Sean

Everyone in tech always celebrates number go up, but no one ever celebrates number go down. This is the result of our hubris. This is the integer of our discontent.

Exactly. You know that the speaker has no response below 80 Hz, so you add harmonics above 80 that a listener’s brain “fills in” with the missing fundamental.

I do it with Waves Renaissance Bass. The name is rather ironic because actual renaissance music mixes wouldn’t dream of using it!

192 for popular music probably won’t do much for the majority of listeners. Classical listeners value fidelity over portability.

Just my experience, other mix engineers might disagree.

Classical music makes a more nuanced use of the full sonic range.

Popular music tends to roll off lows and excite highs surgically out of a concern for sounding good on poor speakers. That’s why we process bass harmonics for laptop speakers.

Classical takes a “purer” approach to the mix.

I spent $125 for #Hotwire Office Hours with @pascallaliberte.me. It's the most useful expenditure for improving my toolkit outside #Rails conferences. And I could even speak back!

This was high-effort, direct feedback and discussion, not just idealized sample code. Incredible value and tons of fun.

Where he talks about Pax Railsana as a way of saying this is the time in which Rails is at its finest?

Or where he mentions expanding the peaceful Rails empire in all directions?

I phrase all pairing requests as "Hey, would you exist in Zoom meeting while I do something so that I can immediately see what I've been missing for the last 15 minutes?"

or

"Who wants to find an obvious typo that is completely invisible to me?" and then trick them with the pizza emoji.

Void of any context? No.

I assume you're referring to specific incident, but I don't know which one it is.

Many people and memes reference the Roman Empire in innocuous ways, so it's not an automatic problem to my mind.

Again, context matters.

At this point, this says more about Andrew Gounardes than it does about Zohran Mamdani. It probably shouldn't be that way, but here we are.

I hope New York gets that Z-pak to cure its ills.

He doesn't inject his social commentary into his keynotes. It seems like he is fully capable of the separation of merch and hate.

I don't understand why he can't simply agree to provide separation between his tech writing and his non-tech writing: a different platform, or a different user account or some such. He could be DHH at work, and David "Duke" Hansson at home and it would be just fine.

He’s got the runs and he’s gonna share it on BlueSky. A-Pat is back!

Brut is funded FOR ETERNITY!!one!

You know, I wouldn't have a problem with a performer saying "I don't want to include politics in my performance."

But then that would mean you don't platform or discuss it in any way. Not that you weakly platform whoever needs appeasement in a self-serving manner.

He's funny, but he's a coward.

Babka.

Maybe 2 babka.

And sometimes folks like whichever they experienced first. My wife really enjoyed the show even though it pissed me off. So I can't say it was objectively bad.

And it's not like the books are flawless, as well.

I'm looking forward to hearing your opinions, so please share.

The old guard was flawed, but they weren't cosplayers. It's cliche to talk about how vapid country music is, but it wasn't always that way. It was silly at worst, and at its best it was pillars of the earth.

My favorite Kristofferson story is when he told Toby Keith to shut up about shit he didn’t know. He recognized what was happening to country music.

The show was fine in its own, but it wasn’t accurate. This is why book fans say the books are better. I’m curious if those that saw the show first would agree.

If you aren’t hooked by book three, I wouldn’t continue.

Bear in mind that the questions are kind of the fun part. He gave us mysteries.

Thanks, Mr. Dais. You were a weird meld of Joe Pesci and Ed Grimley, but I remembered some of what you said.

Is that 6.022 x 10^23 atoms/molecules? Avogadro's number? Or am I conflating a bunch of stuff?

A scruffy brown mutt wears a blanket like a hooded robe while laying on a couch.

They have the same eyeliner.

In this specific case:

20 x 5 = 100

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10

100 - 10 = 90

I strongly disagree with this.

However, I agree with your sentiment that I would like to see more action and less talk, but I don’t know if Martin is who I expect to see it from.

I generally dislike platitudes, but also this is blue sky, where words are pretty much all we have.

Martin, I appreciate your comments. I admit this won’t deter me from writing gems and sharing them, though it might deter me from doing so through RubyGems.org

I also understand the sentiment of Amy, and her anger.

I don’t blame any one person for this. Leadership failed, not any one leader.

It doesn't matter what the answer is (I'm sure the answer may be "stop overreacting"). What matters is that Ruby Central's leadership has led to this questioning of their platform. If their process for all this is flawed, what else might be?

I wrote my first Rails plugin the day this all started...

I appreciate that we have more perspectives on this.

As one of the hapless Ruby developers, if I ignore all the salacious gossip I come away with: if I publish my work on RubyGems.org, do I risk "losing" it to Ruby Central someday.

Proposal: move RubyGems (the gem and bundler CLI tools) to the same Ruby org that governs the language itself.

It's an accident of history that Ruby, its dependency tools, and its dependency hosting are managed by three separate entities. (And it hasn't gone great.)

“Local man realizes that he isn’t meeting with other humans on Zoom and thus has no way to mute his impending sneeze except by sheer force of will.”

Things I worry about that I probably shouldn't.

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