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Howdy Tina. I'll send a resume your way. I've got 10+ years experience doing devops/sysad. Just finished performing a migration of a large Rails monolith from a legacy EC2 based se…

I put in an application a a week or two back but haven't heard from you folks. Do you typically respond to candidates with an "interested or not interested" email?

Thought this was a really interesting example of DIY spirit and might be well liked here. Couldn't fit everything into the title but it's also using an atypical key layout (Wiki-Ha…

https://www.koopinstruments.com/instrument-projects/melodica...

I know HN tends to run a bit more technical and this article is more for the business minded/technically challenged but I'd love to hear any thoughts from my peers on this. 1. Did …

>Today? The laptop The laptop is really just a tool to host different virtual instruments. The "instrument" most easily associated with the past 15-20 years of electronic/pop music…

Can't reply directly to SirSourdough because of thread limits. >I don't think this really address the point though. Alcohol is sold with known purity, quality, and quantity. You ar…

This was relevant to the parent post as well as your own comment. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210 A UK study led by a panel of experts analyzed a number of recreational drugs …

That's likely less to do with alcohol and more to do with the fact that it's pretty easy to "make" other psychoactive substances using it. In particular, you can spin robitussin ra…

Nifty! I just placed in a beta request. A business partner and I heavily prefer to utilize markdown for note taking (we generally use Typora) but this poses problems when we are tr…

Hey everyone! I wrote this up and felt it might be of interest to both the technical peeps here (Scroll down midway for some EBS & Instance Store benchmarks) as well as the less te…

Currently on mobile so won't be able to post much. To focus on one particular subset of this, recent research seems to indicate pretty conclusively that there is greater variabilit…

You're in a perfectly soundproof room with one other person. Whatever you talk about with this person can't be heard by anyone outside the room. This room can only help guarantee t…

Going to guess you're a programmer? If you're like many others, you very likely teach yourself things often by investigating and experimentation :) No reason you can't do that here…

Insufficient knowledge of tax law leading to an incorrect assignment of value to each position. Insufficient knowledge of the wear and tear on ones car. Desire to "work for themsel…

A major idea behind the software is that you can automatically tip websites or creators that you frequently consume. These amounts are pretty small. If PayPal or credit card were u…

>That's the way it's always been. That's the way it has to be. My sarcasm detector may be off so if it was, please forgive me. Why must it continue to be that way? It's possible we…

How was the latency? I'd like to achieve sub 10ms latency and I feel running in a VM would make that very difficult? Did USB passthrough for MIDI devices work well?

Producer here as well. I currently dual boot. I've considered bitwig for Linux production but a big issue is you end up losing a lot of VSTs that aren't native to Linux (Serum and …

Your game is great! You should definitely give CCDA a look if for no other reason than to oggle at the sheer breadth of the project. Few notes about CDDA: CDDA also shares the clas…