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Laurie Anderson and her vocoder.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 9:35 PM on October 12, 2023

Safety goggles and mask, always, I promise. Fortunately I have other slightly dangerous art/craft hobbies too so that's all good.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:00 PM on July 23, 2023

Definitely not worried about perfectly lining up the release year, yeah; plus-or-minus like three years feels reasonable, a strong thematic or aesthetic or otherwise interesting connection between the two films from the same general pop culture moment is the most attractive thing.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 2:47 PM on May 15, 2023

AzraelBrown pretty much has it on the repair approaches.

Sorting out how to remove and replace the exterior channel won't be super difficult if you want to learn, but it's a little futzy so be prepared to be patient and probably curse a little at first. I've only ever done soldering in a stained glass context and everyone I've showed it to who was bringing in soldering experience form electronics/engineering has been like "huh, that's completely different",… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 9:59 AM on January 8, 2023 marked best answer

A couple other thoughts:

1. you may end up mussing a bit of the solder near the interior edges by the frame; you will definitely disrupt the existing patina a little bit at those spots as you remelt the solder, and any new solder you put on will not have a patina on it. This is not a big deal, it's easy to reapply patina: the two common formulations for lead solder are a copper and a black, available from multiple sources, and from the image this looks like black… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 10:13 AM on January 8, 2023

I've been doing linoleum carving and blockprinting the last few years and have been really enjoying it; the tools are simple and inexpensive, the process is fairly immediate (carve till you think you're done, make a print and see what you think, repeat as needed), and there's a deliberate physicality to the carving process that I find both engaging and meditative. For low-budget exploration, you can get started with basically just some art linoleum and a basic Speedball gouge kit, some… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:11 PM on January 4, 2023 marked best answer

Another part of why that harmony lands so hard I think is what the movement of the melody and harmony line are vs. the actual chord structure. Coming into the chorus, the chords of the background accompaniment move from a IV (starting at basically the last word of the bit before the chorus) to a nice stable root I chord, but what the melody does is stay with that IV chord at first. She sings "I came in like a / wreee-cking ball" the chords change at the start of "wre..."… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:01 PM on January 4, 2023

This is all interesting, and the preponderance of variations on "wiggling writingish motion" feels unsurprising in retrospect. More generally it does seem like the key thing is not the literal semantics of any given motion, but the general way it operates as a distinct, non-generic request for attention in a context where motioning for the check is by far the most likely thing to matter as a signal. Eye contact and a raised hand wiggling around a little: probably means bring the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:34 PM on December 3, 2022

Just for the visual iconography, maybe a printing of Freakonomics with the orange-inside-an-apple imagery on the binding.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 1:56 PM on December 2, 2022

In terms of tuning things: Superorganism is great if a little more sedate in terms of general energy than what I'm fishing for. Bulletproof is really great production-wise if a little more inert in terms of emotional valence than my perfect specimen.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:09 PM on October 28, 2022

Rock-ish is fine! So is like electro- or synth-centric stuff. As long as it has a lyrical core that has some emotional heft and is overall a driving, big feel, I'm interested.

I will say 1, 3, and 4 off that list are all on "songs I love" lists in general. Clearest Blue is a bit more down-tempo than the vibe I'm going for as much as I love everything Chvrches has done in the broader sense.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:52 PM on October 28, 2022

I'll take a peek in the spirit of investigation, but based on my familiarity with HN I would say I am to some extent interested in precisely the sort of answers they wouldn't typically put out.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:05 PM on May 27, 2022

I like the *idea* of fucking around conceptually in a 3D environment like Unity and getting my footing there—my first grudging exposure to matrices was in fact the 3D programming OpenGL-centric course I took in college (which in retrospect understandably had a Lin Alg prerequisite I bargained my way out of)—but in practice I've bounced hard of the whole Unity paradigm in the past and I think something more focused on specifically an understanding of matrices and transformation… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 6:08 PM on May 27, 2022

3B1B is great and I’m a fan; I’ve watched at least a couple things from them on the subject.

I think if I had framed this more effectively up front I could have said basically: that accessible sensibility but long-form and a liiiittle more formal. Something that goes farther, and a little more deliberately, than a condensed half hour youtube pop-math treatment with its necessary constraints, if that makes sense.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 7:11 PM on May 27, 2022

There are a bunch of algorithms for this, though it's not something I have dealt with much myself so I have no specific recommendation there. But for the purpose of further searching, the term you want is in fact triangulation. There are absolutely going to be libraries out there that do it; do you have a particular language/platform context you're hoping to work in?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 10:25 AM on May 27, 2022 marked best answer

It's also worth keeping in mind the scale of the stuff you want to triangulate, as far as whether or how much to worry about efficiency of any given algorithm; if it's all fairly small figures the computational complexity is gonna be really minimal for basically any approach so just finding something that works is a good plan vs. trying to minmax things or choose juuuuust the right implementation, etc. Unless the joy is *in* sweating the details in which case go wild and enjoy it. (For few,… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 10:36 AM on May 27, 2022

There's a discogs.com page for the album that includes among its credits "Painting -- Fats Miller", which links to an utterly uselessly artist page on their site. Not finding anything useful so far trying to google on that.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 12:50 PM on April 27, 2022 marked best answer

Doesn't help that "Fats" is a nickname that shows up in music circles a lot and Miller is a dirt-common surname. One very tenuous possibility: a Fats Miller is credited as Entertainment Editor in this 1983 issue of the Bowling Green State University newspaper (or maybe the art & music sub-publication thereof, "Friday"). Throughline from college music scene to doing album art a few years later? I have no idea how you'd chase that down though.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 12:55 PM on April 27, 2022

This doesn't provide any more useful identifying info about who our Fats Miller is, exactly, but (among a bunch of other Q&A in this interview with Ray Neal:

What's the reason behind the choice of the cover album? Why did you choose this picture of Matt Polansky?

The photo by Matt Polansky is of a Painting by Fats Miller. It's big. Maybe about five feet tall. Fats had a loft space in the same building that we did and we… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 1:06 PM on April 27, 2022

Final update from the OP:

I finally have my answer. The fragment is from La Donna e Mobile by Verdi.

posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 7:51 AM on March 28, 2022

Final update from the OP:

Years later, I found the film on rarefilmm.com . Check it out. Lots of interesting old films.

posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 9:36 AM on March 25, 2022

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I'm a stammerer so I sometimes speak slowly, especially in settings like job interviews. I have some experience with discrimination and with the different ways that people react to slow speech. I cannot think of a way you could make this point to your manager that would not sound as if you are privileging your own speed of speech over that of the candidate. I guess you could say with some subtext that, if this… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:38 PM on March 23, 2022

Historically there's been a lot of work like this within the nebulous umbrella of Conceptual Art; if not literally a gallery show of empty frames on walls, work (that was at times shown) that consists entirely of written descriptions or manifests or indexes of absent objects or situations, or work (like Sol Lewitt's wall drawings) where the work itself is the description of the method for creating or imagining a thing rather than primarily the execution of that thing, though the execution is… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 10:22 AM on March 20, 2022

You also might on a related note be interested in the "do it" exhibition series; while the shows have actual physical pieces or movements or so on, those are executed differently each time from scratch based on an in-the-moment interpretation of written instructions that the exhibiting artists have provided ahead of time.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 10:35 AM on March 20, 2022

[This is a followup from the asker:

We are both white women, about the same age. While the organization is headed by a man, the second and third in command are both women of color, and there are many women in managerial positions.

Since there seems to be curiosity about this, the three things I thought might have irritated her are:

1. I figured that maybe she overheard me talking to my other colleague,… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 9:36 AM on March 20, 2022

[This is a followup from the asker.

Thanks for the input – lots for me to think about. To answer a few questions – the children are 17/18 years old. They have jobs, are good at school, and are interesting people. They spend every weekend with their father, which they complain about but have not told him they want to stop (he is, in my opinion, a terrible person with no parenting skills who is uninterested in his children as individuals and was very abusive… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 12:27 PM on March 19, 2022

Yeah, the beach angle is sort of fascinating and also feels like a red herring (or more enticingly, a side-story): unless they're washing up on EVERY beach, it's not a beach thing, it's a, like, ship cargo accident thing that probably doesn't have much to do with either the location or the item. Unless it does?! I'm genuinely enchanted by the banal strangeness of it and hoping someone will recognize the item as some semi-obscure object of some given discipline.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:27 PM on March 18, 2022

Yeah, and looking at knitting machine cylinders online (as a total dilettante, granted) it seems like they're mostly vertical-walled objects with a pretty thin inner-to-outer radius measurement, whereas these are very flat, seemingly less rigid, and with a wide inner-to-outer radius; a platter with a hole in the center rather than a cylinder with a large bore. Which isn't helpful at identifying it exactly, but does at least eliminate some likelihoods.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:15 PM on March 18, 2022

But! Elden Ring is, very much more than the previous games by From, a "come back later" one.

I just want to nth this notion, because it's true for Margit and it'll be true for all sorts of other stuff you find later and will decided to come back to even later still. I have been using map markers a lot to note hard fights I don't want to keep banging my head against in the moment, and I go back and revisit those periodically when I've leveled… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 2:29 PM on March 9, 2022

This would be very DIY since it's just...a park with a cement platform? But there's a very simple concrete amphitheater at Cathedral Park under the St. Johns bridge in North Portland that could be a good stage for (a) some musicians and (b) the wedding officiation bits, in a nice open pretty area that's a both got great views (and a certain amount of overhead traffic noise) and a skosh of unconventional riverside weirdness to it. Biggest concerns offhand would be scheduling vs. summertime jazz… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:12 PM on February 4, 2022

[Couple comments removed. Tarsonis10, this isn't your first AskMe rodeo; you know you need to not get in arguments with people answering your question. Take what is useful and let it be beyond that.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:11 PM on January 11, 2022

"Healthy" is a complicated and overloaded word, is part of it. I recognize in what you're describing something I'd probably describe more as "perceived as virtuous": exercise, meditation, things that we see people doing in images of successful and stable and well-lived lives etc. etc. And those things can be good, but they don't work for everyone and people can certainly do perceived-virtuous things in unhealthy ways too.

My feeling is, coping is… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:34 PM on December 23, 2021 marked best answer

[Heya, asker: Ask MeFi isn't meant to have a lot of back-and-forth. It's okay to offer a clarifying followup or two but try to keep it just to necessary updates vs. ongoing responses to various answers.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 11:13 AM on December 18, 2021

[This is a followup from the asker:

Everyone in the thread has been so open and informative, it's been VERY helpful for me, and I'm going to move forward with my therapist's suggestion. I'd really like to say thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts/experiences with me.

posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 8:03 PM on December 11, 2021

[Couple jerky answers removed. As an answerer, it's general possible to help the asker clarify what you see as a misstatement/ambiguity in a question in a supportive and collaborative way. Those comments were not that. Be helpful or be elsewhere.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 10:22 PM on December 8, 2021

[Edited.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:23 PM on November 2, 2021

Final update from the OP:

It was 'Trishika' by Telepopmusik from the album 'Genetic World'

posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 6:41 PM on August 26, 2021

[Question was taken down temporarily and redrafted in cooperation with the asker to avoid a framing issue re: mental illness.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:25 PM on August 25, 2021

[One comment removed. Do not use the racist term “illegals” to describe people, period.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:02 PM on August 23, 2021

[This is a followup from the asker:

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. What would a recommended script be to negotiate the price, and/or reduce the CT time to only be 30 minutes, without seeming stingy? I don't want to overshare financial tightness, but I don't want to give up a possibly good CT that I could get for less (especially as it might turn out I wouldn't even need their legal services at all).

]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 12:11 PM on August 21, 2021

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posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 3:21 PM on July 22, 2021

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Hello, I’m here to emphasize that it doesn’t have to be abuse. It doesn’t have to fit a particular definition. You only have to decide that the relationship is no longer beneficial to you—that it is actively harming you. Without going into details I left a situation last year which was causing me a lot of pain. When your partner is suffering from mental illness and doesn’t recognize that and does not wish to… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 6:38 PM on July 20, 2021

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posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 7:11 PM on July 14, 2021

[Amended that comment for you.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:05 PM on July 9, 2021

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posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 5:23 PM on July 2, 2021

[A few comments removed, and some direct back-and-forth replies as well; I've left a few replies to deleted stuff up where the stranded replies make a good clarifying point about some of the issues in here. The question is about queer community safety; the point about being sure about the identity/relationship of the doctor and the presumed husband is reasonable and thoroughly covered at this point. We absolutely do not need elaborate speculative theory-of-mind defenses of the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 8:36 PM on June 7, 2021

[A couple more things removed since my note yesterday. Louder for those in the back: this question does not need answers trying to explain away concerns about transphobia. Do not go there.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 4:17 PM on June 8, 2021

I do like natural daylight and use it when I can! Unfortunately with clouds in Portland often comes rain and drizzle and wet surfaces, and it's often pretty windy in my part of town, so the perfect mix of still, dry, and overcast isn't a reliable resource, and I tend to want to turn around documentation of work pretty quickly in general.

Having done some poking around based on thoughts here, I've ordered a lighting rig along the lines of what gregr pointed to: I think… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 7:08 PM on May 17, 2021

[This is an answer from an anonymous commenter.]

I suggest pgexercises.com
It is PostgreSQL specific, the problems get more complicated as you move through them.

Also the book The Art of PostgreSQL by D. Fontaine - main audience is for software developers his blog is good.

Use The Index Luke is a huge website, I think the author also has a book?

posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 8:00 PM on May 4, 2021

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posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 2:38 PM on April 21, 2021