I switch between gpt-oss:20b/qwen3:30b. Good for green fielding projects, setting up bash scripts, simple CRUD apis using express, and the occasional error in a React or Vue app.
I'd buy albums off Bandcamp for artists I already know, but I wouldn't use it for discovery. Do they even have discovery features? (I honestly don't know)
Steam's recommendations (and more importantly, sales) are how I discover new games. And there's a lot of titles (both games and music) I'd happily pay $2 or $5 for, but not $20 or $50. There's a lot MORE titles I'd be happy to try for a monthly all inclusive subscription.
For music, I wish Spotify would add a "Like this track? As a Premium subscriber, you can buy the whole album for only $5!" function. That's way less than a full price album but still way more money than the artist would get from streaming.
They kind-of do. The main page allows you to browse popular albums by genre. Each individual album also has a "recommended by this artist" footer, or "people who bough this also bought" (if there aren't any recommendations set).
I also check profiles of other people who purchased an album I liked and see if anything catches my interest.
I do not use Spotify, so I'm not sure if the above counts as a proper discovery tool.
Disagree. Bandcamp doesn't require a bloated desktop app that needs to install a bunch of updates every time you open it. Songs you download are yours to play and distribute as you please. They don't require an active Internet connection to check your license and track your listening habits.
Besides that, Steam is the go-to place to publish games. The only reason you wouldn't distribute on Steam is if you are a Nintendo or Epic-level megacorp that has its own store and exclusivity rules. On Bandcamp, the decision to upload an album comes down to whether the record label allows it. So a lot of times, artists will post early works to BC and drop it as soon as they sign with a label.
As someone who regularly buys music on Bandcamp, I can't say that I've noticed any substantial changes throughout the acquisitions.
It also seems that most bands that I listen to prefer people to buy their music on Bandcamp before other platforms, so presumably it's still a better deal for the artists as well?
so so cool and the spirit of this project (which seems to speak to many other commenters too) really reminds me of this recent hackernews post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395413 'The secret inside One Million Checkboxes'
the creativity in endeavors like these really just elicits total joy. it's infectious!
i was fascinated with the criticality accident that claimed Slotin's life when i first learned about it. in particular, the schematic estimating everyone's distance to the apparatus and how much radiation they may have been exposed to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#/media/File:Sloti...
there was a second sketch made from that drawing which i also found fascinating. it doesn't add any additional information or analytical ability, but is just a sort of interesting and slightly dark translation of a rote schematic diagram into an artistic rendering of the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#/media/File:Sloti...
I searched around for awhile trying to find the purpose and/or author of that second sketch but to no avail. however i did use it as the cover for an EP i released. please enjoy!
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There are better ways to exercise your brain that will be many more times better than Calculus.
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the ways that you list are great brain exercises but there's no good reason or research that suggests they are 'many more times better than Calculus'.
and continuing to call it a 'useless subject' is also totally unjustified. if i just that art appreciation is a useless subject because 99% of people are not going to get a job writing movie reviews for a major publication or curating exhibits for museums is that sufficient justification to say 'art appreciation is useless. source: me'?
Nah you'll find that there actually is research done into which activities stimulate the brain the most. Some of the only things that stimulate all four hemispheres of the brain at the same time include sex or sight-reading and singing at the same time.
I'm not convinced that 'stimulating all four hemispheres of the brain' necessarily has anything whatever to do with improving learning ability and developing mental skills or critical thinking.
images created using @openaidalle. sequencing and morphing in #python with credit to András Jankovics morphing library [github.com/jankovicsandras/autoimagemorph]. featuring borderlands granular synth (artist template: @kingbritt), other desert cities delay by audio.damage , #rymdigare reverb, mixed in #kymaticaaum.
a reading, with images created using openai dall-e sequencing and morphing in python with credit to András Jankovic's morphing library [https://github.com/jankovicsandras/autoimagemorph]. performance featuring borderlands granular synth (artist template: kingbritt), other desert cities delay by audio.damage, rymdigare reverb, and mixed in kymatica aum.
headphones recommended, awards eligible
