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New comment by lalalandland in "Goodbye to Sora"

lalalandland — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:11:40 +0000

Side point, but clothing industry are some of the biggest pollutors in the world

New comment by lalalandland in "Film students who can no longer sit through films"

lalalandland — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:54:44 +0000

I think TV series are bigger than films now. They have established characters and story line spanned over several shorter episodes with cliffhangers and recaps etc. Once you get into a series you follow it for several seasons. It's a preferred way to tell stories.

I usually prefer films over TV series because I find just these tropes tiring. I find TV series have quite inefficient story telling and spend most of its time trying to get me hooked to watch the next episode.

New comment by lalalandland in "50th Anniversary of BitBLT"

lalalandland — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:24:31 +0000

Interview with Dan Ingalls here where he talks about inventing BitBlt

www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738237/

New comment by lalalandland in "“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”"

lalalandland — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:44:33 +0000

Lowercase E is unusual in the text. Is it a special teletype font?

New comment by lalalandland in "After 120 years, Yellowstone bison are a single breeding population"

lalalandland — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:53:44 +0000

Insects comprise a total weight to about 1 billion tons.(1) Which is roughly the same as the weight of all people and farm animals on Earth combined. (1) https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article...

New comment by lalalandland in "Stanley Jordan creates music with Solar System [video]"

lalalandland — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:15:17 +0000

The video I posted is an excerpt for this over 2 hour video.(1) It is an amazing view into the mindset of a musical genius. He is extremely good at explaining how he thinks and how he explores the world of music. There is some audio issue with the video, but it is worth watching.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xXiDMndQU

New comment by lalalandland in "Stanley Jordan creates music with Solar System [video]"

lalalandland — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:22:29 +0000

Musician Stanley Jordan program solar system in APL and Python with visuals in Blender to make a musical calendar

Stanley Jordan creates music with Solar System [video]

lalalandland — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:22:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfeTBsZEqw0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43231296

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by lalalandland in "Giant catapult sends satellites into space"

lalalandland — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:58:55 +0000

Insane g-force in the spin up.

Reminds me of Gerald Bull who wanted to launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull

New comment by lalalandland in "In the belly of the MrBeast"

lalalandland — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:20:06 +0000

The creators publication frequency is also an important factor. If you don't put out content at least once per week you fall off the recommended and lose a lot of views. Once your content is shallow, simple and without reflection, you are trapped in a hamster wheel of click bait vapidness.

New comment by lalalandland in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

lalalandland — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:32:47 +0000

So its an office job? I know people who makes this exact music described in the article and it's part of their daily work to earn a living as music producers. Other musicians play weddings for example. It's not fake. But you don't put your serious artist name on a track like for a chill muzak stream. Music is a product that fills many categories and I salute the ones that can find ways to earn a living doing with their passion. Some of the time you do a routine and other time you follow your dream

New comment by lalalandland in "Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus"

lalalandland — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:14:11 +0000

I must go and get my hearing checked

New comment by lalalandland in "Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus"

lalalandland — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:13:37 +0000

About a week both to start working and weening off

New comment by lalalandland in "Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus"

lalalandland — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:56:53 +0000

I think I suffer from this. My theory: There are muscles in the ear canal that try to modulate the sound and those muscles tense up and cause issues. I also have sore muscles that get a lot better from use of magnesium supplements and the tinnitus also get slightly better from this use. (It get a lot worse if I stop taking it)

New comment by lalalandland in "We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad"

lalalandland — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:45:42 +0000

I was thinking the same. Technical perfection and artistic perfection on a Venn diagram are two not entirely overlapping circles

New comment by lalalandland in "The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass"

lalalandland — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 22:13:25 +0000

Orchestral music composition and performance is quite different from painting and writing. When you are dependent on a large amounts of other highly skilled people to create and perform it makes it really hard to live out in nowhere.

These days internet and digital production can ease a lot of the rural isolation. But for many (most?) people it is essential to be in and around the art scene to be able to create and maintain focus and motivation to work on their art. Especially when starting a career it is important to meet and see other artists and art.

New comment by lalalandland in "Museum Fatigue"

lalalandland — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:21:34 +0000

For me its also physical. My legs get more tired waking a few hundred meters in a museum than just walking kilometers outside.

New comment by lalalandland in "Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool"

lalalandland — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:20:39 +0000

Moray for POV-ray on MS DOS (1) Good times on a 386 in beginning of the 90th.

(1) http://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.phphttp://www....

New comment by lalalandland in "Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?"

lalalandland — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:21:39 +0000

Bureaucracy on a certain level can almost be described as an artificial living organism. It starts to behave in certain ways that nobody can control.

New comment by lalalandland in "Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?"

lalalandland — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:11:04 +0000

If GDPR is at all questionable, Microsoft is not able to push this to EU countries. The risk for a business to get in GDPR trouble is to high.