Readit Newsbloke_zero commented on Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer? · Posted by u/rolothrow
Try and talk to the other seniors? Last time I joined (fully remote) I asked all the other seniors for a 1 to 1 - not all replied but I learnt a huge amount about past projects, what people would have done differently and where the pain points were. Meant I could get a jump on the issues rather than find out slowly. You also get a sense of the weather and who you can vibe with. Oh yeah, taking notes about everything!
bloke_zero commented on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek unherd.com/2025/01/why-th... · Posted by u/bloke_zero
When I was a kid I thought the future would obviously be more “Star trek” as it had such a compelling interior logic. Sad times. Makes me want to go back and review the Picard years.
bloke_zero commented on I need to grow away from these roots vitling.xyz/i-need-to-gro... · Posted by u/HansardExpert
This is a wonderful little toy. As an aside is it difficult to pick up and use a 303 with no prior synth experience?
If you're transcribing written music then it's fairly straight forward - you program the pitches in one round, press a button and input the note length values. If however you want to jam around like you might with any other seqencer driven synth I find it's too much to keep in your head so a pencil and paper with a 303 sequencer grid on it is pretty essential.
The Behringer lets you connect to an app via USB so you can program it that way too.
The sound engine is easy to use and the knobs encourage experimentation - the interaction of the filter, the envelope and the accent is where the fun is. And of course the slide!
bloke_zero commented on Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think? · Posted by u/atleastoptimal
“Never whistle while you’re pissing” - Robert Anton Wilson in Illuminatus trilogy.
bloke_zero commented on Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I notice there isn’t a lot of the actual performance? Banjo and synthesiser is always a tough call.
bloke_zero commented on Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London forbes.com/sites/carltonr... · Posted by u/gcoleman
I own a bike with a big box in the front and parking has absolutely not been an issue for me. In the last six months I rode > 2600km in and around one of the densest European cities and parked in many different places. I have yet to find a place where I cannot park the bike . You can use regular car parking, but you will always find a dead corner, bike rack, big sidewalk, etc where you can leave the bike. And to be clear, I don't block the sidewalks or otherwise selfishly get in the way of other city dwellers.
My bike is an urban arrow, so one of the bigger two wheelers. ~7500€ new with all possible add-ons and a €150 annual insurance that covers the bike in full if ever stolen or damaged in an accident, so I also feel safe parking in rough areas with it.
Not easy at home in London. Our flat would not allow a cargo bike (1st floor) and there is no where outside to lock it safe and dry.
60,000 people on a 4 year waiting list for on street bike parking:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-cyclists-bike-...
sonic potions has an analysis of the cpu timings here https://sonic-potions.com/Documentation/Analysis_of_the_D650...
Theres also some nice articles about the diode ladder filter in the 303, similar to the one in the vcs3 https://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/index.php?pge=diode2
(I built one and as far as I know the Pixie CPU was the 303 code + MIDI)