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Latest browser APIs expose everything you need to build a synth. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...

There are some libraries that make it easy to simulate instruments. E.g. tone.js https://tonejs.github.io/

It should be possible to generate unique-ish variants at runtime.


OpenEar is built on tone.js: https://github.com/ShacharHarshuv/open-ear

limut implements WebAudio and WebGL, and FoxDot-like patterns and samples: https://github.com/sdclibbery/limut

https://glicol.org/ runs in a browser and as a VST plugin

https://draw.audio/

"Using the Web Audio API to Make a Modem" (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15471723

gh topics/webaudio: https://github.com/topics/webaudio

awesome-webaudio: https://github.com/notthetup/awesome-webaudio


From the OpenEar readme re perfect pitch training; https://github.com/ShacharHarshuv/open-ear :

> Currently includes the following built in exercises:

> [...]

> 7. Interval recognition - the very popular exercise almost all app has. Although I do not recommend using it as I find it inaffective in confusing, since the intervals are out-of-context.


Interval training is different than absolute pitch training. OpenEar seems to have no absolute pitch training.

It’s from 2021, so you’re probably safe on this one, but I feel your angst.

A few possibilities:

1) Companies barely scraping by start cutting corners when labor gets more expensive. The work environment becomes more dangerous.

2) Companies paying more for labor set higher output demands for that labor. The job gets harder.

3) Companies paying more for labor are hesitant to hire more, given the increased costs/risks of adding FTEs. They instead ask existing workers to work more. The hours get longer.

4) Employees getting paid more feel empowered to report accidents that previously would have been hidden. The workers become more outspoken.


There’s a new-ish body of research that suggests aging is non-linear/happens in “cliffs,” and that the first big decline is mid-40s. Something to look forward to.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/15/1096799/aging-hi...


Isla discontinued selling in the US. Frog is another UK company that makes cheap and light. Also look at Prevelo or Cleary (slightly heavier). These bikes all hold up well, other than replacing tires and occasionally brake pads.

They also hold value well. I’ve been buying/selling used kids bikes on FB as my kids outgrow them, and so far been averaging about $15/year to keep my kids on primo bikes.


Isla has folded, sadly (though they're still selling replacement parts for now). A shame: their machines really were magnificent. We have also been running through them (mostly second-hand) and selling them on, and it's been a cheap and excellent means of primary transport.


Kimchi seems to love cheese. The “Kim-cheese” is a staple in my house - a classic grilled cheese with chopped kimchi inside. So, so good.


It is impressive that Tailwind succeeded in making this even more confusing.

justify-content: center -> justify-center

align-items: center -> items-center

Just… why?


There's a reason "naming things" is one of the great hard problems of programming. Especially when you have to name hundreds of things while developing i.e. a framework. Unless it's a solo pedantic developer creating the entire thing, inconsistencies will crop up, some names won't age well, some names don't quite capture the thing they are naming, etc.


What research there is suggests money/happiness follows a log-linear relationship.[1] So it kind of does buy happiness, but the rate of increase falls off pretty fast over the range most of us experience.

1: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2208661120


The article mentioned it was a listing specifically for a large item.

I get why someone might not show up on my doorstep if they’re buying a piano - they probably need to hire somebody and are themselves not going to contribute anything to the piano moving process.

But fully agreed that once you’re an inch off the “show up with money” path, everything is suspect.


That's even more of an indicator that it's a scam. You put a listing for something big/bulky/expensive on the internet and some person sees a couple pictures, thinks "good enough" and immediately wants to wire you hundreds of dollars? Without actually seeing it or making sure they aren't getting scammed? Nope, does not happen.


This is common. I've done it myself and had no problems. I want to buy some bulky item from another part of the country, I trust the seller, so I just wire them the money and tell them when my movers are going to show up.


Hey, only a hundred ish for a piano? Even if 1/2 the time it’s a scam, that’s still a pretty good deal.

This is how overall marketplace trust dies and the overall industry collapses though.


To your point, the article even mentions that since the Muzak labels own the master on all these tracks, they are free to use them however they see fit. Which in this case probably means training their AI entirely on their own cleanly licensed music.

They are probably already doing it, slipping in a few AI-generated songs in with the gig-produced music to see how it’s performing.


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