My understanding was more that the machine was not reliable and he basically had to piece the piece together / so each shot was the perfect run of potentially a number of attempts

He mentioned two main problems, the marbles would get jammed and the timing was off so the beat wasn't very tight. Both of those things should be fixed, or at least greatly improved, in the next version.

This has been his "problem" for almost a decade. He's trying to build something that's midi-tight. As a musician, somehow he forgets that real musicians also lost the beat now and then, and it makes the music more interesting.

The number of times he's postulated that some design would fix these problems is too damn high.

Professional musicians don't really "lose" the beat. A pro drummer stays on beat, while making small, predictable variations to the timing and the sound that make the music more interesting. That's not the original marble machine though, which played like a sloppy beginner.

I'm pretty sure he understand how all this works because I've heard him explain it before. If at some point he thought he could achieve precise timing down to the millisecond, I must have missed those videos, cause he seems to understand now that's not realistic.

The us already has a full blown military base IN Germany - there is likely plenty of intelligence sharing already and similar interests around security. Not sure US needs to back door too heavily for most info

"A military base" is really understating it.

Germany not only has several important bases, like Ramstein with the largest American military hospital outside American soil, and several other large bases (K-Town), but also houses two of eleven unified combatant commands in a single city: EUCOM and AFRICOM are both in Stuttgart.

Needless to say there's plenty of CIA around as well. Just look at the welcome guide for Frankfurt for new officers in the field from one of the more recent leaks. Can't remember which.

Allies spy on each other all the time. There was a big affair of US spying on Merkel a couple of years ago.

In terms of getting things done under dems environmental reviews can literally take decades. I donate to dems, but in many areas of development dems are focused on slowing / blocking for lots of reasons

While I totally agree with that, in present circumstances, that seems a bit to miss the point.

The Republican Party essentially doesn't exist anymore, it has been replaced lock, stock and barrel with a cult of personality. There are no longer any "Republican principles" or "conservative principles", whatever curries favor with the Party Leader is what goes.

To emphasize, I think there is plenty wrong with both parties, and I yearn for the days (long time gone I know) where you could at least sometimes have debates about policy, and not just about personalities or tribalism. But I think it's a huge mistake to "both sides" over policy differences when it's core things like peaceful transfer of power that are at stake.

Totally sick of hearing about them and their media saturation. /s

If it’s credit / criminal the credit part is very cheap vs the criminal and much quicker. It can also help feed the criminal because the credit side has addresses if you do county searches. There is bad credit and then BAD credit

RDS is 50 cents or less a day for postgresql on a three year term for a small instance.

I use AWS / RDS - I’ve got to believe RDS is spinning money for AWS because of all the parts I want to be reliable this is way up there.

You look at developer behavior on the larger internet and you realize the value Apple provides their customers precisely by “screwing” over developers. Tracking, bait and switch trial offers, impossible cancellations etc etc

Doubly so because comments on some had been out for a while. My guess is nothing was actually going to happen prior to the blog post.

This undervalues I think what Apple has delivered vs Microsoft and Samsung/android et so.

With windows you will be spammed in various tailored experience ways through notifications and search, random apps come pre installed on windows pro and the list goes on. Android comes packed with blostware and remote managers backed in from others to force / silent install crap. Cancelling payments can be a nightmare.

Apple is playing in part a long game. Dial back the crap to dial up the trust. Long support periods. Easy subscription cancels. The list goes on. Then they squeeze folks hard cost price side to make up for that for sure.