Live for mods. But the extensions SDK I can get behind.
Also the fact that Ableton has stayed independent (and bought Cycling '74, maker of Max/MSP) is IMO critical to their ongoing success...Compare to how Native Instruments and iZoptope are mere rent-seeking shadows of their founders' visions since PE/VC took over.
One of the features that got me hooked on Ableton Live was how easy it was to do "analog style" audio recording of whatever you're hearing in realtime...not bounce, render, or sample to another device (it can do all of these too). For the master bus - just create an audio track, arm for recording and set input to "Resampling". Can do the same with any number of tracks/groups. This is critical to me for capturing ideas in realtime and continually reprocessing/resampling as I go.
I was astonished when I first started making digital music 20 years ago that this isn't a standard feature in every DAW. Some DAWs (REAPER, Bitwig, AudioMulch) do this as easily, others (Logic, Reason) have workarounds.
I was a heavy and loyal Cubase user then switched to Ardour when it came out because of OSS.
Also Reason, you guys remember Reason? It had such a warm, characteristic sound out of the box. You could easily hear it in many songs of the time; same with Fruity Loops but for all the wrong reasons, lol.
I don't do a lot of music at the moment, but it's nice to read you here ^^.
>Also Reason, you guys remember Reason? It had such a warm, characteristic sound out of the box. You could easily hear it in many songs of the time; same with Fruity Loops but for all the wrong reasons, lol.
Remember? It never went away. In fact, it was recently bought by LANDR, and just brought out version 14.
I've used the same metaphor for AI tools. The incumbents keep adding features to the old paradigm (like Cubase did). Then someone comes along and rethinks the interaction model entirely (like Ableton with Session View). AI tools are in that
transition moment right now — most are just adding AI to old workflows, not rethinking the workflow itself.
Totally unrelated, but it's still interesting that a lot of the key music software was / is created in either Berlin (Ableton, Native Instruments) or in / near Hamburg (Steinberg of Cubase — now owned by Yamaha — and Emagic of Logic — now owned by Apple). There must have been something in the air.
Also NI, etc. was very linked to the scene from the early days.
Cubase, etc. have no such link that I know how, but there was still the strong hacker culture around atari and to a lesser degree amiga (vs PC), when PC was just not usable for anything low latency in mid 90ies.
Saw him play many times across multiple genres across 3+ decades from straight up classical to world music to electronica/tablatronics. Unfortunately never got to see him perform with John McLaughlin. He must have been 68 the last time I saw him live but still as good as ever. RIP!
Kris and I got to know each other a bit over the years. I still remember our first meeting vividly. We met for dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Capitol Hill and spent the evening talking containers, Linux, Kubernetes, and Open Source. This is a tough loss. I will take small in the fact that it happened doing the thing she loved.
I've had a Tesla (Model S) since early 2020 and once the initial allure wore offI've missed driving a BMW and once the i5 is here I'll be backing to driving BMW. The supercharger network is by far the reason I've stuck with the Tesla this long, but there's enough options now. The build quality, the drive quality, service quality, all of it is subpar. The Model 3 is a zippy car but the lack of an instrument cluster is a deal breaker for me.
Tesla deserve all the credit for getting everyone else to wake up. But they are so so at making a car I actually want to drive.
I used to use a phone as my backup camera when I was out doing bird photography. After a while I gave up. In variable light and high dynamic range conditions phones just don’t hold up (they do a better job with video). If you’re taking snapshots, nothing better than a phone.
I sold all my DSLRs over the past 18 months and jumped into the deep end. The lens systems are better, the cameras are better. I love having a histogram in the viewfinder. There's very little reason and battery life has never been an issue (it is for video but that's a different story).
When I went back to photography I put quite some thought into the next gear, obviously the old D70 I ahd lying around wasn't going to cut it. And I wanted full frame, so the D200 I borrowed from ky dad was at best a back up.
In the end I ended uo using, and loving, my dad's D700 I switched the D200 for (he's on a D750/200 combo now). I came to the conlusion that, regardless how good Nikon's Z cameras and lebses are, I prefer to spend the money on vacation and trips to places to shoot great pictures. So I am going to stick with the D700, with a mint, used D300 as a back-up. Some additional budget will go into a 400mm and a 20mm lense. And maybe a spare D700 body as long as those are still available with <50k shots taken. Honestly, this camera gave me the fun in ohotography back, I love using it. For my use as an artistic tool it the perfect camera.
As a pro so I would go mirroless, no doubt about that.
I've been doing a lot of research recently on the D700 and from everything I've read and heard is that it's a fantastic camera. It seems that it has all the right ingredients to produce stunning images. Additionally, it seems to be highly regarded for its ergonomics. Lucky you!
Ergonomics are great, picture quality has something special about even in RAW. The body is sturdy as a tank, feels a lot like a F4. Which already means I love it, back as 13 year old I was allowed to use my dad's back-up F4 to learn photography on film, slides and B&W. Another benefit is small files it creates, it makes post processing so much easier.
The one issue I see, so, is cropping. I am not talking about cutting some sides or going to portrait format, but rather cropping out e.g. birds. That's the only time the 12 MP hinder you. In a sense a D700 forces you to shoot better pictures.
Overall, if you can, get one. There are some from places like mpb.com with below 50k shutter count in very good condition for around / less than 400 Euro. You cannot do anything wrong.
Oh, a D700 doesn't do video. No problem for me, but if you want to do video that is a missing feature.
The only bummer about synths now is that at 9 I learned a lot of networking concepts from having to adjust the MIDI setup of my keyboards/drum machines/sequencer (and then be able to get them back how my dad wanted them without him knowing I changed everything). Other than that I can't imagine if I would have had these capabilities at an early age. I mean, oh, you want a free symphony to play your music? OK. https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/bbc-symphony-orchestr...https://www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-so-discover/application/
The Cloud Control API is an API to the resource model. It unlocks the ability for AWS teams to contribute to the resource model without having to worry about the rest of what Cloudformation does. As a service owner interested in contributing to other systems like TF and Pulumi, now I just have to contribute to one thing. In the medium/long term it's going to be a lot more efficient way to evolve how we all use AWS resources in our favorite Infrastructure-as-code systems.
Disclosure: Work at AWS (but not on the CloudFormation team)
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